E L Turley
Biographic Data
| ID | 33423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E L Turley |
| GIVEN NAMES | E L |
| FAMILY NAME | Turley |
| SIGNATURE | TURLEY E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Queensland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2563-6622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cross‐Cultural Differences in Beliefs About Lie Detection: A Comparison of Arab and Non‐Arab Australians
In the Australian criminal justice system, police and jurors (members of the general public) judge a suspect's credibility to determine guilt. Studies show that the general public and some Australian police officers have stated that they often use nonverbal behaviour to detect lies. However, nonverbal behaviour is an unreliable lie detection method, particularly when used cross‐culturally, given cultural differences in nonverbal behaviour and per…
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) for Core Members Who Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual+ (LGBTQIA+): An Exploratory Study
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) individuals are overrepresented in prison and face increased criminal justice attention on sexual offending. Furthermore, LGBTQIA+ individuals experience challenges reintegrating into communities following prison. Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)—a measure to support the community reintegration of people with sexual offence convictions—might therefore be mobiliz…
Deepfake Technology and Gender-Based Violence: A Scoping Review
Online violence against women (OVAW) is a growing global problem with deepfakes in gender-based violence as one manifestation of this that has recently attracted considerable attention. This scoping review aims to explore emerging complexities in current academic understandings of deepfake in relation to its use in gender-based violence. The review considers how these issues impact and shape what is currently known about deepfakes in relation to …
Conceptualizing and Measuring Violence: A Feminist Critical Measurement Analysis of Gender-Based Violence Research in a Government Policy-Based Setting
Feminist methodological advances in gender-based violence research have yet to be comprehensively integrated into policy-based research. This article discusses methodological concerns identified when reviewing the UK government's public consultation for its 2021 Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. We apply intersectional feminist perspectives and critical measurement analysis, and discuss two areas of methodological concern: issue…
Dating App Safety Among Older Women in Australia: Using Informational Videos for Effective Safety Messaging Delivery
This study investigates dating app safety concerns and effective safety messaging for Australian women aged 55 and over. As older women increasingly use dating apps for companionship, romance, or casual encounters, they may face risks such as harassment and scams. Using a qualitative approach, 121 cisgender women viewed three character-driven educational safety videos and then completed a survey. Reflexive Thematic Analysis generated four themes:…
Intersectional Consciousness in Studies of Violence: Feminist Psychological Perspectives
Violence has been a major area of global focus for feminist psychologists for decades. From its earliest volumes to the present day, Feminism & Psychology continues to provide a forum for critical and feminist psychological contributions in this domain. This work has collectively drawn attention to the power relations underscoring experiences of - and responses to - violence. Simultaneously, intersectional feminist theory has drawn attention to t…
Fields of Power in Rape Trial Reform: Hegemony, Habitus and Heretics
Despite incremental reforms over the past fifty years, transformative change of sexual assault proceedings has not occurred. This article uses Bourdieu’s sociological concepts to explore why the legal field remains resistant to substantial reform. It argues that doxa, or deeply ingrained beliefs, underpin both resistance to change and a tolerance of complainant harm, while habitus ensures the replication of established practices. This resistance …
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture
Despite increased media exposure, bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) is a stigmatised subculture and this stigmatisation can have serious social and legal implications for practitioners even when the participation is consensual. Psycho-medical narratives have constructed practitioners of BDSM as perverse and pathological, and in opposition to heteronormative sexual expression. To reduce stigma, it appea…
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic outcomes of BDSM participation
Although research tends to focus on the sexual and/or erotic aspects of consensual BDSM participation, there are many non-erotic and nonsexual beneficial outcomes arising from participating in BDSM. This research aims to elucidate those other meaningful aspects of BDSM that reach beyond the sexual in order to highlight their salience for BDSM practitioners and to ensure that these non-erotic aspects of BDSM participation are not overlooked. Eleve…
Revisiting gendered parenting of adolescents: Understanding its effects on psychosocial development
