Dr Nicole Moulding

I joined the School of Social Work and Social Policy in February 2007. I am a qualified social worker with a background in women's health and community health. My ongoing teaching and research interests are in the areas of gender and mental health, social exclusion and mental health and interpretive research methodology, particularly post-structural approaches. I have a particular interest in the social construction of subjectivity and the implications for mental health and wellbeing.

• My teaching interests are in the areas of sociology of health, particularly mental health, and gender and society.
• I have particular interests in research education and as part of this coordinate the Honours program in the Bachelor of Social Work, which includes teaching Honours Seminar.
• I am also Research Degrees coordinator in the School and facilitate a montlhy work-in-progress group for our higher degrees students.

PhD

Graduate Diploma in Public Health

Bachelor of Social Work (Hons equiv)

• My main area of research interest is the sociology of mental health, particularly gender and mental health. I have undertaken post-structural feminist research into the gender discourses structuring health care interventions for eating disorders, and continue to publish and supervise students in this field.
• I am also undertaking research into social exclusion and mental health, specifically the intersections between homelessness, gender and mental health.

Moulding, NT. (Forthcoming) ‘The anorexic femme fatale: reproducing gender through the father/psychiatrist-daughter/patient'. In Malson, H. and Burns, M. (Eds.) Critical Feminist Perspectives On Eating Dis/Orders: An International Reader, Routledge, London.

Moulding, NT. (2007) ‘Love your body, move your body, feed your body: discourses of self-care and social marketing in a body image health promotion program’, Critical Public Health, 17 (1): 57-69.

Moulding, NT. (2006) ‘Disciplining the feminine: the reproduction of gender contradictions in the mental health care of women with eating disorders’, Social Science & Medicine, 62;4:793-804.

Moulding, NT. (2003) ‘Constructing the self in mental health practice: identity, individualism and the feminisation of deficiency’, Feminist Review, 75: 57-74.

Moulding, NT. & Hepworth, J. (2001) ‘Understanding body image disturbance in the promotion of mental health: a discourse analytic study’. International Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 11: 305-317.

Selby, S., Jones, A., Burgess, T., Clark, S., Moulding, NT. and Beilby, J. (2007) Disenfranchised grief – the role of the GP, Australian Family Physician 36, (9) 673–784

Mikocka-Walus, A., Turnbull, D., Moulding, N., Wilson, I., Harley, H., Hetzel, D., Andrews, J., Holtmann, G. (2007). Psychological co-morbidity and quality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic hepatitis C (HCV): A cross-sectional investigation. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology [accepted].

Mikocka-Walus, A., Turnbull, D., Moulding, N., Wilson, I., Andrews, J., Holtmann, G. (2007). Psychological co-morbidity and the complexity of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in clinically diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology [accepted].

Mikocka-Walus, A., Turnbull, D., Moulding, N., Wilson, I., Andrews, J., Holtmann, G. (2007). “It doesn’t do any harm, but patients feel better”: a qualitative exploratory study on gastroenterologists’ perspectives on the role of antidepressants in inflammatory bowel disease, BMC Gastroenterology [accepted].

Moulding, NT., Silagy, C. & Weller, D. (1999) ‘A framework for effective management of change in clinical practice: dissemination and implementation of clinical practice guidelines’. Quality in Health Care, 8(3): 177-183.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Social Science

• Gender
• Mental health
• Eating disorders
• Homelessness and mental health