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0000-0002-5078-2288
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University of Tasmania
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Religion and Religious Traditions | Religion and Society | Law and Society | Social Philosophy
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Religion and Society | Gender and Sexualities | Law Reform |
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Publications
A qualitative investigation of the health economic impacts of bariatric surgery for obesity and implications for improved practice in health economics
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2018
DOI: 10.1002/HEC.3776
Abstract: Obesity is an economic problem. Bariatric surgery is cost-effective for severe and resistant obesity. Most economic evaluations of bariatric surgery use administrative data and narrowly defined direct medical costs in their quantitative analyses. Demand far outstrips supply for bariatric surgery. Further allocation of health care resources to bariatric surgery (particularly public) could be stimulated by new health economic evidence that supports the provision of bariatric surgery. We postulated that qualitative research methods would elicit important health economic dimensions of bariatric surgery that would typically be omitted from the current economic evaluation framework, nor be reported and therefore not considered by policymakers with sufficient priority. We listened to patients: Focus group data were analysed thematically with software assistance. Key themes were identified inductively through a dialogue between the qualitative data and pre-existing economic theory (perspective, externalities, and emotional capital). We identified the concept of emotional capital where participants described life-changing desires to be productive and participate in their communities postoperatively. After self-funding bariatric surgery, some participants experienced financial distress. We recommend a mixed-methods approach to the economic evaluation of bariatric surgery. This could be operationalised in health economic model conceptualisation and construction, through to the separate reporting of qualitative results to supplement quantitative results.
Understanding the gendered nature of weight loss surgery: insights from an Australian qualitative study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-02-2017
Qualitative Interviewing as an Embodied Emotional Performance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-01-2010
Abstract: The article argues that the emotional framing of interviews plays a major role in shaping the content of interviews. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of Jessica Benjamin and Luce Irigaray, the article describes how interviews can be experienced as either conquest or communion. Qualitative researchers typically focus on the cognitively articulated aspects of the interview and elide the significance of their own and the interviewee’s, emotions. A reanalysis of two previous qualitative interview studies is used to illustrate the difference between interviews experienced as conquest or communion. The article argues that all interviews are emotional and embodied performances and that good interviewing is facilitated by a reflexive awareness of, and engagement with, the emotional, embodied, and performed dimensions of the interview.
Sociology of Religion in Australia
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2015
A qualitative study of the role of Australian general practitioners in the surgical management of obesity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-04-2017
DOI: 10.1111/COB.12195
Abstract: General practitioners (GPs) are increasingly managing patients with class 2 and 3 obesity (body mass index [BMI] > 35 and 40 kg/m
The impact of executive functioning on atypical eating and goal-directed behaviour in obesity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2016
DOI: 10.1111/OBR.12400
LGBT+ equality, religious freedom and government‐funded faith‐based religiously affiliated educational workplaces
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-10-2021
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.195
Abstract: Religiously affiliated schools employ a substantial portion of the Australian educational workforce. These religiously affiliated schools are exempt from Australian state‐based anti‐discrimination legislation in varying degrees. This can have a devastating effect on LGBT+ employees. While NSW has broad exemptions to anti‐discrimination legislation, in contrast Tasmanian anti‐discrimination legislation provides very limited exemptions. This paper examines and compares the experiences of ten LGBT+ teachers employed in religiously affiliated schools in Tasmania and New South Wales. The aim of this paper is to document the differing experiences of these LGBT+ teachers, examining whether the distinctive state‐based legislation has an impact on their lives. The small number of cases examined here suggests that the state difference in anti‐discrimination legislation has a significant impact on LGBT+ peoples’ job security and career development.
