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Mrs Jennifer Creese

PhD Candidate

Qualifications:

  • BArts (UQ) 2003
  • MIM (QUT) 2007
  • BArts Hons (UQ) 2013

Experience:

  • Tutor, ANTH1030 "Anthropology of Current World Issues" 2016, ANTH2270 "Migration, Culture and Identity" 2017, and ANTH2050 "Ritual, Religion and Performance" 2017
  • Associate Supervisor, SOSC3201 Student Research Project "DDWMPHN - Cultural beliefs and hospital-based treatment", 2017
  • Community project leader on Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies' JQ150 Initiative (150 years of Jewish life in Queensland) 2015-2016
  • Honorary Secretary, Australian Association for Jewish Studies
  • Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Jewish Studies

Research Interests:

  • Cultural anthropology
  • Australian multiculturalism
  • Jewish studies
Featured projects Duration
Identity in an Australian Jewish community: an ethnography of public and private Jewish life in South-East Queensland
 2015–2020

Publications

Book (1)
Journal Articles (7)
Conference Papers (5)
Thesis (1)

Book

Creese, Jennifer Jewish life in Queensland: celebrating 150 years since 1865. Milton, Qld, Austraila: Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies, 2016.

Journal Articles

O'Dwyer, Siobhan T., Moyle, Wendy, Taylor, Tara, Creese, Jennifer and Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie (2017) In their own words: how family carers of people with dementia understand resilience. Behavioral Sciences, 7 3: . doi:10.3390/bs7030057
Creese, Jennifer (2017) Negotiating “Russian-ness”: Politics, Religion, Nationalism and Identity in the South Brisbane Russian Jewish Community, 1912-22. Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, 30 74-91.
O'Dwyer, Siobhan T., Moyle, Wendy, Taylor, Tara, Creese, Jennifer and Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. (2016) Homicidal ideation in family carers of people with dementia. Aging & Mental Health, 20 11: 1174-1181. doi:10.1080/13607863.2015.1065793
Creese, Jennifer (2014) A history of Jewish women's lives in Brisbane: the first hundred years. Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 21 4: 531-555.
Creese, Jennifer (2011) Self- and cohort-directed design in research training tutorials for undergraduate researchers: Increasing ownership and relevance to improve learning outcomes. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37 4: 327-332. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2011.04.007
Jennifer Creese (2010) Travel Resources: An Annotated Guide. Reference Reviews, 24 6: 47-47.
Jennifer Creese (2010) Traveljargon.org. Reference Reviews, 24 4: 20-21.

Conference Papers

Jennifer Creese (2018). Positioning Jewishness within multicultural Australia: the performative identity of the Jewish community of South East Queensland, Australia. In: British Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Durham, United Kingdom, (). 9-11 July 2018.
Creese, Jennifer (2016). A Settlement geography of Jewish Brisbane. In: Australian Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Brisbane, Australia, (). 14-15 February 2016.
Creese, Jennifer (2014). Balabustas in Brisbane: immigrant Jewish women's experiences of life in Brisbane, 1865-1972. In: Rhizomes VIII: Surviving and Thriving in Multilingual Spaces, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, (). 10-11 February 2014.
Jennifer Creese (2010). Talking with Pods: a look inside UQ Library's Podcasting project. In: VALA2010, Melbourne, Australia, (). 9-11 February 2010.
Creese, Jennifer, Cribb, Jacqueline and Spicer, Joanne (2008). Social networking: never mind the students, what about us? Use of social networking softwares for professional networking and development for library staff. In: Beyond The Hype: Web 2.0 Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, (). 1-2 February 2008.

Thesis

Creese, Jennifer (2013). A Social History of Women in Brisbane's Modern Orthodox Jewish Community, 1865-1972 Honours Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, The University of Queensland.