Linda Selvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 168006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Selvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Selvey |
| SIGNATURE | SELVEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8493-0974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
You’ve Just Got to Keep Pestering’: Barriers and Enablers of Attaining Continuity of Hepatitis C Care for People Transitioning Between Prison and Community Health Services in South-East Queensland, Au…
Highly effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapies for hepatitis C (HCV) have been available in Australian prisons since 2016. To address treatment interruption following release from prisons, the Queensland Injector's Health Network (QuIHN) launched a Prison Transition Service (PTS) in south-east Queensland, Australia. Presently, the factors associated with continuity of post-release HCV care are poorly understood. The objective of this qu…
Local government policymaking environment for Health in All Policies: A case study research investigation
The local level of government is identified as being well placed to address the determinants of health due to their flatter governance structure and proximity to the community. Research has identified multiple factors that influence local governments to act on these health determinants, although few have applied theories of the policy process to understand the policymaking environment. Using two Australian local government case study sites, we ex…
Change creates change’ – older female sex workers’ experiences through the early Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and associated policy responses created unique social, economic and health risks for sex workers. Through semi-structured interviews we explored pre- and early COVID-19 experiences and work practices of ten cisgender female sex workers 50 years of age and older in Queensland, Australia, analysing the findings using a risk environment framework. Throughout early 2020, participants navigated a complex risk environment, managing economic ne…
Factors of the policy process influencing Health in All Policies in local government: A scoping review
Objectives: This review aimed to identify factors in the policymaking environment that influence a Health in all Policies approach in local government, how these vary across different municipal contexts, and the extent that theories of the policy process are applied. Methods: A scoping review was conducted to include sources published in English, between 2001 and 2021 in three databases, and assessed for inclusion by two blind reviewers. Results:…
“More human”: Using ethnographic insights to develop a posthuman framework of ‘extended recovery’ for harmful drug use
The enduring conceptual confusion within drug use literature and research regarding the definition of addiction arises from the lack of reconciliation between two key concepts: (1) addiction occurs when someone loses control over their behaviour, and (2) recovery can only proceed when that individual chooses to regain control. This paper uses ethnographic insights to illustrate an alternative framework based on posthumanism and extended health th…
Evaluation of a person-centred, nurse-led model of care delivering hepatitis C testing and treatment in priority settings: A mixed-methods evaluation of the Tasmanian Eliminate Hepatitis C Australia O…
Providing outreach hepatitis C services in community-based services was effective in engaging people living with and at-risk of hepatitis C, in education, testing, and care. Nurse-led, person-centred care was critical to the success of the project. Our evaluation underscores the importance of employing a partnership approach when delivering hepatitis C models of care in community settings, and incorporating workforce education and capacity-buildi…
Communicating about Energy Policy in a Resource-Rich Jurisdiction during the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the People of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
There is a high degree of expert consensus that anthropogenic climate change will be catastrophic if urgent and significant measures to reduce carbon emissions are not undertaken worldwide. Australia is a world-leading exporter of coal and gas, and does not have an effective emissions reduction strategy. Though many Australians support action on climate change, this has not affected voting patterns. In this qualitative study, we aimed to explore …
Measuring school level attributable risk to support school-based HPV vaccination programs
This analysis suggests that initiatives to support schools that are smaller, with a higher proportion of Indigenous adolescents and lower attendance rates may contribute most to reducing the variation of HPV vaccination uptake observed at a school-level in these jurisdictions. Estimating population-level coverage at the school-level is useful to guide policy and prioritise resourcing to support school-based vaccination programs
It is stigma that makes my work dangerous’: Experiences and consequences of disclosure, stigma and discrimination among sex workers in Western Australia
Western Australia criminalises sex work whilst some other Australian jurisdictions have decriminalised the industry. This article examines the role of Western Australia's legislation in reinforcing stigma and discrimination of sex workers. It draws on stigma and discrimination-specific results from open-ended survey responses and interview data collected as part of a larger cross-sectional mixed-methods study. Experiences and/or anticipation of s…
There’s No Sense to It”: A Posthumanist Ethnography of Agency in Methamphetamine Recovery
The orthodox construction of agency within addiction recovery discourse is built upon a fault line between two conflicting principles: that people who use drugs in harmful ways cannot control their behavior, but that they can also regain that control through intentional effort. The conceptual confusion inherent in this framework can harm people using drugs by producing inadequate accounts of commonly invoked aspects of recovery such as “triggers,…
Reasons for Not Seeking Hepatitis C Treatment among People Who Inject Drugs
Background Despite increases in treatment uptake for hepatitis C viral infection (HCV) in Australia since the introduction of direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy, a large proportion of HCV-infected people who inject drugs (PWID) have not sought treatment. Purpose/Objectives: To examine predictors of treatment uptake and reasons for not seeking treatment among PWID. Methods: PWID (n = 404) recruited through five needle and syringe programs in So…
Influences to HPV completion via a school-based immunisation program
