Peter Kamstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1796290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Kamstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamstra |
| SIGNATURE | KAMSTRA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3934-1403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unsure and underinsured
Climate change and development within floodplains are expanding flood risk zones and increasing the number of households that are underinsured. Although flood insurance is core to disaster preparedness, how flood-prone households navigate flood insurance decisions remains poorly understood. This study explores how households make decisions about flood insurance coverage within contexts shaped by engagement, renewal cycles, rezoning, and insurer p…
Community Engagement for Disaster Risk Reduction (CEDRR)
Community-engaged research (CER) in disaster risk reduction requires novel approaches that move beyond raising awareness and instead employ methods that support and measure actual impacts on household risk reduction. This study introduces Community Engagement for Disaster Risk Reduction (CEDRR), a longitudinal CE-MMR approach that involves an initial dialogic engagement with a 6-month follow-up to examine how participants learned about risk, adop…
A qualitative exploration of online forums to support resilience of rural young people in Australia
Introduction: Prevention and early intervention are crucial strategies for improving young people's mental health and well-being. Building resilience is a key component of these strategies, especially among young individuals in rural areas who face well-documented mental health disparities. This study aimed to investigate how online mental health forums can contribute to enhancing individual resilience in young rural users. Methods: = 1,000) made…
Normative learning generates behaviour change
Drowning is a risk governance issue of global significance. The majority of coastal drownings occur at unpatrolled beaches. Interventions designed to influence public behaviours are measured in terms of ‘awareness raised’ and ‘intentions to act’ rather than actual ‘behaviours adopted’. As a result, up-scaling impacts defaults to the dubious assumption that the communication of information can raise societal-scale awareness that will result in soc…
The spillover effects from participatory research
Participatory research has been shown to affect change in participants, but limited attention has been paid to impact pathways beyond traditional research subjects. This critical gap in the literature is addressed by analysing the impacts of a community engagement for disaster risk reduction case study on its research assistants. The findings demonstrate that undertaking participatory research affects research assistants, changing their risk redu…
Using Data Bricolage and Mixed-Methods GIS to Uncover Mental Health Service Gaps in Rural Australia
This article develops an approach to data bricolage by mixed-methods geographic information systems (GIS) to challenge assumptions that quantitative service provision data and consumer surveys are the only sources of data that can inform gaps in service accessibility.Claims of repurposing health data have long animated health geography, but methodological advances have only recently begun to open opportunities for geographical analyses of reused …
Mental Health and the Digital Care Assemblage
This paper examines the socio-technical ecosystems that shape the moderation of mental health content. To explore how care is formulated across and between different actors and automated systems, I focus on the experiences of moderators and users of three peer-based mental health support platforms. The analysis is framed by the notion of the 'digital care assemblage' to delineate the interactions between goal-oriented moderation policies, automat…
Engaging beachgoers for drowning prevention
Despite reduced drowning incidence at lifeguard patrolled beaches, 71 drowning fatalities occurred on Australian beaches last year (2021–2022). Prevailing drowning prevention practices on beaches include patrolling lifeguards positioning safety flags in less hazardous locations and encouraging beachgoers to swim between them. Such methods represent a ‘deficit based’ approach to community engagement, in which experts determine acceptable behaviour…
Community transformed? Exploring the interaction between online support and rural community life for people with acute mental health conditions
Moderating mental health
Covid-19 deepened the need for digital-based support for people experiencing mental ill-health. Discussion platforms have long filled gaps in health service provision and access, offering peer-based support usually maintained by a mix of professional and volunteer peer moderators. Even on dedicated support platforms, however, mental health content poses difficulties for human and machine moderation. While automated systems are considered essentia…
Wellness Impacts of Social Capital Built in Online Peer Support Forums
The study reported in this paper sought to explore whether and how social capital resources were generated on online peer support mental health forums, and how they were used by rural users to influence mental health outcomes. Interviews with rural users of three Australian online peer support mental health forums were analysed to identify interactions that accessed social capital resources and mental wellness outcomes that flowed from these. Ana…
A Novel Mixed Methods Approach for Integrating Not-for-Profit Service Data via Qualitative Geographic Information System to Explore Authentic Experiences of Ill-Health
Meeting the mental health needs of rural populations is challenging internationally, with few methods and scarce data available to inform site-specific planning. We developed a mixed methods approach that integrates Not-for-profit (NFP) organization data in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to explore interrelated understandings of mental health experiences in rural places. Integrating qualitative experience data from online forums with quant…
Social media for social good? A thematic, spatial and visual analysis of humanitarian action on Instagram
As an image and location sharing platform, Instagram offers intimate visual access to events, experiences and situations in a manner that is mobile and contextual. Partnering with Australian Red Cross, this paper develops a mixed methodology for using Instagram data to identify and understand individuals’ everyday humanitarian activity in a major urban centre (Melbourne, Australia) outside of the temporal frame of crisis. The research integrates …
Drowning ‘Truths’
Mediating Mental Illness
