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CoPQTI

UNSW Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans people, and people with variations of sex characteristics (Intersex).

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The CoPQTI comprises UNSW academics, professional staff, and students, both LGBTQI+ and allies, who work with queer and trans people, and people with variations of sex characteristics, to make research and practice more inclusive.

About the CoP

The continued explicit or implicit exclusion of queer and trans people, and people with variations of sex characteristics, from public, social, and cultural life has long-reaching implications. This exclusion often starts with the language used in research and associated practice. Despite the proliferation of inclusive language guides in various domains, there is no 'one size fits all' model that can conceivably respond to the varied, complex and intersectional aspects of inclusivity. As such, language change needs to be accompanied by effective research practice.

The CoPQTI aims to generate and support enhanced capacity in sector-leading inclusive practice with queer and trans people, and people with variations of sex characteristics, to:

1. Advise researchers

from across UNSW and beyond on the implementation of the national standards.

2. Provide HDR and staff training

on inclusive research practice across a range of policy areas, such as public health, medicine, law, and social sciences.

3. Develop an interdisciplinary research cluster

to investigate the considerable impact inclusive research will have on future research findings and public policy development.

4. Serve as a central platform

to generate interdisciplinary consideration of complex requests for advice from UNSW and beyond.

Our team

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Megan Rose
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
EDI Staff Consultative Group
Educational Developer
Senior Project Officer & PhD Student
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PhD Candidate & Research Associate | (they/them)
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Associate Professor Limin Mao
Associate Professor
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PhD Student & Research Assistant
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Manager – Student Experience (ADA), PhD Candidate
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Masters Candidate
Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader Benjamin Bavinton
Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader
PhD candidate/Casual Academic Ashraf Uddin
PhD candidate/Casual Academic
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Dr / Research Associate
Professor Associate Dean, Research Quality & Culture Martin Holt
Professor Associate Dean, Research Quality & Culture
Senior Lecturer, Co-Convenor Gender Based Violence Network Andy Kaladelfos
Senior Lecturer, Co-Convenor Gender Based Violence Network
HDR Candidate, Teaching Fellow Baillee Farah
HDR Candidate, Teaching Fellow
Professor, Head of Gynaecological Cancer Research Group Caroline Ford
Professor, Head of Gynaecological Cancer Research Group
Professor of Health, Gender and Sexuality, and Associate Dean Engagement an Christy Newman
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Data and Evaluation Officer
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Research Assistant
Scientia Research Fellow Heather McCormack
Scientia Research Fellow
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Research Assistant, PhD Candidiate
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PhD Candidate (she/her)
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Research Officer

