Submissions from 2026
Clinical insights into the management of sleep disturbances within cancer care: A qualitative analysis, Sam Adams, Timothy D. Clay, Mitchell Turner, Christopher Kueh, Kelly Moes, and Travis Cruickshank
Strengthening social structures to improve informal care for older people with chronic life-limiting illnesses in rural Ghana, Barbara Adonteng-Kissi and Obed Adonteng-Kissi
Christianity as coping mechanisms for migrants with mental health challenges in Australia: Social work implications, Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Nnaemeka Meribe, Kathomi Gatwiri, Lillian Mwanri, Agness Tembo, Frank Darkwa Baffour, Edith N. Botchway-Commey, Aunty Kerrie Doyle, David Chisanga, Ahmed A. Moustafa, and Uchechukwu Levi Osuagwu
Breath Back, Bronte Alston
A bibliometric analysis of the realities of Australian international development aid efforts in the Pacific region, Mark Opoku Amankwa, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, Portia Nana Ama Brempong, Joseph Acheampong Ofori, and Amidu Mutaru
Re-inscribing the body: Digital-material dialogues in cross-cultural feminist art practice, Patricia Amorim Da Silva
A social and cognitive psychological perspective on the assumptions underlying the Rorschach inkblot test, Igor Areh, Fanny Verkampt, Alfred Allan, and Christian N.L. Olivers
Reviewing crowdsourcing and community engagement in museums, Paul Longley Arthur, Lydia Hearn, and Isabel Smith
Coping strategies of single parents to young adults’ substance misuse in small-scale mining communities in Ghana, Philip Asamoah, Mort, Kwabena Frimpong-Manso, and Portia Nana Ama Brempong
Assessing risk of violence in offenders: An examination of Australian mental health professionals’ standard of practice, Diane Barber
Grandparent kinship care in Ghana: Family violence and cultural myths on witchcraft accusations, Hajara Bentum
I am still concerned about them: Grandmother kinship caregivers and the challenge of abuse by children in their care, Hajara Bentum, Vicki Banham, and Kwadwo Adusei-Asante
The underground rivers: Aboriginal-designed community services for survivors of intergenerational trauma in Yamatji Country, Western Australia, Janelle Leanne Caddy
Reflections from a community capacity building forum to support people bereaved by suicide, Colleen Carlon, Jacquie Tarrant, Marie Eckersley, and Priscilla Vindin
Centring girls in water justice research and social movements, Cecilia Chitukula, Wrigley, Julie Nyanjom, and Naomi Joy Godden
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts, Jamie Coates, Catriona Turnbull, and Maja Cederberg
The cognitive impact of background music on reading comprehension: Investigating effects of music type and individual differences, Lindsey Cooke
Music as a distraction during reading: Music listening habits of university students, Lindsey Cooke, Craig Speelman, and Ross Hollett
Lived experiences of attending conferences: Insights from the most isolated capital city in the world, Elizabeth J. Cook, Justin A. Brown, and Elle Beaumont-Bilsby
Do I fit in here? How immigrants’ endorsement of social markers is related to their wellbeing in three migrant receiving societies, Justine Dandy, Chan Hoong Leong, Adam Komisarof, Travis Lim, and Krystal Perkins
The most influential decision factors for choosing a formal diagnostic classification system for describing personality pathology, Lisa Dawson, Greg E. Dear, and Deirdre Drake
Beyond the pandemic: How COVID-19 highlighted the need for cross-sector healthcare solutions for young Australians living with adversity, Ennur Erbasi, Shannon Muir, and Karen McLean
Randomized controlled trial on the impact of befriending on depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social support in older people in aged care, Marcia Fearn, Robin Harper, Georgia Major, Sunil Bhar, Christina Bryant, Briony Dow, David Dunt, George Mnatzaganian, Julie Ratcliffe, Paul Dudgeon, Sandy Clarke-Errey, and Colleen Doyle
The first systematic review of treatment characteristics and recidivism outcomes for Indigenous people who have sexually offended, James L. Finney, Natalie Gately, Suzanne Rock, and Braden Hill
#ShoutYourAbortion and being heard: The affordances of hashtags for feminist counterpublics in hostile digital atmospheres, Claire Fitzpatrick
Love letters to the self: Building heart skills through positive autoethnography, Madalena Grobbelaar and Elizabeth Reid Boyd