Introduction : Today’s adolescents are growing up in a unique sociocultural climate in which gender issues are highly prominent. Alongside new ways of understanding gender identity, there are persistent gender disparities in social, health and mental health outcomes despite increasingly egalitarian views and a significant public focus on sexual assault and gender-based violence. Given gender-differentiated outcomes emerge during adolescence, it i…
A celebration of the rich tapestry of phenomenology's commonalities
Purpose Phenomenology has a long tradition as a qualitative research method in the social and health sciences. The application of phenomenological methods to understand lived experiences and subjectivities offers researchers a rich tapestry of methodological approaches, often however, the availability of these methods to researchers is tempered as a result of inflexible ideas regarding their use. This article aims to highlight the uniting feature…
The most lonely condition I can imagine”: Psychosocial impacts of endometriosis on women’s identity
Endometriosis is a condition which affects around 1–2% of women worldwide and has profound effects on their everyday lives. Previous research has tended to focus on physical symptoms (such as chronic pain); how women manage changes to their identity and relationships as a result of endometriosis has received less attention. This paper discusses qualitative data examining how women negotiate changes to identity while living with endometriosis, in …
You want to be swept up in it all’: Illuminating the erotic in BDSM
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were fo…
Tweeting back while shouting back: Social media and feminist activism
Social networks are increasingly significant to the success of feminist activism, campaigning and consciousness raising. Digital spaces including Twitter, YouTube, blogs and Facebook provide a platform for feminists and others to share and address experiences and raise awareness of misogyny, sexism and violence against women. This paper provides a commentary on use of social media for feminists, and explores the role of social media engagement wi…
Adventures of pleasure: Conceptualising Consensual Bondage, Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism as a Form of Adult Play
This paper will illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of bondage, discipline, dominance & submission, and sadism & masochism (BDSM) can be interpreted as a form of adult play. Terminology and language used by BDSM practitioners frequently draws upon imagery of play, fun and games, and narratives around BDSM related activities are reflective of this. \n \n \nDrawing upon empirical data along with various psychological and sociological theo…
Like nothing I’ve ever felt before’: Understanding consensual BDSM as embodied experience
This paper aims to illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance and submission and sadism and masochism) can be interpreted as a method of embodied exploration. It will detail the various ways that engaging in BDSM, either as the dominant/top or submissive/bottom partner, is able to enhance feelings of corporeality and explore bodily relationships with the world and with other people. For many practitioner…
The Utility of Template Analysis in Qualitative Psychology Research
Thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative psychology research, and in this article, we present a particular style of thematic analysis known as Template Analysis. We outline the technique and consider its epistemological position, then describe three case studies of research projects which employed Template Analysis to illustrate the diverse ways it can be used. Our first case study illustrates how the technique was employed in data analysi…
It started when I barked once when I was licking his boots!’: A descriptive phenomenological study of the everyday experience of BDSM
Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and …
The Utility of Template Analysis in Qualitative Psychology Research
Thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative psychology research, and in this article, we present a particular style of thematic analysis known as Template Analysis. We outline the technique and consider its epistemological position, then describe three case studies of research projects which employed Template Analysis to illustrate the diverse ways it can be used. Our first case study illustrates how the technique was employed in data analysi…
Tweeting back while shouting back: Social media and feminist activism
Social networks are increasingly significant to the success of feminist activism, campaigning and consciousness raising. Digital spaces including Twitter, YouTube, blogs and Facebook provide a platform for feminists and others to share and address experiences and raise awareness of misogyny, sexism and violence against women. This paper provides a commentary on use of social media for feminists, and explores the role of social media engagement wi…
The most lonely condition I can imagine”: Psychosocial impacts of endometriosis on women’s identity
Endometriosis is a condition which affects around 1–2% of women worldwide and has profound effects on their everyday lives. Previous research has tended to focus on physical symptoms (such as chronic pain); how women manage changes to their identity and relationships as a result of endometriosis has received less attention. This paper discusses qualitative data examining how women negotiate changes to identity while living with endometriosis, in …
