Helen Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2379-6940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gatekeeping of Pacific youth as leaders and active citizens
Pacific young people are gaining increasing visibility on the international stage, particularly through global climate activism. Yet in their Pacific homelands they often experience gatekeeping that prevents them from taking on leadership roles or having a voice as active citizens. This gatekeeping occurs primarily through the age and gender hierarchies that remain strong within Pacific families, communities, churches, civil society organisations…
This is Why We All Show Up: How Supporting Youth Cultivates Hope, Purpose, and Well‐Being of Adult Mentors
This study explores the development of adult mentors participating in a summer youth program, focusing on how mentoring relationships and shared activities with youth impact mentors' personal and professional growth. The analysis integrates focus group data and participant observations collected over the course of the weeklong program to identify key themes. Findings reveal that affirming mentor‐youth connections within the program's youth‐initia…
Happy to Help: Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Volunteering Programme
We study the wellbeing returns from volunteering in England's National Health Service (NHS) Volunteer Responders, set up in response to Covid-19. Using linked survey and administrative data, we exploit the oversubscription of volunteers and the random allocation of tasks via an app to establish causality. Volunteers show stronger wellbeing and feelings of belongingness and connectedness to their local area. Welfare analyses suggest that the benef…
Fruit Picking and Farmwork as Racialised Stigma: The Children of Pacific Migrant Workers in Rural Australia
Pacific youth growing up in rural horticultural towns in Victoria, Australia, frequently experience the stigmatising labels of ‘fruit picker’ and ‘farmworker’. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Sunraysia region, we focus on schools as early sites of racialisation and racism, and compare the perspectives of students and teachers. While teachers often blame ‘culture’ for poor academic performance, students complain of teachers’ racism while als…
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Over the last ten years, temporary migration schemes in the horticultural sector have received increasing attention in the Global North. The often precarious conditions of such work have been recognised, however, little attention has been paid to horticultural workers with migration backgrounds who have gained permanent residency or citizenship in the host countries. Ethnographic fieldwork with Pacific farmworkers and their families with various …
Increasing harms for bingo players: Digitisation, commercialisation and regulatory inadequacy: a multi-site case study
These changes can be better managed by regulators: reforms are needed to safeguard bingo's distinct character as a lower-risk form of gambling at a time when it, and its players, are under threat. Significantly, we found that harm to bingo players is intensified by factors external to gambling such as racialised poverty and adverse life events. Strategies that recognise these factors and grapple with gambling harm to bingo players are needed
Acknowledging Anti‐Blackness, Overlooking Anti‐Asian Racism: Missed Developmental Opportunities for Chinese American Youth
This paper explores the pathways and barriers to critical consciousness development for Chinese American youth. Thirty-five interviews conducted in 2020 with high-school-aged students in Chicago were analyzed to better understand young people's experiences developing an understanding of anti-Asian racism and anti-Blackness. Results indicated that participants overwhelmingly engaged in sustained conversations about Black Lives Matter and/or made e…
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World." The Journal of Pacific History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Multi-Family Therapy for First Episode Psychosis: Experiences of Families in Singapore
Aim: This qualitative study examined the experiences of families with Multi-Family Therapy (MFT) provided by the Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP) in Singapore. The MFT was piloted over a period of 2 years and findings from this study were used to further refine the MFT to better meet the needs of Singaporean families in the service. Methods: Families who completed the MFT were invited to participate in the study. Nine clients and ten…
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household: Everyday gambling in a migrant community
Feminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. This intersectional approach examines the effects of bingo in the everyday lives of these women. We show how migrant women gamblers hav…
Evaluating Singapore’s CHAT Assessment Service by the World Mental Health Organisation (WHO) “Youth-Friendly” Health Services Framework
Young people experience high rates of mental health issues. However, many do not seek professional help. In order to encourage help-seeking behavior among young people, it is important to ensure that services are youth-friendly. This study aims to evaluate the Community Health Assessment Team (CHAT)'s mental health assessment service model using the World Health Organization (WHO) youth-friendly health service framework of accessibility, acceptab…
Young First-Time Mothers’ Parenting of Infants: The Role of Depression and Social Support
Gesture in speaking tasks beyond the classroom: An exploration of the multimodal negotiation of meaning via Skype videoconferencing on mobile devices
