Brona Nic Giolla Easpaig
Biographic Data
| ID | 189105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brona Nic Giolla Easpaig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brona Nic Giolla |
| FAMILY NAME | Easpaig |
| SIGNATURE | EASPAIG B N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6787-056X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What are the evaluations of young mothers about programs designed to support their academic achievement? A qualitative systematic review
Introduction The insights of young mothers about their experiences of participating in programs designed to support them reach their educational goals in high/ secondary school offer critical evaluation evidence, but are under-explored. Methods A qualitative systematic review was undertaken to address the question: “What are the evaluations of young mothers about programs designed to support their academic achievement, as reported in the qualitat…
Adapting a Preparatory Skills‐Building Programme for Carers of People With Cancer Through Co‐Design
INTRODUCTION: Health services rely upon carers to provide care for loved ones with cancer, yet many carers often feel ill-prepared for this role. Despite a multitude of programmes to support carer mental health, programmes that help carers feel better equipped to support a person with cancer are lacking. This study aimed to address this need by adapting an evidence-based intervention to be suitable for carers of people with cancer. METHODS: This …
‘You Game Like a Girl’
While there is an abundance of research concerning the gendered dimensions of video gaming and online communities, there is a limited focus on gameplay competence. This study examined the relationship between sexism and gendered perceptions of competence in gaming. Three hundred and 85 participants volunteered to take part. Participants were randomly allocated to one of three gendered conditions (female, male or neutral). Participants watched two…
Psychological Distress, Resilience, and Help-Seeking Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People in Rural Australia
The aims of this paper were to explore mental health, the aspects associated with psychological distress and resilience, and the help-seeking experiences of LGBTIQA+ people. This research used a mixed-method approach using a survey and semi-structured interviews. The study was conducted in rural and remote Tasmania, Australia. Sixty-six participants completed the survey, and 30 participated in interviews. Participants reported a range of mental h…
Family and domestic violence policy discourses and narratives
Background Australian data has indicated that the frequency and severity of family and domestic violence (FDV) tends to increase with remoteness. Rural communities rely on Emergency Departments (ED) within public hospitals for general health and safety needs. Public health departments within Australia are strongly influenced by Government policies which can define ‘health problems’ and limit institutional responses to patients presenting with FDV…
Kink-Oriented People and Exogenous Oppressions
Rural, kink-oriented people experience much exogenous oppression and yet related research is scarce. This study examined the risk and protective factors of kink-oriented rural Tasmanian Australians with preexisting mental health conditions and help-seeking barriers and facilitators. Participants completed either an online survey (n = 42), an interview (n = 10), or both. Thematic analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the qualita…
Barriers and enablers to mental health help seeking of sexual, gender, and erotic minorities
Introduction: Sexual, gender, and erotic minorities experience oppressions that psychologically harm and impact help seeking. The aim of this review was to integrate available evidence on the uptake, barriers, and facilitators of mental health help seeking in sexual, gender, and erotic minorities. Method: Systematic searches were conducted in CINAHL, Medline, and Scopus for peer-reviewed articles and in Google for gray literature using Preferred …
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia
Sex workers experience risk and protective factors that affect their psychological well-being, yet little is known about sex workers' mental health and their experiences with related services in rural and remote Tasmania, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six current or former sex workers with pre-existing mental health problems, and thematic analysis was used to identify their experiences with mental health and related ca…
A Qualitative Exploration of Fathers' Antenatal and Postnatal Challenges
This study explores and identifies the different challenges for both antenatal and postnatal fathers that might act as precursors for poor paternal perinatal emotional well-being. Twelve fathers living in Sydney, aged over 18 years, identified as either an antenatal or postnatal father were interviewed concerning their experiences. Interview data were thematically analysed to identify challenges faced by expectant and new fathers. Five main chall…
Engaging critical methodologies in qualitative research methods with undergraduate psychology students
This article describes the experiences of teaching undergraduate psychology students in an Australian context. The degree course the students take has no community or critical units, but it is one of very few in Australia that has a compulsory standalone unit in qualitative methods. While qualitative methods are by no means necessarily inherently critical or community focused, it has presented an opportunity to the teachers of the unit (the autho…
Barriers and Enablers to Sex Workers’ Uptake of Mental Healthcare
How Do We Work as Researchers in the Real World? Mapping the Trajectory of Methodological Decision Making in Health Services Research
To the disbenefit of qualitative health services research, the generation of study design is too often implied as a logical consequence of aims or questions. Limited space is afforded to describing the critical processes we go through to devise our research for the ever-complex services we seek to understand. This article offers an in-depth examination of qualitative health services research design and the considerations inherent in the process. …
Making Space for Community Critical Methodology
Our collective account considers the ways community critical methodologies can inform academic endeavors. Methodology is understood to be the theorizing of methods that produce and legitimate knowledge claims. For us, community critical approaches incorporate poststructural and other forms of critical theory in the questioning of taken for granted assumptions. This forms a valuable foundation for community praxis as it focuses not just on social …