Like nothing I’ve ever felt before’: Understanding consensual BDSM as embodied experience
This paper aims to illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance and submission and sadism and masochism) can be interpreted as a method of embodied exploration. It will detail the various ways that engaging in BDSM, either as the dominant/top or submissive/bottom partner, is able to enhance feelings of corporeality and explore bodily relationships with the world and with other people. For many practitioner…
It started when I barked once when I was licking his boots!’: A descriptive phenomenological study of the everyday experience of BDSM
Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and …
You want to be swept up in it all’: Illuminating the erotic in BDSM
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were fo…
Adventures of pleasure: Conceptualising Consensual Bondage, Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism as a Form of Adult Play
This paper will illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of bondage, discipline, dominance & submission, and sadism & masochism (BDSM) can be interpreted as a form of adult play. Terminology and language used by BDSM practitioners frequently draws upon imagery of play, fun and games, and narratives around BDSM related activities are reflective of this. \n \n \nDrawing upon empirical data along with various psychological and sociological theo…
It started when I barked once when I was licking his boots!’: A descriptive phenomenological study of the everyday experience of BDSM
Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and …
The Utility of Template Analysis in Qualitative Psychology Research
Thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative psychology research, and in this article, we present a particular style of thematic analysis known as Template Analysis. We outline the technique and consider its epistemological position, then describe three case studies of research projects which employed Template Analysis to illustrate the diverse ways it can be used. Our first case study illustrates how the technique was employed in data analysi…
Like nothing I’ve ever felt before’: Understanding consensual BDSM as embodied experience
This paper aims to illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance and submission and sadism and masochism) can be interpreted as a method of embodied exploration. It will detail the various ways that engaging in BDSM, either as the dominant/top or submissive/bottom partner, is able to enhance feelings of corporeality and explore bodily relationships with the world and with other people. For many practitioner…
Adventures of pleasure: Conceptualising Consensual Bondage, Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism as a Form of Adult Play
This paper will illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of bondage, discipline, dominance & submission, and sadism & masochism (BDSM) can be interpreted as a form of adult play. Terminology and language used by BDSM practitioners frequently draws upon imagery of play, fun and games, and narratives around BDSM related activities are reflective of this. \n \n \nDrawing upon empirical data along with various psychological and sociological theo…
You want to be swept up in it all’: Illuminating the erotic in BDSM
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were fo…
Tweeting back while shouting back: Social media and feminist activism
Social networks are increasingly significant to the success of feminist activism, campaigning and consciousness raising. Digital spaces including Twitter, YouTube, blogs and Facebook provide a platform for feminists and others to share and address experiences and raise awareness of misogyny, sexism and violence against women. This paper provides a commentary on use of social media for feminists, and explores the role of social media engagement wi…
The most lonely condition I can imagine”: Psychosocial impacts of endometriosis on women’s identity
Endometriosis is a condition which affects around 1–2% of women worldwide and has profound effects on their everyday lives. Previous research has tended to focus on physical symptoms (such as chronic pain); how women manage changes to their identity and relationships as a result of endometriosis has received less attention. This paper discusses qualitative data examining how women negotiate changes to identity while living with endometriosis, in …
Revisiting gendered parenting of adolescents: Understanding its effects on psychosocial development
Introduction : Today’s adolescents are growing up in a unique sociocultural climate in which gender issues are highly prominent. Alongside new ways of understanding gender identity, there are persistent gender disparities in social, health and mental health outcomes despite increasingly egalitarian views and a significant public focus on sexual assault and gender-based violence. Given gender-differentiated outcomes emerge during adolescence, it i…
A celebration of the rich tapestry of phenomenology's commonalities
