Dr. Stella Ng completed her PhD in Health Professional Education. She is a registered audiologist and worked for five years as an educational audiologist within a large public school board, participating in interprofessional teams and liaising between healthcare and education. Her doctoral work focused on practice-based knowledge, developing a grounded theory that posited the role of reflective processes in the development and socialization of audiology students and novice audiologists. Stella is currently engaged in post-doctoral studies with the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry's Centre for Education Research & Innovation, with Dr. Lorelei Lingard (Director of the Centre and a Professor in the Department of Medicine). She is also a CIHR-STIHR Fellow in Health Care, Technology, & Place based at University of Toronto with adjunct mentorship from Dr. Catherine Schryer (Chair of Professional Communication at Ryerson University). Stella's post-doctoral research will use qualitative approaches to address the challenges of health professional practice with/in non-healthcare contexts such as special education. Specifically, this work will improve our understanding of how professionals navigate disparate discourses and genres when healthcare crosses over to non-healthcare contexts, how professionals may be better prepared for such practices, and how these processes may be facilitated to improve both patient care and practitioner satisfaction. This program of research is funded by Stella's fellowship with the CIHR-STIHR in HCTP (TGF-53911), the Lawson Health Research Institute Internal Research Fund, and the Ontario Health Human Resources Research Network.
Articles
A Grounded Theory Primer for Audiology (with Christine Meston MSc), Seminars in Hearing (2012)
Grounded theory is a widely used qualitative research methodology and has been used in a...
Re-envisioning Collaboration, Hierarchy, and Transparency in Audiology Education, Practice, and Research (with Jeffery Crukley PhD, Drew Dundas PhD, Ryan McCreery PhD, and Christine Meston MSc), Seminars in Hearing (2012)
In this article five audiologists reflect individually and as a group on three perceived key...
Reflection and Reflective Practice: Creating Knowledge through Experience, Seminars in Hearing (2012)
Reflection and reflective practice are popular concepts in the health professions that have yet to...
Reflection as a Tool for Audiology Student and Novice Practitioner Learning, Development, and Self-Care (with Doreen Bartlett PhD and S. Deb Lucy PhD), Seminars in Hearing (2012)
This article is the fourth in a series of five articles explaining the grounded theory...
Reflection as a Window to Student Development: Insight for Faculty, Preceptors, and Mentors (with Doreen Bartlett PhD and S. Deb Lucy PhD), Seminars in Hearing (2012)
This article is the third in a series of five articles explaining the grounded theory...
Contributions to Books
Reflective Practice for Allied Health: Theory and Applications (with Elizabeth Anne Kinsella PhD; Marie-eve Caty MPO; and Karen Jenkins RN, MSc), Adult Education and Health (2012)
This chapter offers an introduction to reflective practice in allied health from both theoretical and...
Other
Crossing Over: Health Professional Practice With/In Non-Healthcare Settings (with Catherine Schryer and Lorelei Lingard), CERI Annual Research Symposium (2011)
Rationale
Nearly all health professionals interact with non‐healthcare systems and settings, across disparate discourses and...
The role of reflection in audiology students’ development as professional practitioners: A constructivist grounded theory, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2011)
Audiology is a young health profession striving toward a value for and use of evidence-based...