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Contact Details

Email
donna.keen@otago.ac.nz
Position
Research Fellow and Research Co-ordinator
Qualifications
BA MTour
Research summary
Social research and health and wellbeing

Research

I work (0.5 FTE) as a Research Fellow for an HRC Programme Grant led by Professor Leigh Hale on Reframing health and wellbeing support for people with long-term conditions. I am the Programme Grant co-ordinator, managing daily operations across the Programme.

I am an active researcher on the Programme, bringing strengths as a social researcher to contribute across all of the work streams, but primarily in areas of evolving workforce roles, policy and practice, and theoretical contributions to reframing supported self-management. I provide supervision to honours and research interns, and support capacity building for health and service providers to build research skills.

For further information:
Visit Taunakitanga Takitini website

I also work (0.5 FTE) in a Professional services role as the Research Manager for the School of Physiotherapy research centre CHARR.

Publications

Hale, L., Jones, B. H., Dewes, O., Keown, S., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Wilkinson, A., Keen, D., Norris, P., McKinlay, E., Perry, M., … Trip, H., Ingham, T., & Longnecker, N. (2026). Taunakitanga Takitini, reframing self-management support for all in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protocol for a participatory case study program of research. JMIR Research Protocols, 15, e89658. doi: 10.2196/89658 Journal - Research Other

Orpwood, B., Wilkinson, A., Perry, M., Keen, D., & Hale, L. (2026). Understanding New Zealand physiotherapy scholars' philosophies and practices of supported self-management: A qualitative study. Disability & Rehabilitation. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2026.2632938 Journal - Research Article

Chapple, C., & Keen, D. (2024, November). CHARR's research impact through community collaboration. Verbal presentation at the School of Pharmacy Research Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Higgs, C., Hale, L., Gray, A., Mann, J., Mani, R., Sullivan, T., Keen, D., & Stokes, T. (2023). The diabetes community exercise programme: Supporting marginalised people with high HBA1C, multimorbidity and polypharmacy to engage in exercise. Proceedings of the World Physiotherapy Congress. Retrieved from https://world.physio/congress Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Higgs, C., Hale, L., Keen, D., & Smith, C. (2022). Impact of person-centred care on delivery of the Diabetes Community Exercise Programme (DCEP). New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 50(3, Suppl.), (pp. S25). doi: 10.15619/NZJP/50.3.07 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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