Fiona Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5608-0332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consumer Involvement in the Design and Development of Medication Safety Interventions or Services in Primary Care: A Scoping Review
Desanonimizando os doadores de esperma no Canadá: Algumas Dúvidas E Direções
This paper addresses whether sperm donor anonymity should continue in Canada and what the effects might be of abolishing anonymity, particularly for marginalized groups such as lesbian mothers. The first part of the paper outlines the legislative and historical context surrounding the donor anonymity debate in Canada. The second part of the paper addresses the interests of the various social and legal stakeholders, including donor conceived offsp…
Beyond secrecy and openness: Telling a relational story about children’s best interests in donor-conceived families
Secret Shame-Male Infertility and Donor Conception in the Wake of Retrospective Legislative Change
Historically, sperm donation was shrouded in secrecy to protect the normative family and the perceived vulnerability of infertile men. However, openness about donor conception is increasingly encouraged, in acknowledging that donor-conceived people may benefit from having access to information about their biogenetic origins. Since 2017 in the state of Victoria, Australia, donor-conceived people have been able to access previously anonymous donor …
Medication management in the context of mental illness: An exploratory study of young people living in Australia
Young people persevered with taking medication to manage a mental illness within a healthcare system that does not adequately support this vulnerable population. There remains a clear directive for healthcare professionals to provide credible information that proactively engages young people as healthcare participants, and for policy makers to consider financial burden for this population with limited financial capacity
A perfect storm of intervention? Lesbian and cisgender queer women conceiving through Australian fertility clinics
Amendments to various state laws have made it easier for cisgendered lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women to access Australian fertility clinics. When women conceive through clinics, they generally use intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilisation (IVF). IUI is cheaper and requires less invasive medical intervention than IVF. A recent survey found that almost 60% of Australian cisgendered LBQ women who conceived with clinical assis…
'Like a Dance': Working creatively with healthcare practitioners to explore mobility and osteoporosis
Collaborations between health sciences and creative arts can generate insights into complex health phenomena. This article describes a creative workshop derived from an action research project that aimed to raise awareness of fracture risk in health practitioners supporting people with osteoporosis. The creative workshop aimed to provide opportunities for practitioners within the action research community to create new knowledge and share their p…
Applications to statutory donor registers in Victoria, Australia: Information sought and expectations of contact
From Stranger to Family or Something in Between: Donor Linking in an Era of Retrospective Access to Anonymous Sperm Donor Records in Victoria, Australia
In June 2015, the state of Victoria, Australia retrospectively opened its sperm and egg donors’ records, becoming only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so and the first where substantial pre-legislative records are available and stored in a central register. The new legislation gave donor-conceived adults and donors who were conceived or donated under conditions of anonymity (ie prior to 1988) the right to apply to the state’s Central R…
You don’t throw these things out: ’ An exploration of medicines retention and disposal practices in Australian homes
Inappropriate medicine storage, use, and/or disposal practices raises public health concerns, particularly as there is a free returned medicines scheme available, and that this particular participant group were considered experienced medicine users. Healthcare professionals must act to address consumer misconceptions around the quality use of medicines, including medicine retention, storage and disposal. Future research is warranted to explore co…
Support for Australian carers from community pharmacy: Insight into carer perspectives of a novel service
The feasibility of an individualised carer support service delivered in community pharmacies was assessed from the perspective of carer participants using a pre-post questionnaire and semistructured interviews. Eligible pharmacies were required to offer a medication management service relevant to carers and have a semiprivate space for conversations. Carers were required to self-identify as an unpaid support person for someone with a chronic cond…
Dichotomising dementia: Is There Another Way
This article discusses the reduction of the complex experience of dementia to a dichotomised 'tragedy' or 'living well' discourse in contemporary Western society. We explore both discourses, placing them in the context of a successful ageing paradigm, highlighting the complex nature of dementia and the risks associated with the emergence of these arguably competing discourses. Specifically, we explore this dichotomy in the context of societal und…
Digging deep: How organisational culture affects care home residents' experiences
Organisational culture of institutions providing care for older people is increasingly recognised as influential in the quality of care provided. There is little research, however, that specifically examines the processes of care home culture and how these may be associated with quality of care. In this paper we draw from an empirical study carried out in the United Kingdom (UK) investigating the relationship between care home culture and residen…
