Megan Blaxland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Blaxland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Blaxland |
| SIGNATURE | BLAXLAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0841-6495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking ‘Strengths’ in Youth Health Research
The language of ‘strengths’ and ‘strengths‐based approaches’ has rapidly grown in health research, yet rarely have these approaches been evaluated for their conceptual adequacy. This paper presents an analysis of recent literature to examine how young people's ‘strengths’ have been represented. We found that most papers use the language of resilience and protective factors to focus mostly on individual traits or attributes. This literature offers…
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing
China adopted neoliberal approaches to improve the supply of quality social services in the early 2000s. How did the Chinese government manage the financial and quality risks of increasing the provision via government purchasing and how did it differ from other countries? The article examines the policy trajectory of early childhood education and care in China and Australia on this question. Policy analysis of the effect of purchasing on the cost…
Serving families who face economic and related adversities
Introduction Families with young children who face economic and related adversities are the most likely group to miss out on the advantages of regular sustained participation in high quality early childhood education and care. In Australia, there are an estimated 11% of children assessed by teachers to have two or more developmental vulnerabilities and many of these children are living in economically disadvantaged contexts. Government policy in …
Perceptions of Covid-19 Vaccines
COVID-19 vaccination is particularly challenging among populations who have experienced discrimination in healthcare settings. This paper presents qualitative findings from in-depth interviews about COVID-19 vaccination conducted in Australia between October 2020 and November 2021. Data from four different studies are presented; each population has unique experiences of discrimination within the healthcare system: Aboriginal people; people who in…
Factors that help people with disability to self-manage their support
Disability policy in many countries encourages people to self-manage their disability support funds, yet few people do. This is also the case with Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Little is known about who chooses self-management and how they sustain it. This project explored the conditions and resources conducive to self-management in the interests of the person with disability. It used Katzman and Kinsella’s typology of …
Aboriginal peoples’ perspectives about Covid-19 vaccines and motivations to seek vaccination
INTRODUCTION: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people compared with non-Aboriginal people in Australia have higher rates of chronic conditions. These conditions increase the risk of poorer health outcomes if infected with COVID-19, highlighting the importance of COVID-19 vaccination. This study examined what Aboriginal people think about COVID-19 vaccines, reasons why they were vaccinated or not vaccinated and factors involved i…
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their childhoods. This article draws on biographical na…
Recognition in relationships between young people with cognitive disabilities and support workers
The research used Honneth’s interpersonal recognition theory (caring about, respecting and valuing), mediated by the institutional context, to explore how young people with cognitive disabilities and support workers view the quality of their relationship. Such understanding can inform improvements to how they work together and can influence their identities and wellbeing. Separate online surveys for young people with cognitive disabilities (81) a…
Factors associated with establishment-based female sex workers accessing health care services in Shanghai
Female sex workers are a priority population for HIV prevention and health promotion in China. This paper examines the patterns of and factors associated with the utilisation of HIV-related and general health services by establishment-based sex workers in Hongkou District, Shanghai. Participants were recruited through a three-stage sampling strategy and invited to self-complete a brief survey in 2012. The median age of the 400 participants includ…
Transitional and Developmental Challenges for Chinese Social Policy
This special issue explores the social policy challenges faced by China as it navigates a period of rapid social and economic change. While China has benefited from significant growth and new wealth in recent years, there are many sections of Chinese society that continue to live in poverty. The authors in this special issue provide thoughtful and creative responses to difficult policy questions with the aim of reducing poverty and expanding and …
Without Rice, Even the Cleverest Housewife Cannot Cook
This paper presents findings of a qualitative study investigating the assets, the risks and shocks, and the anti‐risk mechanisms of the households of a poor village in rural northern China. The paper explores the vulnerability of the rural households to becoming impoverished and presents some implications for Chinese social policy. The research shows that income sources and assets of the households were considerably varied, and that this, in turn…
Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMegan BlaxlandMegan Blaxland is a Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Xiaoyuan ShangXiaoyuan Shang is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Karen R. FisherKaren R. Fisher is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Cent…
Street-level Interpellation
Meetings between advisers and claimants are central to many welfare-to-work programmes. These 'street-level' exchanges between clients and staff are critical to the implementation of policy. When talking to welfare claimants, it becomes clear that contact with welfare bureaucrats is constitutive of their experience of policy and it is not until parent and adviser meet and negotiate that the policy is truly enacted. The policy comes into being thr…
Introduction