Pitching a virtual woo”
Issues of sexism and gender-based harassment have been divisive within online gaming communities with contested understandings of the presence of these issues, prevailing explanations and potential solutions. This report was prompted by the discrepancy between problematic representations of women observed in online gaming community discussions of these issues and women’s rich and complex accounts of their gameplay. Poststructural theory facilitat…
Capturing collective processes of analysis in participatory research
The purpose of the paper is to offer a detailed explication of collectively enacted analytical and sense-making practices in participatory research. The co-production of knowledge is central to the methodological integrity of participatory research, but capturing the shared and collaborative processes through which meaning is made; particularly the analytical practices, can be difficult to untangle. A participatory project that employed memory wo…
A queer-theoretical approach to community health psychology
Queer-theoretical resources offer ways of productively rethinking how central concepts such as 'person-context', 'identity' and 'difference' may be understood for community health psychologists. This would require going beyond consideration of the problems with which queer theory is popularly associated to cautiously engage with the aspects of this work relevant to the promotion of collective practice and engaging with processes of marginalisatio…
The good, the bad and the ugly
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question “what is good research?” from the perspective of critical researchers working in the discipline of psychology. Design/methodology/approach The authors first look at what it means to be “good”, then what it means to be critical and then interlink these two as a means of providing a context to understand why there appears to be so little critical research around. Findings – The authors hav…
Kink-Oriented People and Exogenous Oppressions
Rural, kink-oriented people experience much exogenous oppression and yet related research is scarce. This study examined the risk and protective factors of kink-oriented rural Tasmanian Australians with preexisting mental health conditions and help-seeking barriers and facilitators. Participants completed either an online survey (n = 42), an interview (n = 10), or both. Thematic analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the qualita…
A queer-theoretical approach to community health psychology
Queer-theoretical resources offer ways of productively rethinking how central concepts such as 'person-context', 'identity' and 'difference' may be understood for community health psychologists. This would require going beyond consideration of the problems with which queer theory is popularly associated to cautiously engage with the aspects of this work relevant to the promotion of collective practice and engaging with processes of marginalisatio…
Pitching a virtual woo”
Issues of sexism and gender-based harassment have been divisive within online gaming communities with contested understandings of the presence of these issues, prevailing explanations and potential solutions. This report was prompted by the discrepancy between problematic representations of women observed in online gaming community discussions of these issues and women’s rich and complex accounts of their gameplay. Poststructural theory facilitat…
Making Space for Community Critical Methodology
Our collective account considers the ways community critical methodologies can inform academic endeavors. Methodology is understood to be the theorizing of methods that produce and legitimate knowledge claims. For us, community critical approaches incorporate poststructural and other forms of critical theory in the questioning of taken for granted assumptions. This forms a valuable foundation for community praxis as it focuses not just on social …
Barriers and Enablers to Sex Workers’ Uptake of Mental Healthcare
How Do We Work as Researchers in the Real World? Mapping the Trajectory of Methodological Decision Making in Health Services Research
To the disbenefit of qualitative health services research, the generation of study design is too often implied as a logical consequence of aims or questions. Limited space is afforded to describing the critical processes we go through to devise our research for the ever-complex services we seek to understand. This article offers an in-depth examination of qualitative health services research design and the considerations inherent in the process. …
The good, the bad and the ugly
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question “what is good research?” from the perspective of critical researchers working in the discipline of psychology. Design/methodology/approach The authors first look at what it means to be “good”, then what it means to be critical and then interlink these two as a means of providing a context to understand why there appears to be so little critical research around. Findings – The authors hav…
A queer-theoretical approach to community health psychology
Queer-theoretical resources offer ways of productively rethinking how central concepts such as 'person-context', 'identity' and 'difference' may be understood for community health psychologists. This would require going beyond consideration of the problems with which queer theory is popularly associated to cautiously engage with the aspects of this work relevant to the promotion of collective practice and engaging with processes of marginalisatio…
Capturing collective processes of analysis in participatory research
The purpose of the paper is to offer a detailed explication of collectively enacted analytical and sense-making practices in participatory research. The co-production of knowledge is central to the methodological integrity of participatory research, but capturing the shared and collaborative processes through which meaning is made; particularly the analytical practices, can be difficult to untangle. A participatory project that employed memory wo…
Pitching a virtual woo”
Issues of sexism and gender-based harassment have been divisive within online gaming communities with contested understandings of the presence of these issues, prevailing explanations and potential solutions. This report was prompted by the discrepancy between problematic representations of women observed in online gaming community discussions of these issues and women’s rich and complex accounts of their gameplay. Poststructural theory facilitat…
