Fields of Research

Social change
Sociology
Other Indigenous studies
Gender studies
Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment
Health promotion
Social theory
Sociology of gender
Sociology of health
Sociology of education
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
Rural sociology
Health services and systems
Sexualities
Sociological methodology and research methods
Screen and media culture
Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
Epidemiology
Visual cultures
Clinical sciences
Housing policy
Sociology of inequalities
Environmental sociology
Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
Organisational behaviour
Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
Sociology and social studies of science and technology
Family and household studies
Sports science and exercise
Feminist and queer theory
Gender relations
Environmental management
Wildlife and habitat management
Preventative health care
Reproductive medicine
Health policy

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in human society
Women's and maternal health
Families and family services
Behaviour and health
Men's health
Social structure and health
Other culture and society
Recreation and leisure activities (excl. sport and exercise)
Health inequalities
Management, resources and leadership
Other health
Clinical health
Mental health
Evaluation of health and support services
Visual communication
Health protection and disaster response
Neonatal and child health
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Arts
The media
Homelessness and housing services
Organised sports
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health)
Pedagogy
Sport, exercise and recreation
Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Preventive medicine
Rural and remote area health
Recreational services
Injury prevention and control
Nutrition

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

'Phantom Kicks’: Women’s Subjective Experience of Foetal Kicks after the Postpartum Period'; Journal of Women's Health
'Antarctica just has this hero factor...': Gendered barriers to Australian Antarctic research and remote fieldwork; PLoS ONE
'Death by a thousand cuts': women of colour in science face a subtly hostile work environment
'Discrimination in a different form?' Doubts dog advertising guidelines on body image: Interview with Alexandra Spring
'Fat, bland, boring incubators': Most pregnant women don't feel like Beyonce
'Fat, bland, boring incubators': most pregnant women don't feel like Beyonce
'Fat, bland, boring incubators’: ordinary pregnant women don’t feel like Beyoncé
'I was completely oblivious to gender': an exploration of how women in STEMM navigate leadership in a neoliberal, post feminist context; Journal of Gender Studies
'I've felt close to crying with rage at the unfairness of it all.' The pandemic's hidden toll on women's workloads
'It's just good to get a bit of man-talk out in the open': men's experiences of father-only antenatal preparation classes in Tasmania, Australia; Psychology of Men & Masculinity
'Let's work on your weaknesses': Australian CrossFit coaching, masculinity and neoliberal framings of 'health' and 'fitness' ; Sport in Society
'When I look in the bathroom mirror, I see all the women standing behind me': An evaluation of a leadership development program for women in STEMM; Journal of Sociology
'Working out' for two: performances of 'fitness' and femininity in Australian prenatal aerobics classes; Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
'You don't train for a marathon sitting on the couch': Performances of pregnancy 'fitness' and 'good' motherhood in Melbourne, Australia; Women's Studies International Forum
3D Fetuses and Disappearing Mothers: Rethinking the Politics of Ultrasonography; Mother Knows Best: Talking Back to the
936 ABC Radio Interview, Your afternoons with Penny Terry
A brand for social change? The myth of Dove's 'real beauty'
ABC News
Academic wellbeing at all time global low - so how can you sell yourself so you can get on with saving the world?: Interview with Ryk Goddard
Action Sports Girls: interview with Jack Evans
Addressing the needs of first-time fathers in Tasmania: a qualitative study of father-only antenatal groups; Australian Journal of Rural Health
An evaluation of a leadership development programme for women in STEMM in Antarctica; The Polar Journal
An exploration of perceptions of gender equity among SAGE Athena SWAN self-assessment team members in a regional Australian university; Higher Education Research and Development
Antarctic suppression
Antarctica harassment: Interview with Carol Off
Antarctica Has a Sexual Harassment Problem Too
Are Leadership Styles in STEMM Gendered?
Are women's bodies still beautiful after pregnancy?
Australia’s COVID-19 pandemic housing policy responses; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Authors’ Response to the Letter to the Editor: Parkrun and the Claim of “Elitism” in Paid-Entry Run/Walk Events; American Journal of Health Promotion
Baby bellies come out of hiding
Baby bump pictures: Are nude maternity photos touching or tacky?
Beyoncé y el auge de las fotografías de embarazadas
Birth of the Bump
Birth of the Bump
Birth of the bump
Birth of the bump
Birth of the bump
Birth of the Bump
Birthing Practices
Blood bones and spirit: Aboriginal christianity in an East Kimberley town by Heather McDonald
Book Review - Understanding Reproductive Loss
Brain death during pregnancy and prolonged corporeal support of the body: a critical discussion; Women and Birth
Breakfast with Ryk Goddard
Breaking the silence around blood: managing menstruation during remote Antarctic fieldwork; Gender, Place and Culture
Breasted experiences in pregnancy: an examination through photographs; Visual Studies
Brides N' Bumps; Feminist Media Studies
Caring during COVID-19: a gendered analysis of Australian university responses to managing remote working and caring responsibilities; Gender, Work and Organization
Celebrity Influence on pregnant women studied
Concern over dearth in IVF donors
Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?; Reframing Reproduction: Conceiving Gendered Experiences
Dr Meredith Nash: Poser nue et enceinte est une 'endance malsaine
Edited Book Insights
Educating queer sexual citizens? A feminist exploration of bisexual and queer young women’s sex education in Tasmania, Australia; Sex Education: sexuality, society and learning
Emerging visual methodologies to better understand the process of care in hypertension management in Australian general practice; 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the HBPRCA and the 39th Annual Scientific Meeting of the AAS
