Ms Lindie Clark
Ms Lindie Clark
BSc (Hons, Class 1) (Macq) MPA (Harvard)
Ms Lindie Clark is a Lecturer in Health Studies at Macquarie University . Prior to commencing postgraduate studies and embarking on an academic career, she worked as a free-lance researcher and writer. This followed a very successful 12-year career in the Australian Public Service, where she worked in a range of regulatory agencies in the health, employment and industrial relations fields, rising to a senior executive level. In 1996 Lindie was awarded a prestigious Harkness Fellowship to study for a Master of Public Administration at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University .
Over the past ten years Lindie has pursued a multi-faceted yet coherent program of research and scholarship in the following areas:
The politics and practice of occupational, environmental, and public health regulation. This abiding research interest, born during her employment in various regulatory agencies of the Australian Public Service, has been at the centre of her postgraduate studies and research, is the subject of a number of her publications (including a prize winning essay), and forms part of her teaching program. It is also at the heart of her current active involvement in the Cancer Council of NSW’s collaborative research project on Tobacco Retailing.
The geo-social determinants, distribution, and consequences of population health and ill-health. This long-standing research interest informs the conceptual framework of Lindie’s PhD research and also forms the basis of core elements of her current teaching program in Health Studies at Macquarie University . It is also of direct relevance to the Cancer Council of NSW’s collaborative research project on Tobacco Retailing.
Innovative and ethical management practice. The most significant product of Lindie’s on-going research interest in this area is her recent book on Dick Dusseldorp, founder of the Lend Lease corporation.
Innovative teaching and learning practice. This on-going research interest informs Lindie’s approach to teaching and curriculum development activities in her current employment.
Email : lclark@els.mq.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9850 6393
University address:
Dept of Health & Chiropractic
Macquarie University NSW 2109
Books
Clark, L. (2002) Finding a common interest: The story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK .
Book Chapters
Curson, P. & Clark, L. (2004) Pathological environments, in R. White (ed.) Controversies in Environmental Sociology, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 238-256.
Journal Articles (Refereed)
Clark, L. ‘The politics of regulation: A comparative-historical study of occupational health and safety regulation in Australia and the United States’, Winner of the Institute of Public Administration Australia’s 1998 National Essay Competition. Australian Journal of Public Administration 58 (2) June 1999: 94-104.
Conference Papers (Refereed)
Burton , S., Clark, L., Elliott, G. & Siciliano, F. (2005) The Impact of Retail Distribution on Tobacco Consumption: Research Agenda, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) 2005 Conference Proceedings: Broadening the Boundaries , Fremantle WA , 5-7 December, pp 23-29.
Commissioned Reports
Burton , S, Clark , L, Elliott, G and Siciliano, F. (2005) Report for the Cancer Council of NSW on Stage 1 of the Tobacco Retailing Research Project: Preliminary Data Collection and Analysis, June.
Clark , L. (1995) Trends in the Australian Child Care Industry, Report for the Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union , Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching, Sydney , Australia , July.
Clark , L. (1993) Workers’ Compensation in Australia , Report for the Slovak Ministry of Family and Social Affairs, Comcare Australia , June.
Newspaper Articles
Clark, L. (2005) ‘Respect built from the ground up: Ern MacDonald AM, Construction industry leader’ Sydney Morning Herald 15 April, p. 26.
Clark, L. (2000) Obituary for Milton Allen, Deputy Chairman, MLC Sydney Morning Herald 31 August, p. 31.
Research Grants
Assoc Prof Suzan Burton (MGSM) and Ms Lindie Clark (Dept of Health & Chiropractic). 'The relationships between retailavailability, peer smoking and tobacco purchase and consumption', ARC Linkage Project LP0775436, 2007.
Prof Greg Elliott (MGSM), Assoc Prof Suzan Burton (MGSM), Prof Peter Curson (Dept of Health & Chiropractic), Ms Lindie Clark (Dept of Health & Chiropractic) ‘An investigation of the impact of retail tobacco distribution on tobacco consumption in New South Wales’. Funded by The Cancer Council of NSW/Macquarie University External Collaborative Research Grant, 2005.
Ms Lindie Clark ‘The geography of environmental health risk regulation in Australia and the United States ’. Funded by Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund, 1998.
Other Commissioned Research
S. Burton & L. Clark 'Tobacco Distribution and Consumption: A Diary Study of Quitters', commissioned by The Cancer Council of NSW, 2006-07, $25,100.
S. Burton & L. Clark 'Tobacco Distribution and Consumption: A Diary Study of Smokers', commissioned by The Cancer Council of NSW, 2006-07, $26,172.
Membership of Research Groups
Group Name : Centre for Research on Social Inclusion http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/.
Details : The Centre for Research on Social Inclusion was established in January 2003 to stimulate multi-disciplinary social, cultural and philosophical research on key social issues. It comprises a multidisciplinary team of researchers with expertise in the field of social inclusion and exclusion. Broadly defined, this includes research into the social, cultural, economic, and political, determinations of inclusion and exclusion (particularly in the context of globalisation) and the understanding of social division (around race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and age).
Lindie Clark’s profile on CRSI : http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/Profile-LClark.htm
Group Name: Tobacco Retailing Research Project
Details: This is an ongoing collaboration between Assoc Prof Suzan Burton (MGSM), Ms Lindie Clark (Dept of Health & Chiropractic), Prof Greg Elliott (EFS) and key executives in The Cancer Council of NSW (TCCN). Formed in 2005, the objective of the Tobacco Retailing Research Project is to assemble an evidence base on the likely impact of any regulatory restrictions on retail tobacco supply on smoking prevalence. Macquarie University and TCCN have already funded Phase 1 research by the Macquarie team in 2005, and planning is well advanced for the conduct of Phase 2 of the research program in 2006-2008.
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