The journal Scope (Health & Wellbeing) aims to engage in multidisciplinary discussion on contemporary research in the landscape of health. Health, positioned within the domain of Planetary Health, offers wide debate amongst diverse contributors. Scope (Health & Wellbeing) is concerned with views and critical debates surrounding issues of practice, theory, education, history and their relationships as manifested through the written and visual activities, such as original research, commentary, and critical debates concerning contemporary researchers, emerging academics, industry, society and educators in their environments of national and international practice. Scope’s focus is on building a sense of community amongst colleagues in New Zealand and the international community.
ISSN (hardcopy): 2537-8872; ISSN (online): 2537-8880
Call for Papers for Scope (Health & Wellbeing), 11, 2027 has an open theme.
Submissions to jean.ross@op.ac.nz by 30 June 2027.
Editor: Professor Jean Ross
Jean Ross is a Principal Lecturer and has been working at Otago Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology since 2003. She is a Registered Nurse, holds a BN and a Master of Arts, and completed her Doctorate in 2017. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and Professor in 2022. From 1994-2003, she was co-director of the National Centre for Rural Health and instrumental in the development of interdisciplinary postgraduate nursing education. In 2008, she received the Rural General Practice Network Peter Snow Memorial Award in recognition of her national contribution to rural health care.