Steph Lawler
Biographic Data
| ID | 194162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steph Lawler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steph |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawler |
| SIGNATURE | LAWLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5771-0551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Syndromic surveillance systems to detect outbreaks of gastroenteritis in high-income countries: A scoping review
This scoping review underscores the potential of syndromic surveillance for detecting gastroenteritis outbreaks in high-income countries. While most data sources could provide a signal for early outbreak detection, the findings highlight the need for more comprehensive evaluations, improved data representativeness, and the integration of health-seeking behaviour considerations in syndromic surveillance system design. These areas should be the foc…
Estimating the number and growth of tobacconists and vape stores in Queensland in the absence of a retailer licensing database
The Stepping Stone Clubhouse Evaluation: Exploring Members’ Experiences, Service Engagement, and Perceived Impact of the Clubhouse International Model
The Clubhouse Model of Psychosocial Rehabilitation provides non-clinical social support for adults living with a diagnosed mental illness or self-reported mental ill-health (referred to as 'members'). The Stepping Stone Clubhouse in Brisbane, Australia was evaluated between August 2022 and August 2023 using a participatory action research approach. Data was sourced from member surveys, member interviews, and an existing Clubhouse Member Database.…
Identifying motivational interviewing techniques in Quitline smoking cessation counselling sessions from Queensland, Australia
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a common approach for smoking cessation counselling, yet little is known about the use of MI techniques in practice. This qualitative content analysis applied a published classification of content and relational MI techniques to a sample of 30 Quitline transcripts (January-March 2019) from Queensland, Australia. Overall, 36 MI techniques (94.7%) were identified at least once within the total sample. On average, 2…
Smoking Cessation Counseling in Practice: A Qualitative Analysis of Quitline Conversations in Queensland, Australia
Telephone-based services are a practical and effective behavioral support for smoking cessation, yet no in-depth analyses of this counseling have been conducted. Understanding the general content of Quitline conversations can help to improve current practices and may inform future interventions. Therefore, we aimed to independently explore conversation themes, topics, and client questions during Quitline counseling sessions with Quitline clients …
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: You can't argue with wounds
This article explores the relevance of intersubjective recognition and the 'recognition theoretical turn' to our understanding of nonsuicidal self-injury. While previous research has demonstrated that self-injury possesses an important social dimension alongside its intrapsychic characteristics, a major challenge for any social approach to self-injury has been to find a way to describe and analyse this dimension without reductively implying that …
Political views, health literacy, and Covid-19 beliefs and behaviors: A moderated mediation model
These findings contribute new evidence of processes linking health literacy with adaptive beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and how social and political contexts can shape those processes
‘My skin screams’: Time, trauma and the communicative body
Impact of the ‘10,000 lives’ program on Quitline referrals, use and outcomes by demography and Indigenous status
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury
Sociological interest in nonsuicidal self‐injury is over 20 years old, and the last decade shows a marked increase in journal articles and research monographs. Here, we survey and critically evaluate this growing sociology of self‐injury, providing a short history of its development, and describing the focus of four contrasting approaches used in exploring a sociology of such a private practice: institutional interactions; processes of social con…
The food choices of US university students during Covid-19
Self-injury in social context: An emerging sociology
I couldn’t say the words’: Communicative bodies and spaces in parents’ encounters with nonsuicidal self-injury
There is a growing recognition that nonsuicidal self-injury commonly incorporates communicative and interactional dimensions. But regardless of whether we approach self-injury within the terms of deliberate interpersonal communication, it is undeniably something that conveys a significant impact into the social and communicative field between people. As such, it is something that can be approached and analysed as communicative in this more genera…
The social life of self-injury: Exploring the Communicative Dimension of a Very Personal Practice
This article makes the case for a sociological focus on the communicative, relational and interactional dimensions of nonsuicidal self-injury. While current research tends to be dominated by highly individual and intrapsychic models, it is increasingly observed that such models leave a social dimension to the practice unexplained. A burgeoning sociological literature has begun to address this paradox of the social in self-injury; however, we argu…
