Research on equity in health & health services; Research Ethics
The CWA - Country Women's Association are the largest women's organisation in Australia and work to improve the conditions of women and children in the country. They've been around since the 1920s. They are an Australian institution no doubt, famous for their cookbooks and cake competitions. Their motto is all God, throne, country... For me,... Continue Reading →
Anna Olsen and I have a book chapter in the new SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. We draw on our experiences as university researchers using participatory research (PR) to work with community researchers in the field of sexual health to explore the specific ethical issues faced by PR with community/peer researchers. We highlight two... Continue Reading →
The Indigenous Resiliency Project was part of the International Collaborative Indigenous Health Research Partnership (ID: 361621), a trilateral partnership between the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Health Research Council of New Zealand. There were parallel projects in Canada and New Zealand; together we aimed... Continue Reading →
Very pleased to be able to share the Chlamydia testing and management - FINAL REPORT. This is the outcome of a project that assessed chlamydia testing, contact management and re-testing practices of clinicians at Australian family planning clinics. The project was funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program Grant, and run... Continue Reading →
Delighted to have been invited to speak at this community forum with Dr Toby and Miss Tokyo and community representatives... SWASH survey has a lot of data on alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. The main message from me will be: we need to talk about smoking... twice the rate. Still. I'll be interested to... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure of attending the second meeting of the Australia Forum on Sexuality, Education and Health at UNSW today. It was organised by Peter Aggleton at the National Centre in HIV and Social Research. The forum was a series of short provocations from 4 people on the theme Learning about sex—what, when, where... Continue Reading →
