Richard Chenhall
Biographic Data
| ID | 72739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Chenhall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Chenhall |
| SIGNATURE | CHENHALL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0943-0483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cardiovascular disease risk reduction interventions for Indigenous women
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention strategies are predominantly informed by studies conducted in men from the general population, which can disadvantage women—particularly Indigenous women—whose CVD needs differ in terms of symptom presentation, healthcare access, receipt of guideline-recommended care and sociocultural roles. This review aims to summarize the effectiveness of CVD prevention interventions in Indigenous women in the USA, Canad…
Yorga Moorditj Koort
In Australia, despite overall declines in cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related mortality, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women develop heart disease earlier and experience more than twice the rate of related morbidity and mortality compared with non-Indigenous women. This study explores Aboriginal women’s understandings of the factors that shape their heart health and lived experiences of CVD. We spoke with 28 Aboriginal women aged ≥18 yea…
Using an ethical lens in frontline alcohol and other drug services
There are significant clinician, policy and systemic barriers to accessing Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) services. Although frontline clinicians have very limited impact on the systemic barriers, there is a zone of clinical discretion within policy interpretation and implementation. Work within this zone can enhance access to services. Although not consistently recognised as such, this is ethical work; and facilitating access to services within th…
Our babies are our gold’
The sexual abuse of adolescent boys in humanitarian emergencies
An increasing amount of evidence indicates that adolescent boys may be exposed to child sexual abuse in humanitarian emergencies. However, there is currently limited understanding of risk factors for adolescent boys' exposure to sexual abuse in emergency settings and how humanitarian organisations are responding. In this study, we examined sexual abuse against adolescent boys in the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis and potential risk factors in this …
Long-Term Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Associated with Naturalistic Ayahuasca Consumption
The durability of ayahuasca's effects on mental health and the influence of clinical diagnoses on therapeutic response is unclear. Adults with no prior exposure to ayahuasca ( n = 66) participating in neo-shamanic ayahuasca ceremonies completed questionnaires at baseline, 7 days, and 1, 6, and 12 months. Mixed models were used to characterize temporal trajectories in mental health, alcohol and cannabis use, affect, personality, spirituality, and …
Tracking the changing body with care
Menstrual cycle tracking is increasingly integrated into menstrual health education and is frequently supported by mobile applications. While menstrual cycle tracking can help adolescents understand their bodies and cycles, research into their everyday tracking practices remains limited. We conducted a participatory and ethnographic study with 24 adolescent girls and six adults, including teachers, in Bali, Indonesia. Drawing on data from group d…
The Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Western Australia
There is a need to better understand the physical and mental health of mothers of Aboriginal children who enter out‐of‐home care to prevent removals. Evidence suggests that families involved in child protection systems often experience significant needs that may culminate in child removals. For Aboriginal families, these are compounded by the inter‐generational trauma from colonisation which has resulted in health issues, poverty and family viole…
Intersectoral collaboration for supporting the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal families and children in out-of-home care
Introduction: Western Australia has one of the highest rates of Aboriginal children entering out-of-home care in Australia. Kinship care is the preferred culturally safe out-of-home care option for Aboriginal children, yet all jurisdictions, including Western Australia, are far from meeting best-practice national standards. Intersectoral collaboration is a key primary healthcare principle and internationally recognized for improving health system…
Worse Than a Non-Place
In this article, a single road, the Roper Highway, in the Northern Territory of Australia becomes a focus for the exploration of colonization, mobilities, separation, and continuing inequalities for Indigenous people in the region. We argue that the needs of the people situated at the end of the road are usually secondary to those of strategy and big business. We bring together perspectives from participant observation, traveling the road, histor…
Aboriginal Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care
The overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (respectfully referred to hereafter as "Aboriginal") children in the child protection system is a concern in Australia, with Aboriginal children placed in out-of-home care at a rate 11 times that of non-Aboriginal children. This study utilised linked administrative data to determine the longitudinal child protection pathways from birth to age 10 years for a cohort of 15,815 Aborigina…
Conceptual framework for temporal discontinuance experiences of social media users