Socio-historical factors driving the integration of Fulani among the Nanumba in northern Ghana, Fusheini Halawayhi and Victor Fannam Nunfam
Horrible, fantastic, traumatic: Victim-survivors’ experiences of police interviews in sexual offence cases and suggestions moving forward, Gemma Hamilton and Giselle Woodley
And then COVID happened: The impact of the pandemic on transition temporalities for mobile youth, Anita Harris, Giulia Marchetti, and Loretta Baldassar
Eye of the ibis and only their voices: Decentring the human in nonhuman fiction, Tiffany Hastie
Length and framing of anti-junk food ads impact inclinations to consume junk food among normal weight, overweight, and adults with obesity, Ross C. Hollett, Brennen Mills, Stephanie L. Godrich, Julia Butt, and Gina S.A. Trapp
The age of activewear: Understanding women’s casualized athletic apparel habits through associations with psychosocial and body image factors, Ross C. Hollett, R. Sharman, and Domenic D’Adamo
The joy of art-based reflection: Building shared academic wellbeing literacy through collage, Rikki James, Christina C. Gray, Jason Goopy, Delyse Clayden, Han Meng, Narelle Lemon, Cassandra Tytler, Carli Sanbrook, Manonita Ghosh, Melanie Brooks, and Mark Selkrig
Centring the audience: Attitudes and behaviours in Australian arts organisations, Katya Johanson, Abbie Trott, Mark Taylor, Anne Kershaw, Hilary Glow, and Tracy Margieson
A collaborative communities-of-practice methodology for environmental design research: A case study application in palliative care, Emil E. Jonescu, Benjamin Farrell, Chamil Erik Ramanayaka, Lori Delaney, Edward Litton, Talia J. Uylaki, Gareth Watts, Bella Brigham, Frances Bellemore, and Davinia Seah
Exploring cultural values in alcohol and other drug use among African Australian youth: A qualitative study, Abraham Kenin, Justine Dandy, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, and Sonam Pelden
Translation, adaptation and preliminary efficacy of the My FRIENDS youth program among Pakistani adolescent school girls, Hajra Khalid, Sumara Masood Ul Hassan, Tamkeen Ashraf Malik, Iraj Tariq, Tayyaba Waseem, Paula Maria Barrett, and Cheuk Yan Lau
Unpacking environmental racism through dependency theory in the case of second-hand goods export to West Africa, Prince Nii Koi Kotei, Adusei-Asante, Shajimon Peter, and Portia Nana Ama Brempong
Perspective: Improving social connection and inclusion through equitable digital health solutions, Dominika Kwasnicka, Jaimon Kelly, Eleanor Quested, Loretta Baldassar, Suzanne Robinson, Richard Sinnott, Paul O’Halloran, Anne Tiedemann, Paul Flatau, Rajna Ogrin, Jane Farmer, and Abby C. King
Transnational youth and social mobility: The role of family financial support in unsettled lives, Alexandra Lee, Anita Harris, and Loretta Baldassar
Dopamine alters motor learning performance in the presence and absence of feedback, Li-Ann Leow, Ashley Huey Ryu Tan, Timothy J. Carroll, Rob Adam, Paul E. Dux, and Hannah L. Filmer
Beta-band modulation reveals the cortical dynamics of auditory statistical learning in children, Jarrad A.G Lum, Christine N. Moreau, Li Ann Leow, Welber Marinovic, Sarah J. Lum, Marc F. Joanisse, and Laura J. Batterink
Aerobic exercise increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in sub-acute stroke: A randomized controlled trial, Christopher P. Mackay, Suzanne Kuys, Mia Schaumberg, Li Ann Leow, and Sandy Brauer
Empathy as time machine: Some thoughts on heartfelt creativity, Keats, and creative writing, Donna Mazza and Joyce
Managing human sources: Identification and management of motivation, Tiffany McKenzie, Pamela Henry, and Nikki Rajakaruna
Schools, space and atmospheres: The value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools, Prue Miles, Kylie Boltin, Stuart Poyntz, and Jill Willis
No screens before two: How first-time Australian parents negotiate enduring digital media guidelines, Stephanie C. Milford, Emma Jayakumar, Harrison W. See, and Lelia Green
Growing older across time and space: The impact of various forms of capital on social support networks among older Vietnamese migrants, Hien Thi Nguyen, Lukasz Krzyzowski, and Loretta Baldassar
Sustaining caring mobilities in immobility regimes: Adaptive strategies of Vietnamese migrant (grand)parents in Australia, Hien Thi Nguyen, Catriona Turnbull, and Loretta Baldassar
Experiences in building social connectedness and sense of belonging: Voices from African migrants in Australia, Uchechukwu Levi Osuagwu, Kelechukwu Enyinnaya Ahaiwe, Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor, and Kerrie E. Doyle