Death, contagion and shame: The potential of cancer survivors' advocacy in Zambia
Cancer has become a global health concern with marked differences in the incidence and mortality rates between developing and developed countries. Understanding the factors that shape uptake of preventative and screening services is the key. We use in-depth interviews with 13 Zambian urban-based female cancer survivors to explore the facilitators and barriers to screening, diagnosis and treatment, with a particular focus on cultural influences. W…
Studying Britain: A British sociologist's view
This Preface aims to take a transversal perspective on the articles in this volume through considering the ways in which 'the everyday' works as a locus of enquiry for both sociology and social anthropology. It considers some of the ways in which the everyday came into being as an object of study, and makes the case that attention to the everyday requires a split vision - seeing both what is there and the often hidden relationships that make the …
Afterword: Thinking and Rethinking Class
This chapter explains the context of twenty-first century Russia and insistently to wider classed concerns and class processes. The dissolution of the Soviet Union not only marked historical change but could justifiably be seen as having epochal historical significance. The very temporal proximity of the changes to the political, economic, social and cultural spheres mean that attendant changes to class relations can hardly be ignored. The hate-f…
Feasibility and acceptability of reducing workplace sitting time: A qualitative study with Australian office workers
While a number of low-cost approaches to reduce workplace sitting are perceived to be feasible and acceptable in the office workplace, factors such as work demands and the organisational social context may still act as barriers to greater uptake. Building a supportive organisational culture and raising awareness of the adverse health effects of prolonged sitting may be important for improving individual-level and organisational-level motivation f…
Media Representations of Footballers’ Wives: A Wag’s Life
 Normal peopleâ
Identities and Social Divisions
Reducing office workers’ sitting time: Rationale and study design for the Stand Up Victoria cluster randomized trial
ACTRN1211000742976
Relationships of Sun-Protection Habit Strength with Sunscreen Use During Outdoor Sport and Physical Activity
The objective of this cross-sectional questionnaire study was to assess associations of a self-report index of sun protection habit strength with sunscreen use in sporting environments and outdoor physical activity. Participants (n = 234) in field hockey, soccer, tennis and surf sports in Queensland, Australia, completed a self-administered survey on sun protection during organized sport, and during general outdoor physical activity during 2005/2…
White like them: Whiteness and anachronistic space in representations of the English white working class
Themes of whiteness have informed many recent discussions of English national identity, yet the whiteness in question is attached to some groups but not others. In particular, whiteness is emblematically attached to members of the white working class, so that the whiteness of the middle classes becomes obscured. This paper is concerned with representations of white working-class people in the context of recent media and other discussions of Engli…
Stories and the Social World
Getting Out and Getting Away: Women's Narratives of Class Mobility
This article is concerned with the ways in which women narrate a move from a 'working-class' position to a position marked (in however fragmentary and complex a way) as 'middle class'. While such a move might be seen in terms of a straightforward escape from a disadvantaged social position, I argue here that what has to be analysed is the pain and the sense of estrangement associated with this class movement. Drawing on the class narratives of a …
Rules of Engagement: Habitus, Power and Resistance
Coming Home to Love and Class
This article explores how romantic love, desire, and social class are mutually influencing factors in the formation and enactment of heterosexual intimate relationships. Using qualitative interview data from a study of heterosexuality and love we analyse some of the ways in which social class structures love relationships and, furthermore, how such relationships are a site in which class is 'done'. In particular, we explore a central paradox of t…
White like them: Whiteness and anachronistic space in representations of the English white working class
Themes of whiteness have informed many recent discussions of English national identity, yet the whiteness in question is attached to some groups but not others. In particular, whiteness is emblematically attached to members of the white working class, so that the whiteness of the middle classes becomes obscured. This paper is concerned with representations of white working-class people in the context of recent media and other discussions of Engli…
Mobs and monsters: Independent man meets Paulsgrove woman
The social life of self-injury: Exploring the Communicative Dimension of a Very Personal Practice
This article makes the case for a sociological focus on the communicative, relational and interactional dimensions of nonsuicidal self-injury. While current research tends to be dominated by highly individual and intrapsychic models, it is increasingly observed that such models leave a social dimension to the practice unexplained. A burgeoning sociological literature has begun to address this paradox of the social in self-injury; however, we argu…