Isolated learners: Young mature-age students, university culture, and desire for academic sociality
The differentiated experiences of young mature-age students are under-researched and often unacknowledged in higher education literature and university policy. This article contends that, due to their age (early 20s to early 30s), many younger mature-age students feel ‘out of the loop’ and ‘alienated’ from university culture. The sample is drawn from a large first-year subject and analyses students’ written ethnographic reflections on their ident…
Stigmatised learners: Mature-age students negotiating university culture
Research on the socially-situated nature of learning shows how practices and identities are affected by participation in communities, but very little is known about how mature-age students experience the relational dynamics of university. Based on data from a qualitative study of first-year students, we consider written accounts by older learners to examine how they negotiate the culture of higher education. We found that mature-age students enco…
Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: Home thoughts abroad
"Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: home thoughts abroad." The Journal of Pacific History, 51(1), pp. 88–90
I was forced here: Perceptions of agency in second generation 'return' migration to Tonga
Migrants’ adolescent children sometimes live for periods of time in their parents’ homeland; however, little attention has been paid to this in the literature on ‘return’ migration and transnationalism. This paper explores the experiences of overseas born Tongan youth spending time in high schools in Tonga, whether by choice or because they have been taken or sent due to concerns about their behaviour. The importance of these young people’s perce…
The Association Between Spirituality and Depression in Parents Caring for Children with Developmental Disabilities: Social Support and/or Last Resort
Collaborative cognition: Co-creating children’s artwork in an educational context
Based on a wider research project which critiqued the centricity of cognitivism in research investigating children’s drawings this article explores the relationship between social interaction and materiality. Case studies are presented to systematically analyse a range of naturalistic data collected from art classes held in two Staffordshire primary schools. Use of a multi-level analysis demonstrates the ways in which materiality (space, tools, a…
HIV/Aids, beersellers and critical community health psychology in Cambodia: A case study
This case study illustrates a participatory framework for confronting critical community health issues using 'grass-roots' research-guided community-defined interventions. Ongoing work in Cambodia has culturally adapted research, theory and practice for particular, local health-promotion responses to HIV/AIDS, alcohol abuse and other challenges in the community of Siem Reap. For resource-poor communities in Cambodia, we recycle such 'older' conce…
Promoting Positive Mother–Infant Relationships: A Randomized Trial of Community Doula Support For Young Mothers
Doulas, whose traditional role is to support women during labor and delivery, are being increasingly utilized within community‐based programs where a primary goal is supporting mother–infant relationships. The present study investigated the effect of doula services on parenting among young, low‐income mothers. A total of 248 pregnant women were randomly assigned to receive either doula services or routine medical and social services. The doulas p…
Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique
Coupling translated primary texts from Japan's colonial era with critical interpretive essays by scholars in Japanese Studies, Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique illuminates the specificities of Japan's many and varied colonial projects and elucidates how the case of Japan, —the only major non-western colonial power—, can complicate and expand our knowledge of colonialism(s)
An appreciation of the life and work of Professor John Jeffers (1926–2011)
John initially trained as a forester with the Forestry Commission and was responsible for giving research a sound scientific basis. He obtained an external degree in statistics from the University
The role of local food availability in explaining obesity risk among young school-aged children
Rethinking transnationalism through the second generation
The concept of transnationalism was developed to describe the ties maintained by migrants with their homelands and, until recently, little attention was given to the question of whether these ties would be continued by the migrants’ children, the ‘second generation’. This article discusses the transnational practices of second‐generation Tongans in Australia, using the research findings to reconsider some of the existing assumptions about what co…
The role of local food availability in explaining obesity risk among young school-aged children
Rethinking transnationalism through the second generation
The concept of transnationalism was developed to describe the ties maintained by migrants with their homelands and, until recently, little attention was given to the question of whether these ties would be continued by the migrants’ children, the ‘second generation’. This article discusses the transnational practices of second‐generation Tongans in Australia, using the research findings to reconsider some of the existing assumptions about what co…
Migration and Transnationalism: Pacific Perspectives
Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia these practices intensified and over time have profoundly shaped both home and diasporic communities. This edited volume begins with a detailed account of
