Jan Hodgson
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Biography
Jan Hodgson has worked in a variety of healthcare settings including nursing, critical care, community care and genetic counselling for over 35 years. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne (UOM) in the areas of health communication, counselling, medical genetics, biomedical ethics and research methods, and is also the Research Coordinator for the UOM Master of Genetic Counselling. An experienced qualitative researcher, she is a Member Scholar of the International Institute of Qualitative Methods (IIQM). Her research interests include women's reproductive health, prenatal diagnosis and reflective counselling practice and she has widely published in these fields.