Study: LGBTI Comorbidity study Background: LGBTI people experience a number of specific risk factors for substance use and mental health…
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Critical data on lesbian, bisexual and queer women’s health – two SWASH reports
2018 was a big year for SWASH. The largest number of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women and non-binary people ever…
What I learnt from Academic Writing Month #AcWriMo
November is Academic Writing Month #AcWriMo when academics set outrageously optimistic (and often public) writing goals. The idea is to…
Enhancing the use of emergency contraceptive pills
Over a decade after emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) / the morning after pill became available without a prescription, the rate…
The ethics of transcribing qualitative interviews
Transcription is fundamental to (most) qualitative research. The transcript is (usually) the actual thing you analyse as data, rather than…
Thinking about SWASH as a community-engaged research project: the feedback
I’m writing a series of blogs about SWASH, a repeated cross-sectional survey of the health and wellbeing of community-connected lesbian, bisexual,…
Changes in social networks are associated with lesbian, bisexual and queer women quitting smoking
We’ve just published a paper in Drug and Alcohol Review based on formative survey research we conducted for the Smoke…
Doing research, learning from community
A few months ago I ran research capacity development on focus groups for staff at a peer-led advocacy and harm…
Thinking about SWASH as a community-engaged research project: the report
SWASH is a repeated cross-sectional survey of the health and wellbeing of community-engaged lesbian, bisexual, queer (LBQ) and other non-heterosexual…
Sex and the Country Women’s Association… Community-oriented research translation for LBQ women.
The CWA – Country Women’s Association are the largest women’s organisation in Australia and work to improve the conditions of…
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