Jane has a distinguished track record of research in rural health services, innovations in health workforce and technology, community participation, coproduction and social enterprise. She has over 100 publications, including an edited book Communit
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Jane has a distinguished track record of research in rural health services, innovations in health workforce and technology, community participation, coproduction and social enterprise. She has over 100 publications, including an edited book Community CoProduction (Edward Elgar, 2012). Jane has led large multidisciplinary, multi-site projects including O4O: Older People for Older People, a 5 country European-Union funded project that examined older peoples’ involvement in establishing rural social enterprises to provide basic health and social care (2008-10). She has led projects that have impacted on policy in Scotland, including Remote Service Futures, a project where rural communities worked with health managers to explore design of future services. She led or participated in, several studies in rural maternity care, community hospitals and rural health services that informed Scottish government policy. In Australia, she has led several projects involving community participation and co-production including a NHMRC Partnership Project Rural ECOH (Engaging Communities in Oral Health) where communities in Victoria and Queensland designed initiatives, services and new products and processes aimed at improving poor rural oral health.
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