K Drysdale
Biographic Data
| ID | 20184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Drysdale |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Drysdale |
| SIGNATURE | DRYSDALE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5545-290X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fostering a culture of inclusive LGBTQIA+ research practice: Reflections on a community of practice in higher education
Numerous guidelines aim to support inclusive approaches to conducting research with LGBTQIA+ people. Implementing these in practice, however, requires deliberate consideration of the situated social and cultural contexts that shape research (co-)design, participant recruitment, data collection and analysis. This commentary considers the imperative to foster a culture of inclusive research and practice with LGBTQIA+ populations through a higher ed…
Australian trans and gender diverse people’s understandings of menopause: Beyond cisgenderism, heterosexism, and binary-based gender in the current ‘menopause moment’
In many high-income countries, including Australia, intensified political, social, and commercial visibility has been widely described as contributing to a contemporary ‘menopause moment’. This moment is propelled by the convergence of varied social, political, and economic drivers, but it is also unfolding within a context shaped by historically gendered assumptions about who experiences menopause and how it is experienced. While the current ‘me…
LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials: Ensuring justice and data equity
This case study considers LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials as an issue of justice and data equity in research ethics. Although representation of LGBTQ+ people in clinical trials varies depending on the type of cancer, routine data collection of gender and sexual orientation in clinical trials is inconsistent, leading to underrepresentation in routine reporting. Improving LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials ensures more et…
Between discovery and responsibility: Facebook groups and the intimate practices of donor-conceived peers
Facebook groups remain popular among individuals with a specific health condition or marginalised identity. Existing research has documented the benefits of online support groups, yet little work has explored how intimacy develops through these interactions and shapes discourses of responsibility and activism. Drawing on interviews with 28 Australian donor-conceived adults, we conceptualise experiences within Facebook groups through the lens of c…
Health biographies: Narrative case studies of health, sexualities and inclusion in the pandemic age
Marginalised social groups have often faced greater exposure to risk, social discrimination and stigma during infectious disease outbreaks, but some have also benefitted from solidarity and collective memories of community support. In this article, we present a set of four case studies derived from a project involving in-depth interviews with members of marginalised groups about their health experiences across their life course. The analysis uses…
Sex, Methamphetamine, and a Surge in Syphilis Among Women and Men Who Have Sex With Women: A Call to Diversify Research Addressing Sexualized Drug Use
Globally rates of syphilis have been increasing since 1990 and, historically transmission has predominated among gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men (GBMSM). In the past decade, transmission has increased among women and men who have sex with women (MSW). This led Australia to declare syphilis a communicable disease of national significance in August 2025. In this commentary, we consider the implications of these developments on concepti…
Beyond words: Operationalizing inclusive language in Australian cervical screening health promotion policy
Health equity is a fundamental concern within the broader health promotion aim of creating equal opportunities for health and bringing health differentials down to the lowest level possible. Cervical screening is just one example of a preventative health program where a health promotion lens is required to address entrenched health inequities. We draw on theorizations of policy ecologies to provide a framework for better understanding the process…
Catalysing change in health and medical research policy: An Australian case study of deliberative democracy to reform sex and gender policy recommendations
Revising public health policy based on new data does not happen automatically. This is acutely relevant to the now undeniable evidence that many diseases develop differently between the sexes and may also be affected by gender. Current health and medical practices across the globe generally fail to cater for sex and gender effects in common diseases. Inadequate policy frameworks to guide the comprehensive inclusion of sex and gender in research j…
Immuno-biographies of people living with blood-borne viruses: A timeline interview and narrative case study approach
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of what human ‘immunity’ means and how it is related to broader social and biological systems has recently come to the fore. In this article, we engage with the concept of ‘immuno-biographies’, presenting four narrative case studies generated from a project that examines the intersections between individuals’ experiences across their life course of exposure to infectious diseases, the other signi…
Beyond dental dams: A critical review of recent research on lesbian, bisexual and queer women's sexual health
This paper presents findings from a critical review of literature on the sexual health of lesbian, bisexual, queer, and other sexuality-diverse (LBQ+) women. The review aimed to understand how LBQ + women's sexual health is framed in current research and the impact of this framing on recommendations for future research and practice. We also explored how holistic definitions of sexual health are applied in research. A narrative synthesis of litera…
Immune logics, immune selves and immunoprivilege in the Covid era: Perspectives from marginalised social groups