Resources

    • Aggleton P, Cover R, Logie CH,ÌýNewman CE & Parker R (2023) Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights, Milton Park: Routledge.
    • Anderst J, McMillan K, Gorman H, O'Connor M & Worth H (2022) ‘’When they do that kind of bad things to me, I feel that they encourage me to be strong and be who I am': How transfeminine people in Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands experience discrimination, acceptance and a sense of place',ÌýCulture, Health & Sexuality 24(3): 421-436.Ìý
    • Brady B, Rosenberg S,ÌýNewman CE,ÌýKaladelfos A, Kenning G, Duck-Chong E & Bennett J (2022) ‘Gender is dynamic for all people’,ÌýDiscover Psychology 2: 41.Ìý
    • Bryant J,ÌýSmith AKJ, Persson A, valentine k,ÌýDrysdale K, Wallace J, Hamilton M & Newman CE (2023) ‘Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B’,ÌýCulture, Health & Sexuality 25(9): 1214-1229.Ìý
    • Callander D,ÌýNewman CE,ÌýHolt M, Rosenberg S, Duncan DT, Pony M, Timmins L, Cornelisse V, Duck-Chong L, Wang B & Cook T (2021) ‘The complexities of categorizing gender: a hierarchical clustering analysis of data from the first Australian Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey’,ÌýTransgender Health 6(2): 74-81.Ìý
    • Davis MDM, Schermuly A,ÌýSmith AKJ & Newman C (2023) ‘Diversity via datafication? Digital patient records and citizenship for sexuality and gender diverse people’,Ìýµþ¾±´Ç³§´Ç³¦¾±±ð³Ù¾±±ð²õÌý18(2): 451-472.Ìý
    • Del Tufo A, Foster R,ÌýHaire B,ÌýNewman CE,ÌýSmith AKJ, Crowley M, Burn D & McNulty A (2023) ‘Understanding the health care needs of transgender and gender diverse people engaging with rural Australian sexual health centres: a qualitative interview study’,ÌýSexual Health 20(4): 339-346.Ìý
    • Drysdale K (2019) Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.Ìý
    • Drysdale K (2021) ‘’Scene' as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures',Ìý³§±ð³æ³Ü²¹±ô¾±³Ù¾±±ð²õÌý26(5-6): 604-619.Ìý
    • Drysdale K, Bryant J, Dowsett GW, Lea T, Treloar C, Aggleton P & Holt M (2021) ‘Priorities and practices of risk reduction among gay and bisexual men in Australia who use crystal methamphetamine for sex’,ÌýInternational Journal of Drug Policy 93: 103163.Ìý
    • Drysdale K, Bryant J, Hopwood M, Dowsett GW,ÌýHolt M, Lea T, Aggleton P & Treloar C (2020) ‘Destabilising the ’problem' of chemsex: Diversity in settings, relations and practices revealed in Australian gay and bisexual men's crystal methamphetamine use',ÌýInternational Journal of Drug Policy 78: 102697.Ìý
    • Drysdale K, Cama E, Botfield J,ÌýBear B, Cerio R & Newman CE (2021) ‘Targeting cancer prevention and screening interventions to LGBTQ communities: A scoping review’,ÌýHealth and Social Care 29(5): 1233-1248.Ìý
    • Drysdale K & Filmer J (2023) ‘Sensing scenes: doing sensory ethnography in queer space and time’, in Vannini P (ed) The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography, London: Routledge.Ìý
    • Drysdale K, Persson A,ÌýSmith AKJ, Wallace J, valentine k, Gray RM, Bryant J, Hamilton M & Newman CE (2023) ‘Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses’,ÌýHealth Sociology Review 32(2): 145-160.Ìý
    • Drysdale K, Rance J, Cama E, Treloar C & Mao L (2022) ‘What is known about the care and support provided for an ageing population with lived experience of chronic viral hepatitis as they near end-of-life: A scoping review’,ÌýHealth and Social Care 30(6): e9775-e3788.Ìý
    • Drysdale K, Robinson S & Gorman-Murray A (2022) ‘Sex in placemaking activism: lesbians’ and queer women's sex-based sociality in Sydney, Australia' Gender, Place & Culture.Ìý
