Rosa's PhD thesis "The Relationship between Social Capital and Community Newspapers: the power to empower", Faculty of Education, 2005 won the prestigious 2006 ANZRSAI (Australian New Zealand Regional Science Association International) Postgraduate Award.
She has been at the UDRH since 2005 as Honorary Research Associate, Research Assistant and Junior Research fellow.
In 2007-2008, Rosa carried out a project related to the St Marys bushfires in 2006. One of the early outcomes of this Art, Health and Wellbeing Regener8, project was the publishing of a book titled ‘Regener8: Stories and Impressions of the East Coast Bushfire 2006’. Rosa was the editor and graphic designer of the book. Her papers and conference presentations emerging since from this project have focused on community resilience and healing after natural disaster though ‘grass roots’ action and creative initiatives.
Selected Publications
- McManamey R., and Sparkes, J., 2009, 'Arts, Health, Community Resilience and Healing: Responding to Natural Disaster', UNESCO Observatory E-Journal, 1, issue 4, June
- McManamey, R., 2007, 'Community Newspapers and Social Capital: the power to empower', Sustaining Regions, Vol. 6 Issue 1, pgs. 70-94
- McManamey,R., 2009, ''Arts, health, community resilience and healing: the importance of the story' ', 10th National Rural Health Conference, Rural Health: the place to be, Cairns 10-20 May
- McManamey, R. , 2006, 'Positive Press Hard Times and Regional Development ', In 2006 ANZSRAI (Australian & New Zealand Regional Science Association International), Conference Heritage and Regional Development, 26-29 September 2006, Beechworth, La Trobe University
- Le, Q. and McManamey, R., 2006, 'Multilevel Analysis and its implications for Rural Education Research', SPERA Conference, July 12-14, Hobart
- Le, Q. and McManamey, R., 2005, 'The Discourse of Outsourcing: Some Implications for Health Services and Education', International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis, University of Tasmania
- McManamey, R. , 2006, 'Exploring Social Capital through Community Newspapers', International Scope Review, 8, 13, pgs. 1-31