Cosmopolitan Witchcraft: Reinventing the Wheel of the Year in Australian Paganism
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 11-12-2016
What are the support experiences and needs of patients who have received bariatric surgery?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-11-2015
DOI: 10.1111/HEX.12423
Unemployment and mental health: A critical review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1993
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(93)90316-V
Abstract: Existing theoretical explanations of the mental health consequences of unemployment are outlined, critically reviewed and an alternative theory proposed. Theories reviewed include the rehabilitation approach, the stages model, Jahoda's functional model, Warr's vitamin model and Fryer's agency critique. A discussion of the effects of moderating variables--including the quality of work, work commitment and age--is used to assess the usefulness of these theoretical explanations. Most theories are found to deal inadequately with the temporal aspects of unemployment, the relationship between subjective experience and objective location and the complexity of the effects of moderating variables. In response to these inadequacies and in contrast to the predominant empiricist, psychological orientation, a middle range theory is proposed informed by a sociological perspective. The proposed theory conceptualises unemployment as a type of status passage and suggests an explanation of changes in mental health derived from identity theory.
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-02-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211072566
Abstract: Anti-discrimination laws around the world have explicitly protected LGBTQ+ people from discrimination with various levels of exceptions for religion. Some conservative religious organisations in Australia are advocating to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in certain organisations they manage. The political debate in Australia has focused on religiously affiliated organisations that provide services in education, social welfare, health care, and aged care. We argue that religious exceptions allowing discrimination should be narrow because they cause considerable harm, reinforce, disadvantage and because LGBTQ+ people are deserving of respect and rights. We draw on a national representative survey to demonstrate that the views of some conservative religious lobby groups do not represent the views of the majority of religious people in Australia or the views of the majority of Christian people.
Subjectivity and the Labour Process: Conceptualising `Good Work'
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1997
Emergency and pre‐surgical band deflation in patients with laparoscopic adjustable gastric bands: variations in practice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-10-2015
DOI: 10.1111/ANS.13177
Religion, aesthetics and moral ontology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-02-2014
Abstract: This article argues for a broader sociological conception of religion. Religion includes practices that engage with this world in rich and complex ways alongside experiences of transcendence. Religion encompasses a broad palette of aesthetic and emotional experiences that include, but are not confined to, solemnity and beauty. Religious moral ontologies can be both pluralist and dualist. The aesthetic turn in contemporary religion is described, noting associations with in idualism, and pluralistic moral ontologies. The concept of pluralistic moral ontology is developed drawing on Nietzsche’s analysis of aesthetics, Carl Einstein’s examination of the relationship of aesthetics to myth and ritual, and a discussion of tragedy in classical Greece. Empirically, the role of aesthetics is manifest in a number of contemporary ethnographies of religion that emphasise the centrality of practice and performance to religion. The film trilogy The Lord of the Rings provides an ex le of the link between aesthetic experience of myth and pluralistic moral ontologies.
Motivations for Seeking Bariatric Surgery: The Importance of Health Professionals and Social Networks
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 09-2016
‘Religions of Practice’: The Case of Japanese Religions
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 30-08-2016
Mass Media and Religious Identity: A Case Study of Young Witches
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2009
The Pagan Studies Archipelago: Pagan Studies in a Cosmopolitan World.
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 26-01-2016
Antiretroviral uptake in Australia: Medical, attitudinal and cultural correlates
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1998
Abstract: The objective of this study was to describe the medical, attitudinal and cultural correlates of antiretroviral uptake amongst people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Australia. Stratified purposive s ling produced a s le of 925 PLWHA, which represents 8.3% of the current population of PLWHA in Australia. Respondents completed a self-administered questionnaire which revealed that 78% of respondents were using antiretroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS. Logistic regression revealed that PLWHA were more likely to use antiretroviral drugs if they had more favourable attitudes toward antiretroviral drugs, if they had been diagnosed with an AIDS-defining illness, and if they had ever had a CD4/T-cell count below 400 copies/ml blood. Women were less likely than men to use antiretroviral drugs, and logistic regression revealed different predictors of antiretroviral drug use amongst men and women. Given the importance of attitudes toward antiretroviral drugs, it is likely that if the current confidence in antiretroviral drugs were to change, this would be reflected in an equally rapid cessation of treatment amongst many PLWHA.
