Janya McCalman

Janya McCalman co-leads the Jawun Research Centre at CQUniversity with Prof Adrian Miller. She has longstanding research relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, youth, education and other partner services, and her public health research focusses on how they provide services that enable resilience, empowerment and wellbeing through the development and evaluation of mental health and other complex interventions and/or the implementation of quality improvement approaches. Her methodological expertise lies particularly in participatory and action-oriented quality improvement research, grounded theory, systematic literature reviews, and research transfer and implementation. She has a Bachelor's degree in geography, a Masters degree in public health and a PhD in education. She received the Deans Award for her PhD.