Tanisha Jowsey (BA Hons, MA) is a senior research officer for the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy. Tanisha has worked on the Serious and Continuing Illness: Policy and Practice Study (SCIPPS) since it began in 2005. Her work with SCIPPS has focused on two qualitative projects undertaken with people with chronic illness, their carers and health professionals. Her specialty areas within these projects include qualitative methodology and analysis; multi-morbidity, patient knowledge and decision-making, carer experience, Australian health policy and Indigenous health. More recently Tanisha has been involved in the 'Work of being ill' survey, where she looks at the time people spend managing their health. Tanisha is also currently undertaking doctoral research in the fields of anthropology and health services research (as of November 2010). The research is mixed methods and strives to answer a simple question: how do people living with chronic illness experience time?

Email: tanisha.jowsey@anu.edu.au

Phone: + 61 2 6125 7599

Fax: + 61 2 6125 2254