Second generation’ Tongan transnationalism: Hope for the future
Tonga's economy is supported by remittances from Tongans overseas, but there are indications that the younger generations are unlikely to maintain this level of support. There appears to be a complacent attitude to remittances both within Tonga and in externally produced economic reports, yet if remittance levels drop significantly, the ramifications will be disastrous for Tonga. This paper looks at Tongan transnationalism in the context of the c…
Stigmatised learners: Mature-age students negotiating university culture
Research on the socially-situated nature of learning shows how practices and identities are affected by participation in communities, but very little is known about how mature-age students experience the relational dynamics of university. Based on data from a qualitative study of first-year students, we consider written accounts by older learners to examine how they negotiate the culture of higher education. We found that mature-age students enco…
Acknowledging Anti‐Blackness, Overlooking Anti‐Asian Racism: Missed Developmental Opportunities for Chinese American Youth
This paper explores the pathways and barriers to critical consciousness development for Chinese American youth. Thirty-five interviews conducted in 2020 with high-school-aged students in Chicago were analyzed to better understand young people's experiences developing an understanding of anti-Asian racism and anti-Blackness. Results indicated that participants overwhelmingly engaged in sustained conversations about Black Lives Matter and/or made e…
Transforming Transnationalism: Second Generation Tongans Overseas
Since the 1960s Tongans have developed extensive transnational ties between the homeland and the overseas populations, including remittances that for many years have bolstered Tonga's economy. This paper examines how these ties have been transformed over time, and focuses on the question of whether the children of Tongan migrants are likely to sustain such ties in the future. Drawing on data collected from ‘second generation’ Tongans in Australia…
Creating New Career Pathways to Reduce Poverty, Illiteracy and Health Risks, while Transforming and Empowering Cambodian Women's Lives
Community health psychology provides a framework for local citizens themselves to systematically affect change in health and social inequalities, particularly through Participatory Action Research (PAR). The Cambodian NGO SiRCHESI launched a 24-month Hotel Apprenticeship Program (HAP) in 2006 to provide literacy, English, social skills, health education, hotel skills-training, work experience and a living wage to women formerly selling beer in re…
Isolated learners: Young mature-age students, university culture, and desire for academic sociality
The differentiated experiences of young mature-age students are under-researched and often unacknowledged in higher education literature and university policy. This article contends that, due to their age (early 20s to early 30s), many younger mature-age students feel ‘out of the loop’ and ‘alienated’ from university culture. The sample is drawn from a large first-year subject and analyses students’ written ethnographic reflections on their ident…
I was forced here: Perceptions of agency in second generation 'return' migration to Tonga
Migrants’ adolescent children sometimes live for periods of time in their parents’ homeland; however, little attention has been paid to this in the literature on ‘return’ migration and transnationalism. This paper explores the experiences of overseas born Tongan youth spending time in high schools in Tonga, whether by choice or because they have been taken or sent due to concerns about their behaviour. The importance of these young people’s perce…
Couple Relationship Status and Patterns in Early Parenting Practices
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,003), we examine the role of parental relationship status at birth on maternal adherence to current recommendations regarding breastfeeding, corporal punishment, and well-child visits. At the bivariate level, parents' union status is almost linearly related to adherence to recommendations. Multivariate models, however, reveal that much of the association stems from the selectio…
HIV/Aids, beersellers and critical community health psychology in Cambodia: A case study
This case study illustrates a participatory framework for confronting critical community health issues using 'grass-roots' research-guided community-defined interventions. Ongoing work in Cambodia has culturally adapted research, theory and practice for particular, local health-promotion responses to HIV/AIDS, alcohol abuse and other challenges in the community of Siem Reap. For resource-poor communities in Cambodia, we recycle such 'older' conce…
Promoting Positive Mother–Infant Relationships: A Randomized Trial of Community Doula Support For Young Mothers
Doulas, whose traditional role is to support women during labor and delivery, are being increasingly utilized within community‐based programs where a primary goal is supporting mother–infant relationships. The present study investigated the effect of doula services on parenting among young, low‐income mothers. A total of 248 pregnant women were randomly assigned to receive either doula services or routine medical and social services. The doulas p…