The Middle Classes and Their Aristocratic Others: Culture as Nature in Classification Struggles
This article considers English middle-classness in terms of identity, dispositions and manners, in the context of a project of middle-class self-distinction from the aristocracy. Taking as a case study broadsheet press coverage of the break-up of the relationship between Prince William and Kate Middleton, it examines the ways in which such coverage uses the concept of ‘class’ in two senses: as an artificial system, and as a (naturalized) property…
The food choices of US university students during Covid-19
Political views, health literacy, and Covid-19 beliefs and behaviors: A moderated mediation model
These findings contribute new evidence of processes linking health literacy with adaptive beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and how social and political contexts can shape those processes
I couldn’t say the words’: Communicative bodies and spaces in parents’ encounters with nonsuicidal self-injury
There is a growing recognition that nonsuicidal self-injury commonly incorporates communicative and interactional dimensions. But regardless of whether we approach self-injury within the terms of deliberate interpersonal communication, it is undeniably something that conveys a significant impact into the social and communicative field between people. As such, it is something that can be approached and analysed as communicative in this more genera…
Studying Britain: A British sociologist's view
This Preface aims to take a transversal perspective on the articles in this volume through considering the ways in which 'the everyday' works as a locus of enquiry for both sociology and social anthropology. It considers some of the ways in which the everyday came into being as an object of study, and makes the case that attention to the everyday requires a split vision - seeing both what is there and the often hidden relationships that make the …
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: You can't argue with wounds
This article explores the relevance of intersubjective recognition and the 'recognition theoretical turn' to our understanding of nonsuicidal self-injury. While previous research has demonstrated that self-injury possesses an important social dimension alongside its intrapsychic characteristics, a major challenge for any social approach to self-injury has been to find a way to describe and analyse this dimension without reductively implying that …
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury
Sociological interest in nonsuicidal self‐injury is over 20 years old, and the last decade shows a marked increase in journal articles and research monographs. Here, we survey and critically evaluate this growing sociology of self‐injury, providing a short history of its development, and describing the focus of four contrasting approaches used in exploring a sociology of such a private practice: institutional interactions; processes of social con…
Self-injury in social context: An emerging sociology
Getting Out and Getting Away: Women's Narratives of Class Mobility
This article is concerned with the ways in which women narrate a move from a 'working-class' position to a position marked (in however fragmentary and complex a way) as 'middle class'. While such a move might be seen in terms of a straightforward escape from a disadvantaged social position, I argue here that what has to be analysed is the pain and the sense of estrangement associated with this class movement. Drawing on the class narratives of a …
Mobs and monsters: Independent man meets Paulsgrove woman
Rules of Engagement: Habitus, Power and Resistance
Coming Home to Love and Class
This article explores how romantic love, desire, and social class are mutually influencing factors in the formation and enactment of heterosexual intimate relationships. Using qualitative interview data from a study of heterosexuality and love we analyse some of the ways in which social class structures love relationships and, furthermore, how such relationships are a site in which class is 'done'. In particular, we explore a central paradox of t…
Stories and the Social World
The Middle Classes and Their Aristocratic Others: Culture as Nature in Classification Struggles
This article considers English middle-classness in terms of identity, dispositions and manners, in the context of a project of middle-class self-distinction from the aristocracy. Taking as a case study broadsheet press coverage of the break-up of the relationship between Prince William and Kate Middleton, it examines the ways in which such coverage uses the concept of ‘class’ in two senses: as an artificial system, and as a (naturalized) property…
Relationships of Sun-Protection Habit Strength with Sunscreen Use During Outdoor Sport and Physical Activity
The objective of this cross-sectional questionnaire study was to assess associations of a self-report index of sun protection habit strength with sunscreen use in sporting environments and outdoor physical activity. Participants (n = 234) in field hockey, soccer, tennis and surf sports in Queensland, Australia, completed a self-administered survey on sun protection during organized sport, and during general outdoor physical activity during 2005/2…
White like them: Whiteness and anachronistic space in representations of the English white working class