How is mental illness conceptualised, designed, experienced or produced by digital life? This panel explores how digital technologies and media are transforming the performance, recognition, and experience of mental illness. We bring together different methodological and theoretical contributions towards an interdisciplinary study of mental illness and digital life. Our first two papers analyse specifically chatbots and ingestible sensors that ar…
Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing
The impact of peer-review on undergraduate grades when students decide whether to participate
Feedback is at the heart of debates over student satisfaction and academic workload, an issue likely to increase in importance as the tertiary sector responds to the funding crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this light, the development of approaches to improve feedback is essential for teaching and learning, with many approaches involving some form of peer-review. Almost universally, peer-review is shown to be beneficial for participant…
Integration and segregation for social enterprise employees
Geographers have highlighted the role of spaces and places in realising or discouraging social integration for marginalised or “dis/abled” citizens. Social enterprises, widely promoted by governments, aim to act as unique socio‐commercial spaces that can up‐skill citizens for work through technical and social experiences. Social enterprises have also been proposed to add value by fostering wellbeing realisation, but this has been difficult to mea…
Re-casting experience and risk along rocky coasts
This study invites readers to experience risk on Australia's hazardous rocky coasts with the rock fishing community. In the paper, we offer an understanding of risk that is relational, a process that emerges within human-environment interactions in a dynamic coastal space that is constantly changing. Exploring the in situ and ongoing sensory attunement of the fishers, we contend, expands upon the quantitative understandings that tend to be deploy…
Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing
Re-casting experience and risk along rocky coasts
This study invites readers to experience risk on Australia's hazardous rocky coasts with the rock fishing community. In the paper, we offer an understanding of risk that is relational, a process that emerges within human-environment interactions in a dynamic coastal space that is constantly changing. Exploring the in situ and ongoing sensory attunement of the fishers, we contend, expands upon the quantitative understandings that tend to be deploy…
Community transformed? Exploring the interaction between online support and rural community life for people with acute mental health conditions
Moderating mental health
Covid-19 deepened the need for digital-based support for people experiencing mental ill-health. Discussion platforms have long filled gaps in health service provision and access, offering peer-based support usually maintained by a mix of professional and volunteer peer moderators. Even on dedicated support platforms, however, mental health content poses difficulties for human and machine moderation. While automated systems are considered essentia…
A Novel Mixed Methods Approach for Integrating Not-for-Profit Service Data via Qualitative Geographic Information System to Explore Authentic Experiences of Ill-Health
Meeting the mental health needs of rural populations is challenging internationally, with few methods and scarce data available to inform site-specific planning. We developed a mixed methods approach that integrates Not-for-profit (NFP) organization data in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to explore interrelated understandings of mental health experiences in rural places. Integrating qualitative experience data from online forums with quant…
The impact of peer-review on undergraduate grades when students decide whether to participate
Feedback is at the heart of debates over student satisfaction and academic workload, an issue likely to increase in importance as the tertiary sector responds to the funding crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this light, the development of approaches to improve feedback is essential for teaching and learning, with many approaches involving some form of peer-review. Almost universally, peer-review is shown to be beneficial for participant…
Integration and segregation for social enterprise employees
Geographers have highlighted the role of spaces and places in realising or discouraging social integration for marginalised or “dis/abled” citizens. Social enterprises, widely promoted by governments, aim to act as unique socio‐commercial spaces that can up‐skill citizens for work through technical and social experiences. Social enterprises have also been proposed to add value by fostering wellbeing realisation, but this has been difficult to mea…
Re-casting experience and risk along rocky coasts
This study invites readers to experience risk on Australia's hazardous rocky coasts with the rock fishing community. In the paper, we offer an understanding of risk that is relational, a process that emerges within human-environment interactions in a dynamic coastal space that is constantly changing. Exploring the in situ and ongoing sensory attunement of the fishers, we contend, expands upon the quantitative understandings that tend to be deploy…
Drowning ‘Truths’
Mediating Mental Illness
How is mental illness conceptualised, designed, experienced or produced by digital life? This panel explores how digital technologies and media are transforming the performance, recognition, and experience of mental illness. We bring together different methodological and theoretical contributions towards an interdisciplinary study of mental illness and digital life. Our first two papers analyse specifically chatbots and ingestible sensors that ar…
Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing
The impact of peer-review on undergraduate grades when students decide whether to participate
Feedback is at the heart of debates over student satisfaction and academic workload, an issue likely to increase in importance as the tertiary sector responds to the funding crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this light, the development of approaches to improve feedback is essential for teaching and learning, with many approaches involving some form of peer-review. Almost universally, peer-review is shown to be beneficial for participant…
Integration and segregation for social enterprise employees
