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SH Proffered Papers: Social, Political & Cultural Aspects

Tracks
Education
Gender and/or sexuality
Health promotion
Humanities
Intersectionality
Law and human rights
Policy
Prevention
Priority populations
Public health
Reproductive health
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Social sciences
Stigma and discrimination
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Minyama 4

Speaker

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Dr Jacqui Hendriks
Senior Research Fellow
Curtin University

Australian Parents Support School-Based Relationships and Sexuality Education: Findings From The First National Survey

11:00 AM - 11:12 AM

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Jacqui is a lecturer, researcher and sexologist committed to ensuring young people receive comprehensive, contemporary and engaging relationships and sexuality education (from home, school and elsewhere); have the ability to engage in consensual and pleasurable sexual activities; and can access best-practice support services easily, equitably and without shame.
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A/Prof Jennifer Power
Principal Research Fellow
Australian Research Centre In Sex, Health And Society, La Trobe University

Sexual Consent, Pleasure and Communication Among Young People: Findings from the 2021 Secondary Schools and Sexual Health Survey

11:12 AM - 11:24 AM

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Jennifer Power is a Principal Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on sexuality, sexual health and HIV. She currently co-ordinates the Secondary Students and Sexual Health Survey,the HIV Futures study and research on digital sexual health promotion.
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Dr Andrea Waling
Senior Arc Decra Research Fellow
La Trobe University

Understanding How Young Cisgender Heterosexual Men in Australia Navigate Conversations About Sexual Health and Contraceptive use in Casual Sex

11:24 AM - 11:36 AM

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Dr Andrea Waling is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2020-2023) based at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She works across a range of research projects involving men, sexuality, and bodies; young people and sexual literacies, technologies, sexual practices and sexual intimacy, and LGBTIQA+ health and well-being.
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Dr Swaminathan Balasubramanian
Gp & Sexual Health Advanced Trainee
Cowra Medical Assocaties

Sexual Rights: An Analysis of Australian Sexual Health Policies

11:36 AM - 11:48 AM

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Sama is a GP and Sexual Health Advanced Trainee based in rural New South Wales. He has a passion for sexual rights advocacy and adopts a human rights-approach to clinical practice. His areas of interest include psychosexual therapy and problematic sexual behaviours.
Ms Linnea Burdon-Smith
Member
Young Women's Advisory Group (ERA)

Let’s Talk: Young Women and Non-Binary Peoples’ Experience of Sex Education in Australia

11:48 AM - 11:53 AM

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Linnea (she/her) is currently working as an Aboriginal Family Violence Researcher with an Aboriginal Healing Service. She has previously worked for government oversight bodies, in the community legal center sector and university sector. She enjoys working on projects that prevent and respond to, individual and collective trauma.
Prof Kari Vallury
Senior Research Officer
Children By Choice

Australia’s Next Generation of Abortion Seekers: Shamed if They do and Shamed if they don’t

11:53 AM - 11:58 AM

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Kari Vallury is in the final year of her PhD candidacy at Flinders University, where she has conducted the largest known study of abortion attitudes and stigma globally. She works as a Senior Research Assistant at Children by Choice, and has a background in global SRHR policy and research.
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Ms Joanna Williams
PhD Candidate
Swinburne University of Technology

“Is This Too Risqué?”: Organisational Experiences of Content Moderation of Sexual Health Promotion on Facebook and Instagram

11:58 AM - 12:03 PM

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Joanna is a PhD Candidate at the Swinburne University of Technology. Her research examines organisational experiences of producing and distributing sexual health promotion on social media. This research is informed by her work leading Bits and Bods, a sexual health web series aimed at teens, and with IPPF.

Chairperson

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Kerrin Bradfield
National Chairperson
Society of Australian Sexologists

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Isabel Mudford
Phd Student
School Of Sociology, ANU

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