Empowering ‘sporty sisters’ through ‘active living’: A feminist multi-modal critical discourse analysis of the Lorna Jane fitness fashion website; New Sporting Femininities: Embodied Politics in Postfeminist Times
Encouraging girls in action sports: interview with Chris Rowbottom
Even in Antarctica, women are experiencing sexism
Expanding Seams: Experiences of Australian Maternity Shopping; The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products and their Cultural Places
Exploring Body Image
Exploring research relationships and other ethical challenges of participatory visual research in remote environments; Journal of Sociology
Exploring the health-promoting potential of the 'parkrun' phenomenon: What factors are associated with higher levels of participation?; American Journal of Health Promotion
Exploring the methodological challenges of using participant-produced digital video diaries in Antarctica; Sociological Research Online
Fat, bland, boring incubators’: ordinary pregnant women don’t feel like Beyoncé
Fathers to be survey
Fetal Rights
Final Report Girls in Action Sports Project (GASP)
Fit Mum Obsession
For women of colour in STEM 'acting white' is just more mental and emotional labour
From 'Bump' to 'Baby': Gazing at the Foetus in 4D; Philament
From Sex and the City to Girls: paving the way for ‘post? feminism’; Reading Lena Dunham's Girls: feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television
From ‘tramp stamps’ to traditional sleeves: A feminist autobiographical account of tattoos; Australian Feminist Studies
Gender bias, sexual harassment and the myth of meritocracy. Women still underrepresented in science
Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia; International Review for The Sociology of Sport
Gendered language: Interview with Joel Rheinberger
Gendered power relations and sexual harassment in Antarctic science and remote fieldwork in the age of #MeToo; Gender and Sexuality at Work: A Multidisciplinary Research and Engagement Conference
Gendered power relations and sexual harassment in Antarctic science in the age of #metoo; Australian Feminist Studies
Girls in Action Sports: Interview with Chris Rowbottom
Girls may be flawed, but its feminist legacy will last
Girls may be flawed, but its feminist legacy will last
Government initiative targets lack of women: Interview with The Wire
Grande-Bretagne:poser nue pendant sa grossesse, la nouvelle tendance?
Health and broader community benefit of parkrun – An exploratory qualitative study; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Health practitioner and student attitudes to caring for transgender patients in Tasmania: an exploratory qualitative study; Transgender Health
Hilarious or horrifying? Foetuses Photoshopped onto bellies
Homeward Bound's all-female Antarctic expedition sets sail in December
Homonormativity or queer disidentification? rural Australian bisexual women’s identity politics; Sexualities
How do you travel with children overseas?: Interview with Louise Saunders
How does pregnancy compare with extreme endurance sports?: Interview with Helen Shields
How fathers experience being in a 'breastfeeding family' when breastfeeding problems occur; 2017 TASA Conference
How the Christchurch Massacre and #Metoo have changed the election: Interview with Leon Compton
I just think something like the “Bubs and Pubs” class is what men should be having’: Paternal subjectivities and preparing for first-time fatherhood in Australia and the United Kingdom; Journal of Sociology
In a crisis, a shift: This is the changing face of fatherhood
In Antarctica, The #MeToo Movement Faces Unique Hurdles
Indulgence versus restraint: a discussion of embodied eating practices of pregnant Australian women; Journal of Sociology
Interview about 'The Leadership' documentary on women in STEMM
Interview with Hobart 7HoFM
Interview with Louise Saunders about International Women's Day
Interview with Louise Saunders on cricket ball tampering scandal
Interview with Piia Wirsu about International Women's Day
Interview with Ryk Goddard ABC 936 Hobart
Interview with Simon Lauder
Interview with Yumi Stynes for ABC podcast Ladies We Need To Talk
Introduction to the special issue: Eating like a 'man': Food and the performance and regulation of masculinities; Women'S Studies International Forum: A Multidisciplinary Journal for The Rapid Publication of Research Communications and Review Articles in Women's Studies
Introduction: Conceiving of Postmodern Reproduction; Reframing Reproduction: Conceiving Gendered Experiences
It's just that uncertainty that eats away at people: Antarctic expeditioners' lived experiences of COVID-19; PLOS ONE
It's time to talk about bodies after birth, and not just stretch marks: Interview with Emily Writes
Kampf der baby-Beule
Launceston gym fight: gloves are off
Lay off Chrissie Swan for smoking while pregnant
Lay off Chrissie Swan for smoking while pregnant
Making 'postmodern' mothers: pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image; Palgrave Macmillan
Male allyship in institutional STEMM gender equity initiatives; PLoS One
Meeting of the minds aims to inspire
Melinda Tankard Reist, Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics
Mother Nature Needs Her Daughters
Mum's the word for photo project of pregnancy in Tasmania
Mum's the word for photo project of pregnancy in Tasmania
Mum's the word for photo project of pregnancy in Tasmania
Mum's the word for photo project of pregnancy in Tasmania
My Wedge, My Self; Third Space: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture
Naked baby bump photos are the latest pregnancy trend. But are they a precious memento or just plain tacky?
National Antarctic Program responses to fieldwork sexual harassment; Antarctic Science
Navigating Career Obstacles/Leadership for Women in Stem
Navigating unintelligibility: queer Australian young women’s negotiations of safe sex and risk; Journal of Health Psychology
New project needs your photos
New study puts fathers under the parenthood microscope
New Tasmanian Strategy Addresses Gender Inequality
Oh Baby Baby: (Un)veiling Britney Spears' Pregnant Body; Michigan Feminist Studies
On Fat Stigma, Prejudice, and Strategies for Resistance. Review of Acceptable Prejudice? Fat, Rhetoric and Social Justice; Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society
Picturing mothers: A photovoice study of body image in pregnancy; Health Sociology Review
Picturing Postpartum Body Image: A Photovoice Study; Reframing Reproduction: Conceiving Gendered Experiences
Picturing Pregnancy: A Photovoice Exhibition
