Nicola Beamish
Wellbeing Facilitator HB9
Nicola is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and family therapist by trade, with medical administration training. She is working currently as Deputy Chief Psychiatrist and a coordinator for Doctors in Training in Tasmania. She has experience in public health and workforce wellbeing and has undertaken a Master by Research with Monash University, School of Public Health. Nicola thrives working in novel and on the run environments, where identifying key issues, problems solving, and timely action are priorities. She knows that working collaboratively and allowing people their voice is central to influencing outcomes. Nicola’s guiding purpose is to make a small difference towards living in a more just world. Her focus has been particularly on advocacy and service improvements for people and populations where discrimination or disadvantage adversely affect life trajectories and access to health care.
Nicola is privileged to live in lutruwita (Tasmania) on the land of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Palawa/Pakana people. A immigrant from England as a child, she has made lutruwita her home, raised a family and is deeply connected to the land, sea and the local community. As an island State, she values the safe and wild spaces it has created for her and her loved ones, she would be adrift in the world without this connection. For this, she endeavours to live sustainably and give back to a land that nurtures so many. Nicola recognises that the Tasmanian Aboriginal people did not cede right to this land and that less than 1% of lutruwita has been returned to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Return of land and treaty are vital steps in reconciliation and of recognition of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