Purpose Phenomenology has a long tradition as a qualitative research method in the social and health sciences. The application of phenomenological methods to understand lived experiences and subjectivities offers researchers a rich tapestry of methodological approaches, often however, the availability of these methods to researchers is tempered as a result of inflexible ideas regarding their use. This article aims to highlight the uniting feature…
Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture
Despite increased media exposure, bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) is a stigmatised subculture and this stigmatisation can have serious social and legal implications for practitioners even when the participation is consensual. Psycho-medical narratives have constructed practitioners of BDSM as perverse and pathological, and in opposition to heteronormative sexual expression. To reduce stigma, it appea…
‘I feel so much better in myself’: Exploring meaningful non-erotic outcomes of BDSM participation
Although research tends to focus on the sexual and/or erotic aspects of consensual BDSM participation, there are many non-erotic and nonsexual beneficial outcomes arising from participating in BDSM. This research aims to elucidate those other meaningful aspects of BDSM that reach beyond the sexual in order to highlight their salience for BDSM practitioners and to ensure that these non-erotic aspects of BDSM participation are not overlooked. Eleve…
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) for Core Members Who Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual+ (LGBTQIA+): An Exploratory Study
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) individuals are overrepresented in prison and face increased criminal justice attention on sexual offending. Furthermore, LGBTQIA+ individuals experience challenges reintegrating into communities following prison. Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)—a measure to support the community reintegration of people with sexual offence convictions—might therefore be mobiliz…
Deepfake Technology and Gender-Based Violence: A Scoping Review
Online violence against women (OVAW) is a growing global problem with deepfakes in gender-based violence as one manifestation of this that has recently attracted considerable attention. This scoping review aims to explore emerging complexities in current academic understandings of deepfake in relation to its use in gender-based violence. The review considers how these issues impact and shape what is currently known about deepfakes in relation to …
Conceptualizing and Measuring Violence: A Feminist Critical Measurement Analysis of Gender-Based Violence Research in a Government Policy-Based Setting
Feminist methodological advances in gender-based violence research have yet to be comprehensively integrated into policy-based research. This article discusses methodological concerns identified when reviewing the UK government's public consultation for its 2021 Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. We apply intersectional feminist perspectives and critical measurement analysis, and discuss two areas of methodological concern: issue…
Dating App Safety Among Older Women in Australia: Using Informational Videos for Effective Safety Messaging Delivery
This study investigates dating app safety concerns and effective safety messaging for Australian women aged 55 and over. As older women increasingly use dating apps for companionship, romance, or casual encounters, they may face risks such as harassment and scams. Using a qualitative approach, 121 cisgender women viewed three character-driven educational safety videos and then completed a survey. Reflexive Thematic Analysis generated four themes:…
Intersectional Consciousness in Studies of Violence: Feminist Psychological Perspectives
Violence has been a major area of global focus for feminist psychologists for decades. From its earliest volumes to the present day, Feminism & Psychology continues to provide a forum for critical and feminist psychological contributions in this domain. This work has collectively drawn attention to the power relations underscoring experiences of - and responses to - violence. Simultaneously, intersectional feminist theory has drawn attention to t…
Fields of Power in Rape Trial Reform: Hegemony, Habitus and Heretics
Despite incremental reforms over the past fifty years, transformative change of sexual assault proceedings has not occurred. This article uses Bourdieu’s sociological concepts to explore why the legal field remains resistant to substantial reform. It argues that doxa, or deeply ingrained beliefs, underpin both resistance to change and a tolerance of complainant harm, while habitus ensures the replication of established practices. This resistance …
Cross‐Cultural Differences in Beliefs About Lie Detection: A Comparison of Arab and Non‐Arab Australians
In the Australian criminal justice system, police and jurors (members of the general public) judge a suspect's credibility to determine guilt. Studies show that the general public and some Australian police officers have stated that they often use nonverbal behaviour to detect lies. However, nonverbal behaviour is an unreliable lie detection method, particularly when used cross‐culturally, given cultural differences in nonverbal behaviour and per…
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (9 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works)