Robyn Dwyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3603508 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robyn Dwyer |
| PRENOMES | Robyn |
| SOBRENOME | Dwyer |
| ASSINATURA | DWYER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1886-0733 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Examining representations of and responses to children affected by parental alcohol consumption in Australian health and social policy
INTRODUCTION: Australian policy texts articulate priorities aimed at addressing policy 'problems'. Over two decades of research in Australia and internationally identifies, as a problem, ways in which children may be affected by their parents' alcohol consumption. This raises the question of how this problem is represented in Australian policy. METHODS: The poststructuralist WPR approach was applied to an analysis of nine Australian national heal…
Working the Boundaries of Care
Public health research reports “alarming” levels of “risky,” or even “hazardous,” alcohol consumption among the female-dominated and historically-feminized professions of nursing and midwifery. Accounts of these practices presuppose alcohol as inherently harmful and largely enact the drinking of nurses and midwives as a maladaptive response to “cope” with the demands of a high-stress occupation. Relaying a boundary of acceptable/unacceptable and …
Accounts of children’s experiences of living with a heavy-drinking parent
Background Children can be negatively affected by their parents’ alcohol consumption practices, with implications for their physical and mental wellbeing. Here, we analyze meaning-making practices and interpretive frameworks used in accounts of children’s experiences of living with a ‘heavy-drinking’ parent in Australia.Methods We use data gathered from 21 interviews with caregivers of children and adults reflecting on their childhood. Framed by …
Exploring Socio‐Demographic Characteristics of Caregivers Who Indicated a Child Was Substantially Affected by Others' Drinking in Australia
Influencing the global governance of alcohol
In 2020, the Secretariat of the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted an open consultation, with public submissions, for the purpose of developing an Alcohol Action Plan to “strengthen implementation” of the WHO's 2010 Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol. The consultation process and public submissions provided an opportunity to critically examine alcohol industry perspectives and arguments in relation to the global governanc…
Changing risky drinking practices in different types of social worlds
The ‘social worlds’ concept has been underutilized in alcohol research. This is surprising given that drinking is primarily a social activity, often a secondary part of a sociable occasion in a social world whose members come together around something they have in common, such as an occupation, a hobby, or an identity. Social worlds which include drinking in their practices often entail encouragements or pressures to drink more, though they may a…
‘I’m not managing it; it’s managing me’
The coronavirus pandemic has brought significant changes to people’s lives. Research indicates parents and carers faced particular challenges and were one of the few groups reported in survey data to increase their alcohol consumption during the pandemic. Drawing on interviews with 30 Australian parents and carers of young children, and using a family practices approach, we explore how participants considered their alcohol practices as entangled …
Understanding preferences for type of take-home naloxone device
Background: Take-home naloxone (THN) is provided to non-medically trained people to reverse potential opioid overdoses. There is an increasing range of effective intramuscular (IM) and intranasal (IN) naloxone devices and this paper explores the types preferred by people who use opioids, using consumer behaviour literature to interpret the findings. Methods: Data derive from two unconnected qualitative studies involving audio-recorded semi-struct…
Beyond ‘drinking occasions’
Qualitative insights on alcohol and other drug consumption during Covid ‐19
The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, identified in January 2020, quickly spread around the world [1]. Measures adopted to minimise transmission of the virus have varied widely between and within countries, generating a range of unprecedented social and economic transformations. These have led to abrupt and significant changes to people's everyday lives, with profound implications for health and wellbeing. Of interest, and in some cases concern, to pu…
News media both represents and acts
Howse et al. [1] examined ‘news media’ coverage of Sydney's two liquor licence reforms (‘last drinks’ and ‘lockouts’) implemented in February 2014. The authors analysed 445 articles published between 2014 and 2020, including in the data corpus news articles from journalists, but also opinion pieces from other stakeholders. They identified 435 unique actors mentioned in the articles, categorised the actors' views as supportive or opposed to the la…
‘Super googs on a Zoom, are you kidding me?’