    • Drysdale K, Wells N,ÌýSmith AKJ, Gunatillaka N, Sturgiss EA & Wark T (2023) ‘Beyond the challenge to research integrity: imposter participation in incentivised qualitative research and its impact on community engagement’,ÌýHealth Sociology Review 32(3): 372-380.Ìý
    • Drysdale K & Wong KA (2019) ‘Sensory Ethnography’, in Atkinson P, Delamont S, Cernat A, Sakshuag JW & Williams RA (eds) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods, Newcastle: SAGE.Ìý
    • Fonseca LC, Tedrus GMAS, Prandi LR, Almeida AM & Furlanetto DS (2011) ‘Alzheimer’s disease: relationship between cognitive aspects and power and coherence EEG measures',ÌýArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 69(6): 875-881.Ìý
    • Furlanetto DS (2022) ‘Voices from Beyond: A psychopathological analysis of the onset anomalous experiences in spiritists mediums’,ÌýRevista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental 25(1): 20-42.Ìý
    • Furlanetto DS, Niel MM, Junior QC & Trevizol AP (2022) ‘From Cursed to Blessed: the Impact of Spirituality on the Life Course of 10 Brazilian Spiritist Mediums’,ÌýJournal of Religion & Health 61(3): 2514-2526.Ìý
    • Gibson, AF, Drysdale K, Botfield J, Mooney-Somers J, Cook T & Newman CE (2022) ‘Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic’,ÌýCulture, Health & Sexuality 24(10): 1366-1379.Ìý
    • Grant R,ÌýSmith AKJ, Newett L, Nash M, Turner R & Owen L (2021) ‘Tasmanian healthcare professionals’ & students' capacity for LGBTI + inclusive care: A qualitative inquiry',ÌýHealth and Social Care 29(4): 957-966.Ìý
    • Harvey S, Mitchell M, Keeble J, Nicholls CM & Rahim N (2014) Barriers faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Accessing Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment and Sexual Violence Services,ÌýCardiff: Welsh Government.Ìý
    • Holt M, Chan C, Broady TR, MacGibbon J,ÌýMao L,ÌýSmith AKJ, Rule J & Bavinton B (2023) ‘Variations in HIV Prevention Coverage in Subpopulations of Australian Gay and Bisexual Men, 2017-2021: Implications for Reducing Inequities in the Combination Prevention Era’,ÌýAIDS and Behavior.Ìý
    • Kaladelfos A & Smaal Y (2019) ‘Sexual violence and male prisons: an Australian queer genealogy’,ÌýCurrent Issues in Criminal Justice 31(3): 349-364.Ìý
    • Liu E,ÌýPrankumar S, Wong H & Mao L (2023) , the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (Maridulu Budyari Gumal).
    • Lixinski L, (2020) 'Rights Litigation Piggybacking: Legal Mobilization Strategies in LGBTIQ International Human Rights Jurisprudence',ÌýFlorida Journal of International Law 31(3): 273 - 314.Ìý
    • MacGibbon J,ÌýBavinton BR,ÌýDrysdale K, Murphy D, Broady TR, Kolstee J, Molyneux A, Power C, Paynter H, de Wit J & Holt M (2023) ‘Explicit Relationship Agreements and HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use by Gay and Bisexual Men in Relationships’,ÌýArchives of Sexual Behavior 52(2): 761-771.Ìý
    • Mao L,ÌýKirby E,ÌýDrysdale K, Rance J, Treloar C, Tu T, Fowlie C & Howard C (2021) Resilient ageing and end of life planning among people living with or affected by chronic HBV, HCV or HIV in Australia, Sydney: UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health.Ìý
    • Mooney-Somers J,ÌýAnderst J & Deacon R (2023) ‘How a 25-year-old periodic survey for lesbian, bisexual and queer women responded and adapted to gender diversity: a reflexive analysis’,ÌýJournal of Gender Studies.Ìý
    • Murray D,ÌýMao L, Wong HTH, Chen T, Mackie B, Kao SC, Mahee AH, Dabbhadatta J, Prihaswan P, Stackpool G, Brooks M, Brown G & Lewis D (2020) ‘High levels of engagement with testing for HIV and sexually transmissable infection among gay Asian men in Sydney and Melbourne: an observational study’,ÌýSexual Health 17(2): 121-128.Ìý
    • Newman C (2019) ‘Queer families: valuing stories of adversity, diversity and belonging’,ÌýCulture, Health and Sexuality 21(3): 352-359.Ìý