Burden of treatment for chronic illness: A concept analysis and review of the literature
Australian mental health consumers' and carers' experiences of community pharmacy service
BACKGROUND: Many Australians with anxiety or depression experience issues accessing pharmacological treatment even though community pharmacies are remunerated to supply subsidized medicines and provide medicine management services. OBJECTIVE: To obtain insight into the quality of community pharmacy services from the perspectives of mental health consumers and carers. METHODS: A computer-assisted telephone interview was used to gauge perceptions o…
Mental health consumer and caregiver perceptions of stigma in Australian community pharmacies
BACKGROUND: The stigma of mental illness can be a barrier to effective medication management in the community pharmacy setting. This article explored mental health consumers' or caregivers' experiences of stigma in Australian community pharmacies. MATERIALS: Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with a purposive sample of consumers or caregivers (n = 74). Interview transcripts were analysed using a general inductive approach.…
Bodywork in dementia care: Recognising the commonalities of selfhood to facilitate respectful care in institutional settings
This paper draws on two data sources (Kelly's ethnographic study and a British Broadcasting Corporation television programme) to explore the practice of bodywork in the care of frail people with dementia in institutional settings. It explores the complexity of engaging in bodywork, particularly work that is distasteful to the care-worker, and shows how non-recognition of the selfhood of the person with dementia can result in practices that are de…
You say treatment, I say hard work’: Treatment burden among people with chronic illness and their carers in Australia
The aim of this study was to explore treatment burden among people with a variety of chronic conditions and comorbidities and their unpaid carers. The burden of living with ongoing chronic illness has been well established. However, the burden associated with proactively treating and managing chronic illness, commonly referred to as 'treatment burden', is less understood. This study helps to bridge this gap in our understanding by providing an in…
Enforcing a Parent/Child Relationship at All Cost: Supervised Access Orders in the Canadian Courts
Supervised access has become a key component of Canadian custody and access decision making in recent years, in large part due to a shift in attitudes towards post-separation contact between non-custodial parents, typically fathers, and their children. While the sole criterion upon which an access decision can be made is the “best interests of the child,” the increased emphasis on ensuring that children have “maximum contact” with each of their p…
Abusive Interactions: Research in Locked Wards for People with Dementia
This paper reports on a study in which unique access to three locked psycho-geriatric wards of a hospital allowed ethnographic exploration into everyday social worlds of fourteen people with dementia. Findings indicate abusive practice in the wards and show that participants in receipt of such practice responded with self-defence and resistance, but ultimately were defeated. In a development of Sabat's (2001) Selfs 1–3 framework, I identify how a…
Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia: Exploring the Interface
Recognising and supporting self in dementia: A new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care
This paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood's (1997) person-centred and Sabat's (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 people with dementia in continuing-care. The types of interactions that participants experienced in everyday ward life and during creative sessions were identified by observing, video-recording an…
Producing Paternity: The Role of Legal Fatherhood in Maintaining the Traditional Family
This article unpacks the modern legal construction of paternity and the ideological assumptions that underpin the legal designation. Through a review of the often disparate areas of family law in which legal paternity and/or the rights associated with “being a father” have emerged in recent years, the article considers the multiple ways in which paternity and fatherhood are utilized in family law discourse to grant men rights, and occasionally re…
Improving transfer of mental health care for rural and remote consumers in South Australia
In Australia, it is commonplace for tertiary mental health care to be provided in large regional centres or metropolitan cities. Rural and remote consumers must be transferred long distances, and this inevitably results in difficulties with the integration of their care between primary and tertiary settings. Because of the need to address these issues, and improve the transfer process, a research project was commissioned by a national government …
Australian Family Law: The Contemporary Context
Preface Table of Cases Table of Statutes 1. Introducing Contemporary Australian Family Law 2. The Constitutional Framework: Fundamentals of Fragmentation 3. The Jurisdictional Framework: Mechanics of Fragmentation 4. The Legal Recognition of 'Family' Relationships: Testing Our Respect for Diversity 5. Violence and Abuse in Families: Fragmented Legal Responses 6. Decision-Making in Children's Matters: Towards Shared Parenting? 7. Processes for Dec…
Dichotomising dementia: Is There Another Way
