Dr Louise Munro

Faculty of Health,
School of Psychology & Counselling
Biography
I started working life as a Registered Nurse, spent some time studying music, and explored my way into psychology and academia. Work life balance means juggling lecturing in counselling and supervision at QUT, a small private practice, a beautiful family, and two Italian greyhounds.
My first contract at QUT was in 1996 and since then I’ve been a tutor, research assistant and lecturer in the schools of Business, Nursing, and Psychology and Counselling. I have also worked professionally as a psychologist in community and corporate sectors. Since 2011 I have been engaged full time in the QUT Master of Counselling where I am lecturing, designing, supervising and coordinating the teaching and research program.
I am a registered psychologist and completed a PhD in 2010. In 2012 I completed the intensive Cambridge University CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Research interests include: Counselling; Teaching and Learning Social Constructionism; Deafness and Hearing loss; Sign Language Interpreting and Supervision.
Personal details
Positions
- Sessional Academic
Faculty of Health,
School of Psychology & Counselling
Discipline
Psychology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology and Counselling (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
Master of Counselling
Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology)
Master of Clinical Psychology
Selected publications
- Armstrong A, Munro L, (2018) Insider/outsider: A Muslim woman's adventure practicing 'alongside' narrative therapy, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 39 (2), pp. 174-185.
- Ferndale D, Watson B, Munro L, (2017) An exploration of how health care professionals understand experiences of deafness, Critical Public Health, 27 (5), pp. 591-603.
- Ferndale D, Munro L, Watson B, (2016) A discourse of 'abnormality': Exploring discussions of people living in Australia with deafness or hearing loss, American Annals of the Deaf, 160 (5), pp. 483-495.
- Ferndale D, Watson B, Munro L, (2015) Creating deaf-friendly spaces for research: Innovating online qualitative enquiries, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12 (3), pp. 246-257.
- Ferndale D, Watson B, Munro L, (2013) Hearing loss as a public health matter - why not everyone wants their deafness or hearing loss cured, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 37 (6), pp. 594-595.
- Rodwell J, Munro L, (2013) Relational regulation theory and the role of social support and organisational fairness for nurses in a general acute context, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22 (21 - 22), pp. 3160-3169.
- Rodwell J, Munro L, (2013) Well-being, satisfaction and commitment: the substitutable nature of resources for maternity hospital nurses, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69 (10), pp. 2218-2228.
- Munro L, Rodwell J, (2009) Validation of an Australian sign language instrument of outcome measurement for adults in mental health settings, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 43 (4), pp. 332-339.
- Munro L, Knox M, Lowe R, (2008) Exploring the potential of constructionist therapy: Deaf clients, hearing therapists and a reflecting team, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 13 (3), pp. 307-323.
- Munro L, Rodwell J, Harding L, (1998) Assessing Occupational Stress in Psychiatric Nurses Using the Full Job Strain Model: The Value of Social Support to Nurses, International Journal of Nursing Studies, pp. 339-345.
QUT ePrints
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