    • Newman CE (2019) ‘Waiting for the Yes’, in J Sapp & P Chamness Iida (eds) , Charlotte, NC: IAP, 25-32.
    • Newman CE, Persson A,ÌýPrankumar SK, Lea T & Aggleton P (2020) ‘Experiences of Family Belonging among Two Generations of Sexually Diverse Australians’,ÌýFamily Relations 69(2): 292-307.Ìý
    • Newman CE,ÌýPrankumar SK, Cover R, Rasmussen M, Marshall D & Aggleton P (2021) ‘Inclusive health care for LGBTQ+ youth: support, belonging and inclusivity labour’,ÌýCritical Public Health 31(4): 441-450.Ìý
    • Newman CE,ÌýSmith AKJ, Duck-Chong E, Vivienne S, Davies C, Robinson KH & Aggleton P (2021) ‘Waiting to be seen: social perspectives on trans health’,ÌýHealth Sociology Review 30(1): 1-8.Ìý
    • Newman CE,ÌýSmith AKJ,ÌýHarvey S & Duck-Chong E (forthcoming) ‘Transgender and gender diverse lives: transgressions, translations, transformations’,ÌýCulture, Health & Sexuality.
    • Smith AKJ, Davis MDM, MacGibbon J, Broady TR, Ellard J, Rule J, Cook T, Duck-Chong E,ÌýHolt M & Newman CE (2023) ‘Engaging Stigmatised Communities in Australia with Digital Health Systems: Towards Data Justice in Public Health’,ÌýSexuality Research and Social Policy 20(3):1220-1231.Ìý
    • Smith AKJ & Newman CE (2023) ‘LGBTQ+ Health and Social Research’, in K Drew & S Donovan (eds) Elgar Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 181-186.
    • Smith AKJ,ÌýNewman CE,ÌýHaire B & Holt M (2022) ‘Clinician imaginaries of HIV PrEP users in and beyond the gay community in Australia’,ÌýCulture, Health & Sexuality 24(10): 1423-1437.Ìý
    • Smith AKJ, Persson A,ÌýDrysdale K, Bryant J, valentine k, Wallace J, Hamilton M, Gray RM & Newman CE (2021) ‘Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood-borne virus’,ÌýSociology of Health & Illness 43(6): 1422-1436.Ìý
    • Smith L, Chesher I, Fredriksen Goldsen K, Ward R, Phillipson L,ÌýNewman CE & Delhomme F (2022) ‘Investigating the lived experience of LGBT+ people with dementia and their care partners: A Scoping Review’,ÌýAgeing & Society.Ìý
    • Treloar C, Hopwood M,ÌýDrysdale K, Lea T,ÌýHolt M, Dowsett GW, Aggleton P & Bryant J (2021) ‘Stigma as understood by key informants: A social ecological approach to gay and bisexual men’s use of crystal methamphetamine for sex',ÌýInternational Journal of Drug Policy 94: 103229.Ìý
    • Uddin KA (2020) ‘Heteronationalistic Necropower: Pandemic Double Disenfranchisement and Alienation of Hijras’ Socioscapes: International Journal of Societies, Politics and Cultures 2(1): 48-60.Ìý
    • Uddin KA (2014) ‘Swinging between ‘Ratan’ and ‘Ratna’: Gender Ambiguity in Anan Zaman's Shikhandi Katha',ÌýHarvest, Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature 30: 97-105.Ìý
    • valentine k,ÌýSmith AKJ, Persson A, Gray R, Bryant J, Hamilton M, Wallace J,ÌýDrysdale K & Newman CE (2023) ‘The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics',ÌýMedical Humanities 49(1): 48-54.Ìý
    • Wong HTH,ÌýKumar S, Chen T, Sarasola H, Wark T, Power C,ÌýBavinton B, Dong K, Haque M,ÌýMao L on behalf of the Sydney CALD Gay Men Action Group (2022) 2021 NSW Gay Asian Men Online Survey: key findings, Sydney: UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health.Ìý
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    • Alpert AB, Rivers L, Manzano C, Ruddick R, Adams S, Obedin-Maliver J, Harvey RD, Griggs JJ & Operario D (2023) ,ÌýJournal of Clinical Oncology 41(22): 3791-3795.
    • Grant R, Russell A, Dane S & Dunn I (2023) ,ÌýInternational Journal of Transgender Health.Ìý
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Please contact the CoPQTI leads if you have any questions or to join, or if  you would like to discuss ways that the CoPQTI can contribute to or support your research.