Picturing Pregnancy: Meredith Nash at TEDxHobart
Pregnancy photo project
Pregnancy: A precarious perch
Pregnant women urged to join study
Profile: From Illinois to Antarctica with Meredith Nash, champion of women in STEMM
Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls: Feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television; Palgrave Macmillan
Reflections on teaching gender to Australian sociology undergraduates in the neoliberal postfeminist classroom; Journal of Sociology
Reframing Reproduction: Conceiving Gendered Experiences; Palgrave Macmillan
Reliving virginity: sexual double standards and hymenoplasty
Researching baby bump body image
Review of Reed, Lori and Saukko, Paula (eds.), Governing the Female Body: Gender, Health and Networks of Power
Rosalind Petchesky, global prescriptions: Gendering health and human rights
Ryk Goddard
School chaplain sacked over Facebook post calling homosexuality 'not normal'
Science in the Pub: Interview with Helen Shield
Selling health and fitness to sporty sisters: A critical feminist multi-modal discourse analysis of the Lorna Jane retail website; Sociology of Sport Journal
Sex industry reform looks at New Zealand laws
Shapes of motherhood: exploring postnatal body image through photographs; Journal of Gender Studies
Shapes of motherhood: female body image before and after pregnancy
Should Women Scientists Really Need to Know How To Bake To Become Leaders?
Six Tasmanian-based scientists in all-female Antarctic expedition
Snow Sisters
Some women feel fetal kicks years after they've given birth: Interview with Grace Browne
Squeezed between identity politics and intersectionality: A critique of ‘thin privilege’ in Fat Studies; Feminist Theory
Stemm-inism: interview with Cheyne Anderson
Study examines changing attitudes to the 'baby bump'
Study examines changing attitudes to the 'baby bump'
Study to examine support for new dads
Studying gender in the neoliberal, postfeminist university: Australian university students’ perspectives; Journal of Sociology
Tas IVF says egg freezing inquiries up
Tasmania Police admits there's more to be done to encourage women into senior ranks
Tasmanian healthcare professionals' & students' capacity for LGBTI+ inclusive care: a qualitative inquiry; Health and Social Care in the Community
The #MeToo Movement Faces Unique Hurdles: interview with Gina Rushton
The #MeToo movement has spread to Antarctica: Interview with Patricia Karvelas
The 12-week pregnancy rule: Why is the first trimester shrouded in secrecy?
The Australian Pregnancy Pictures Project: Memory, Motherhood, and Photography
The challenges of participant photography: a critical reflection on methodology and ethics in two cultural contexts; Qualitative Health Research
The fetished fetus: Creating 'life' with ultrasound; Traffic: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Journal
The Fetishised Fetus: Creating 'Life' with Ultrasound; Traffic
The Headless, Legless Pregnancy Bump: Interview with Josie Glausiusz
The hostile environment faced by women of colour in STEM: Interview with Louise Saunders
The influence of paternal co-participation on girls’ participation in surfing, mountain biking, and skateboarding in regional Australia; Leisure Studies
The myth of Dove's 'Real Beauty' campaign
The Otherside
The perils of announcing a pregnancy in public
The perils of announcing a pregnancy in public
The story of the first Australian women in Antarctica: Interview with Angela Heathcote
Tutoring in interdisciplinary subjects; The University of Melbourne
Twenty-something girls v. thirty-something Sex And The City women: paving the way for ‘post? feminism’?; Feminist Media Studies
United Nations Academic Impact Digital Discussion Series with Homeward Bound Expedition Female Scientists
University of Tasmania study to put dads in the parenting picture
UTAS parkrun research project
Views on pregnancy to be studied
Walking into a headwind: The barriers women face trying to build science careers
Weighty matters: Negotiating 'fatness' and 'in-betweeness' in early pregnancy; Feminism and Psychology: An International Journal
What does inclusive sexual and reproductive healthcare look like for bisexual, pansexual and queer women? Findings from an exploratory study from Tasmania, Australia; Culture, Health and Sexuality
What does pregnancy look like through the eyes of everyday mums?
What is the social impact of #metoo at the 2018 Oscars? https://vimeo.com/258706972
What style of leadership do women in STEM fields perform? Findings from an international survey; PLoS One
What to consider when announcing a pregnancy or miscarriage online: interview with Kellie Scott
What to expect when you're expecting: Photo project gives twelve pregnant women cameras to reveal what it's REALLY like to have a baby
When the going gets tough
Where are our female STEM CEOs?: interview with Domini Stuart
Where does the term 'baby bump' come from?
White pregnant bodies on the Australian beach: a visual discourse analysis of family photographs; Journal of Gender Studies
Why Girls? Why now?; Reading Lena Dunham's Girls: feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television
Will social change come from #metoo?
WIN Television interview
Women lead way to Antarctica
Women lead way to Antarctica
Women who donate their eggs deserve compensation - here's why
Women'S Studies International Forum: A Multidisciplinary Journal for The Rapid Publication of Research Communications and Review Articles in Women'S Studies; Women'S Studies International Forum: A Multidisciplinary Journal for The Rapid Publication of Research Communications and Review Articles in Women's Studies
Women’s experiences of racial microaggressions in STEMM workplaces and the importance of white allyship; International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology
Young bisexual women's sexual health care experiences in Australian rural general practice; Australian Journal of Rural Health
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: visibly and culturally diverse women’s experiences of racial microaggressions in STEMM organisations; Gender and Sexuality at Work: A Multidisciplinary Research and Engagement Conference
‘Fat, bland, boring incubators’: ordinary pregnant women don’t feel like Beyoncé
‘Fat, bland, boring incubators’: ordinary pregnant women don’t feel like Beyoncé
‘Fat, bland, boring incubators’: ordinary pregnant women don’t feel like Beyoncé
‘Walking into a headwind’ – what it feels like for women building science careers
‘Walking into a headwind’: What it feels like for women building science careers