Temporarily disconnecting from social media has become more widespread in recent years with users choosing to limit or stop engaging with social media platforms for a period of time. There are no published syntheses that integrate the collective research on this phenomenon, nor how this behaviour is experienced. This review provides insight into the research on this phenomenon and proposes a conceptual framework for understanding social media use…
The health of people attending residential treatment for alcohol and other drug use
The ethical dimensions of everyday alcohol and other drug work
Your “Eyesore,” My History
In this article we visit a car junkyard in the small Arnhem Land outstation of Nalawan in the top end of Australia’s Northern Territory. Using both a mobilities paradigm and recent theorizing of waste from the global south, we will argue through our ethnographic observations that the wrecked cars become mobile, reassembled, and reconceptualized in a range of surprising ways. Though now immobile, the stories they encapsulate continue to circulate …
Sounding Out Japan
This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences.This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences. So many ethnographies describe local worlds with a deep attention to what is seen and what people say, but with a limited understanding of the broader sonic environments that enrich a…
Double perspective in the Colonial present
This paper will explain the concept of double perspective and the impact that this cultural understanding may have on the health of the Indigenous peoples of Scandinavia. In inter-cultural communication, one set of meanings may be discernible to the outsider while a whole extra set of restricted or underlying meanings are only accessible for those people who have the cultural knowledge to discern them. These different sets of meanings embody a do…
The internet as non-biomedical milieu
Indigenous Australian Youth Futures
Adolescents are at a critical life stage where they will soon be able to contribute to the wellbeing of humankind, or do it great harm. Consequently, it is vital that the challenges and possibilities of adolescence be well understood and addressed. In Australia, such understanding is urgently needed with respect to Aboriginal adolescents. Not only must they adjust to their
“Is Life Worth Living?”
Men aged 85 years and over have the highest rate of suicide of any age or gender group in Australia. However, little is known about their trajectory toward suicide. The objective of this study was to understand the role of masculine norms and other life factors in the suicidality of older men. Thirty-three men aged 80 years or more took part in a semistructured focus group or interview, and/or completed a survey. Participants were asked about the…
Double perspective narrating time, life and health
The goal of this article is to explain the concept of double perspective and the impact this may be having on the health of Indigenous people. In inter-cultural communication, there are sets of meanings that are discernible to anyone, and an extra set of underlying meanings that are only accessible for people who have the cultural knowledge to discern them. These different sets of meanings embody a double perspective. We will discuss the double p…
‘Boys mostly just want to have sex’
This article seeks to understand Indigenous Australian young people's relationships and their experiences of sexual intimacy. A cohort of Indigenous 16–25-year-olds from urban, rural and remote communities were invited to participate in a collaborative method involving scenario-based body mapping. In these activities, young people discussed the range and complexity of their relationships and how constructions and interpretations of relationships …
Inequalities in the Age of Universal Health Coverage
While universal health coverage (UHC) has been praised as a powerful means to reduce inequalities and improve access to health globally, little has been said about how patients experience and understand its implementation locally. In this article, we explore the experiences of young Chileans with type 1 diabetes when seeking care in Santiago, within Chile's UHC program, which sought to improve people's access to health care. We argue that the imp…
I Wish for My Daughters to Remain Under My 'Wings
The migration literature has shown that immigrant parents face significant challenges with regard to parenting in a new culture, especially with the children in early adolescence, a period of significant physical, social and emotional change for human being. This article demonstrates that Bangladeshi mothers, who have spent a major part of their lives in Bangladeshi cultural contexts, face different socio-cultural contexts raising their young dau…
An Interrogation of Sensory Anthropology of and in Japan
Sensory anthropology has quickly become a dynamic and expansive field of contemporary scholarship, with ethnographers increasingly interested in diverse sensory cosmologies as indicative of a "sensory turn" in anthropology. However, there has also been a tendency for these scholars to work in a linguistic silo, and overlook the potential contributions of local knowledge and scholarship. In this article, we begin to address this gap by bringing Ja…
Living the Social Determinants of Health
This article provides a critical discussion of the social determinants of health framework and compares it with theoretical perspectives, such as that offered by assemblage theory, offering an alternative view of the complex interplay between human relationships and the structures around us. We offer an ethnographic perspective, discussing the lived experiences of the social determinants in an Indigenous community in a remote part of northern Aus…
