Researcher

Dr Gianfranco Giuntoli

My Expertise

  • Mental wellbeing/positive mental health, including the relationship between unemployment and people's well-being/quality of life.
  • Workplace and employees well-being.
  • Advance statements/directives in mental health.
  • Human rights protection frameworks for people being treated involuntarily for a mental illness.

Fields of Research (FoR)

Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment, Mental Health, Social Theory, Sociological Methodology and Research Methods

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Biography

Dr Gianfranco Giuntoli is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre. His research interests lie in the social study of health and illness, with a particular focus on the connections between well-being, poverty and employment transitions, and how social and policy factors affect people’s intra-personal and inter-personal experiences of well-being and their resilience.

Gianfranco has extensive experience of undertaking...view more

Dr Gianfranco Giuntoli is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre. His research interests lie in the social study of health and illness, with a particular focus on the connections between well-being, poverty and employment transitions, and how social and policy factors affect people’s intra-personal and inter-personal experiences of well-being and their resilience.

Gianfranco has extensive experience of undertaking research using a variety of research methods, specialising in mixed methods and qualitative research. His work has explored the needs, service acceptability and service accessibility of socially disadvantaged groups, including people with disabilities, older people, unemployed people, migrants, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Gianfranco has gained national and international experience of reporting research findings to different audiences and in different formats, from academic journal articles, to reports, to interviews with the media. His work in the field of mental health and wellbeing has been published in the series of expert papers by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK.


My Qualifications

PhD


My Awards

Promising Researcher Fellowship, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2011.


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

I am interested in supevising research projects with a focus on the social inclusion of people with disability, of people with lived experience of mental illness, Australians experiencing adversity, and employment transitions.


Currently supervising

I am currently joint primary supervisor of a PhD thesis about the efficacy of collaborations between government and non-government agencies in implementing the employment quota policy for women with disability in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.


My Teaching

At UNSW Sydney, Gianfranco has taught quliative research methods. 

He has also taught ‘Introduction to Sociology’ and ‘Sociology of Health and Illness’ for undergraduate and postgraduate modules at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

He has supervised Masters students to completion and has been on the supervisory panel of a PhD student.

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Location

218 Goodsell Building

Contact

+61 2 9385 7803
+61 2 9385 7838