China is at a turning point in the reform of its social welfare system due to new opportunities and pressures. First, China is in transition to a middle developed country. Fast economic growth has created more wealth for the government and society that could be invested in the social welfare of its citizens. Second, social problems and conflicts have accumulated, partly as a result of past social policies, which were residual only, as was common …
So that's how I found out I was a young carer and that I actually had been a carer most of my life’. Identifying and supporting hidden young carers
A common theme in the literature on care-giving is the issue of ‘hidden’ carers, that is, people who undertake caring roles and responsibilities, yet do not identify themselves as carers. One reason people do not recognise themselves as carers relates to the nature of the caring relationship. When providing care for a family member, intra-familial bonds of love and reciprocity do not encourage parties to view the relationship as anything other th…
Parenthood, policy and work-family time in Australia 1992-2006
This article explores how having children impacted upon (a) paid work, domestic work and childcare (total workload) and (b) the gender division of labour in Australia over a 15-year period during which government changed from the progressive Labor Party to the socially conservative National/Liberal Party Coalition. It describes changes and continuity in government policies and rhetoric about work, family and gender issues and trends in workforce …
Parenthood, policy and work-family time in Australia 1992-2006
This article explores how having children impacted upon (a) paid work, domestic work and childcare (total workload) and (b) the gender division of labour in Australia over a 15-year period during which government changed from the progressive Labor Party to the socially conservative National/Liberal Party Coalition. It describes changes and continuity in government policies and rhetoric about work, family and gender issues and trends in workforce …
So that's how I found out I was a young carer and that I actually had been a carer most of my life’. Identifying and supporting hidden young carers
A common theme in the literature on care-giving is the issue of ‘hidden’ carers, that is, people who undertake caring roles and responsibilities, yet do not identify themselves as carers. One reason people do not recognise themselves as carers relates to the nature of the caring relationship. When providing care for a family member, intra-familial bonds of love and reciprocity do not encourage parties to view the relationship as anything other th…
Street-level Interpellation
Meetings between advisers and claimants are central to many welfare-to-work programmes. These 'street-level' exchanges between clients and staff are critical to the implementation of policy. When talking to welfare claimants, it becomes clear that contact with welfare bureaucrats is constitutive of their experience of policy and it is not until parent and adviser meet and negotiate that the policy is truly enacted. The policy comes into being thr…
Factors that help people with disability to self-manage their support
Disability policy in many countries encourages people to self-manage their disability support funds, yet few people do. This is also the case with Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Little is known about who chooses self-management and how they sustain it. This project explored the conditions and resources conducive to self-management in the interests of the person with disability. It used Katzman and Kinsella’s typology of …
Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMegan BlaxlandMegan Blaxland is a Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Xiaoyuan ShangXiaoyuan Shang is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Karen R. FisherKaren R. Fisher is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Cent…
Introduction
China is at a turning point in the reform of its social welfare system due to new opportunities and pressures. First, China is in transition to a middle developed country. Fast economic growth has created more wealth for the government and society that could be invested in the social welfare of its citizens. Second, social problems and conflicts have accumulated, partly as a result of past social policies, which were residual only, as was common …
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their childhoods. This article draws on biographical na…
Recognition in relationships between young people with cognitive disabilities and support workers
The research used Honneth’s interpersonal recognition theory (caring about, respecting and valuing), mediated by the institutional context, to explore how young people with cognitive disabilities and support workers view the quality of their relationship. Such understanding can inform improvements to how they work together and can influence their identities and wellbeing. Separate online surveys for young people with cognitive disabilities (81) a…
Without Rice, Even the Cleverest Housewife Cannot Cook
This paper presents findings of a qualitative study investigating the assets, the risks and shocks, and the anti‐risk mechanisms of the households of a poor village in rural northern China. The paper explores the vulnerability of the rural households to becoming impoverished and presents some implications for Chinese social policy. The research shows that income sources and assets of the households were considerably varied, and that this, in turn…
Introduction
China is at a turning point in the reform of its social welfare system due to new opportunities and pressures. First, China is in transition to a middle developed country. Fast economic growth has created more wealth for the government and society that could be invested in the social welfare of its citizens. Second, social problems and conflicts have accumulated, partly as a result of past social policies, which were residual only, as was common …
So that's how I found out I was a young carer and that I actually had been a carer most of my life’. Identifying and supporting hidden young carers
A common theme in the literature on care-giving is the issue of ‘hidden’ carers, that is, people who undertake caring roles and responsibilities, yet do not identify themselves as carers. One reason people do not recognise themselves as carers relates to the nature of the caring relationship. When providing care for a family member, intra-familial bonds of love and reciprocity do not encourage parties to view the relationship as anything other th…
Parenthood, policy and work-family time in Australia 1992-2006