Engaging Youth in Sexual Health Research
This article describes the application and adaptation of body mapping as a tool for exploring sexual health and sexual decision making among young people aged 16-25. It argues that while body mapping engaged youth to discuss general health issues, young people were reluctant to engage with issues related to sexual health, due to feelings of shame and fear of stigma. Sexual health case scenarios were developed and used in conjunction with body-map…
Walkin’ about at night’
In Australia, Indigenous young women are more likely to become pregnant while in their teens than non-Indigenous young women. Factors such as poverty, educational outcomes and unemployment play a major role; however, there is little understanding of the attitudes of young women themselves with regards to pregnancy. This paper explores young women's decisions regarding their sexual relationships and pregnancy in a remote Australian Aboriginal comm…
The Facebook Sabbatical as a Cycle
Young adults are known to adopt Facebook (FB) sabbaticals as a coping strategy for FB-induced technostress, which are often linked to problematic overuse habits. Yet, there has been little investigation of how young adults experience, navigate, and negotiate FB sabbaticals and the impact this has on their social connections and overall well-being. To address this, we conducted a qualitative study of six young adults, aged 18-34 to understand thei…
Health Beliefs and Behavior
Recently, social determinants of health frameworks are receiving some criticism in that they do not engage with questions related to individual subjectivity and agency as they relate to health decision-making behavior. This article examines the different ways in which people living in a remote Arnhem Land community in the Northern Territory of Australia, take responsibility for their own health and the extent to which they are able to prevent ill…
Boyfriends, babies and basketball
This paper explores the aspirations of a group of young women in a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It examines how their hopes and expectations are influenced by the reality of their everyday lives and the extent to which they are able to influence the course of their lives and become agents for change in their own communities. As with adolescents in lower socio-economic groups, the majority of young women in R…
Aboriginal Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care
The overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (respectfully referred to hereafter as "Aboriginal") children in the child protection system is a concern in Australia, with Aboriginal children placed in out-of-home care at a rate 11 times that of non-Aboriginal children. This study utilised linked administrative data to determine the longitudinal child protection pathways from birth to age 10 years for a cohort of 15,815 Aborigina…
As long as he's coming home to me
Drawn from a sample of 88 Indigenous young people in five locations in urban and remote Northern Australia, this research utilised a combination of qualitative approaches to encourage young people to discuss their ideas about sexual relationships and violence. Indigenous youth discussed highly public displays of violence, as well as violence within intimate settings and the interrelationships between these two arenas. A key finding of this resear…
Re-thinking the health benefits of outstations in remote Indigenous Australia
Problematising school space for Indigenous education
This interpretive study explores the relationship between spatial qualities and school-parent engagement in three primary schools which serve low income periurban Indigenous families in north Australia. Drawing from interviews with educators and parents, school-based observations and community fieldwork conducted over the course of two years in two different towns, we found that educators are very concerned that schools, as western institutions, …
What's in a rehab? Ethnographic evaluation research in Indigenous Australian residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation centres
Residential rehabilitation centres are a popular form of treatment for Indigenous Australians suffering from alcohol and drug misuse; however, there has been very little substantive research and evaluation in this area. Based on long-term ethnographic research, this study examines the informal aspects of a treatment programme in an Indigenous residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation service. Evaluation of such services often focuses on treatme…
Inequalities in the Age of Universal Health Coverage
While universal health coverage (UHC) has been praised as a powerful means to reduce inequalities and improve access to health globally, little has been said about how patients experience and understand its implementation locally. In this article, we explore the experiences of young Chileans with type 1 diabetes when seeking care in Santiago, within Chile's UHC program, which sought to improve people's access to health care. We argue that the imp…
Negotiating human research ethics
The human ethics issues surrounding the conduct of health science research have been the subject of increasing debate among biomedical and social science researchers in recent years. Ethics procedures in health‐science research are typically concerned with protecting anonymity and confidentiality, and are tailored to work that primarily uses quantitative methodologies. For qualitative research in the health social sciences, a different set of eth…
Stuck Nose”