This article discusses the reduction of the complex experience of dementia to a dichotomised 'tragedy' or 'living well' discourse in contemporary Western society. We explore both discourses, placing them in the context of a successful ageing paradigm, highlighting the complex nature of dementia and the risks associated with the emergence of these arguably competing discourses. Specifically, we explore this dichotomy in the context of societal und…
Digging deep: How organisational culture affects care home residents' experiences
Organisational culture of institutions providing care for older people is increasingly recognised as influential in the quality of care provided. There is little research, however, that specifically examines the processes of care home culture and how these may be associated with quality of care. In this paper we draw from an empirical study carried out in the United Kingdom (UK) investigating the relationship between care home culture and residen…
You say treatment, I say hard work’: Treatment burden among people with chronic illness and their carers in Australia
The aim of this study was to explore treatment burden among people with a variety of chronic conditions and comorbidities and their unpaid carers. The burden of living with ongoing chronic illness has been well established. However, the burden associated with proactively treating and managing chronic illness, commonly referred to as 'treatment burden', is less understood. This study helps to bridge this gap in our understanding by providing an in…
Abusive Interactions: Research in Locked Wards for People with Dementia
This paper reports on a study in which unique access to three locked psycho-geriatric wards of a hospital allowed ethnographic exploration into everyday social worlds of fourteen people with dementia. Findings indicate abusive practice in the wards and show that participants in receipt of such practice responded with self-defence and resistance, but ultimately were defeated. In a development of Sabat's (2001) Selfs 1–3 framework, I identify how a…
Producing Paternity: The Role of Legal Fatherhood in Maintaining the Traditional Family
This article unpacks the modern legal construction of paternity and the ideological assumptions that underpin the legal designation. Through a review of the often disparate areas of family law in which legal paternity and/or the rights associated with “being a father” have emerged in recent years, the article considers the multiple ways in which paternity and fatherhood are utilized in family law discourse to grant men rights, and occasionally re…
Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia: Exploring the Interface
Recognising and supporting self in dementia: A new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care
This paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood's (1997) person-centred and Sabat's (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 people with dementia in continuing-care. The types of interactions that participants experienced in everyday ward life and during creative sessions were identified by observing, video-recording an…
Australia's Fragmented Family Law System: Jurisdictional Overlap in the Area of Child Protection
Journal Article Australia's Fragmented Family Law System: Jurisdictional Overlap in the Area of Child Protection Get access Fiona Kelly, Fiona Kelly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Belinda Fehlberg Belinda Fehlberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2002, Pages 38–70, https://doi.org/10.1093…
From Stranger to Family or Something in Between: Donor Linking in an Era of Retrospective Access to Anonymous Sperm Donor Records in Victoria, Australia
In June 2015, the state of Victoria, Australia retrospectively opened its sperm and egg donors’ records, becoming only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so and the first where substantial pre-legislative records are available and stored in a central register. The new legislation gave donor-conceived adults and donors who were conceived or donated under conditions of anonymity (ie prior to 1988) the right to apply to the state’s Central R…
Bodywork in dementia care: Recognising the commonalities of selfhood to facilitate respectful care in institutional settings
This paper draws on two data sources (Kelly's ethnographic study and a British Broadcasting Corporation television programme) to explore the practice of bodywork in the care of frail people with dementia in institutional settings. It explores the complexity of engaging in bodywork, particularly work that is distasteful to the care-worker, and shows how non-recognition of the selfhood of the person with dementia can result in practices that are de…
Improving transfer of mental health care for rural and remote consumers in South Australia
In Australia, it is commonplace for tertiary mental health care to be provided in large regional centres or metropolitan cities. Rural and remote consumers must be transferred long distances, and this inevitably results in difficulties with the integration of their care between primary and tertiary settings. Because of the need to address these issues, and improve the transfer process, a research project was commissioned by a national government …
Secret Shame-Male Infertility and Donor Conception in the Wake of Retrospective Legislative Change
Historically, sperm donation was shrouded in secrecy to protect the normative family and the perceived vulnerability of infertile men. However, openness about donor conception is increasingly encouraged, in acknowledging that donor-conceived people may benefit from having access to information about their biogenetic origins. Since 2017 in the state of Victoria, Australia, donor-conceived people have been able to access previously anonymous donor …
Australia's Fragmented Family Law System: Jurisdictional Overlap in the Area of Child Protection