Research Projects

British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference ; Ian Potter Foundation (IPF)
Changing the game for girls in action sports; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Enhancing Tasmanian Health Professionals Capacity for LGBTI-inclusive Care; Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPAC)
Expectation versus experience: How do Tasmanian men narrate their transition to first-time fatherhood?; Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (TEYF)
Exploring Pregnant Embodiment in Hobart, Tasmania; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Exploring the public health potential of parkrun in Tasmania; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center Conference, Boston, April 4-6, 2013.; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Gender Equity in Antarctic Research ; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
How are Australian fathers engaging with infant feeding and what are their infant feeding practices from 0-12 months?; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Lessons from the pandemic; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Making guidelines meet the challenge of multimorbidity in general practice: development of an evidence-based approach to integration of disease specific guidelines to better manage multimorbidity; Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Remembering Mothers: Photography and Tasmanian Cultural Memory; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
A joint role comprising: Experiences of working at the AAD The Project, and Advisory support under the direction of the A/Chief Scientist or Deputy Chief Scientist
Changing the Game for Girls in Action Sports

Research Candidate Supervision

Queering Disability- Heteronormativity in Social Work Practice with Individuals Experiencing Disability
Understanding Clinical Decision Making in the Management of Hypertension in Australian Primary Care- A Mixed Methods Study