Depression, psychological distress, and coping strategies among African migrants in Australia: A cross-sectional web-based study, Uchechukwu Levi Osuagwu, Lillian Mwanri, Edith N. Botchway-Commey, David Chisanga, Agness Tembo, Nnaemeka Meribe, Kathomi Gatwiri, Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Kerrie P. Doyle, Frank Darkwa Baffour, and Ahmed A. Moustafa
User experience (UX) meets bureaucracy: Lessons from a government intranet prototype, Scott Pelham, Jo Jung, and Christopher Kueh
Emancipatory research in social work: What does critical realism offer?, Shajimon Peter, Lynne Soon Chean Park, and Liz Beddoe
Integrated incubators: A novel framework for technology-based creative arts education, Brad Phelps Nisbet
Parenthood and mental health among university populations in Sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional study, Tuwani A. Rasengane, Ngozika Esther Ezinne, Antor Ndep, Nnamdi John Eseme, Susarah Maria Richter, Kingsley E. Agho, Ebele Gertrude Ejidike, Michael Agyemang Kwarteng, Kelechukwu Enyinnaya Ahaiwe, Nnaemeka Meribe, Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Edith Daniel-Nwosu, McHillary Ogiemudia Osamudiamen, Ike Onyebuchi Oforbuike, Grace Obumneke Ogbonna, Isaura Ilorena d.Alva Brito Dos Santos, Okechi Ulumma Amaechi, Ugochukwu E. Uzuegbu, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, and Uchechukwu Levi Osuagwu
Mood monitoring in schools: A promising alternative to single-time-point screening, Shane L. Rogers, Brown, Kathryn Campbell, and Matthew Goulding
User experience in virtual self-disclosure: Appraising natural, urban, and artificial VR environments, Shane L. Rogers, Tasha Canes, and Alexis Pallister
An ascendant in Scorpio: Dark tourism in the kingdom of Cambodia, a travelogue, Brenton Rossow
Invisible innovation: Intellectual labour on regional university campuses in Australia, Merete Schmidt, Lucinda Aberdeen, Colleen Carlon, and Robyn Eversole
Situating Australian youth work within the professions, John Sutcliffe
Composite scores to detect and monitor cognitive dysfunction in preclinical and prodromal Alzheimer's disease: A narrative review, Bhargav Tallapragada, Shaun J. Markovic, Kieran J. Marston, Belinda M. Brown, Brook Galna, Rosita Shishegar, Alden Gross, Yen Ying Lim, Jurgen Fripp, James D. Doecke, Jason Hassenstab, Colin L. Masters, Paul Maruff, Ralph N. Martins, and Hamid R. Sohrabi
Migration literacy and commercial intermediaries: The debt financed labour migrations of Chinese working-class tradesmen in boomtime Australia, Catriona Turnbull
Speculative morphological assemblages from Canhedonia’s wetlands: A queer ecology within the animated film The Spire™, Darren Tynan and Brenton Rossow
Sexuality education in an age of resistance: Reflections at the nexus of education, health and rights, Sarah Vrankovich, Katrina Marson, Giselle Woodley, Jordina Quain, and Hanna Saltis
Preliminary efficacy of My FRIENDS Youth with at-risk Pakistani adolescent girls living in orphanage, Tayyaba Waseem, Tamkeen Ashraf Malik, Sumara Masood ul Hassan, Hajra Khalid, Paula Maria Barrett, and Cheuk Yan Lau
Waterborne, Theresa Ann Wilks
Exploring the use of strategic influencer leadership (SIL) in health communication: A cross-cultural, multi-case study, Katharina Wolf, Catherine Archer, Syafiq B. Assegaff, and Joseph Nalloor
Being reflexive about reflexivity: The ethical imperative of reflexive practice when engaging in sensitive and contentious research, Giselle Woodley, See, Sian Tomkinson, and Stephanie Milford
La espiritualidad: Transmitting Peruvian culturo-spiritual elements into occidental systemic spaces, Deisy Amorin Woods
Young people’s likelihood of intervention to nonconsensual touching in nightlife settings: Interactions of gender, relationship to the bystander, and the recipient’s reaction, Aimee Rose Wrightson-Hester, Maria M. Allan, and Alfred Allan
Submissions from 2025
Art in public: Potential public pedagogy post-pandemic, Lyndall Adams, Nicola Kaye, Emma Jayakumar, Clive Barstow, and Harrison See
Social exclusion of refugees with a disability in Australian society within the context of healthcare quality theory and e-health, Hossein Adibi
A ramble on prayer: A collaboration between an artist and a writer, Alberta Natasia Adji and Harrison Waed See
Family and community role in the provision of informal care for older people living with chronic life-limiting illnesses in rural Ghana, Barbara Adonteng-Kissi and Obed Adonteng-Kissi
