Dr Johnny Bourke

Position	Research Fellow
Qualifications	BA(Psych) MHealSc(Rehab) PhD
Research summary	Johnny works as a Research Fellow at the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit

Research

Johnny combines his lived experience of disability (spinal cord injury) with his experience of working on a range of research, teaching, advocacy, and clinical projects to develop an understanding of evidence-based practice in the field of disability and rehabilitation.

Johnny has a genuine passion for transformative research and his key research interests include community reintegration and participation following serious injury, consumer perspectives, Māori health outcomes, disability policy, and social and critical theories of disability.

Johnny's research expertise ranges in methodological focus including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research projects. Understanding the human experience is only half of the journey; the rest of the journey is to think about how research can be used to transform people’s lives for the better.

Publications

Bourke, J. A., Owen, H. E., Derrett, S., & Wyeth, E. H. (2023). Disrupted mana and systemic abdication: Māori qualitative experiences accessing healthcare in the 12 years post-injury. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1), 130. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09124-0

Martin, R. A., Johns, J. K., Hackney, J. J., Bourke, J. A., Young, T. J., Nunnerley, J. L., Snell, D. L., Derrett, S., & Dunn, J. A. (2023). Early opportunities to explore occupational identity change: Qualitative study of return-to-work experiences after stroke. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 55, jrm00363. doi: 10.2340/jrm.v55.4825

Martin, R. A., Nunnerley, J. L., Young, T., Hall, A., Snell, D. L., Hackney, J. J., Bourke, J. A., Derrett, S., & Dunn, J. A. (2022). Vocational wayfinding following spinal cord injury: In what contexts, how and why does early intervention vocational rehabilitation work? Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 56(3), 243-254. doi: 10.3233/JVR-221189

Dunn, J. A., Martin, R. A., Hackney, J. J., Nunnerley, J. L., Snell, D. L., Bourke, J. A., … Derrett, S. (2022). Developing a conceptual framework for early intervention vocational rehabilitation for people following spinal cord injury. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10926-022-10060-9

Bourke, J. A., Nichols-Dunsmuir, A., Begg, A., Dong, H., & Schluter, P. J. (2022). Understanding the longer-term health, wellbeing, and sense of community for disabled people following the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes: A repeated cross-sectional study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 67, 102649.

Journal - Research Article

Bourke, J. A. (2022). The lived experience of interdependence: Support worker relationships and implications for wider rehabilitation. Brain Impairment, 23, 118-124. doi: 10.1017/BrImp.2021.24

Journal - Research Article

Bourke, J. A., Nichols-Dunsmuir, A., Begg, A., Dong, H., & Schluter, P. J. (2021). Measuring disability: An agreement study between two disability measures. Disability & Health Journal, 14, 100995. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2020.100995

Journal - Research Article

Dunn, J. A., Hackney, J. J., Martin, R. A., Tietjens, D., Young, T., Bourke, J. A., Snell, D. L., Nunnerley, J. L., … Derrett, S. (2021). Development of a programme theory for early intervention vocational rehabilitation: A realist literature review. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 31, 730-743. doi: 10.1007/s10926-021-10000-z

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Nunnerley, J. L., Martin, R. A., Aldridge, M., Bourke, J. A., & Simpson, I. (2021). Access to community support workers during hospital admission for people with spinal cord injury: A pilot study. Spinal Cord Series & Cases, 7, 3. doi: 10.1038/s41394-020-00370-6

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Snell, D. L., Hackney, J. J., Maggo, J., Martin, R. A., Nunnerley, J. L., Bourke, J. A., … Derrett, S., & Dunn, J. A. (2021). Early vocational rehabilitation after spinal cord injury: A survey of service users. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 55(3), 323-333. doi: 10.3233/JVR-211166

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Bourke, J. A., Catherwood, V. J., Nunnerley, J., Martin, R. A., Levack, W. M. M., Thompson, B. L., & Acland, R. H. (2019). Using cannabis for pain management after spinal cord injury: A qualitative study. Spinal Cord Series & Cases, 5, 82. doi: 10.1038/s41394-019-0227-3

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Bourke, J. A., Nunnerley, J. L., Sullivan, M., & Derrett, S. (2019). Relationships and the transition from spinal units to community for people with a first spinal cord injury: A New Zealand qualitative study. Disability & Health Journal, 12(2), 257-262. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2018.09.001

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Bourke, J., Nunnerley, J., Snell, D., & Sinnott Jerram, A. (2019). The Burwood Academy: Incorporating the principles of the independent living paradigm into rehabilitation research. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 12(3), 240-248. doi: 10.1108/IJHRH-08-2018-0054

Journal - Research Article

Bourke, J. A., Hay-Smith, E. J. C., Snell, D. L., & Schluter, P. J. (2017). Community inclusion of wheelchair users during the long-term recovery phase following the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 23, 169-177. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.05.004

Journal - Research Article

Bourke, J. A., Schluter, P. J., Hay-Smith, J. C., & Snell, D. L. (2016). Respondent driven sampling of wheelchair users: A lack of traction? F1000Research, 5, 753. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8605.2

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Bourke, J. A., Hay-Smith, E. J. C., Snell, D. L., & DeJong, G. (2015). Attending to biographical disruption: The experience of rehabilitation following tetraplegia due to spinal cord injury. Disability & Rehabilitation, 37(4), 296-303. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2014.918188

Journal - Research Article

Dunn, J., Martin, R. A., Hackney, J. J., Nunnerley, J. L., Snell, D., Bourke, J. A., … Derrett, S. (2021). Early vocational rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury: A research protocol using realist synthesis and interviews to understand how and why it works. BMJ Open, 11, e048753. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-048753

Journal - Research Other

Wyeth, E. H., Derrett, S., Nelson, V., Bourke, J., Crengle, S., Davie, G., & Harcombe, H. (2021). POIS-10 Māori: Outcomes and experiences in the decade following injury. Methods & Protocols, 4(2), 37. doi: 10.3390/mps4020037

Journal - Research Other

Bourke, J. A., Snell, D. L., Sinnott, K. A., & Cassidy, B. (2012). A user-led consultation model: Making inclusion of service users in research a reality. Ethnicity & Inequalities in Health & Social Care, 5(2), 61-69. doi: 10.1108/17570981211286804

Journal - Research Other

Sinnott, K. A., Cassidy, B., Nunnerley, J. L., Bourke, J., & Kunowski, T. (2010). Commentary on community participation following spinal cord injury in New Zealand. Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, 15(4), 63-71. doi: 10.1310/sci1504-063

Journal - Research Other

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