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Over the last ten years, temporary migration schemes in the horticultural sector have received increasing attention in the Global North. The often precarious conditions of such work have been recognised, however, little attention has been paid to horticultural workers with migration backgrounds who have gained permanent residency or citizenship in the host countries. Ethnographic fieldwork with Pacific farmworkers and their families with various …
Truths that Set Us Free?’: The Use of Rhetoric in Mind-Body-Spirit Books
This article provides a critical qualitative analysis of popular mind-body-spirit books. Typically, these books present a hybrid combining spirituality with self-help and popular psychology. They promise to soothe, heal, and liberate the reader from what is construed as a mundane, desolate life and an environmental and social context of despair. Constructions of transformation and liberation are pervasive in these books. The analysis attends to m…
Gesture in speaking tasks beyond the classroom: An exploration of the multimodal negotiation of meaning via Skype videoconferencing on mobile devices
Fruit Picking and Farmwork as Racialised Stigma: The Children of Pacific Migrant Workers in Rural Australia
Pacific youth growing up in rural horticultural towns in Victoria, Australia, frequently experience the stigmatising labels of ‘fruit picker’ and ‘farmworker’. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Sunraysia region, we focus on schools as early sites of racialisation and racism, and compare the perspectives of students and teachers. While teachers often blame ‘culture’ for poor academic performance, students complain of teachers’ racism while als…
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household: Everyday gambling in a migrant community
Feminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. This intersectional approach examines the effects of bingo in the everyday lives of these women. We show how migrant women gamblers hav…
II. Towards Ungendered Relationality: Psychology and Feminist Spirituality
Young people's accounts of personal relationships in a multi-cultural East London environment: Questions of community, diversity and inequality
A thematic decomposition of group interviews conducted with 176 young people from East London on the topic of personal relationships is presented. The focus of the analysis is on the role played by cultural and community factors on the form of personal relationships, and particular emphasis is given to the power-related issues of gender and ethnicity. Five broad themes are discussed, entitled ‘An imagined community: Harmonious diversity’, ‘multi-…
II. Towards Ungendered Relationality: Psychology and Feminist Spirituality
Second generation’ Tongan transnationalism: Hope for the future
Tonga's economy is supported by remittances from Tongans overseas, but there are indications that the younger generations are unlikely to maintain this level of support. There appears to be a complacent attitude to remittances both within Tonga and in externally produced economic reports, yet if remittance levels drop significantly, the ramifications will be disastrous for Tonga. This paper looks at Tongan transnationalism in the context of the c…
Sex Acts: Two Meditations on Race and Sexuality
III. An Ethic of Involvement in Researching Spirituality
Truths that Set Us Free?’: The Use of Rhetoric in Mind-Body-Spirit Books
This article provides a critical qualitative analysis of popular mind-body-spirit books. Typically, these books present a hybrid combining spirituality with self-help and popular psychology. They promise to soothe, heal, and liberate the reader from what is construed as a mundane, desolate life and an environmental and social context of despair. Constructions of transformation and liberation are pervasive in these books. The analysis attends to m…
Transforming Transnationalism: Second Generation Tongans Overseas
Since the 1960s Tongans have developed extensive transnational ties between the homeland and the overseas populations, including remittances that for many years have bolstered Tonga's economy. This paper examines how these ties have been transformed over time, and focuses on the question of whether the children of Tongan migrants are likely to sustain such ties in the future. Drawing on data collected from ‘second generation’ Tongans in Australia…
The native Mosuo people, matriarchal culture, and development processes in the Lugu Lake region: Introduction
(2008). The native Mosuo people, matriarchal culture, and development processes in the Lugu Lake region: Introduction. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-2
Couple Relationship Status and Patterns in Early Parenting Practices
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,003), we examine the role of parental relationship status at birth on maternal adherence to current recommendations regarding breastfeeding, corporal punishment, and well-child visits. At the bivariate level, parents' union status is almost linearly related to adherence to recommendations. Multivariate models, however, reveal that much of the association stems from the selectio…
Pacific Migration and Transnationalism: Historical Perspectives
Migration and Transnationalism: Pacific Perspectives
Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia these practices intensified and over time have profoundly shaped both home and diasporic communities. This edited volume begins with a detailed account of
Creating New Career Pathways to Reduce Poverty, Illiteracy and Health Risks, while Transforming and Empowering Cambodian Women's Lives
Community health psychology provides a framework for local citizens themselves to systematically affect change in health and social inequalities, particularly through Participatory Action Research (PAR). The Cambodian NGO SiRCHESI launched a 24-month Hotel Apprenticeship Program (HAP) in 2006 to provide literacy, English, social skills, health education, hotel skills-training, work experience and a living wage to women formerly selling beer in re…