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a fraught immunopolitics in which the health and interests of powerful social groups have been privileged, supported and valued while members of disadvantaged groups have been positioned as both more vulnerable and expendable. This article identifies logics about immune selves ('immune logics') among marginalised Australian sub-groups who have historically been subjected to discrimination and social s…
The salience of genomic information to reproductive autonomy: Australian healthcare professionals’ views on a changing prenatal testing landscape
Genomic testing in prenatal care is rapidly advancing and it is now possible to obtain an entire fetal genome via a blood test administered in early pregnancy. In the pursuit of reproductive autonomy, more tests are being offered to more people, for an ever-increasing range of indications. Health professionals who provide pregnancy care are at the vanguard of prenatal testing, yet their views on the impact of technology advancements remain under-…
From lived experience to lived expertise: How donor-conceived witnesses claim and sustain epistemic authority
Scholars in pragmatics have long been interested in how knowledge is construed, contested and legitimised. Much recent work in pragmatics has focused on developing more detailed theoretical understandings of epistemic positioning and epistemic authority, including in institutional contexts which are typically characterised by knowledge asymmetries and power inequalities. Yet the relational consequences of epistemic positioning have received littl…
Inclusive language in health policy - a timely case (study) of cervical screening in Australia
Language is important in health policy development. Policy changes in Australia to increase cervical screening offers a timely case example to explore the function of inclusive language in health policy. Gender and sexuality diverse people with a cervix have been largely invisible within health promotion programs, which has led to reduced awareness of, and access to, cervical screening. Twenty-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with …
Explicit Relationship Agreements and HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use by Gay and Bisexual Men in Relationships
Relationship agreements are important for HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men (GBM) in relationships, with research earlier in the HIV epidemic often finding that agreements specified monogamy or condom use with casual partners. There is evidence that HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has shifted sexual practices among some men in relationships, such as allowing condomless sex with casual partners, but there has been little attention paid…
‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures
The term ‘chemsex’ references an identifiable set of circumstances and behaviours ascribed to gay male culture at the same time as operating as a politically salient category capable of spurring policy and programmatic responses. Increasingly, the word ‘scene’ is used in association with ‘chemsex’ in media reporting, expert commentary and research on the phenomenon. Rather than dismissing the coupling of chemsex and scene as mere vernacular, ‘sce…
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B
In Australia, the response to HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B has largely been through the constructed category of 'blood borne viruses' which treats these viruses as an interconnected set of conditions with respect to their mode of transmission. In this paper, we explore how people understand their viral infection, and compare the logics underpinning these different understandings. In-depth interviews were conducted with 61 participants who wer…
Trust and service engagement among people who inject drugs after release from prison
Is there a role for hybrid service provision in place‐based initiatives within the human services sector? Findings from an Australian exploratory study
The value of place‐based initiatives in the design and delivery of human services has long been recognised, but the need for hybrid service delivery to clients—that is any combination of online and in‐person modalities—has become more apparent in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. At face value, there may be a perceived contradiction between the reliance on geographical place in place‐based initiatives and online service delivery. Yet, it is inev…
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses
In recognition of the broader relational aspects of viral infections, family support is considered important when someone is diagnosed with a blood-borne virus (BBV), such as HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV). However, families' own support needs are often not a priority in service provision within the BBV sector. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with 20 key informants working in various professional capacities in hea…
Beyond the challenge to research integrity: Imposter Participation in Incentivised Qualitative Research and Its Impact on Community Engagement
Participant recruitment for qualitative research often offers incentives (honoraria; financial compensation) to increase participation and to recognise lived expertise and time involved in research. While not necessarily a new concern for survey and other quantitative based research, 'spam', 'bot', and other inauthentic forms of research participation has rarely been an apparent issue for qualitative research, given it often involves levels of in…
Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People
The digital age is characterised by unprecedented access to technologies to understand our bodies, genetics and family histories. The last decade has seen a growing uptake of direct-to-consumer DNA testing, which is (re)shaping individuals' identity narratives. Drawing on data from a national online survey with Australian donor-conceived people (N = 91) and semi-structured interviews (N = 28), we conceptualise DNA results as a genetic narrative t…
Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic
Trans and gender diverse people are globally recognised as being under-served in clinical services, with significant implications for their health. During a national reorientation of the Australian cervical screening programme - from Papanicolaou smears to human papillomavirus screening - we conducted interviews with 12 key informants in cancer policy, sexual and reproductive health and trans health advocacy to understand how trans people's needs…
What is known about the care and support provided for an ageing population with lived experience of chronic viral hepatitis as they near end‐of‐life: A scoping review
Ageing with a chronic hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) infection is an emerging public health priority. For people living with chronic viral hepatitis, their disease progression into old age is both underpinned by their existing blood borne virus and the potential emergence of other infectious and non-infectious conditions. These twinned pathways bring additional challenges to the care and support for people as they near end of life. This s…
It's a revolving door”: Ego-depletion among prisoners with injecting drug use histories as a barrier to post-release success
Beyond the challenge to research integrity: Imposter Participation in Incentivised Qualitative Research and Its Impact on Community Engagement
Participant recruitment for qualitative research often offers incentives (honoraria; financial compensation) to increase participation and to recognise lived expertise and time involved in research. While not necessarily a new concern for survey and other quantitative based research, 'spam', 'bot', and other inauthentic forms of research participation has rarely been an apparent issue for qualitative research, given it often involves levels of in…
Tactile places: Doing sensory ethnography in Sydney’s drag king scene
Going to drag king performances – a subcultural phenomenon where women consciously perform masculinity – has proved a popular pastime in Sydney, Australia. Established within a broader tradition of live performance culture, and part of wider urban night-time economies catering to lesbian patronage, these shows provided a highly visible spectacle that drew women to a series of events between 2002 and 2012. Sydney’s drag king scene offered women th…
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood-borne virus
Contemporary sociological work has emphasised that family is not static, but actively shaped by ideas of who and what makes family. Disclosure of an illness, including diagnosis of stigmatised infections such as HIV, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus, can change the dynamics of family relationships. This paper draws on 61 qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted between 2017 and 2019 with people in Australia with one or more of thes…
Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People
The digital age is characterised by unprecedented access to technologies to understand our bodies, genetics and family histories. The last decade has seen a growing uptake of direct-to-consumer DNA testing, which is (re)shaping individuals' identity narratives. Drawing on data from a national online survey with Australian donor-conceived people (N = 91) and semi-structured interviews (N = 28), we conceptualise DNA results as a genetic narrative t…
Sex in placemaking activism: Lesbians’ and queer women’s sex-based sociality in Sydney, Australia
Following calls to engage more directly with the materiality of sex in geographies of sexualities, we draw on our overlapping research to explore how sexual desire and social intimacy were entangled in the emergence and consolidation of lesbians’ and queer women’s social spaces from the 1980s onwards in Sydney, Australia. Though largely applied in the context of understanding the formation of gay male communities, the concept of sex-based sociali…
More than Humor: Memes as Bonding Icons for Belonging in Donor-Conceived People
Memes are a key feature of participatory digital cultures and have been found to play an important role in collective identity formation. Limited scholarship has explored the role of memes within closed communities, where perceived privacy and trust may impact the ways users demarcate the in-group (us) and out-group (them) through humor. This article draws on analysis of semi-structured interviews with Australian donor-conceived people (people co…
Mapping Experiences of Serodiscordance: Using Visual Methodologies to Construct Relationality in Families Living With or Affected by Stigmatized Infectious Disease
The "my health, our family" research project was established to document stories of what serodiscordance (mixed infection status) means for Australian families affected by HIV, hepatitis B, and/or hepatitis C. A family mapping exercise was developed for the start of interviews as a way to conceptualize serodiscordance as a movement of "closeness" and "distance" within the relational networks that participants defined as "family," the outcome of w…
From lived experience to lived expertise: How donor-conceived witnesses claim and sustain epistemic authority
Scholars in pragmatics have long been interested in how knowledge is construed, contested and legitimised. Much recent work in pragmatics has focused on developing more detailed theoretical understandings of epistemic positioning and epistemic authority, including in institutional contexts which are typically characterised by knowledge asymmetries and power inequalities. Yet the relational consequences of epistemic positioning have received littl…
Inclusive language in health policy - a timely case (study) of cervical screening in Australia
Language is important in health policy development. Policy changes in Australia to increase cervical screening offers a timely case example to explore the function of inclusive language in health policy. Gender and sexuality diverse people with a cervix have been largely invisible within health promotion programs, which has led to reduced awareness of, and access to, cervical screening. Twenty-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with …
