Donald Beasley Institute for research and education on intellectual disability.

Biography for Jenny Conder

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Jenny is a registered nurse and a senior researcher with the Donald Beasley Institute. Her nursing experience includes working in the fields of intellectual disability and child health. She has been a nurse educator for more than 20 years with a focus predominantly on nursing within the primary health sector. The three areas of intellectual disability, child health and primary health inform her research interests. With a Master's degree in Bioethics, Jenny is also interested in ethics, particularly as it relates to the development of relationships between people and how relationships influence moral behaviour.

Jenny is also contracted as a Senior Lecturer to the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies, University of Otago, Christchurch, where she coordinates the Primary Health Care Nursing paper and supervises some postgraduate students.

Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles

  • Conder, J., Milner, P. & Mirfin-Veitch, B. (2011). Reflections on a participatory approach: The rewards and challenges for the lead researchers. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 36 (1), 39-48.
  • Conder, J.., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Sanders, J. & Munford, R. (2010). Planned Pregnancy,Planned Parenting: Enabling choice for adults with a learning disability, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 39, 105-112, doi:10.1111/j.1468-3156.2010.00625.x
  • Conder, J., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Sanders, J. & Munford, R. (2008). "I've got to think of him": Relationships between parents with an intellectual disability and foster parents. Developing Practice, The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal, 21 Winter.

Other forms of dissemination

  • Conder, J., Whitehead, L., Hale, L. & Trip, H. (2009). Adults with an intellectual disability and diabetes: an example of collaborative research between Nursing, Physiotherapy and the Donald Beasley Institute. Presented at the Rehabilitation and Disability Research Colloquium, School of Physiotherapy, 23 November, Dunedin, New Zealand.
  • Conder, J., Mirfin-Veitch, B. & Bray, A. (2007). Meeting the Primary Health Needs of Adults with an Intellectual Disability, Practice Nurse Journal, (February), 34-39.

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