Meghan Lee

Project Description

Based on the principles of community based participatory research and photovoice methodology, Meg’s project uses images, shared experiences, and conversation circles to explore ‘wellbeing’, or ‘health and happiness’. Working with groups of young people aged 15-25 from English Additional Language migrant and refugee backgrounds in the Ballarat and Wimmera regions, Meg’s research interrogates how positive social, emotional, and mental wellbeing is experienced in day-to-day life. Drawing from a phenomenological approach, Meg aims to identify key resources in young people’s lives that support positive wellbeing, and how such resources may be strengthened or made more accessible to a diversity of young people. The research also offers unique perspectives on some of the ethical- methodological considerations of working as a young researcher, working in rural and regional communities, and participatory processes with young people. Meg’s research is interdisciplinary and draws from a range of literature and approaches across rural health, human geography, sociology, youth studies, education, anthropology, philosophy and the creative arts.

Supervisors

Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Zubaida Mohamed Shaburdin, Department of Rural Health
Associate Professor Debra McDougall, School of Social and Political Sciences