Dr Tricia Ong

Tricia is a Lecturer in Career Education with DeakinTALENT who has worked in the health industry. She works with course directors and unit chairs to collaboratively co-design, co-teach and embed career education in the curriculum in courses in the Faculty of Health (School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and School of Health and Social Development).   

2023 IVSA Reiger Paper Award for an outstanding contribution to the field of visual sociology.

• Career education and health
• Feminist approaches to reflective practice 
• Sensory sociology

International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA)

• Career education
• Health 

DeakinTALENT (Career Education)

ACC100: Communication in Everyday Life

ACF211: Screen Producing

ACR102: Introducing Crime and Criminal Justice

ACR206: Criminology in Action

AWL100: Your Future Direction

Doctor of Medicine

HBS107: Understanding Health

HSE113 - Human Growth, Development and Ageing for Exercise Scientists

HSE212: Physical Activity Promotion and Evaluation

HSE312: Exercise and Sports Science Practicum

HSE321: Sport Coaching and Development Practicum

HSH211: Australian Health Care System

HSH303: Health Practicum

HSH324: Integrated Learning for Practice

HSN101: Foundations of Food, Nutrition and Health

HSN202: Lifespan Nutrition

HSN311: Food and Nutrition Practicum

HSN758: Professional Practice for Dietetics

MAA310: Accounting and Society

MAF302: Corporate Finance

MMM315: Business Management Capstone

SIT111: Computer Systems

SIT223: Professional Practice in Information Technology

 

School of Health and Social Development

HSH105: Understanding Families and Health (Teaching/Marking)

HSH107: Understanding Health (Unit Chair/Teaching/Marking)

HSH108: Health Information and Data (Marking)

HSH112: Local and Global Environments for Health (Marking)

HSH113: Social Perspectives on Population Health (Teaching/Marking)

HSH206: Human Development and Families (Teaching/Marking)

HSH208: Health Communication (Unit Chair/Teaching/Marking)

HSH211: Australian Health Care System (Marking)

HSH219/319: Population Health: A Research Perspective (Teaching) 

HSH303: Health Practicum (Unit Chair/Teaching/Marking)

HSH702: Contemporary Health Issues and Policies (Teaching/Marking)

HSH725: Research Literacy in Health Practice (Guest Lecture)

HSH728: Health Equity and Human Rights (Guest Lecture/Teaching/Marking)

HSH769: Comparative Health Systems (Academic Advisor/Teaching/Marking)

Also managed the day-to-day running of Deakin University's Theatre-based Education Program

• Accessibility and inclusion
• Career education
• Global public health (special interest in Nepal)
• Sensory sociology 

Tricia has expertise in career education and health

• Higher education

Ong, T 2023, 'The development of a feminist approach to the practice of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning', paper presented the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)/Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) Conference, Melbourne, 5 July.

Ong, T 2023, 'The development of a feminist approach to the practice of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning', paper presented the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, Brisbane (virtual), 23 Novemner. 

Ong, T, La Fontaine S & Mckenzie, S 2022, 'Collaborative co-design and co-teaching in embedded career education at Deakin University', paper presented to the Deakin University Learning and Teaching Conference, Melbourne, 9 November.  

Ong, T. 2022, 'Visual ethics think tank', panellist for the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) Live Virtual Conference, Gather Town (online platform),17 September.

Ong, T. 2022, 'Clay body mapping and photography: the process of designing a new culturally sensitive method for reproductive health research method with sex trafficked women in Nepal', film presented to the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) Live Virtual Conference, Gather Town (online platform), 15 September. 

Ong, T. 2021, 'Global, digital, virtual: the future of health communication for public health', Pecha Kucha presented to the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA) Teaching and Learning Forum, 26 July. 

Ong, T. 2019, 'Reproductive health knowledge for young trafficked women in Nepal', paper presented Women's Health Research Insitute (WHRI) (pre-conference symposium to Women Deliver), Vancouver, 29 May.

Ong, T, Mellor, D & Pallotta-Chiarolli, M 2017, ‘Aisha’s story: birthing the pregnancy experiences of a young trafficked women in Nepal’, paper presented to Department of Sociology, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), Amsterdam, 12 July. 

Ong, T, Mellor, D & Pallotta-Chiarolli, M 2017, ‘Aisha’s story: birthing the pregnancy experiences of a young trafficked women in Nepal’, paper presented to Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) and UNESCO Child and Family Research Conference, Galway, 6-9 July.

Ong, T 2017, ‘Trafficked into the sex industry: young Nepalese women and reproductive health’, paper presented to Australia-India Institute (University of Melbourne) Post-Graduate Conference, Melbourne, 5 December.

Ong, T, Mellor, D & Pallotta-Chiarolli, 2016, ‘Trafficked into the sex industry: young Nepalese women and reproductive health’, poster presented to the 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR), Naypyitaw, 23-26 February.

Ong, T 2015, ‘Nepal, Trafficked Adolescent Girls and Reproductive Health: A Qualitative Interpretive Inquiry’, paper presented to Australian Society for  Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ASPPG) Conference, Melbourne, 31 July.
 

International Women’s Day 2020 – Celebrating women in research

Disruptr, 6 March 2020

 

Theatre-based education programs for public health

Disruptr, 14 February 2020

 

Research with a difference for reproductive health

Disruptr, 28 June 2017

Deakin Network Against Gendered Violence (DNAGV) 

ADCET Accessibility in Action Award Accessibility Champions Project, Deakin University (2023) (Team)

IVSA Rieger Paper Award (2023) 

Women's Health Research Institute (Vancouver) Conference Funding (2019)

Faculty of Health Writing Publication Award (2018)

Faculty of Health Travel Grant (Ireland) (2017)

Faculty of Health Travel Grant (Myanmar) (2016)

School of Health and Social Development Grant (2014/2015)

Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship (2015)

Research Training Award (formerly Australian Post-Graduate Award (2014-2017)