Poverty, disease progression and employment among people living with HIV/AIDS in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1999
Abstract: A national survey of 925 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Australia is used to examine the relationship between disease progression, employment status, poverty and economic hardship. While disease progression has some impact on economic hardship, employment status is found to be the strongest determinant of both poverty and economic hardship. The most commonly cited reasons for leaving work were psychosocial (71%), with declining health cited by half of respondents. It is therefore argued that psychosocial issues are at least as important as changes in health in causing unemployment and therefore poverty and economic hardship among PLWHA in Australia.
Education, religion, and LGBTQ+ in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2023
The support needs of patients waiting for publicly funded bariatric surgery – implications for health service planners
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-12-2016
DOI: 10.1111/COB.12169
Abstract: The objective of this study was to investigate the experience of waiting for publicly funded bariatric surgery in an Australian tertiary healthcare setting. Focus groups and in idual interviews involving people waiting for or who had undergone publicly funded bariatric surgery were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically. A total of 11 women and 6 men engaged in one of six focus groups in 2014, and an additional 10 women and 9 men were interviewed in 2015. Mean age was 53 years (range 23-66) mean waiting time was 6 years (range 0-12), and mean time since surgery was 4 years (range 0-11). Waiting was commonly reported as emotionally challenging (e.g. frustrating, depressing, stressful) and often associated with weight gain (despite weight-loss attempts) and deteriorating physical health (e.g. development of new or worsening obesity-related comorbidity or decline in mobility) or psychological health (e.g. development of or worsening depression). Peer support, health and mental health counselling, integrated care and better communication about waitlist position and management (e.g. patient prioritization) were identified support needs. Even if wait times cannot be reduced, better peer and health professional supports, together with better communication from health departments, may improve the experience or outcomes of waiting and confer quality-of-life gains irrespective of weight loss.
Old Traditions and New Ages: Religions and Environments
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-07-2004
A Simulacrum of Workplace Community: Individualism and Engineered Culture
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2001
Religious anti-discrimination legislation and the negotiation of difference in Victoria, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2022
Religious diversity, legislation, and Christian privilege
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211022036
Abstract: This article examines the role of legal frameworks and everyday interaction in the negotiation of religious ersity in Victoria, Australia. We argue that both formal legal frameworks and everyday interactions are significant in encouraging the respectful negotiation of religious difference. Experiences of historical privilege and visibility impact how religious people and groups experience and understand these processes. Or, put another way, the social position of various faith groups in Australian society shapes how people engage with both legal frameworks such as anti-discrimination legislation, and with other people in everyday interaction. Further, people’s everyday interactions shape their responses towards legal frameworks. Anti-discrimination and anti-vilification laws also shape everyday interactions through an effect that can be described as the ‘shadow of the law’, in which legal decisions communicate information about normative expectations that particular forms of behaviour are acceptable or unacceptable.
General practitioners maintain a focus on blood pressure management rather than absolute cardiovascular disease risk management
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-04-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JEP.13569
Abstract: Absolute cardiovascular disease (aCVD) risk assessment is recommended in CVD prevention guidelines. Yet, General Practitioners (GPs) often focus on single risk factors, including blood pressure (BP). Pathology services may be suitable to undertake high‐quality automated unobserved BP (AOBP) measurement and aCVD risk assessment. This study explored GP attitudes towards AOBP measurement via pathology services and the role of BP in aCVD risk management. A brief survey was completed, after which a focus group (n = 8 GPs) and interviews (n = 10 GPs) explored attitudes to AOBP and aCVD risk via pathology services with an ex le pathology report discussed. Verbatim transcripts were thematically coded. GPs predominantly used doctor‐measured BP despite low levels of confidence. High BP measured by AOBP reported with aCVD risk via pathology services, would prompt a follow‐up response. However, GPs focused on BP management. GPs were concerned about AOBP equivalency to routine BP measurements. After protocol explanation, GPs reported AOBP could value‐add to care delivery. GPs lacked familiarity of AOBP and maintained a focus on BP management in the context of absolute CVD risk. Targeted education on AOBP and BP management as part of absolute CVD risk is needed to support guideline‐directed care in practice.
