
Dr Romy Jia
Associate Lecturer
School of Public Health
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr Romy Menghao Jia is an associate lecturer at the Synthesis Science Division, JBI, University of Adelaide. She has extensive teaching experience in health and social science, including the conduct of systematic review and scoping reviews in evidence-based healthcare. Romy is an experienced researcher and has been involved in the conduct of diverse types of systematic reviews and scoping reviews in the healthcare domain. She is the coordinator of the JBI Scoping Review Network and the convener of JBI scoping review methodology group, an esteemed international collective dedicated to enhancing the rigor and quality of scoping reviews. Additionally, she actively contributes to the product design and development of JBI SUMARI, a software widely used for conducting systematic reviews.
Romy's research background encompasses information science and social science, with a specific focus on major life transitions, marginalized communities, and health information behavior. Her extensive research training, coupled with a strong commitment to community engagement, has provided her with a deep understanding of the challenges faced by marginalized populations. During her PhD, she developed grounded conceptualizations of the online peer interactions and meaning-making information practices that acknowledge the needs, goals, and values of sexuality- and gender-marginalized LGBTQIA+ young adults going through their identity transitions. Romy’s work highlights the importance of embodied information and social interactions in the construction of personal meaning during identity transitions.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2023 - ongoing Associate Lecture JBI -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title University of south australia Australia PhD Fudan University China Master of Library and Information Science -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2025 Khalil, H., Jia, R., Moraes, E. B., Munn, Z., Alexander, L., Peters, M., . . . Evans, C. (2025). Scoping reviews and their role in identifying research priorities. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 181, 111712-1-111712-7.
2025 Dunmall, S., Lizarondo, L., Jia, R. M., & Ooi, E. H. (2025). Safety of selective COX-2 inhibitors in tonsillectomy patients: a systematic review protocol. Jbi Evidence Synthesis.
2024 Pollock, D., Khalil, H., Evans, C., Godfrey, C., Pieper, D., Alexander, L., . . . Munn, Z. (2024). The role of scoping reviews in guideline development. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 169, 111301-1-111301-7.
Scopus5 Europe PMC32024 Ho, H. T., Jia, R., Habibi, N., Stern, C., Carter, G., Santin, O., . . . Aromataris, E. (2024). Experiences of informal caregivers of people with dementia in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review protocol. Jbi Evidence Synthesis, 22(7), 1362-1370.
Scopus12024 Pollock, D., Evans, C., Jia, R. M., Alexander, L., Pieper, D., Brandão de Moraes, É., . . . Munn, Z. (2024). ‘How-To:’ Scoping Review?. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 176, 111572-1-111572-15.
Scopus6 Europe PMC42023 Jia, R. M., Du, J. T., & Zhao, Y. (2023). Interaction with peers online: LGBTQIA+ individuals' information seeking and meaning-making during the life transitions of identity construction. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 75(1), 24-42.
Scopus72023 Lockwood, C. S., Jordan, Z., Bhatarasakoon, P., & Jia, R. M. (2023). The rise of checklists and the fall of reflexivity in qualitative research.. Nurs Health Sci, 25(3), 267-270.
Scopus5 Europe PMC32022 Du, J. T., Peters, S., Haines, J., Trevorrow, A. E., Jia, R. M., & Ziaian, T. (2022). A Framework for Co-designing and Developing Participatory Storymaps with Aboriginal Communities. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 420-425.
Scopus42022 Jia, R. M., Du, J. T., & Zhao, Y. C. (2022). Characteristics of the health information seeking behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review on information types, information sources and influencing factors. Journal of Documentation, 78(2), 361-388.
Scopus26 WoS82020 Jia, R. M., Du, J. T., Zhao, Y., & Velasquez, D. (2020). LGBTQ+ individuals seeking information and support from online communities to navigate unpleasant emotions. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), 1-3.
Scopus12020 Yin, S., Zhang, J., Jia, M., & Hu, J. (2020). How to evaluate and select a data repository for humanities and social science: a case study of fudan university data repository for humanities and social science. Library Trends, 69(1), 125-137.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2021 Jia, R. M., Du, J. T., & Zhao, Y. C. (2021). Needs for Relatedness: LGBTQ+ Individuals' Information Seeking and Sharing in an Online Community. In CHIIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 291-294). New York, USA: ACM.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2024 Co-Supervisor Safety of selective COX-2 inhibitors in tonsillectomy patients Master of Clinical Science Master Full Time Dr Sophie Rose Dunmall
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