Making Space for Community Critical Methodology
Our collective account considers the ways community critical methodologies can inform academic endeavors. Methodology is understood to be the theorizing of methods that produce and legitimate knowledge claims. For us, community critical approaches incorporate poststructural and other forms of critical theory in the questioning of taken for granted assumptions. This forms a valuable foundation for community praxis as it focuses not just on social …
Barriers and Enablers to Sex Workers’ Uptake of Mental Healthcare
How Do We Work as Researchers in the Real World? Mapping the Trajectory of Methodological Decision Making in Health Services Research
To the disbenefit of qualitative health services research, the generation of study design is too often implied as a logical consequence of aims or questions. Limited space is afforded to describing the critical processes we go through to devise our research for the ever-complex services we seek to understand. This article offers an in-depth examination of qualitative health services research design and the considerations inherent in the process. …
Engaging critical methodologies in qualitative research methods with undergraduate psychology students
This article describes the experiences of teaching undergraduate psychology students in an Australian context. The degree course the students take has no community or critical units, but it is one of very few in Australia that has a compulsory standalone unit in qualitative methods. While qualitative methods are by no means necessarily inherently critical or community focused, it has presented an opportunity to the teachers of the unit (the autho…
Barriers and enablers to mental health help seeking of sexual, gender, and erotic minorities
Introduction: Sexual, gender, and erotic minorities experience oppressions that psychologically harm and impact help seeking. The aim of this review was to integrate available evidence on the uptake, barriers, and facilitators of mental health help seeking in sexual, gender, and erotic minorities. Method: Systematic searches were conducted in CINAHL, Medline, and Scopus for peer-reviewed articles and in Google for gray literature using Preferred …
Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia
Sex workers experience risk and protective factors that affect their psychological well-being, yet little is known about sex workers' mental health and their experiences with related services in rural and remote Tasmania, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six current or former sex workers with pre-existing mental health problems, and thematic analysis was used to identify their experiences with mental health and related ca…
A Qualitative Exploration of Fathers' Antenatal and Postnatal Challenges
This study explores and identifies the different challenges for both antenatal and postnatal fathers that might act as precursors for poor paternal perinatal emotional well-being. Twelve fathers living in Sydney, aged over 18 years, identified as either an antenatal or postnatal father were interviewed concerning their experiences. Interview data were thematically analysed to identify challenges faced by expectant and new fathers. Five main chall…
‘You Game Like a Girl’
While there is an abundance of research concerning the gendered dimensions of video gaming and online communities, there is a limited focus on gameplay competence. This study examined the relationship between sexism and gendered perceptions of competence in gaming. Three hundred and 85 participants volunteered to take part. Participants were randomly allocated to one of three gendered conditions (female, male or neutral). Participants watched two…
Psychological Distress, Resilience, and Help-Seeking Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People in Rural Australia
The aims of this paper were to explore mental health, the aspects associated with psychological distress and resilience, and the help-seeking experiences of LGBTIQA+ people. This research used a mixed-method approach using a survey and semi-structured interviews. The study was conducted in rural and remote Tasmania, Australia. Sixty-six participants completed the survey, and 30 participated in interviews. Participants reported a range of mental h…
Family and domestic violence policy discourses and narratives
Background Australian data has indicated that the frequency and severity of family and domestic violence (FDV) tends to increase with remoteness. Rural communities rely on Emergency Departments (ED) within public hospitals for general health and safety needs. Public health departments within Australia are strongly influenced by Government policies which can define ‘health problems’ and limit institutional responses to patients presenting with FDV…
Kink-Oriented People and Exogenous Oppressions
Rural, kink-oriented people experience much exogenous oppression and yet related research is scarce. This study examined the risk and protective factors of kink-oriented rural Tasmanian Australians with preexisting mental health conditions and help-seeking barriers and facilitators. Participants completed either an online survey (n = 42), an interview (n = 10), or both. Thematic analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the qualita…
Adapting a Preparatory Skills‐Building Programme for Carers of People With Cancer Through Co‐Design
INTRODUCTION: Health services rely upon carers to provide care for loved ones with cancer, yet many carers often feel ill-prepared for this role. Despite a multitude of programmes to support carer mental health, programmes that help carers feel better equipped to support a person with cancer are lacking. This study aimed to address this need by adapting an evidence-based intervention to be suitable for carers of people with cancer. METHODS: This …
What are the evaluations of young mothers about programs designed to support their academic achievement? A qualitative systematic review
Introduction The insights of young mothers about their experiences of participating in programs designed to support them reach their educational goals in high/ secondary school offer critical evaluation evidence, but are under-explored. Methods A qualitative systematic review was undertaken to address the question: “What are the evaluations of young mothers about programs designed to support their academic achievement, as reported in the qualitat…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)