Themes of whiteness have informed many recent discussions of English national identity, yet the whiteness in question is attached to some groups but not others. In particular, whiteness is emblematically attached to members of the white working class, so that the whiteness of the middle classes becomes obscured. This paper is concerned with representations of white working-class people in the context of recent media and other discussions of Engli…
Identities and Social Divisions
Reducing office workers’ sitting time: Rationale and study design for the Stand Up Victoria cluster randomized trial
ACTRN1211000742976
 Normal peopleâ
Media Representations of Footballers’ Wives: A Wag’s Life
Afterword: Thinking and Rethinking Class
This chapter explains the context of twenty-first century Russia and insistently to wider classed concerns and class processes. The dissolution of the Soviet Union not only marked historical change but could justifiably be seen as having epochal historical significance. The very temporal proximity of the changes to the political, economic, social and cultural spheres mean that attendant changes to class relations can hardly be ignored. The hate-f…
Feasibility and acceptability of reducing workplace sitting time: A qualitative study with Australian office workers
While a number of low-cost approaches to reduce workplace sitting are perceived to be feasible and acceptable in the office workplace, factors such as work demands and the organisational social context may still act as barriers to greater uptake. Building a supportive organisational culture and raising awareness of the adverse health effects of prolonged sitting may be important for improving individual-level and organisational-level motivation f…
Studying Britain: A British sociologist's view
This Preface aims to take a transversal perspective on the articles in this volume through considering the ways in which 'the everyday' works as a locus of enquiry for both sociology and social anthropology. It considers some of the ways in which the everyday came into being as an object of study, and makes the case that attention to the everyday requires a split vision - seeing both what is there and the often hidden relationships that make the …
Death, contagion and shame: The potential of cancer survivors' advocacy in Zambia
Cancer has become a global health concern with marked differences in the incidence and mortality rates between developing and developed countries. Understanding the factors that shape uptake of preventative and screening services is the key. We use in-depth interviews with 13 Zambian urban-based female cancer survivors to explore the facilitators and barriers to screening, diagnosis and treatment, with a particular focus on cultural influences. W…
Self-injury in social context: An emerging sociology
I couldn’t say the words’: Communicative bodies and spaces in parents’ encounters with nonsuicidal self-injury
There is a growing recognition that nonsuicidal self-injury commonly incorporates communicative and interactional dimensions. But regardless of whether we approach self-injury within the terms of deliberate interpersonal communication, it is undeniably something that conveys a significant impact into the social and communicative field between people. As such, it is something that can be approached and analysed as communicative in this more genera…
The social life of self-injury: Exploring the Communicative Dimension of a Very Personal Practice
This article makes the case for a sociological focus on the communicative, relational and interactional dimensions of nonsuicidal self-injury. While current research tends to be dominated by highly individual and intrapsychic models, it is increasingly observed that such models leave a social dimension to the practice unexplained. A burgeoning sociological literature has begun to address this paradox of the social in self-injury; however, we argu…
The food choices of US university students during Covid-19
‘My skin screams’: Time, trauma and the communicative body
Impact of the ‘10,000 lives’ program on Quitline referrals, use and outcomes by demography and Indigenous status
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury
Sociological interest in nonsuicidal self‐injury is over 20 years old, and the last decade shows a marked increase in journal articles and research monographs. Here, we survey and critically evaluate this growing sociology of self‐injury, providing a short history of its development, and describing the focus of four contrasting approaches used in exploring a sociology of such a private practice: institutional interactions; processes of social con…
Political views, health literacy, and Covid-19 beliefs and behaviors: A moderated mediation model
These findings contribute new evidence of processes linking health literacy with adaptive beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and how social and political contexts can shape those processes
Smoking Cessation Counseling in Practice: A Qualitative Analysis of Quitline Conversations in Queensland, Australia
Telephone-based services are a practical and effective behavioral support for smoking cessation, yet no in-depth analyses of this counseling have been conducted. Understanding the general content of Quitline conversations can help to improve current practices and may inform future interventions. Therefore, we aimed to independently explore conversation themes, topics, and client questions during Quitline counseling sessions with Quitline clients …
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works)