This article explores how having children impacted upon (a) paid work, domestic work and childcare (total workload) and (b) the gender division of labour in Australia over a 15-year period during which government changed from the progressive Labor Party to the socially conservative National/Liberal Party Coalition. It describes changes and continuity in government policies and rhetoric about work, family and gender issues and trends in workforce …
Street-level Interpellation
Meetings between advisers and claimants are central to many welfare-to-work programmes. These 'street-level' exchanges between clients and staff are critical to the implementation of policy. When talking to welfare claimants, it becomes clear that contact with welfare bureaucrats is constitutive of their experience of policy and it is not until parent and adviser meet and negotiate that the policy is truly enacted. The policy comes into being thr…
Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMegan BlaxlandMegan Blaxland is a Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Xiaoyuan ShangXiaoyuan Shang is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Karen R. FisherKaren R. Fisher is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Cent…
Factors associated with establishment-based female sex workers accessing health care services in Shanghai
Female sex workers are a priority population for HIV prevention and health promotion in China. This paper examines the patterns of and factors associated with the utilisation of HIV-related and general health services by establishment-based sex workers in Hongkou District, Shanghai. Participants were recruited through a three-stage sampling strategy and invited to self-complete a brief survey in 2012. The median age of the 400 participants includ…
Transitional and Developmental Challenges for Chinese Social Policy
This special issue explores the social policy challenges faced by China as it navigates a period of rapid social and economic change. While China has benefited from significant growth and new wealth in recent years, there are many sections of Chinese society that continue to live in poverty. The authors in this special issue provide thoughtful and creative responses to difficult policy questions with the aim of reducing poverty and expanding and …
Without Rice, Even the Cleverest Housewife Cannot Cook
This paper presents findings of a qualitative study investigating the assets, the risks and shocks, and the anti‐risk mechanisms of the households of a poor village in rural northern China. The paper explores the vulnerability of the rural households to becoming impoverished and presents some implications for Chinese social policy. The research shows that income sources and assets of the households were considerably varied, and that this, in turn…
Recognition in relationships between young people with cognitive disabilities and support workers
The research used Honneth’s interpersonal recognition theory (caring about, respecting and valuing), mediated by the institutional context, to explore how young people with cognitive disabilities and support workers view the quality of their relationship. Such understanding can inform improvements to how they work together and can influence their identities and wellbeing. Separate online surveys for young people with cognitive disabilities (81) a…
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their childhoods. This article draws on biographical na…
Aboriginal peoples’ perspectives about Covid-19 vaccines and motivations to seek vaccination
INTRODUCTION: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people compared with non-Aboriginal people in Australia have higher rates of chronic conditions. These conditions increase the risk of poorer health outcomes if infected with COVID-19, highlighting the importance of COVID-19 vaccination. This study examined what Aboriginal people think about COVID-19 vaccines, reasons why they were vaccinated or not vaccinated and factors involved i…
Serving families who face economic and related adversities
Introduction Families with young children who face economic and related adversities are the most likely group to miss out on the advantages of regular sustained participation in high quality early childhood education and care. In Australia, there are an estimated 11% of children assessed by teachers to have two or more developmental vulnerabilities and many of these children are living in economically disadvantaged contexts. Government policy in …
Perceptions of Covid-19 Vaccines
COVID-19 vaccination is particularly challenging among populations who have experienced discrimination in healthcare settings. This paper presents qualitative findings from in-depth interviews about COVID-19 vaccination conducted in Australia between October 2020 and November 2021. Data from four different studies are presented; each population has unique experiences of discrimination within the healthcare system: Aboriginal people; people who in…
Factors that help people with disability to self-manage their support
Disability policy in many countries encourages people to self-manage their disability support funds, yet few people do. This is also the case with Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Little is known about who chooses self-management and how they sustain it. This project explored the conditions and resources conducive to self-management in the interests of the person with disability. It used Katzman and Kinsella’s typology of …
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing
China adopted neoliberal approaches to improve the supply of quality social services in the early 2000s. How did the Chinese government manage the financial and quality risks of increasing the provision via government purchasing and how did it differ from other countries? The article examines the policy trajectory of early childhood education and care in China and Australia on this question. Policy analysis of the effect of purchasing on the cost…
Rethinking ‘Strengths’ in Youth Health Research
The language of ‘strengths’ and ‘strengths‐based approaches’ has rapidly grown in health research, yet rarely have these approaches been evaluated for their conceptual adequacy. This paper presents an analysis of recent literature to examine how young people's ‘strengths’ have been represented. We found that most papers use the language of resilience and protective factors to focus mostly on individual traits or attributes. This literature offers…
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