Dr Margo Louise Turnbull Research Assistant Professor

Location AG411
Phone +852 2766 7558
mail margo.turnbull@polyu.edu.hk

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Education and Academic Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy, University of Technology Sydney




Research Interests
Foucault
Critical discourse analysis
Identity
Health
Communication
Post-structural research methodologies and methods



Research Output

Journal Articles
Turnbull, M. (Under review). (Re)thinking space and place in nursing: Using heterotopia to explore the localisation of primary health care. Nursing Philosophy.

Turnbull, M., Wu, X., & Watson, B. (Under review). The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on end-of-life workers in Hong Kong and Australia: An initial study of communication and interaction in community-based services. Communication & Medicine.

Turnbull, M. (Accepted). Negotiating identity and power during a crisis: An analysis of ‘small stories' told by Australian Christian priests during the COVID-19 health crisis. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.

Turnbull, M., Jin, Y., Yau, A., Lai, S., Cheung, Y. & Watson, B. (2021). mHealth in hyper-connected Hong Kong: Examining attitudes and access to mobile devices and health information among older Chinese residents. mHealth, 7(43).

Turnbull, M., Watson, B., Jin, Y., Lok, B., & Sanderson, A. (2020). Vicarious trauma, social media and recovery in Hong Kong. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 51, 102032. Doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102032

Reich, A. & Turnbull, M. (2018) Using Foucault: Genealogy, governmentality and the problem of chronic illness. Genealogy, 2(2):13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy2020013

Hor, S., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G., Urwin, R., Turnbull, M., Murphy, M., & Jorm, C. (2017) Reintroducing practical logic to PPE use: A video-based survey, Infection Disease and Health, 22 (sup.1), s15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2017.09.062





Book chapters
Turnbull, M., & Wu, X. (Accepted). Emotional reflexivity during a global health crisis: Emotion ‘work’ in online health communication research. In Consoli, S. & Ganassin, S. (Eds), Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics Research: Opportunities, Challenges and Suggestions. Routledge.

Yau, A., Turnbull, M., Angus, D. & Watson, B. (2020). Visualizing conversations in health care: Using Discursis to compare Cantonese and English data sets in Watson. In B. & Kreiger, J. (Eds), Expanding Horizons in Health Communication, Humanities in Asia, Springer.

Reich, A. & Turnbull, M., (2018). Using Foucault: genealogy, governmentality and the problem of chronic illness. In M. Clifford (Ed.), Beyond Foucault: Excursions in Political Genealogy, (pp. 104-115), Geneva: MDPI.





Conference proceedings
Olson, R., Burton, A., Byron, P., & Turnbull, M. (2014), Exploratory comparison of providing formative assessment feedback in three different modes: Hardcopy, desktop and tablet. In: 17^th International First Year in Higher Education Conference, 6-9 July 2014, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Turnbull, M. (2014), Sitting next to Nellie: Job shadowing as job learning in primary health care. In: Conference Proceedings for ProPEL International Conference, 24-27 June 2014, University of Stirling, Scotland.










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Research Projects (funded projects – both internal and external)
2022-2024: Primary Investigator: “Normally you sit beside a bed and hold someone’s hand”: Covid-19 and end-of-life care practices in Hong Kong and Australia (Funded by General Research Fund, Hong Kong) (HK$535, 000)
2021: Primary Investigator: Exploring the interface between global and local health literacy: Health communication and migrant worker groups in Hong Kong (Start-Up Fund, PolyU) (HK$250, 000)
Primary Investigator: Using cues and heuristics to test responses of older Hong Kong residents to digital health promotion messages (Funded by Departmental General Research Fund, PolyU) (HK$106, 000)
2020: Primary Investigator: Leveraging ‘uncertainty’ during a health crisis: A comparative analysis of the use of hedges in the speeches of four international political leaders during the first six months of the Covid-19 global health crisis (Funded by the Dean's Reserve, Faculty of Humanities, PolyU) (HK$105, 000)
Co-Investigator: Analysing Stress, Anxiety and Disruption across Languages and Cultures: A Longitudinal Study (Funded by the Dean's Reserve, Faculty of Humanities, PolyU)
Co-investigator: Covid-19 and the new ‘frontlines’ of infection control: A mixed methods study of emotional labour, stress and burn out amongst teachers, carers and end-of-life service workers in Hong Kong and Australia (Funded by Departmental General Research Fund, PolyU)
2019: Co-investigator: Using Wireless Technologies in Health Communication: Using mHealth to Promote Safety in the Home amongst Hong Kong Elders (Funded by VP's Reserve, PolyU)
Postdoctoral Fellow: Visualising health communication: using Discursis on Cantonese data sets (Funded by the Dean’s Reserve, Faculty of Humanities, PolyU)









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Professional associations
Member, International Communication Association
Member, Asian Association of Social Psychologists
Member, International Association of Language and Social Psychology
Member, The Australian Sociological Association