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Dr Guy Ramsay

BA (Hons) UQ, PhD UQ, BVSc UQ 

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language and Studies

Chinese Discipline Coordinator

Room: Gordon Greenwood Building (#32), 427
Phone: +61 (7) 3365 6239
Email: guy.ramsayATuq.edu.au

Teaching

• Chinese language and studies courses
• Chinese Honours and coursework Masters program 

Research interests

• Discourse analysis
• Chinese mental health discourse
• Ethnography: Indigenous-Chinese contacts

Current research projects

• An analysis of Chinese mental illness narratives: personal and caregiver stories in schizophrenia, depression, dementia and substance addiction.

Selected recent publications

• Ramsay, Guy (2010). Mainland Chinese family caregiver narratives in mental illness: biographical disruption and continuity. Asian Studies Review 34 (1), pp. TBA.
• Ramsay, Guy (In Press). Chinese mental illness narratives: controlling the spirit. Communication & Medicine.
• Ramsay, Guy (2008). Shaping minds: a discourse analysis of Chinese-language community mental health literature. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Other activities and service

• Discipline Coordinator of UQ Chinese language and studies program 2010-continuing
• Visiting Scholar at the Population Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, USA, July-December 2009
• School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies Director of Studies February 2006-2008
• Organiser of the 'Mental illness and contemporary East Asian communities: responding to culture' workshop, February 2008. Website at http://www.cimh.unimelb.edu.au/newsevents/mi_east_asian_community. Funded by the ARC Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network (APFRN)