Journal Article Australia's Fragmented Family Law System: Jurisdictional Overlap in the Area of Child Protection Get access Fiona Kelly, Fiona Kelly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Belinda Fehlberg Belinda Fehlberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2002, Pages 38–70, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Conceptualising the child through an ‘ethic of care’: Lessons for family law
In this article I critically analyse the two historical models for conceptualising the child: the protectionist model and the children’s rights model. I argue that both models are inappropriate ways in which to conceptualise the child. Protectionism is paternalistic, essentialises the child, and denies the child a voice. Equally problematic, the children’s rights model presumes the social desirability of the liberal individual, and emphasises rig…
Australian Family Law: The Contemporary Context
Preface Table of Cases Table of Statutes 1. Introducing Contemporary Australian Family Law 2. The Constitutional Framework: Fundamentals of Fragmentation 3. The Jurisdictional Framework: Mechanics of Fragmentation 4. The Legal Recognition of 'Family' Relationships: Testing Our Respect for Diversity 5. Violence and Abuse in Families: Fragmented Legal Responses 6. Decision-Making in Children's Matters: Towards Shared Parenting? 7. Processes for Dec…
Improving transfer of mental health care for rural and remote consumers in South Australia
In Australia, it is commonplace for tertiary mental health care to be provided in large regional centres or metropolitan cities. Rural and remote consumers must be transferred long distances, and this inevitably results in difficulties with the integration of their care between primary and tertiary settings. Because of the need to address these issues, and improve the transfer process, a research project was commissioned by a national government …
Producing Paternity: The Role of Legal Fatherhood in Maintaining the Traditional Family
This article unpacks the modern legal construction of paternity and the ideological assumptions that underpin the legal designation. Through a review of the often disparate areas of family law in which legal paternity and/or the rights associated with “being a father” have emerged in recent years, the article considers the multiple ways in which paternity and fatherhood are utilized in family law discourse to grant men rights, and occasionally re…
Abusive Interactions: Research in Locked Wards for People with Dementia
This paper reports on a study in which unique access to three locked psycho-geriatric wards of a hospital allowed ethnographic exploration into everyday social worlds of fourteen people with dementia. Findings indicate abusive practice in the wards and show that participants in receipt of such practice responded with self-defence and resistance, but ultimately were defeated. In a development of Sabat's (2001) Selfs 1–3 framework, I identify how a…
Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia: Exploring the Interface
Recognising and supporting self in dementia: A new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care
This paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood's (1997) person-centred and Sabat's (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 people with dementia in continuing-care. The types of interactions that participants experienced in everyday ward life and during creative sessions were identified by observing, video-recording an…
Enforcing a Parent/Child Relationship at All Cost: Supervised Access Orders in the Canadian Courts
Supervised access has become a key component of Canadian custody and access decision making in recent years, in large part due to a shift in attitudes towards post-separation contact between non-custodial parents, typically fathers, and their children. While the sole criterion upon which an access decision can be made is the “best interests of the child,” the increased emphasis on ensuring that children have “maximum contact” with each of their p…
You say treatment, I say hard work’: Treatment burden among people with chronic illness and their carers in Australia
The aim of this study was to explore treatment burden among people with a variety of chronic conditions and comorbidities and their unpaid carers. The burden of living with ongoing chronic illness has been well established. However, the burden associated with proactively treating and managing chronic illness, commonly referred to as 'treatment burden', is less understood. This study helps to bridge this gap in our understanding by providing an in…
Mental health consumer and caregiver perceptions of stigma in Australian community pharmacies
BACKGROUND: The stigma of mental illness can be a barrier to effective medication management in the community pharmacy setting. This article explored mental health consumers' or caregivers' experiences of stigma in Australian community pharmacies. MATERIALS: Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with a purposive sample of consumers or caregivers (n = 74). Interview transcripts were analysed using a general inductive approach.…
Bodywork in dementia care: Recognising the commonalities of selfhood to facilitate respectful care in institutional settings
This paper draws on two data sources (Kelly's ethnographic study and a British Broadcasting Corporation television programme) to explore the practice of bodywork in the care of frail people with dementia in institutional settings. It explores the complexity of engaging in bodywork, particularly work that is distasteful to the care-worker, and shows how non-recognition of the selfhood of the person with dementia can result in practices that are de…
Burden of treatment for chronic illness: A concept analysis and review of the literature
