Dr Guy Ramsay

Dr Guy Ramsay
Dr Guy Ramsay

BA (Hons) UQ, PhD UQ, BVSc UQ 

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language and Studies 
Chinese Discipline Coordinator
 
Room: Gordon Greenwood Building (32), 427
Phone: +61 (7) 3365 6239
Email: guy.ramsay@uq.edu.au
 
Teaching:
  • Chinese language and studies courses
  • Chinese Honours and coursework Masters program 
Research interests:
  • Discourse analysis
  • Chinese mental health discourse
  • Ethnography: Indigenous-Chinese contacts
Current research projects:
  • An analysis of Chinese mental illness narratives: personal and caregiver stories in schizophrenia, depression, dementia and substance addiction.
Selected recent publications:
  • Ramsay, Guy (2010). Mainland Chinese family caregiver narratives in mental illness: biographical disruption and continuity. Asian Studies Review 34 (1), pp. TBA.
  • Ramsay, Guy (In Press). Chinese mental illness narratives: controlling the spirit. Communication & Medicine.
  • Ramsay, Guy (2008). Shaping minds: a discourse analysis of Chinese-language community mental health literature. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Other activities and service:
  • Discipline Coordinator of UQ Chinese language and studies program 2010-continuing
  • Visiting Scholar at the Population Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, USA, July-December 2009
  • School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies Director of Studies February 2006-2008
  • Organiser of the 'Mental illness and contemporary East Asian communities: responding to culture' workshop, February 2008. Website at http://www.cimh.unimelb.edu.au/newsevents/mi_east_asian_community. Funded by the ARC Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network (APFRN)

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