Geographers have highlighted the role of spaces and places in realising or discouraging social integration for marginalised or “dis/abled” citizens. Social enterprises, widely promoted by governments, aim to act as unique socio‐commercial spaces that can up‐skill citizens for work through technical and social experiences. Social enterprises have also been proposed to add value by fostering wellbeing realisation, but this has been difficult to mea…
Social media for social good? A thematic, spatial and visual analysis of humanitarian action on Instagram
As an image and location sharing platform, Instagram offers intimate visual access to events, experiences and situations in a manner that is mobile and contextual. Partnering with Australian Red Cross, this paper develops a mixed methodology for using Instagram data to identify and understand individuals’ everyday humanitarian activity in a major urban centre (Melbourne, Australia) outside of the temporal frame of crisis. The research integrates …
Wellness Impacts of Social Capital Built in Online Peer Support Forums
The study reported in this paper sought to explore whether and how social capital resources were generated on online peer support mental health forums, and how they were used by rural users to influence mental health outcomes. Interviews with rural users of three Australian online peer support mental health forums were analysed to identify interactions that accessed social capital resources and mental wellness outcomes that flowed from these. Ana…
A Novel Mixed Methods Approach for Integrating Not-for-Profit Service Data via Qualitative Geographic Information System to Explore Authentic Experiences of Ill-Health
Meeting the mental health needs of rural populations is challenging internationally, with few methods and scarce data available to inform site-specific planning. We developed a mixed methods approach that integrates Not-for-profit (NFP) organization data in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to explore interrelated understandings of mental health experiences in rural places. Integrating qualitative experience data from online forums with quant…
Mental Health and the Digital Care Assemblage
This paper examines the socio-technical ecosystems that shape the moderation of mental health content. To explore how care is formulated across and between different actors and automated systems, I focus on the experiences of moderators and users of three peer-based mental health support platforms. The analysis is framed by the notion of the 'digital care assemblage' to delineate the interactions between goal-oriented moderation policies, automat…
Engaging beachgoers for drowning prevention
Despite reduced drowning incidence at lifeguard patrolled beaches, 71 drowning fatalities occurred on Australian beaches last year (2021–2022). Prevailing drowning prevention practices on beaches include patrolling lifeguards positioning safety flags in less hazardous locations and encouraging beachgoers to swim between them. Such methods represent a ‘deficit based’ approach to community engagement, in which experts determine acceptable behaviour…
Community transformed? Exploring the interaction between online support and rural community life for people with acute mental health conditions
Moderating mental health
Covid-19 deepened the need for digital-based support for people experiencing mental ill-health. Discussion platforms have long filled gaps in health service provision and access, offering peer-based support usually maintained by a mix of professional and volunteer peer moderators. Even on dedicated support platforms, however, mental health content poses difficulties for human and machine moderation. While automated systems are considered essentia…
A qualitative exploration of online forums to support resilience of rural young people in Australia
Introduction: Prevention and early intervention are crucial strategies for improving young people's mental health and well-being. Building resilience is a key component of these strategies, especially among young individuals in rural areas who face well-documented mental health disparities. This study aimed to investigate how online mental health forums can contribute to enhancing individual resilience in young rural users. Methods: = 1,000) made…
Normative learning generates behaviour change
Drowning is a risk governance issue of global significance. The majority of coastal drownings occur at unpatrolled beaches. Interventions designed to influence public behaviours are measured in terms of ‘awareness raised’ and ‘intentions to act’ rather than actual ‘behaviours adopted’. As a result, up-scaling impacts defaults to the dubious assumption that the communication of information can raise societal-scale awareness that will result in soc…
The spillover effects from participatory research
Participatory research has been shown to affect change in participants, but limited attention has been paid to impact pathways beyond traditional research subjects. This critical gap in the literature is addressed by analysing the impacts of a community engagement for disaster risk reduction case study on its research assistants. The findings demonstrate that undertaking participatory research affects research assistants, changing their risk redu…
Using Data Bricolage and Mixed-Methods GIS to Uncover Mental Health Service Gaps in Rural Australia
This article develops an approach to data bricolage by mixed-methods geographic information systems (GIS) to challenge assumptions that quantitative service provision data and consumer surveys are the only sources of data that can inform gaps in service accessibility.Claims of repurposing health data have long animated health geography, but methodological advances have only recently begun to open opportunities for geographical analyses of reused …
Unsure and underinsured
Climate change and development within floodplains are expanding flood risk zones and increasing the number of households that are underinsured. Although flood insurance is core to disaster preparedness, how flood-prone households navigate flood insurance decisions remains poorly understood. This study explores how households make decisions about flood insurance coverage within contexts shaped by engagement, renewal cycles, rezoning, and insurer p…
Community Engagement for Disaster Risk Reduction (CEDRR)
Community-engaged research (CER) in disaster risk reduction requires novel approaches that move beyond raising awareness and instead employ methods that support and measure actual impacts on household risk reduction. This study introduces Community Engagement for Disaster Risk Reduction (CEDRR), a longitudinal CE-MMR approach that involves an initial dialogic engagement with a 6-month follow-up to examine how participants learned about risk, adop…
Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (8 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Engineering (5 works)