Addiction stigma and the production of impediments to take-home naloxone uptake
Opioid overdose deaths are a major health issue in Australia and around the world. Programmes to provide opioid consumers with 'take-home' naloxone to reverse overdose exist internationally, but uptake by mainstream health services and consumers remains inconsistent. Researchers have identified a range of important educational, training and logistical impediments to take-home naloxone uptake and distribution, yet they have focused less on the soc…
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of 'competent' parenting
How parents manage potential tensions between normative discourses of 'competent parenting' and their desires to consume alcohol has received little attention. In this article, we explore the elements that encourage or constrain parents' drinking and investigate how parents consider and manage their alcohol use in the context of multiple social roles with sometimes conflicting demands and expectations around 'competent parenting'. Our analysis dr…
Second, third, fourth Covid ‐19 waves and the ‘pancession’
Acculturation and alcohol
Barriers to addressing alcohol‐related harm through planning and licensing systems
As in many countries, the number of places selling alcohol in Australia has increased dramatically over the last three decades [1]. Deregulation of liquor licensing has largely led to a reliance on market processes, such as competition and self-regulation, to govern alcohol's availability. Community attempts to curtail the opening of large-chain packaged liquor stores in local neighbourhoods have largely been unsuccessful [2, 3]. An analysis of A…
Sports bars
Background Informed by literature on venue design and ‘nudging’ in the context of choice architecture, the purpose of this article is to investigate the physical design of, and practices enacted within, sports bars to provide some indication as to whether these venues are spaces that encourage risky drinking and betting.Methods Our analysis draws on three arms of data collection: (i) website review of licensed venues in Victoria, Australia that p…
The ‘social worlds’ concept
Intervening in heavy drinking cultures within groups below the level of the population has been under-utilized as a means of reducing alcohol-associated harms. We argue that the concept of ‘social worlds’ is useful for the identification and investigation of heavy drinking cultures in collectivities at this level. The concept may also support investigations into other practices with health implications, such as other substance use or gambling. So…
Prevalence of workplace violence against healthcare workers
We aim to quantitatively synthesise available epidemiological evidence on the prevalence rates of workplace violence (WPV) by patients and visitors against healthcare workers. We systematically searched PubMed, Embase and Web of Science from their inception to October 2018, as well as the reference lists of all included studies. Two authors independently assessed studies for inclusion. Data were double-extracted and discrepancies were resolved by…
Conflict and communication
Opioid overdose is a growing issue in Australia. Programs to provide opioid consumers with ‘take-home’ naloxone to reverse overdose exist internationally and in some Australian cities, but uptake remains inconsistent. As an opioid antagonist, naloxone has the capacity to stimulate distressing withdrawal symptoms. These sensations are shaped by complex factors – including the quantity and intervals of naloxone administration – and can contribute t…
Why aren’t Australian pharmacists supplying naloxone? Findings from a qualitative study
Take-home naloxone and the politics of care
Take-home naloxone' refers to a life-saving intervention in which a drug (naloxone) is made available to nonmedically trained people for administration to other people experiencing an opioid overdose. In Australia, it has not been taken up as widely as would be expected, given its life-saving potential. We consider the actions of take-home naloxone, focusing on how care relations shape its uses and effects. Mobilising Science and Technology Studi…
Middle-aged same-sex attracted women and the social practice of drinking
As a group, middle-aged same-sex attracted women (SSAW) appear to consume more alcohol than exclusively heterosexual women in the same age range; however, few studies document their collective drinking practices or identify opportunities to reduce associated harms. Online surveys which included open-ended questions were completed by a self-selected sample of SSAW (N = 134) aged 36–51, recruited in Victoria, Australia. We identify 12 sub-elements …
Grievable lives? Death by opioid overdose in Australian newspaper coverage
Take-home naloxone and the politics of care
Take-home naloxone' refers to a life-saving intervention in which a drug (naloxone) is made available to nonmedically trained people for administration to other people experiencing an opioid overdose. In Australia, it has not been taken up as widely as would be expected, given its life-saving potential. We consider the actions of take-home naloxone, focusing on how care relations shape its uses and effects. Mobilising Science and Technology Studi…
Addicting via Hashtags