Muzzas' and 'Old Skool Ravers: Ethnicity, drugs and the changing face of Melbourne's dance party/club scene
The relationship between ethnicity and the use of ‘party drugs’ (e.g., methamphetamine and ecstasy) has received little attention in Australia. This paper focuses on ethnicity and party drug use within the context of dance parties and clubs in Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city. The young people who participated in our research, many of whom are long-time dance party attendees, or ‘old skool ravers’, frequently made claims to the possessi…
Rethinking transnationalism through the second generation
The concept of transnationalism was developed to describe the ties maintained by migrants with their homelands and, until recently, little attention was given to the question of whether these ties would be continued by the migrants’ children, the ‘second generation’. This article discusses the transnational practices of second‐generation Tongans in Australia, using the research findings to reconsider some of the existing assumptions about what co…
Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique
Coupling translated primary texts from Japan's colonial era with critical interpretive essays by scholars in Japanese Studies, Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique illuminates the specificities of Japan's many and varied colonial projects and elucidates how the case of Japan, —the only major non-western colonial power—, can complicate and expand our knowledge of colonialism(s)
An appreciation of the life and work of Professor John Jeffers (1926–2011)
John initially trained as a forester with the Forestry Commission and was responsible for giving research a sound scientific basis. He obtained an external degree in statistics from the University
The role of local food availability in explaining obesity risk among young school-aged children
Promoting Positive Mother–Infant Relationships: A Randomized Trial of Community Doula Support For Young Mothers
Doulas, whose traditional role is to support women during labor and delivery, are being increasingly utilized within community‐based programs where a primary goal is supporting mother–infant relationships. The present study investigated the effect of doula services on parenting among young, low‐income mothers. A total of 248 pregnant women were randomly assigned to receive either doula services or routine medical and social services. The doulas p…
Collaborative cognition: Co-creating children’s artwork in an educational context
Based on a wider research project which critiqued the centricity of cognitivism in research investigating children’s drawings this article explores the relationship between social interaction and materiality. Case studies are presented to systematically analyse a range of naturalistic data collected from art classes held in two Staffordshire primary schools. Use of a multi-level analysis demonstrates the ways in which materiality (space, tools, a…
HIV/Aids, beersellers and critical community health psychology in Cambodia: A case study
This case study illustrates a participatory framework for confronting critical community health issues using 'grass-roots' research-guided community-defined interventions. Ongoing work in Cambodia has culturally adapted research, theory and practice for particular, local health-promotion responses to HIV/AIDS, alcohol abuse and other challenges in the community of Siem Reap. For resource-poor communities in Cambodia, we recycle such 'older' conce…
The Association Between Spirituality and Depression in Parents Caring for Children with Developmental Disabilities: Social Support and/or Last Resort
Stigmatised learners: Mature-age students negotiating university culture
Research on the socially-situated nature of learning shows how practices and identities are affected by participation in communities, but very little is known about how mature-age students experience the relational dynamics of university. Based on data from a qualitative study of first-year students, we consider written accounts by older learners to examine how they negotiate the culture of higher education. We found that mature-age students enco…
Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: Home thoughts abroad
"Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: home thoughts abroad." The Journal of Pacific History, 51(1), pp. 88–90
I was forced here: Perceptions of agency in second generation 'return' migration to Tonga
Migrants’ adolescent children sometimes live for periods of time in their parents’ homeland; however, little attention has been paid to this in the literature on ‘return’ migration and transnationalism. This paper explores the experiences of overseas born Tongan youth spending time in high schools in Tonga, whether by choice or because they have been taken or sent due to concerns about their behaviour. The importance of these young people’s perce…
Isolated learners: Young mature-age students, university culture, and desire for academic sociality
The differentiated experiences of young mature-age students are under-researched and often unacknowledged in higher education literature and university policy. This article contends that, due to their age (early 20s to early 30s), many younger mature-age students feel ‘out of the loop’ and ‘alienated’ from university culture. The sample is drawn from a large first-year subject and analyses students’ written ethnographic reflections on their ident…
Sociology (25 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works)