An Underworld Rite: A Pagan Re-enactment of Persephone's Descent into the Underworld
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2011
Minority religions, litigation, and the prevention of harm
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
The Protein Landscape of Mucinous Ovarian Cancer: Towards a Theranostic
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-11-2021
Abstract: MOC is a rare histotype of epithelial ovarian cancer, and current management options are inadequate for the treatment of late stage or recurrent disease. A shift towards personalised medicines in ovarian cancer is being observed, with trials targeting specific molecular pathways, however, MOC lags due to its rarity. Theranostics is a rapidly evolving category of personalised medicine, encompassing both a diagnostic and therapeutic approach by recognising targets that are expressed highly in tumour tissue in order to deliver a therapeutic payload. The present review evaluates the protein landscape of MOC in recent immunohistochemical- and proteomic-based research, aiming to identify potential candidates for theranostic application. Fourteen proteins were selected based on cell membrane localisation: HER2, EGFR, FOLR1, RAC1, GPR158, CEACAM6, MUC16, PD-L1, NHE1, CEACAM5, MUC1, ACE2, GP2, and PTPRH. Optimal proteins to target using theranostic agents must exhibit high membrane expression on cancerous tissue with low expression on healthy tissue to afford improved disease outcomes with minimal off-target effects and toxicities. We provide guidelines to consider in the selection of a theranostic target for MOC and suggest future directions in evaluating the results of this review.
Ritual Dynamics: Mayor Making in Early Modern Norwich
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-08-2009
Witchcraft: Changing patterns of participation in the early twenty first century
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 25-03-2010
Pagan Studies: In Defense of Pluralism
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 02-06-2015
Reassembling religious symbols: the Pagan God Baphomet
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-09-2014
Spirituality, Religion, and Youth: An Introduction
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2015
White Witches and Black Magic: Ethics and Consumerism in Contemporary Witchcraft
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Illness narratives: time, hope and HIV
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2000
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00306-8
Abstract: Life threatening illness, such as HIV/AIDS, also threaten people's sense of identity and taken-for-granted assumptions about the temporal framing of their lives. In response, people often experience transformations in values, spirituality and life priorities. Drawing on a combined quantitative and qualitative study of people living with HIV/AIDS in Australia, three different narratives that people use to make sense of their illness experience are identified: linear restitution narratives, linear chaotic narratives and polyphonic narratives. Linear illness narratives colonise the future, assuming that the future can be controlled through human action. They emphasise a faith in medical science, tend to be secular and self-centred and assume the end of life to be in the distant future. Hope is focused on concrete outcomes such as improved health or material possessions. Linear narratives can be either restitutive or chaotic. Restitutive linear narratives anticipate a life that will mirror the narrative. Chaotic linear narratives anticipate a life that will fail to meet the linear ideal resulting in despair and depression. In contrast, polyphonic illness narratives are oriented toward the present, emphasising the unpredictability of the future. These narratives tend to include spiritual experiences, a communally oriented value system, and to recount increased self-understanding and the gaining of new insights as a consequence of their illness. Hope in polyphonic narratives is more abstract and focused on a celebration of mystery, surprise and creativity.
Our Non-Christian Nation: How Wiccans, Satanists, Atheists, and Other Non-Christians are Demanding Their Rightful Place in American Public Life
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
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Related Funding Activities
Long-Term Benefits Study
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 2010
Funder: WorkCover Tasmania
View Funded ActivityThe Religious Factor And Trends In Civil Society Under Conditions Of Globalisation In Australia, The U.S.A. And Brazil
Start Date: 2002
End Date: 2004
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityScoping Study: WorkCover Tasmania
Start Date: 2005
End Date: 2005
Funder: Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources
View Funded ActivityReligious Freedom And Same-sex Discrimination; The Experience Of Same-sex Attracted Workers In Government Funded Faith Based Social Service Providers
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2018
Funder: University of Tasmania
View Funded ActivityReligious Diversity In Australia: Strategies To Maintain Social Cohesion
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180101664
Start Date: 06-2018
End Date: 12-2022
Amount: $447,748.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200100395
Start Date: 02-2020
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $575,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity