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Biography for Jenny Conder
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
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
- Conder, J. & Mirfin-Veitch, B. (2008). Giving and receiving personal care: What does it mean for clients and carers? Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, 14(10), 20-22.
- Conder, J., Mirfin-Veitch, B. & Bray, A. (2007, February). Meeting the primary health needs of adults with an intellectual disability. Practice Nurse Journal, 34 - 39.
- Conder, J., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Sanders, J. & Munford, R. (2008 Autumn/Winter). "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, 17 - 25.
- McDrury, J. & Conder, J. (2002) When yes means sometimes, Qualitative Research Journal, 2, 16 - 29.
- Munford, R., Mirfin-Veitch, B. & Sanders, J. (2008). Looking inside the bag of tools: Creating research encounters for people with learning disabilities. Disability & Society, 23 (4), 337-347.
- Munford, R., Sanders, J., Mirfin-Veitch, B. & Conder, J. (2008). Ethics and research: Searching for ethical practice in research. Ethics and Social Welfare, 2(1), 50-66.
Other forms of Dissemination (including Conference and Seminar presentations)
- Conder, J. (2003) Inclusion means new health promotion challenges for Primary Health Nurses. Paper presented to the NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses Conference, Wellington.
- Conder, J., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Sanders, J. & Munford, R. (2008) Planned pregnancy, planned parenting: evidence for poicy and practice. Presented at the Australasian Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability, 24-26 November, Melbourne, Australia.
- Conder, J. & Mirfin-Veitch, B. (2006). I have to work with what I have been given: Risk, resilience and parents with an intellectual disability who have children in foster care. Presented at the Australasian Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability, 4-7 September, Canberra, Australia.
- Mirfin-Veitch, B., Bray, A., Conder, J., Gates, S., Milner, P. & Forsyth, H. (2004). Intimate and personal care for adults with high support needs: understanding the experiences of receivers and providers in New Zealand, Paper presented at the 12th IASSID World Congress, Towards Mutual Understanding: Person, Environment, Community, Montpellier, France.
- Mirfin-Veitch, B., and Conder, J. (2006). Protecting children - strengthening families: When a parent has an intellectual disability - Outcomes for children. Dunedin Public Hospital Paediatric Department Seminar Series. 26 October, Dunedin.
- Mirfin-Veitch, B., and Conder, J. (2006). Protecting children - strengthening families: When a parent has an intellectual disability - A study of preliminary findings. Presented at the Donald Beasley Seminar Series, 18 August, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Mirfin-Veitch, B., and Conder, J. (2005). Protecting children - strengthening families: When a parent has an intellectual disability. Presented at the Australasian Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability, 10-13 October, Auckland, New Zealand.