Persons, substances, bodies, consumption: an ever widening process of “addicting” is underway in Western societies. In this article, we turn our attention to the production of addiction on the microblogging social media platform, Twitter, as an important emerging site in which the addicting of contemporary societies is also occurring. Our analysis explores two questions. First, we investigate the ways in which addiction is enacted via Twitter. Ho…
Understanding Illicit Drug Markets in Australia
The dominant Australian approaches to the study of illicit drug markets are surveillance and criminological research. In this paper, we outline the main features of these approaches before presenting a critical discussion of some of their methods, assumptions and modes of analysis. We argue that these approaches are limited in terms of their methods; reliance on neo-classical economic models; abstraction from local contexts; oversight of social, …
Parents' management of alcohol in the context of discourses of 'competent' parenting
How parents manage potential tensions between normative discourses of 'competent parenting' and their desires to consume alcohol has received little attention. In this article, we explore the elements that encourage or constrain parents' drinking and investigate how parents consider and manage their alcohol use in the context of multiple social roles with sometimes conflicting demands and expectations around 'competent parenting'. Our analysis dr…
Addiction stigma and the production of impediments to take-home naloxone uptake
Opioid overdose deaths are a major health issue in Australia and around the world. Programmes to provide opioid consumers with 'take-home' naloxone to reverse overdose exist internationally, but uptake by mainstream health services and consumers remains inconsistent. Researchers have identified a range of important educational, training and logistical impediments to take-home naloxone uptake and distribution, yet they have focused less on the soc…
Assembling the Social and Political Dimensions of Take-Home Naloxone
Editor’s NoteThis issue of Contemporary Drug Problems features the first article in a new series entitled ‘Contemporary Issues’. Articles commissioned for this series will be authored by emerging or established researchers and will address contemporary issues in theory and/or method, or those relating to a specific subfield or topic. The articles will be between 3–4,000 words and will aim to set out key issues relating to a topic in a provocative…
Making addictions in standardised screening and diagnostic tools
What counts as a drug problem? What exactly is addiction? What can be done to address it? Researchers work in a wide range of disciplines to answer these questions, often relying upon information collected via screening and diagnostic tools. Typically developed within epidemiological research, these tools establish and stabilise key criteria for identifying problematic substance use and addiction, and these criteria are then deployed to measure t…
Acculturation and alcohol
For love or money? An exploratory study of why injecting drug users participate in research
Aims. To examine injecting drug user (IDU) motivations as research participants. Design. Convenience sampling facilitated by recruitment notices distributed through needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), and snowballing within peer networks. Setting. NSPs in six suburbs throughout the Melbourne metropolitan area. Participants. One hundred and fifty‐four current IDUs. The mean age was 28 years, 62% were male, and 80% nominated heroin as preferred d…
Privileging pleasure
Nature’s clocks and human mood
Existing literature on reward motivation pays scant attention to the fact that reward potential of the environment varies dramatically with the light/dark cycle. Evolution, by contrast, treats this fact very seriously: In all species, the circadian system is adapted to optimize the daily rhythm of environmental engagement. We used 3 standard protocols to demonstrate that human reward motivation, as measured in the dynamics of positive affect (PA)…
Heroin–gel capsule cocktails and groin injecting practices among ethnic Vietnamese in Melbourne, Australia
Beyond neoclassical economics
Understanding Illicit Drug Markets in Australia
The dominant Australian approaches to the study of illicit drug markets are surveillance and criminological research. In this paper, we outline the main features of these approaches before presenting a critical discussion of some of their methods, assumptions and modes of analysis. We argue that these approaches are limited in terms of their methods; reliance on neo-classical economic models; abstraction from local contexts; oversight of social, …
Doing things together? Analysis of health education materials to inform hepatitis C prevention among couples
Considerable effort has been expended in developing health education materials and programmes aimed at reducing transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs. Health education is considered more likely to be effective when it is targeted to defined segments of the population and when people actively identify with the messages presented. In this context, it is important to understand the health messages on offer in these ma…
Enacting multiple methamphetamines
Addiction screening and diagnostic tools
TreatMethHarm
Methamphetamine use in Australia has recently attracted considerable attention due to increased human and social costs. Despite evidences indicating increasing methamphetamine-related harm and significant numbers of frequent and dependent users, methamphetamine treatment coverage remains low in Australia. This paper aims to investigate the complex interplay between methamphetamine use and treatment-related access by designing an agent-based model…