Australian mental health consumers' and carers' experiences of community pharmacy service
BACKGROUND: Many Australians with anxiety or depression experience issues accessing pharmacological treatment even though community pharmacies are remunerated to supply subsidized medicines and provide medicine management services. OBJECTIVE: To obtain insight into the quality of community pharmacy services from the perspectives of mental health consumers and carers. METHODS: A computer-assisted telephone interview was used to gauge perceptions o…
Digging deep: How organisational culture affects care home residents' experiences
Organisational culture of institutions providing care for older people is increasingly recognised as influential in the quality of care provided. There is little research, however, that specifically examines the processes of care home culture and how these may be associated with quality of care. In this paper we draw from an empirical study carried out in the United Kingdom (UK) investigating the relationship between care home culture and residen…
Dichotomising dementia: Is There Another Way
This article discusses the reduction of the complex experience of dementia to a dichotomised 'tragedy' or 'living well' discourse in contemporary Western society. We explore both discourses, placing them in the context of a successful ageing paradigm, highlighting the complex nature of dementia and the risks associated with the emergence of these arguably competing discourses. Specifically, we explore this dichotomy in the context of societal und…
You don’t throw these things out: ’ An exploration of medicines retention and disposal practices in Australian homes
Inappropriate medicine storage, use, and/or disposal practices raises public health concerns, particularly as there is a free returned medicines scheme available, and that this particular participant group were considered experienced medicine users. Healthcare professionals must act to address consumer misconceptions around the quality use of medicines, including medicine retention, storage and disposal. Future research is warranted to explore co…
Support for Australian carers from community pharmacy: Insight into carer perspectives of a novel service
The feasibility of an individualised carer support service delivered in community pharmacies was assessed from the perspective of carer participants using a pre-post questionnaire and semistructured interviews. Eligible pharmacies were required to offer a medication management service relevant to carers and have a semiprivate space for conversations. Carers were required to self-identify as an unpaid support person for someone with a chronic cond…
'Like a Dance': Working creatively with healthcare practitioners to explore mobility and osteoporosis
Collaborations between health sciences and creative arts can generate insights into complex health phenomena. This article describes a creative workshop derived from an action research project that aimed to raise awareness of fracture risk in health practitioners supporting people with osteoporosis. The creative workshop aimed to provide opportunities for practitioners within the action research community to create new knowledge and share their p…
Applications to statutory donor registers in Victoria, Australia: Information sought and expectations of contact
From Stranger to Family or Something in Between: Donor Linking in an Era of Retrospective Access to Anonymous Sperm Donor Records in Victoria, Australia
In June 2015, the state of Victoria, Australia retrospectively opened its sperm and egg donors’ records, becoming only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so and the first where substantial pre-legislative records are available and stored in a central register. The new legislation gave donor-conceived adults and donors who were conceived or donated under conditions of anonymity (ie prior to 1988) the right to apply to the state’s Central R…
Medication management in the context of mental illness: An exploratory study of young people living in Australia
Young people persevered with taking medication to manage a mental illness within a healthcare system that does not adequately support this vulnerable population. There remains a clear directive for healthcare professionals to provide credible information that proactively engages young people as healthcare participants, and for policy makers to consider financial burden for this population with limited financial capacity
A perfect storm of intervention? Lesbian and cisgender queer women conceiving through Australian fertility clinics
Amendments to various state laws have made it easier for cisgendered lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women to access Australian fertility clinics. When women conceive through clinics, they generally use intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilisation (IVF). IUI is cheaper and requires less invasive medical intervention than IVF. A recent survey found that almost 60% of Australian cisgendered LBQ women who conceived with clinical assis…
Desanonimizando os doadores de esperma no Canadá: Algumas Dúvidas E Direções
This paper addresses whether sperm donor anonymity should continue in Canada and what the effects might be of abolishing anonymity, particularly for marginalized groups such as lesbian mothers. The first part of the paper outlines the legislative and historical context surrounding the donor anonymity debate in Canada. The second part of the paper addresses the interests of the various social and legal stakeholders, including donor conceived offsp…
Beyond secrecy and openness: Telling a relational story about children’s best interests in donor-conceived families
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)