Anna Olsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Olsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Olsen |
| SIGNATURE | OLSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8712-3390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ageing disgracefully with Jude Byrne: A special section recognising her life and work
While most special sections in Drug and Alcohol Review are focused on a particular research topic, this collection is devoted posthumously to a person and her interests; Jude Byrne. Unique in her ability to lead work across advocacy, policy and research, Jude used her intelligence and living experience as a person who used drugs to influence policy and practice across the alcohol and other drug, blood-borne virus and community sectors. As we note…
Vale Jude Byrne
March marks the second anniversary of the passing of globally esteemed drug reform advocate Jude Byrne. Internationally, as well as in her home country of Australia, Jude was a courageous advocate for the marginalised. Identifying unapologetically as a person who injects drugs for over 40 years, Jude's living experience drove her human rights perspectives on drug use, law and health. While spearheading political change, Jude inspired generations …
Liminality and insecurity: A qualitative study of young adults’ vulnerabilities during the first twelve months of Covid-19 in Australia
COVID-19 has disrupted the normative social order, particularly for young adults. Their deteriorating mental health over 2020 has been associated with the economic and social conditions during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with young adults aged 8 and 29 most of whom lived in Victoria, Australia. The interviews explored participants' experiences and responses to COVID-19, covering areas such as disrupted every…
Bushfire Smoke in Our Eyes: Community Perceptions and Responses to an Intense Smoke Event in Canberra, Australia
The 2019–20 bushfires that raged in eastern Australia were an overwhelming natural disaster leading to lives lost or upended, and communities destroyed. For almost a month, Canberra, Australia's capital city in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), was obscured by smoke from fires which threatened the outer suburbs. While smoke itself is experientially different from many natural disasters, it nevertheless poses a significant public health thre…
Developing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural indicators: An overview from Mayi Kuwayu, the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
The processes used by Mayi Kuwayu have generated meaningful cultural items for use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing research. Further assessment of these processes, including a comparison with best practice guidelines and psychometric testing of the items and scales developed, will be conducted in a future program of work
I didn’t feel safe inside’: Navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke
Bushfires, and resulting bushfire smoke, were major environmental, social and health crises in Australia in the summer of 2019–20. In Australia’s national capital the smoke pollution index topped global charts, and public health communications were rapidly developed that advised people to stay indoors to avoid smoke exposure. Drawing on interviews with a diverse range of housed residents, we explore people’s experiences of navigating public healt…
Does naloxone provision lead to increased substance use? A systematic review to assess if there is evidence of a ‘moral hazard’ associated with naloxone supply
Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities: An exploratory qualitative study
Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are significant in understanding and responding to FDV. This study examines the influence of religious beliefs and val…
Using the behaviour change wheel to understand and address barriers to pharmacy naloxone supply in Australia
Understanding Strengths in Adolescent–Parent Relationships: A Qualitative Analysis of Adolescent Speech Samples
Although adolescents' perspective on the parent-adolescent relationship uniquely predicts their mental health and wellbeing, there is limited research using qualitative methodologies to explore rich descriptions of adolescents' expectations, attitudes, and beliefs towards parents. The current study qualitatively analyzed adolescent narratives regarding their relationships with their parents. Seventy-two adolescents (68% female; M age = 16.56) pro…
Governing Parental Drug Use in the UK: What’s Hidden in “Hidden Harm?”
