Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and l... more Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and lifelong effects including higher risks of alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system. The concept of trauma to describe adverse experiences and later behaviours provides potential to reshape prevention and responses for victims. We draw on survivor accounts to a national enquiry, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, to examine the ways in which trauma is narrated in adverse childhood experiences, alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system, and how trauma is interpreted by others in the context of policy and legal findings. These accounts showed damaging and unjust experiences of childhood, which were compounded by subsequent contact with the criminal justice system. Trauma seems to be important to both the experienced narrated by survivors and the synthesising of these experiences int...
Community is defined in a multitude of ways across disciplines. Places and spaces of community ar... more Community is defined in a multitude of ways across disciplines. Places and spaces of community are geographically local and global and can be formed in networked relationships with others across difference and produced in mutual obligation and reciprocity. They may be encountered through shared values, knowledge and history. This thesis investigates the experiences and views of ten young people aged between ten and twelve years, discussing community through their encounters and stories of relationships, time, place and space. It examines how these challenge and reflect contemporary knowledge of community. The study draws on interdisciplinary perceptions of community, including ideas discussed in the fields of philosophy, sociology, children’s geography, childhood, urban studies, and cultural studies. Issues of voice, reciprocity, and respect were central in my research as I aimed to conduct research with and not on, children and young people. These issues were explored through quali...
Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses ... more Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses to disabled women and children experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). Service provision in these sectors is often rationed due to resource constraints, and increasingly marketised, and disabled people often do not have their needs met. Their opportunities for participation in policy and practice are also constrained.Aims and objectives: Our aim is to bring critical studies of intersectionality into dialogue with ‘evidence-making’ scholarship on policy implementation, to allow for new analyses of the inclusion of lived experience expertise in policy.We ask: What are the potential drivers for new forms of practice and evidence making in policy and service settings?Methods: The multi-method study comprised literature and policy review and qualitative research about the experience and implementation of an early intervention violence prevention support programme. Semi-structured int...
Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and l... more Adverse childhood experiences, including childhood sexual abuse, have significant immediate and lifelong effects including higher risks of alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system. The concept of trauma to describe adverse experiences and later behaviours provides potential to reshape prevention and responses for victims. We draw on survivor accounts to a national enquiry, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, to examine the ways in which trauma is narrated in adverse childhood experiences, alcohol and other drug use and contact with the criminal justice system, and how trauma is interpreted by others in the context of policy and legal findings. These accounts showed damaging and unjust experiences of childhood, which were compounded by subsequent contact with the criminal justice system. Trauma seems to be important to both the experienced narrated by survivors and the synthesising of these experiences int...
Community is defined in a multitude of ways across disciplines. Places and spaces of community ar... more Community is defined in a multitude of ways across disciplines. Places and spaces of community are geographically local and global and can be formed in networked relationships with others across difference and produced in mutual obligation and reciprocity. They may be encountered through shared values, knowledge and history. This thesis investigates the experiences and views of ten young people aged between ten and twelve years, discussing community through their encounters and stories of relationships, time, place and space. It examines how these challenge and reflect contemporary knowledge of community. The study draws on interdisciplinary perceptions of community, including ideas discussed in the fields of philosophy, sociology, children’s geography, childhood, urban studies, and cultural studies. Issues of voice, reciprocity, and respect were central in my research as I aimed to conduct research with and not on, children and young people. These issues were explored through quali...
Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses ... more Background: The paper draws on empirical evidence from a project investigating service responses to disabled women and children experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV). Service provision in these sectors is often rationed due to resource constraints, and increasingly marketised, and disabled people often do not have their needs met. Their opportunities for participation in policy and practice are also constrained.Aims and objectives: Our aim is to bring critical studies of intersectionality into dialogue with ‘evidence-making’ scholarship on policy implementation, to allow for new analyses of the inclusion of lived experience expertise in policy.We ask: What are the potential drivers for new forms of practice and evidence making in policy and service settings?Methods: The multi-method study comprised literature and policy review and qualitative research about the experience and implementation of an early intervention violence prevention support programme. Semi-structured int...
‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: In Turn, In Turn’—Ego-histoire and Australian Indigenous Studies, Dec 2014
In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe r... more In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s concept of ego-histoire as an analytical tool to ask historians to apply their methods to themselves, contributors lay open their paths, personal commitments and passion involved in their research. Why are we researching in Indigenous Studies, what has driven our motivations? How have our biographical experiences influenced our research? And how has our research influenced us in our political and individual understanding as scholars and human beings? This collection tries to answer many of these complex questions, seeing them not as merely personal issues but highly relevant to the practice of Indigenous Studies.
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