While petrol sniffing amonge Australian Aboriginal youth has received significant public and academic attention, the experience of petrol sniffing as articulated by sniffers themselves and community's perceptions of petrol sniffing have been underexplored. Through an ethnographic analysis of a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory Australia, a range of perspectives on petrol sniffing are elucidated in order to understand both the …
The Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Western Australia
There is a need to better understand the physical and mental health of mothers of Aboriginal children who enter out‐of‐home care to prevent removals. Evidence suggests that families involved in child protection systems often experience significant needs that may culminate in child removals. For Aboriginal families, these are compounded by the inter‐generational trauma from colonisation which has resulted in health issues, poverty and family viole…
I Wish for My Daughters to Remain Under My 'Wings
The migration literature has shown that immigrant parents face significant challenges with regard to parenting in a new culture, especially with the children in early adolescence, a period of significant physical, social and emotional change for human being. This article demonstrates that Bangladeshi mothers, who have spent a major part of their lives in Bangladeshi cultural contexts, face different socio-cultural contexts raising their young dau…
An Interrogation of Sensory Anthropology of and in Japan
Sensory anthropology has quickly become a dynamic and expansive field of contemporary scholarship, with ethnographers increasingly interested in diverse sensory cosmologies as indicative of a "sensory turn" in anthropology. However, there has also been a tendency for these scholars to work in a linguistic silo, and overlook the potential contributions of local knowledge and scholarship. In this article, we begin to address this gap by bringing Ja…
The Way of Abstinence’
Stigma associated with alcoholism is common in Japan, and individuals who suffer from alcoholism often feel that it is a taboo to discuss their problems with alcohol in the general public. This paper describes the way in which the self-help group called Danshukai offers a model for recovery for people suffering from alcoholism in Japan. Since 2006, the authors have been involved in various meetings and conducted conversational and semi-structured…
Positivism and the Collection of Data
The statement of Fritz and Plog that an explicit formulation of potential laws must precede the collection of data is challenged on the grounds that (1) the collection of data, from some areas at least, must be made now or it will be lost forever, and (2) relevant archaeology can be done with salvage materials, gathered without knowledge of their ultimate use
A Rapid Anthropological Assessment of Tuberculosis in a Remote Aboriginal Community in Northern Australia
n \t\t\tIn the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, the rate of active tuberculosis (TB) is thirty four times higher in the Indigenous than the non-Indigenous Australian-born population. In 2000, of the 38 notified cases, 14 (37 percent) were associated with one of a number of Aboriginal communities where TB is endemic. Despite effective treatment of patients with active TB over the past decade, compliance with latent TB infection (LTBI)1 has re…
Stuck Nose”
While petrol sniffing amonge Australian Aboriginal youth has received significant public and academic attention, the experience of petrol sniffing as articulated by sniffers themselves and community's perceptions of petrol sniffing have been underexplored. Through an ethnographic analysis of a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory Australia, a range of perspectives on petrol sniffing are elucidated in order to understand both the …
Boora-Rung-Ee (The Man Who Asks Why)
Benelong's Haven
Stopping sniffing is our responsibility
This is an account of various unsuccessful efforts to combat petrol-sniffing in River Town, a remote Aboriginal settlement in north Australia. The paper provides insights into the dynamics of remote Aboriginal settlements, highlighting the dissonance between non-Aboriginal service providers and the Aboriginal residents. Attention is drawn to the need for more involvement of Aboriginal people in policy making and program implementation. The paper …
Walkin’ about at night’
In Australia, Indigenous young women are more likely to become pregnant while in their teens than non-Indigenous young women. Factors such as poverty, educational outcomes and unemployment play a major role; however, there is little understanding of the attitudes of young women themselves with regards to pregnancy. This paper explores young women's decisions regarding their sexual relationships and pregnancy in a remote Australian Aboriginal comm…
What's in a rehab? Ethnographic evaluation research in Indigenous Australian residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation centres
Residential rehabilitation centres are a popular form of treatment for Indigenous Australians suffering from alcohol and drug misuse; however, there has been very little substantive research and evaluation in this area. Based on long-term ethnographic research, this study examines the informal aspects of a treatment programme in an Indigenous residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation service. Evaluation of such services often focuses on treatme…
Problematising school space for Indigenous education
This interpretive study explores the relationship between spatial qualities and school-parent engagement in three primary schools which serve low income periurban Indigenous families in north Australia. Drawing from interviews with educators and parents, school-based observations and community fieldwork conducted over the course of two years in two different towns, we found that educators are very concerned that schools, as western institutions, …