In 2003, the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs published Hidden Harm, the product of an inquiry that exposed the “problems” of parental drug use and its neglect by professionals. It outlined an extensive program of reforms designed to protect children from harm. Despite its far-reaching influence, it has rarely been subject to scrutiny, with analyses focusing on its impact instead. Drawing on Bacchi’s post-structuralist “What’s the Probl…
Why aren’t Australian pharmacists supplying naloxone? Findings from a qualitative study
The Role of Attentional Control in the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Anxiety
Mindfulness has been robustly associated with psychological health, predicting greater well-being, and lower levels of anxiety, depression, and stress across samples. Attentional control is the ability to voluntarily shift, focus, and train one's attention and has also been linked with better psychological functioning. Less well-understood, however, are which domains of mindfulness may be associated with particular aspects of mental health, inclu…
Australian women's cervical cancer screening attendance as a function of screening barriers and facilitators
‘Telling our story… Creating our own history’: Caregivers’ reasons for participating in an Australian longitudinal study of Indigenous children
Our findings support the assertion that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want to be involved in research when it is done 'the right way'. Footprints in Time has successfully recruited and retained the current-largest cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia through the use of participatory research methodologies, suggesting effective study implementation and processes. Participants indicated ongoing commit…
Teamworking Skills for Social Workers
I was very pleased to be invited to review this book. As a lecturer in social work and nursing education, I believe that teamworking is essential for effective interventions with individuals, groups and communities. Serious case reviews such as those of ‘Baby Peter’ (Jones, 2009), Winterbourne View hospital (Department of Health, 2012) and the Francis report (Francis, 2013) into hospital care, cite lack of communication and the inability to commu…
Policy and Practice: The Role of Trade Unions in Reducing Migrant Workers’ Vulnerability to Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
This paper provides an analysis of what trade unions can offer to reduce the vulnerability of migrant workers to forced labour and human trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and Malaysia as a key destination for GMS migrant workers. The exploration of the potential for the engagement of trade union partners is a timely contribution to the forced labour and anti-trafficking debate, given the shift towards a more holistic labour rights…
Reinforced Biographies Among Women Living With Hepatitis C
In a growing body of social research it is suggested that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a low priority for people who inject drugs. We expand on the evidence to explore the link between identity and health using biographical adaptation theories. We examined experiences of HCV infection and illness among women who inject drugs, women who are no longer injecting drugs, and women who have never injected drugs. We investigated the relationship…
Positive health beliefs and behaviours in the midst of difficult lives: Women who inject drugs
Learning from the past: Young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives
The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's views of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) affecting their communities. In this paper we present an analysis of narratives from young people who had a previous BBV/STI diagnosis to explore how they actively negotiate the experience …
Young Indigenous Australians' Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Practices: A Community‐based Participatory Research Project
National surveillance data indicate marked differences between Indigenous and other Australians in the prevalence of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young Indigenous people bear a particularly high burden of these infections. A collaboration of university researchers, Indigenous health workers and young Indigenous people conducted 45 field interviews to examine how young Indigenous Australians keep themselves healthy and protected ag…
Internal or Infernal Devices: Experiences of Contraception Among Australian Women Living With Hepatitis C
In this article we seek to delineate the experiences of contraceptive use by Australian women living with hepatitis C. Using semi-structured, in-depth interviews, 109 women with hepatitis C from two cities in Australia, Melbourne (Victoria) and Canberra (the Australian Capital Territory), were interviewed about their alcohol and other drug use, their contraceptive history, and their experiences of hepatitis C. We aimed to understand why such a hi…
Consuming e: Ecstasy Use and Contemporary Social Life
Research and popular commentary on Ecstasy often frames users as rebellious youth reacting against mainstream society via hedonistic rave parties and reckless intoxication. Critical consideration of the complex social and economic foundations of Ecstasy use is lacking in much of this youth-based research. Growing evidence, for example, suggests that a wide range of people take Ecstasy in a variety of contexts. Through the lens of anthro-economic …
Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities: An exploratory qualitative study
Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are significant in understanding and responding to FDV. This study examines the influence of religious beliefs and val…
Policy and Practice: The Role of Trade Unions in Reducing Migrant Workers’ Vulnerability to Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
This paper provides an analysis of what trade unions can offer to reduce the vulnerability of migrant workers to forced labour and human trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and Malaysia as a key destination for GMS migrant workers. The exploration of the potential for the engagement of trade union partners is a timely contribution to the forced labour and anti-trafficking debate, given the shift towards a more holistic labour rights…
Understanding Strengths in Adolescent–Parent Relationships: A Qualitative Analysis of Adolescent Speech Samples
Although adolescents' perspective on the parent-adolescent relationship uniquely predicts their mental health and wellbeing, there is limited research using qualitative methodologies to explore rich descriptions of adolescents' expectations, attitudes, and beliefs towards parents. The current study qualitatively analyzed adolescent narratives regarding their relationships with their parents. Seventy-two adolescents (68% female; M age = 16.56) pro…
Reinforced Biographies Among Women Living With Hepatitis C
In a growing body of social research it is suggested that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a low priority for people who inject drugs. We expand on the evidence to explore the link between identity and health using biographical adaptation theories. We examined experiences of HCV infection and illness among women who inject drugs, women who are no longer injecting drugs, and women who have never injected drugs. We investigated the relationship…
Governing Parental Drug Use in the UK: What’s Hidden in “Hidden Harm?”