In Australia, school-based immunisation programmes (SBIP) provide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations to secondary school students. However, despite such free programmes, around 20% of girls and 25% of boys do not complete all doses. This formative study identified barriers and enablers to vaccine completion. Online surveys were conducted with senior school administrators and nurses from Western Australian secondary schools across all three s…
We’re supposed to be a family here”: An ethnography of preserving, achieving, and performing normality within methamphetamine recovery
The perception of being abnormal, and a visceral desire to 'feel normal again', is a common feature of the literature on drug use and recovery. Normality is constructed, however, in response to context-dependent values and priorities, thereby legitimating certain behaviours as normative and therefore the assumed goal of people in recovery. In this paper we draw on an ethnographic study with twelve people attempting to reduce harmful methamphetami…
Sex workers as peer researchers – a qualitative investigation of the benefits and challenges
Best practice in sex work research advocates for a 'nothing about us without us' methodology. This study employed sex workers as peer researchers to assist in evaluating the sexual health outcomes and well-being of sex workers in Western Australia. All eight peer researchers were invited to reflect on their experiences as peer researchers through semi-structured interviews, and seven peer researchers participated. Giving sex workers a voice and t…
It Just Kind of Cascades”: A critical ethnography of methamphetamine-related pleasure among people in recovery
Agricultural Dust Exposures and Health and Safety Practices among Western Australian Wheatbelt Farmers during Harvest
This study identified substantial gaps in health and safety knowledge among farm managers and workers, and improved education and training are highly recommended
Knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to antibiotic use among community members of the Rupandehi District in Nepal
The study provides baseline evidence about the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antibiotic use among the population of the Rupandehl district. Its findings will be useful in designing effective and targeted interventions to decrease misconceptions about antibiotic use and to increase awareness about the risks of inappropriate use of antibiotics in the community
Turning points, identity, and social capital: A meta-ethnography of methamphetamine recovery
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Meta-Ethnography 30 Years On
In the 30 years since its introduction, meta-ethnography has become a critical tool for synthesizing qualitative health research and providing a holistic understanding of complex health and social phenomena. Meta-ethnography has also been adapted to integrate a wider range of research methodologies, expanded to include a detailed taxonomy of research methods, and has led to the development of multiple other methods of synthesis. In this article, …
There’s No Sense to It”: A Posthumanist Ethnography of Agency in Methamphetamine Recovery
The orthodox construction of agency within addiction recovery discourse is built upon a fault line between two conflicting principles: that people who use drugs in harmful ways cannot control their behavior, but that they can also regain that control through intentional effort. The conceptual confusion inherent in this framework can harm people using drugs by producing inadequate accounts of commonly invoked aspects of recovery such as “triggers,…
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Meta-Ethnography 30 Years On
In the 30 years since its introduction, meta-ethnography has become a critical tool for synthesizing qualitative health research and providing a holistic understanding of complex health and social phenomena. Meta-ethnography has also been adapted to integrate a wider range of research methodologies, expanded to include a detailed taxonomy of research methods, and has led to the development of multiple other methods of synthesis. In this article, …
Agricultural Dust Exposures and Health and Safety Practices among Western Australian Wheatbelt Farmers during Harvest
This study identified substantial gaps in health and safety knowledge among farm managers and workers, and improved education and training are highly recommended
Knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to antibiotic use among community members of the Rupandehi District in Nepal
The study provides baseline evidence about the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antibiotic use among the population of the Rupandehl district. Its findings will be useful in designing effective and targeted interventions to decrease misconceptions about antibiotic use and to increase awareness about the risks of inappropriate use of antibiotics in the community
Turning points, identity, and social capital: A meta-ethnography of methamphetamine recovery
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Meta-Ethnography 30 Years On
In the 30 years since its introduction, meta-ethnography has become a critical tool for synthesizing qualitative health research and providing a holistic understanding of complex health and social phenomena. Meta-ethnography has also been adapted to integrate a wider range of research methodologies, expanded to include a detailed taxonomy of research methods, and has led to the development of multiple other methods of synthesis. In this article, …
Reasons for Not Seeking Hepatitis C Treatment among People Who Inject Drugs
Background Despite increases in treatment uptake for hepatitis C viral infection (HCV) in Australia since the introduction of direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy, a large proportion of HCV-infected people who inject drugs (PWID) have not sought treatment. Purpose/Objectives: To examine predictors of treatment uptake and reasons for not seeking treatment among PWID. Methods: PWID (n = 404) recruited through five needle and syringe programs in So…
Influences to HPV completion via a school-based immunisation program
In Australia, school-based immunisation programmes (SBIP) provide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations to secondary school students. However, despite such free programmes, around 20% of girls and 25% of boys do not complete all doses. This formative study identified barriers and enablers to vaccine completion. Online surveys were conducted with senior school administrators and nurses from Western Australian secondary schools across all three s…
We’re supposed to be a family here”: An ethnography of preserving, achieving, and performing normality within methamphetamine recovery