Negotiating human research ethics
The human ethics issues surrounding the conduct of health science research have been the subject of increasing debate among biomedical and social science researchers in recent years. Ethics procedures in health‐science research are typically concerned with protecting anonymity and confidentiality, and are tailored to work that primarily uses quantitative methodologies. For qualitative research in the health social sciences, a different set of eth…
Boyfriends, babies and basketball
This paper explores the aspirations of a group of young women in a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It examines how their hopes and expectations are influenced by the reality of their everyday lives and the extent to which they are able to influence the course of their lives and become agents for change in their own communities. As with adolescents in lower socio-economic groups, the majority of young women in R…
Ethics
Sleep Around the World
Indigenous perspectives on active living in remote Australia
This different construction of physical activity in remote Indigenous communities highlights the importance of involving Indigenous people in the development and implementation of physical activity promotion. Physical activities associated with traditional Indigenous cultural practices and being active 'on country' need to be viewed as legitimate health promotion activities. Exploring further ways to enable Indigenous people in remote NT to be in…
Engaging Youth in Sexual Health Research
This article describes the application and adaptation of body mapping as a tool for exploring sexual health and sexual decision making among young people aged 16-25. It argues that while body mapping engaged youth to discuss general health issues, young people were reluctant to engage with issues related to sexual health, due to feelings of shame and fear of stigma. Sexual health case scenarios were developed and used in conjunction with body-map…
Health Beliefs and Behavior
Recently, social determinants of health frameworks are receiving some criticism in that they do not engage with questions related to individual subjectivity and agency as they relate to health decision-making behavior. This article examines the different ways in which people living in a remote Arnhem Land community in the Northern Territory of Australia, take responsibility for their own health and the extent to which they are able to prevent ill…
Introduction  Sleep Around the World
Young clean and safe?’ Young people's perceptions of risk from sexually transmitted infections in regional, rural and remote Australia
This paper examines young people's perceived vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their efforts to create a sense of personal safety within an environment in which risks may be high and where STIs are highly stigmatised. The paper reports on findings from research involving both Indigenous and non-Indigenous 16- to 25-year-olds from remote, rural and regional Australia, including communities in the Northern Territory, Weste…
The Way of Abstinence’
Stigma associated with alcoholism is common in Japan, and individuals who suffer from alcoholism often feel that it is a taboo to discuss their problems with alcohol in the general public. This paper describes the way in which the self-help group called Danshukai offers a model for recovery for people suffering from alcoholism in Japan. Since 2006, the authors have been involved in various meetings and conducted conversational and semi-structured…
No More Secrets—Ngukurr News”
This paper examines the contribution that a community newspaper made to a remote aboriginal community in northern Australia. Instigated by the researchers as a way to engage young people in the project, the community newspaper became an important focus of activity and learning, providing young people with skills and education around the collection, management, and dissemination of news and supporting youth to gain empowerment in the community. At…
As long as he's coming home to me
Drawn from a sample of 88 Indigenous young people in five locations in urban and remote Northern Australia, this research utilised a combination of qualitative approaches to encourage young people to discuss their ideas about sexual relationships and violence. Indigenous youth discussed highly public displays of violence, as well as violence within intimate settings and the interrelationships between these two arenas. A key finding of this resear…
‘Our Lives’ and ‘Life Happens’, from stigma to empathy in young people’s depictions of sexual health and relationships
This article describes qualitative research undertaken to explore young people’s understanding of sex and relationships that used a scenario-driven body-mapping technique. This art-based method was designed to allow young people to think deeply about the subject and build upon each other’s ideas through the medium of decorating a life-sized human body. Although this method produced rich information the depictions of young people tended to be high…
Chasing cures
A qualitative exploration of Thai alcohol policy in regulating availability and access
Harm from others’ drinking-related aggression, violence and misconduct in five Asian countries and the implications
Sociology (37 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Political science (25 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Indigenous (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social science (14 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (12 works) · Qualitative research (12 works) · Law (10 works)