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: Exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics
A virus has a social history. In the case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV, this history is one involving stigma and discrimination, advocacy and activism, and recent dramatic improvements in treatment. These social histories influence the experience of people who live with the viruses, and those who work with them. One aspect of this is the impact of social changes on the biographical disruption and integration brought about by illness. He…
Immune logics, immune selves and immunoprivilege in the Covid era: Perspectives from marginalised social groups
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a fraught immunopolitics in which the health and interests of powerful social groups have been privileged, supported and valued while members of disadvantaged groups have been positioned as both more vulnerable and expendable. This article identifies logics about immune selves ('immune logics') among marginalised Australian sub-groups who have historically been subjected to discrimination and social s…
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses
In recognition of the broader relational aspects of viral infections, family support is considered important when someone is diagnosed with a blood-borne virus (BBV), such as HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV). However, families' own support needs are often not a priority in service provision within the BBV sector. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with 20 key informants working in various professional capacities in hea…
When Scenes Fade: Methodological lessons from Sydney's drag king culture
Every Wednesday night is Dyke Night in the small cluster of suburbs collectively referred to as Newtown, approximately 5 kms from Sydney's centre. Dyke Night's popularity is evidenced by the groups of women seen weaving their way through the congested sidewalks that link the numerous venues temporarily catering to queer patronage. Drag king performances – a subcultural phenomenon where women consciously perform masculinity before a primarily lesb…
Tactile places: Doing sensory ethnography in Sydney’s drag king scene
Going to drag king performances – a subcultural phenomenon where women consciously perform masculinity – has proved a popular pastime in Sydney, Australia. Established within a broader tradition of live performance culture, and part of wider urban night-time economies catering to lesbian patronage, these shows provided a highly visible spectacle that drew women to a series of events between 2002 and 2012. Sydney’s drag king scene offered women th…
Intimate attunements: Everyday affect in Sydney’s drag king scene
For over a decade, attending events featuring drag king performances—a subcultural phenomenon where women consciously perform masculinity—proved a popular pastime in Sydney, Australia. Established within a broader tradition of live performance culture but also part of a wider urban night-time economy catering to lesbian patrons, Sydney’s drag king scene sustained a range of activities and interactions that took place in the vicinity of the perfor…
The rush to risk when interrogating the relationship between methamphetamine use and sexual practice among gay and bisexual men
Gay Men’s Relationship Agreements in the Era of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: An Analysis of Australian Behavioural Surveillance Data
Destabilising the ‘problem’ of chemsex: Diversity in settings, relations and practices revealed in Australian gay and bisexual men's crystal methamphetamine use
Mapping Experiences of Serodiscordance: Using Visual Methodologies to Construct Relationality in Families Living With or Affected by Stigmatized Infectious Disease
The "my health, our family" research project was established to document stories of what serodiscordance (mixed infection status) means for Australian families affected by HIV, hepatitis B, and/or hepatitis C. A family mapping exercise was developed for the start of interviews as a way to conceptualize serodiscordance as a movement of "closeness" and "distance" within the relational networks that participants defined as "family," the outcome of w…
Targeting cancer prevention and screening interventions to LGBTQ communities: A scoping review
Although some people within LGBTQ communities are at risk of developing some cancers at higher rates than non-LGBTQ people, there is limited evidence of the outcomes of targeted cancer prevention and screening interventions for these communities. This scoping review examined key findings regarding the feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of evaluated intervention studies conducted in high income settings and published in peer reviewed literatu…
Structural competency in the post-prison period for people who inject drugs: A qualitative case study
Stigma as understood by key informants: A social ecological approach to gay and bisexual men's use of crystal methamphetamine for sex
Priorities and practices of risk reduction among gay and bisexual men in Australia who use crystal methamphetamine for sex
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood-borne virus
Contemporary sociological work has emphasised that family is not static, but actively shaped by ideas of who and what makes family. Disclosure of an illness, including diagnosis of stigmatised infections such as HIV, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus, can change the dynamics of family relationships. This paper draws on 61 qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted between 2017 and 2019 with people in Australia with one or more of thes…
Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic
Trans and gender diverse people are globally recognised as being under-served in clinical services, with significant implications for their health. During a national reorientation of the Australian cervical screening programme - from Papanicolaou smears to human papillomavirus screening - we conducted interviews with 12 key informants in cancer policy, sexual and reproductive health and trans health advocacy to understand how trans people's needs…