The perception of being abnormal, and a visceral desire to 'feel normal again', is a common feature of the literature on drug use and recovery. Normality is constructed, however, in response to context-dependent values and priorities, thereby legitimating certain behaviours as normative and therefore the assumed goal of people in recovery. In this paper we draw on an ethnographic study with twelve people attempting to reduce harmful methamphetami…
Sex workers as peer researchers – a qualitative investigation of the benefits and challenges
Best practice in sex work research advocates for a 'nothing about us without us' methodology. This study employed sex workers as peer researchers to assist in evaluating the sexual health outcomes and well-being of sex workers in Western Australia. All eight peer researchers were invited to reflect on their experiences as peer researchers through semi-structured interviews, and seven peer researchers participated. Giving sex workers a voice and t…
It Just Kind of Cascades”: A critical ethnography of methamphetamine-related pleasure among people in recovery
Communicating about Energy Policy in a Resource-Rich Jurisdiction during the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the People of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
There is a high degree of expert consensus that anthropogenic climate change will be catastrophic if urgent and significant measures to reduce carbon emissions are not undertaken worldwide. Australia is a world-leading exporter of coal and gas, and does not have an effective emissions reduction strategy. Though many Australians support action on climate change, this has not affected voting patterns. In this qualitative study, we aimed to explore …
Measuring school level attributable risk to support school-based HPV vaccination programs
This analysis suggests that initiatives to support schools that are smaller, with a higher proportion of Indigenous adolescents and lower attendance rates may contribute most to reducing the variation of HPV vaccination uptake observed at a school-level in these jurisdictions. Estimating population-level coverage at the school-level is useful to guide policy and prioritise resourcing to support school-based vaccination programs
It is stigma that makes my work dangerous’: Experiences and consequences of disclosure, stigma and discrimination among sex workers in Western Australia
Western Australia criminalises sex work whilst some other Australian jurisdictions have decriminalised the industry. This article examines the role of Western Australia's legislation in reinforcing stigma and discrimination of sex workers. It draws on stigma and discrimination-specific results from open-ended survey responses and interview data collected as part of a larger cross-sectional mixed-methods study. Experiences and/or anticipation of s…
There’s No Sense to It”: A Posthumanist Ethnography of Agency in Methamphetamine Recovery
The orthodox construction of agency within addiction recovery discourse is built upon a fault line between two conflicting principles: that people who use drugs in harmful ways cannot control their behavior, but that they can also regain that control through intentional effort. The conceptual confusion inherent in this framework can harm people using drugs by producing inadequate accounts of commonly invoked aspects of recovery such as “triggers,…
Factors of the policy process influencing Health in All Policies in local government: A scoping review
Objectives: This review aimed to identify factors in the policymaking environment that influence a Health in all Policies approach in local government, how these vary across different municipal contexts, and the extent that theories of the policy process are applied. Methods: A scoping review was conducted to include sources published in English, between 2001 and 2021 in three databases, and assessed for inclusion by two blind reviewers. Results:…
“More human”: Using ethnographic insights to develop a posthuman framework of ‘extended recovery’ for harmful drug use
The enduring conceptual confusion within drug use literature and research regarding the definition of addiction arises from the lack of reconciliation between two key concepts: (1) addiction occurs when someone loses control over their behaviour, and (2) recovery can only proceed when that individual chooses to regain control. This paper uses ethnographic insights to illustrate an alternative framework based on posthumanism and extended health th…
Evaluation of a person-centred, nurse-led model of care delivering hepatitis C testing and treatment in priority settings: A mixed-methods evaluation of the Tasmanian Eliminate Hepatitis C Australia O…
Providing outreach hepatitis C services in community-based services was effective in engaging people living with and at-risk of hepatitis C, in education, testing, and care. Nurse-led, person-centred care was critical to the success of the project. Our evaluation underscores the importance of employing a partnership approach when delivering hepatitis C models of care in community settings, and incorporating workforce education and capacity-buildi…
Local government policymaking environment for Health in All Policies: A case study research investigation
The local level of government is identified as being well placed to address the determinants of health due to their flatter governance structure and proximity to the community. Research has identified multiple factors that influence local governments to act on these health determinants, although few have applied theories of the policy process to understand the policymaking environment. Using two Australian local government case study sites, we ex…
Change creates change’ – older female sex workers’ experiences through the early Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and associated policy responses created unique social, economic and health risks for sex workers. Through semi-structured interviews we explored pre- and early COVID-19 experiences and work practices of ten cisgender female sex workers 50 years of age and older in Queensland, Australia, analysing the findings using a risk environment framework. Throughout early 2020, participants navigated a complex risk environment, managing economic ne…
You’ve Just Got to Keep Pestering’: Barriers and Enablers of Attaining Continuity of Hepatitis C Care for People Transitioning Between Prison and Community Health Services in South-East Queensland, Au…
Highly effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapies for hepatitis C (HCV) have been available in Australian prisons since 2016. To address treatment interruption following release from prisons, the Queensland Injector's Health Network (QuIHN) launched a Prison Transition Service (PTS) in south-east Queensland, Australia. Presently, the factors associated with continuity of post-release HCV care are poorly understood. The objective of this qu…
Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (8 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works)