In 2003, the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs published Hidden Harm, the product of an inquiry that exposed the “problems” of parental drug use and its neglect by professionals. It outlined an extensive program of reforms designed to protect children from harm. Despite its far-reaching influence, it has rarely been subject to scrutiny, with analyses focusing on its impact instead. Drawing on Bacchi’s post-structuralist “What’s the Probl…
Australian women's cervical cancer screening attendance as a function of screening barriers and facilitators
Young Indigenous Australians' Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Practices: A Community‐based Participatory Research Project
National surveillance data indicate marked differences between Indigenous and other Australians in the prevalence of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young Indigenous people bear a particularly high burden of these infections. A collaboration of university researchers, Indigenous health workers and young Indigenous people conducted 45 field interviews to examine how young Indigenous Australians keep themselves healthy and protected ag…
Consuming e: Ecstasy Use and Contemporary Social Life
Research and popular commentary on Ecstasy often frames users as rebellious youth reacting against mainstream society via hedonistic rave parties and reckless intoxication. Critical consideration of the complex social and economic foundations of Ecstasy use is lacking in much of this youth-based research. Growing evidence, for example, suggests that a wide range of people take Ecstasy in a variety of contexts. Through the lens of anthro-economic …
Internal or Infernal Devices: Experiences of Contraception Among Australian Women Living With Hepatitis C
In this article we seek to delineate the experiences of contraceptive use by Australian women living with hepatitis C. Using semi-structured, in-depth interviews, 109 women with hepatitis C from two cities in Australia, Melbourne (Victoria) and Canberra (the Australian Capital Territory), were interviewed about their alcohol and other drug use, their contraceptive history, and their experiences of hepatitis C. We aimed to understand why such a hi…
Consuming e: Ecstasy Use and Contemporary Social Life
Research and popular commentary on Ecstasy often frames users as rebellious youth reacting against mainstream society via hedonistic rave parties and reckless intoxication. Critical consideration of the complex social and economic foundations of Ecstasy use is lacking in much of this youth-based research. Growing evidence, for example, suggests that a wide range of people take Ecstasy in a variety of contexts. Through the lens of anthro-economic …
Learning from the past: Young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives
The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's views of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) affecting their communities. In this paper we present an analysis of narratives from young people who had a previous BBV/STI diagnosis to explore how they actively negotiate the experience …
Young Indigenous Australians' Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Practices: A Community‐based Participatory Research Project
National surveillance data indicate marked differences between Indigenous and other Australians in the prevalence of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young Indigenous people bear a particularly high burden of these infections. A collaboration of university researchers, Indigenous health workers and young Indigenous people conducted 45 field interviews to examine how young Indigenous Australians keep themselves healthy and protected ag…
Positive health beliefs and behaviours in the midst of difficult lives: Women who inject drugs
Reinforced Biographies Among Women Living With Hepatitis C
In a growing body of social research it is suggested that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a low priority for people who inject drugs. We expand on the evidence to explore the link between identity and health using biographical adaptation theories. We examined experiences of HCV infection and illness among women who inject drugs, women who are no longer injecting drugs, and women who have never injected drugs. We investigated the relationship…
Teamworking Skills for Social Workers
I was very pleased to be invited to review this book. As a lecturer in social work and nursing education, I believe that teamworking is essential for effective interventions with individuals, groups and communities. Serious case reviews such as those of ‘Baby Peter’ (Jones, 2009), Winterbourne View hospital (Department of Health, 2012) and the Francis report (Francis, 2013) into hospital care, cite lack of communication and the inability to commu…
Policy and Practice: The Role of Trade Unions in Reducing Migrant Workers’ Vulnerability to Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
This paper provides an analysis of what trade unions can offer to reduce the vulnerability of migrant workers to forced labour and human trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and Malaysia as a key destination for GMS migrant workers. The exploration of the potential for the engagement of trade union partners is a timely contribution to the forced labour and anti-trafficking debate, given the shift towards a more holistic labour rights…
‘Telling our story… Creating our own history’: Caregivers’ reasons for participating in an Australian longitudinal study of Indigenous children
Our findings support the assertion that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want to be involved in research when it is done 'the right way'. Footprints in Time has successfully recruited and retained the current-largest cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia through the use of participatory research methodologies, suggesting effective study implementation and processes. Participants indicated ongoing commit…
Why aren’t Australian pharmacists supplying naloxone? Findings from a qualitative study
The Role of Attentional Control in the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Anxiety
Mindfulness has been robustly associated with psychological health, predicting greater well-being, and lower levels of anxiety, depression, and stress across samples. Attentional control is the ability to voluntarily shift, focus, and train one's attention and has also been linked with better psychological functioning. Less well-understood, however, are which domains of mindfulness may be associated with particular aspects of mental health, inclu…
Australian women's cervical cancer screening attendance as a function of screening barriers and facilitators
Governing Parental Drug Use in the UK: What’s Hidden in “Hidden Harm?”