Support for older people living with chronic life-limiting illnesses in rural Ghana, Barbara Adonteng-Kissi and Obed Adonteng-Kissi
Human rights perspectives in social work practice with African immigrants in Australia: 'It starts with respecting them and making them feel like humans', Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Frank Darkwa Baffour, Matthew Mabefam, Nnaemeka Meribe, and Elizabeth Archibong
Impact of perceived discrimination and social exclusion on wellbeing of black African immigrants in Australia, Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Matthew Mabefam, Elizabeth Archibong, Nnaemeka Meribe, and Frank Darkwa Baffour
Social service inclusion of immigrants through the lens of human rights in Australia, Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Matthew Mabefam, Nnaemeka Meribe, Frank Darkwa Baffour, and Elizabeth Archibong
Producing Russian-speaking community activities in Australia: The role of migrant organisations and Russian political influence, Raisa Akifeva
Decision-making among transgender women who are victim-survivors of intimate partner violence: An integrative review, Emma Allen-Favazzo and Shajimon Peter
Floor talk | PhD research – Work in progress, Amanda Allerding and Brianne Sharp
Barca Nostra: Photography, tourists, travel and refugees, Panizza Allmark
Doing the Nutbush: How Australia got its very own line dance, Panizza Allmark and Jon Stratton
Personal reflection on my fieldwork experience in a small island developing state, Mark Opoku Amankwa, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, and Vicki Frances Banham
Rhetorics or business as usual? A systematic review of the realities of Australian aid localisation efforts in the Pacific region, Mark Opoku Amankwa, Clement Amponsah, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, Vicki Frances Banham, and Portia Nana Ama Brempong
Culture, community, and development: Unpacking the ‘socio-cultural milieu dynamics’ of Solomon Islands and their influence on Australia's aid localisation, Mark Opoku Amankwa, Gladys Nangira Murruka, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, Vicki Frances Banham, Clement Amponsah, and Emmanuel Enyinful
Floor talk | Searching for my work – PhD work in progress, Patricia Amorim and Brianne Sharp
A multidisciplinary review of machine learning for driver distraction prediction: Unveiling challenges, Achala Aponso, Craig Speelman, and Mike Johnstone
Kidfluencers, public relations and human rights: An exploration of the impact on the human rights of children as social media influencers within public relations and promotional practice, Catherine Archer and Kate Mirandilla Delmo
Coming of age with, in and on social media: A critique of how politicians are responding to children’s social media engagement, Catherine J. Archer
Children’s ‘playbour’ as influencers on social media: An investigation into the legal and ethical issues surrounding kidfluencers, Catherine J. Archer and Kate Mirandilla Delmo
Ecological grief: How can we bear this together?, Susan Bailey and Nicholas Gerrish
Music, emotions and migration, Loretta Baldassar, Manonita Ghosh, and Simone Marino
The impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on care-givers of people with cognitive impairment and their support needs: A mixed-methods systematic review, Loretta Baldassar, Thi N. M. Nguyen, Bronte Jones, Catriona Stevens, Lukasz Krzyzowski, Silvia Lozeva, Simone Marino, Maria G. C. Du Plooy, Johanne Eldridge, Osvaldo P. Almeida, and Manonita Ghosh
Life stories and digital learning: A social care approach to culturally and linguistically diverse ageing, Loretta Baldassar and Emanuela Sala
Where's the second chance? Compounded stigma and other factors impacting ex-prisoner employment, Eileen Baldry, Joe Graffam, Lesley Hardcastle, Simone Rowe, Leanne Dowse, Margaret Giles, and Jane McGillivray
Child labor in artisanal and small-scale mining: Implications for health, development and poverty, Kenneth Joseph Bansah and Obed Adonteng-Kissi
Rapid weight loss across combat sports and the relationships between methods and magnitude, Oliver R. Barley and Craig A. Harms
The dark side of international cooperation: Indifference and the psychosocial dynamics of cooperative deterrence, Jamal Barnes
Abusing the international solidarity principle: Human rights, international solidarity, and the EU's bilateral migration deals, Jamal Barnes and Samuel M. Makinda