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Johnathan Hewis

Senior Lecturer in Medical Imaging, Dr, Dr

  • 7 Major Innes, PT-802-2154

    2444 Port Macquarie

    Australia

20122026

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Personal profile

Personal profile

Originally from the UK, Johnathan’s areas of clinical expertise include extensive experience with major trauma imaging, neuro-interventional radiology, specialising in MRI, performing & reporting gastrointestinal studies, and planar image interpretation. Johnathan entered academia in 2005 and is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Medical Imaging at Charles Sturt University. Johnathan’s main research interests include lived experience, image interpretation, advanced practice, and social media-based health care research. Johnathan is an Associate Editor with Radiography and is currently a guest editor for the Journal of Medical Imaging & Radiation Science's special edition on MRI, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). Johnathan is a member of several national professional committess to include ASMIRT's research committee, general radiography reference group, advancing practice reference group and member of the ASMIRT NSW Branch committee.

Research Interests

Johnathan's main research interests relate to user experience with a particular focus on lived experience within medical radiation science.  Other research interests include image interpretation, advanced practice, and the use of social media in health care research.  Johnathan has experience in qualitative research design to include phenomenology, hermeneutics, content analysis and ethnography methodologies. Johnathan is an approved HDR supervisor with Charles Sturt University.

Teaching

Johnathan has a broad range of teaching experience across the curriculum of diagnostic radiography to include cross sectional and surface anatomy, patient care, reflective practice, continual professional development, general radiographic technique, instrumentation for magnetic resonance imaging and fluoroscopic equipment, gastrointestinal and contrast studies, interventional radiology, planar image interpretation, inter-professional practice, advanced practice, contrast media administration and qualitative research methods.

Johnathan's current teaching focus is planar chest, abdomen, and musculoskeletal image interpretation within the undergraduate and master’s medical radiation science courses.

Education/Academic qualification

Radiography, PhD, Phenomenology of Distress in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An existential and embodied study of lived experience, Charles Sturt University

2016 → 2026

Award Date: 05 Jun 2026

Medical Imaging, MSc, Sheffield Hallam University

Award Date: 01 Jul 2010

Learning, Teaching & Assessment in Higher Education, Pg Cert, Sheffield Hallam University

Award Date: 01 Jul 2007

Medical Imaging, Pg Cert, Cranfield University

Award Date: 01 Jul 2002

Diagnostic Radiography, BSc Hons, Sheffield Hallam University

Award Date: 01 Jul 1998

External positions

Associate Editor, Radiography

Jan 2026 → …

Guest editor, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

01 May 2025 → 31 May 2026

Member, Research Committee, Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT)

Dec 2023 → …

Member, NSW Branch Committee, Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT)

Jul 2023 → …

Convenor, ASMIRT 2023, Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT)

Sept 2022 → May 2023

Chair, Advanced Practice Reference Group, Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT)

Jul 2022 → …

Member, General Radiography Reference Group, Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT)

Jul 2022 → …

Reviewer, Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences

2021 → …

Reviewer, Radiography

2020 → …

Professional Hearing Member, Medical Radiation Practice Council of New South Wales

Nov 2017 → …

Associate Editor, Journal and Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

2015 → Jan 2026

Subject keywords

  • phenomenology
  • content analysis
  • anxiety
  • distress
  • image interpretation
  • advanced practice
  • diagnostic radiography
  • qualitative
  • patient experience
  • patient voice
  • hermeneutics
  • person centred care
  • lived experience
  • ethnography
  • medical imaging

Registered Supervisor

  • Yes

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality

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