Julie Tucker
I’m a researcher and PhD candidate and a lawyer by trade. After working in Melbourne I spent a number of years in London working as a legal advisor in a culturally diverse inner city law centre, with a major schizophrenia support and advice organisation and with the Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK’s leading HIV/AIDS charity. This was followed by a seven-year stint in Guatemala where I helped establish an NGO specialising in capacity-building training for grass-roots human rights organisations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
My recent research experience, gained while living on the mid north coast of NSW and working with a research cluster at Southern Cross University, includes an evaluation of a three-year health initiative designed to engage marginalised communities in regional NSW, and the delivery of a two-year Comcare-funded research project looking at the social, economic and psychological impact of an asbestos-related diagnosis in Australia. I’m currently enrolled in a PhD in Swinburne University’s Centre for Social Impact.