Chief Editor: Professor Jean Ross
Jean Ross is a Principal Lecturer and has been working at Otago Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology since 2003. She is a Registered Nurse, holds a BN and a Master of Arts, and completed her Doctorate in 2017. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and Professor in 2022. From 1994-2003, she was co-director of the National Centre for Rural Health and instrumental in the development of interdisciplinary postgraduate nursing education. In 2008, she received the Rural General Practice Network Peter Snow Memorial Award in recognition of her national contribution to rural health care.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2467-9233
Email: jean.ross@op.ac.nz
The journal Scope (Health & Wellbeing) aims to engage in multidisciplinary discussion on contemporary research in the landscape of health. It is concerned with views and critical debates surrounding issues of practice, theory, education, history and their relationships as manifested through the written and visual activities, such as original research, commentary, and critical debates concerning contemporary researchers, industry, society and educators in their environments of national and international practice.
ISSN (print): 2537-8872; ISSN (online): 2537-8880.
Health & Wellbeing issue 9 will also include a set of published online articles. As the first online video edition, our aim is to initiate a novel journal edition that utilises an online video format complementing the traditional printed text. The online articles will predominantly be original video material, including interviews and videos and will focus on building a sense of community amongst researchers in New Zealand and the international community. These video articles will be of a high standard and subject to a rigorous peer review process.
For guidance for video submissions, contact Richard Humphrey, Richard.Humphrey@op.ac.nz by 30 April 2025. Submissions to jean.ross@op.ac.nz by 30 April 2025.