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Relationships between Livelihood Risks and Livelihood Capitals: A Case Study in Shiyang River Basin, China
(MDPI, 2018-02-14)Using information collected through semi-structured questionnaires in 483 households, this paper examines the relationships between livelihood risks and livelihood capitals amongst rural farming communities in China’s ... -
The impact of pregnancy loss on men's health and wellbeing: a systematic review
(BioMed Central, 2017-11-15)Background Research indicates that men's psychological and physical health outcomes after pregnancy loss differ from those of women. Our goal was to identify all literature with a focus on men's experiences of pregnancy ... -
Experiences of school belonging for young children of refugee backgrounds
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)Previous research with adolescents with refugee backgrounds living in countries of resettlement has found that school belonging has an impact on a range of wellbeing and developmental outcomes, including mental health, ... -
Parenting and Australian trans and gender diverse people: An exploratory survey
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-07)Growing numbers of Australian trans and gender diverse people desire to become parents, yet many who do so experience a lack of support and recognition. This paper reports on an online survey completed by 160 trans or ... -
Australian mental health professionals’ competencies for working with trans clients: a comparative study
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-26)Growing numbers of trans people require access to mental health services; however, previous research suggests that many trans clients have negative experiences with mental health professionals. This paper reports on an ... -
The Role of School Counsellors and Psychologists in Supporting Transgender People
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-01-11)As growing numbers of transgender people — including students, parents, and educators — become visible within schools, so comes with this the requirement that schools ensure their full inclusion. This article suggests that ... -
Public and private families: a comparative thematic analysis of the intersections of social norms and scrutiny
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-02-01)Despite the increased diversification of Australian families, the nuclear family formed through reproductive heterosex continues to be treated as the norm. This paper argues that this norm impacts negatively upon families ... -
Narratives of Choice amongst white Australians who undertake Surrogacy Arrangements in India
(Springer Verlag, 2015-02-15)This paper reports on a rhetorical analysis of interviews with fifteen white Australian citizens who had undertaken offshore commercial surrogacy in India. Extending previous research, the findings suggest that genetic ... -
Indigenous Sistergirls’ Experiences of Family and Community
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-09)While increasing attention has been paid to the experiences of Indigenous sistergirls over the past decade there still remains a dearth of empirical research on the experiences of this diverse population of Indigenous ... -
Gender Differences in Cisgender Psychologists’ and Trainees’ Attitudes Toward Transgender People
(American Psychological Association, 2016)Research that has explored the attitudes of cisgender people toward transgender people has identified gender differences, with cisgender men commonly reporting more negative attitudes than cisgender women. However, little ... -
Australian mental health nurses and transgender clients: Attitudes and knowledge
(SAGE Publications, 2016-05)As increasing numbers of transgender people access mental health services, so with this comes the requirement that mental health professionals are capable of providing inclusive and informed care. In Australia, mental ... -
Exploring trans and gender diverse issues in primary education in South Australia
(Flinders University, 2016)Executive Summary An increasing number of young children identify with a gender that differs from that normatively expected of their natally-assigned sex (e.g. Smith & Matthews, 2015; Telfer, Tollit, & Feldman, 2015). Such ... -
White Australian adoptive mothers' understandings of birth cultures and families
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-11)This paper reports an analysis of interviews conducted with 10 White Australian women who had undertaken intercountry adoption. The paper begins with an overview of how issues of culture play out within discourses of ... -
Transgender men's self-representations of bearing children post-transition
(Demeter Press, 2013-09)Since reports of Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy appeared in the media in 2008, the visibility of transgender men having children post-transition has increased considerably. Whilst this visibility, it may be argued, has attracted ... -
Gay men's narratives of pregnancy in the context of commercial surrogacy
(Demeter Press, 2015)Historically, gay men have primarily become fathers in the context of heterosexual relationships, or for some men through foster care, adoption, or co‐parenting arrangements as sperm donors (Riggs and Due). Since the ... -
'The contented faces of a unique Australian family': privilege and vulnerability in news media reporting of offshore surrogacy arrangements
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-03)In a paper recently published in Citizenship Studies (Riggs and Due 2013), we argued that media accounts of Australian citizens entering into offshore commercial surrogacy arrangements frequently evoke notions of the agentic ... -
Australian lesbian, gay and/or transgender people and the law
(Federation Press, 2014-02-11)Notionally the law is designed to protect people from harm or stigma (Posner 2002): it can of course do the opposite. While, as this chapter outlines, laws in Australia have increasingly become inclusive of lesbians, gay ... -
Research with children of migrant and refugee backgrounds: a review of child-centered research methods
(Springer Verlag, 2013-09-13)This paper outlines a participatory research methodology we have found to be successful in researching the educational experiences and perceptions of children with migrant or refugee backgrounds in Australia for whom English ... -
Gay men
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-04-28)In our culture, men who have sex with men are generally oppressed, but they are not definitively excluded from masculinity. Rather, they face structurally induced conflicts about masculinity — conflicts between their ... -
Duty stations and the regulation of space in mental health wards: a South Australian case study
(Australian Psychological Society, 2013-06)This paper reports on a cross-disciplinary pilot study that examined the relationship between architecture and mental health. Drawing upon ethnographic data collected within a purpose-built mental health ward in South ...
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