In 2003, the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs published Hidden Harm, the product of an inquiry that exposed the “problems” of parental drug use and its neglect by professionals. It outlined an extensive program of reforms designed to protect children from harm. Despite its far-reaching influence, it has rarely been subject to scrutiny, with analyses focusing on its impact instead. Drawing on Bacchi’s post-structuralist “What’s the Probl…
Using the behaviour change wheel to understand and address barriers to pharmacy naloxone supply in Australia
Understanding Strengths in Adolescent–Parent Relationships: A Qualitative Analysis of Adolescent Speech Samples
Although adolescents' perspective on the parent-adolescent relationship uniquely predicts their mental health and wellbeing, there is limited research using qualitative methodologies to explore rich descriptions of adolescents' expectations, attitudes, and beliefs towards parents. The current study qualitatively analyzed adolescent narratives regarding their relationships with their parents. Seventy-two adolescents (68% female; M age = 16.56) pro…
Bushfire Smoke in Our Eyes: Community Perceptions and Responses to an Intense Smoke Event in Canberra, Australia
The 2019–20 bushfires that raged in eastern Australia were an overwhelming natural disaster leading to lives lost or upended, and communities destroyed. For almost a month, Canberra, Australia's capital city in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), was obscured by smoke from fires which threatened the outer suburbs. While smoke itself is experientially different from many natural disasters, it nevertheless poses a significant public health thre…
Developing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural indicators: An overview from Mayi Kuwayu, the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
The processes used by Mayi Kuwayu have generated meaningful cultural items for use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing research. Further assessment of these processes, including a comparison with best practice guidelines and psychometric testing of the items and scales developed, will be conducted in a future program of work
I didn’t feel safe inside’: Navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke
Bushfires, and resulting bushfire smoke, were major environmental, social and health crises in Australia in the summer of 2019–20. In Australia’s national capital the smoke pollution index topped global charts, and public health communications were rapidly developed that advised people to stay indoors to avoid smoke exposure. Drawing on interviews with a diverse range of housed residents, we explore people’s experiences of navigating public healt…
Does naloxone provision lead to increased substance use? A systematic review to assess if there is evidence of a ‘moral hazard’ associated with naloxone supply
Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities: An exploratory qualitative study
Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are significant in understanding and responding to FDV. This study examines the influence of religious beliefs and val…
Vale Jude Byrne
March marks the second anniversary of the passing of globally esteemed drug reform advocate Jude Byrne. Internationally, as well as in her home country of Australia, Jude was a courageous advocate for the marginalised. Identifying unapologetically as a person who injects drugs for over 40 years, Jude's living experience drove her human rights perspectives on drug use, law and health. While spearheading political change, Jude inspired generations …
Liminality and insecurity: A qualitative study of young adults’ vulnerabilities during the first twelve months of Covid-19 in Australia
COVID-19 has disrupted the normative social order, particularly for young adults. Their deteriorating mental health over 2020 has been associated with the economic and social conditions during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with young adults aged 8 and 29 most of whom lived in Victoria, Australia. The interviews explored participants' experiences and responses to COVID-19, covering areas such as disrupted every…
Ageing disgracefully with Jude Byrne: A special section recognising her life and work
While most special sections in Drug and Alcohol Review are focused on a particular research topic, this collection is devoted posthumously to a person and her interests; Jude Byrne. Unique in her ability to lead work across advocacy, policy and research, Jude used her intelligence and living experience as a person who used drugs to influence policy and practice across the alcohol and other drug, blood-borne virus and community sectors. As we note…
Medicine (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Nursing (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works)