What is known about the care and support provided for an ageing population with lived experience of chronic viral hepatitis as they near end‐of‐life: A scoping review
Ageing with a chronic hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) infection is an emerging public health priority. For people living with chronic viral hepatitis, their disease progression into old age is both underpinned by their existing blood borne virus and the potential emergence of other infectious and non-infectious conditions. These twinned pathways bring additional challenges to the care and support for people as they near end of life. This s…
It's a revolving door”: Ego-depletion among prisoners with injecting drug use histories as a barrier to post-release success
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: Exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics
A virus has a social history. In the case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV, this history is one involving stigma and discrimination, advocacy and activism, and recent dramatic improvements in treatment. These social histories influence the experience of people who live with the viruses, and those who work with them. One aspect of this is the impact of social changes on the biographical disruption and integration brought about by illness. He…
Sex in placemaking activism: Lesbians’ and queer women’s sex-based sociality in Sydney, Australia
Following calls to engage more directly with the materiality of sex in geographies of sexualities, we draw on our overlapping research to explore how sexual desire and social intimacy were entangled in the emergence and consolidation of lesbians’ and queer women’s social spaces from the 1980s onwards in Sydney, Australia. Though largely applied in the context of understanding the formation of gay male communities, the concept of sex-based sociali…
More than Humor: Memes as Bonding Icons for Belonging in Donor-Conceived People
Memes are a key feature of participatory digital cultures and have been found to play an important role in collective identity formation. Limited scholarship has explored the role of memes within closed communities, where perceived privacy and trust may impact the ways users demarcate the in-group (us) and out-group (them) through humor. This article draws on analysis of semi-structured interviews with Australian donor-conceived people (people co…
Explicit Relationship Agreements and HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use by Gay and Bisexual Men in Relationships
Relationship agreements are important for HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men (GBM) in relationships, with research earlier in the HIV epidemic often finding that agreements specified monogamy or condom use with casual partners. There is evidence that HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has shifted sexual practices among some men in relationships, such as allowing condomless sex with casual partners, but there has been little attention paid…
‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures
The term ‘chemsex’ references an identifiable set of circumstances and behaviours ascribed to gay male culture at the same time as operating as a politically salient category capable of spurring policy and programmatic responses. Increasingly, the word ‘scene’ is used in association with ‘chemsex’ in media reporting, expert commentary and research on the phenomenon. Rather than dismissing the coupling of chemsex and scene as mere vernacular, ‘sce…
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B
In Australia, the response to HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B has largely been through the constructed category of 'blood borne viruses' which treats these viruses as an interconnected set of conditions with respect to their mode of transmission. In this paper, we explore how people understand their viral infection, and compare the logics underpinning these different understandings. In-depth interviews were conducted with 61 participants who wer…
Trust and service engagement among people who inject drugs after release from prison
Is there a role for hybrid service provision in place‐based initiatives within the human services sector? Findings from an Australian exploratory study
The value of place‐based initiatives in the design and delivery of human services has long been recognised, but the need for hybrid service delivery to clients—that is any combination of online and in‐person modalities—has become more apparent in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. At face value, there may be a perceived contradiction between the reliance on geographical place in place‐based initiatives and online service delivery. Yet, it is inev…
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses
In recognition of the broader relational aspects of viral infections, family support is considered important when someone is diagnosed with a blood-borne virus (BBV), such as HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV). However, families' own support needs are often not a priority in service provision within the BBV sector. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with 20 key informants working in various professional capacities in hea…
Beyond the challenge to research integrity: Imposter Participation in Incentivised Qualitative Research and Its Impact on Community Engagement
Participant recruitment for qualitative research often offers incentives (honoraria; financial compensation) to increase participation and to recognise lived expertise and time involved in research. While not necessarily a new concern for survey and other quantitative based research, 'spam', 'bot', and other inauthentic forms of research participation has rarely been an apparent issue for qualitative research, given it often involves levels of in…
Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (11 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works)