Addicting via Hashtags
Persons, substances, bodies, consumption: an ever widening process of “addicting” is underway in Western societies. In this article, we turn our attention to the production of addiction on the microblogging social media platform, Twitter, as an important emerging site in which the addicting of contemporary societies is also occurring. Our analysis explores two questions. First, we investigate the ways in which addiction is enacted via Twitter. Ho…
Making addictions in standardised screening and diagnostic tools
What counts as a drug problem? What exactly is addiction? What can be done to address it? Researchers work in a wide range of disciplines to answer these questions, often relying upon information collected via screening and diagnostic tools. Typically developed within epidemiological research, these tools establish and stabilise key criteria for identifying problematic substance use and addiction, and these criteria are then deployed to measure t…
Engendering drug problems
Assembling the Social and Political Dimensions of Take-Home Naloxone
Editor’s NoteThis issue of Contemporary Drug Problems features the first article in a new series entitled ‘Contemporary Issues’. Articles commissioned for this series will be authored by emerging or established researchers and will address contemporary issues in theory and/or method, or those relating to a specific subfield or topic. The articles will be between 3–4,000 words and will aim to set out key issues relating to a topic in a provocative…
Middle-aged same-sex attracted women and the social practice of drinking
As a group, middle-aged same-sex attracted women (SSAW) appear to consume more alcohol than exclusively heterosexual women in the same age range; however, few studies document their collective drinking practices or identify opportunities to reduce associated harms. Online surveys which included open-ended questions were completed by a self-selected sample of SSAW (N = 134) aged 36–51, recruited in Victoria, Australia. We identify 12 sub-elements …
Grievable lives? Death by opioid overdose in Australian newspaper coverage
Prevalence of workplace violence against healthcare workers
We aim to quantitatively synthesise available epidemiological evidence on the prevalence rates of workplace violence (WPV) by patients and visitors against healthcare workers. We systematically searched PubMed, Embase and Web of Science from their inception to October 2018, as well as the reference lists of all included studies. Two authors independently assessed studies for inclusion. Data were double-extracted and discrepancies were resolved by…
Conflict and communication
Opioid overdose is a growing issue in Australia. Programs to provide opioid consumers with ‘take-home’ naloxone to reverse overdose exist internationally and in some Australian cities, but uptake remains inconsistent. As an opioid antagonist, naloxone has the capacity to stimulate distressing withdrawal symptoms. These sensations are shaped by complex factors – including the quantity and intervals of naloxone administration – and can contribute t…
Why aren’t Australian pharmacists supplying naloxone? Findings from a qualitative study
Take-home naloxone and the politics of care
Take-home naloxone' refers to a life-saving intervention in which a drug (naloxone) is made available to nonmedically trained people for administration to other people experiencing an opioid overdose. In Australia, it has not been taken up as widely as would be expected, given its life-saving potential. We consider the actions of take-home naloxone, focusing on how care relations shape its uses and effects. Mobilising Science and Technology Studi…
Barriers to addressing alcohol‐related harm through planning and licensing systems
As in many countries, the number of places selling alcohol in Australia has increased dramatically over the last three decades [1]. Deregulation of liquor licensing has largely led to a reliance on market processes, such as competition and self-regulation, to govern alcohol's availability. Community attempts to curtail the opening of large-chain packaged liquor stores in local neighbourhoods have largely been unsuccessful [2, 3]. An analysis of A…
Sports bars
Background Informed by literature on venue design and ‘nudging’ in the context of choice architecture, the purpose of this article is to investigate the physical design of, and practices enacted within, sports bars to provide some indication as to whether these venues are spaces that encourage risky drinking and betting.Methods Our analysis draws on three arms of data collection: (i) website review of licensed venues in Victoria, Australia that p…
The ‘social worlds’ concept
Intervening in heavy drinking cultures within groups below the level of the population has been under-utilized as a means of reducing alcohol-associated harms. We argue that the concept of ‘social worlds’ is useful for the identification and investigation of heavy drinking cultures in collectivities at this level. The concept may also support investigations into other practices with health implications, such as other substance use or gambling. So…
Second, third, fourth Covid ‐19 waves and the ‘pancession’
Acculturation and alcohol
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