Georgina Sutherland
Biographic Data
| ID | 5548944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgina Sutherland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutherland |
| SIGNATURE | SUTHERLAND G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8489-1255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Research as resistance
Background Epistemic justice requires that people hold meaningful authority over knowledge that concerns them. For criminalized women who use drugs, this authority is denied: overlapping credibility deficits across drug use, criminalization, and domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) domains render their knowledge illegitimate, their accounts not credible, and their definitions of the problem absent from research. Existing lived experience …
Understanding the experiences of public experts on Covid-19 in Australia
Public experts emerged as vital media figures during the COVID-19 pandemic, influencing political discourse and health interventions. Our study, based on qualitative interviews with public experts who engaged with Australian media, sought to understand their unique experiences and motivations in a pandemic context. Despite significant negative repercussions such as receiving abuse from the public and dealing with difficult journalists, public exp…
A Systematic Review of Interventions Addressing the Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women With Disability
Women with disability experience significantly more violence and abuse than their nondisabled peers. Efforts to implement, evaluate, and scale-up strategies to prevent violence against women are rapidly expanding, but we know less about “what works” to prevent violence against women with disability. While secondary and tertiary prevention aim to identify violence early and prevent further occurrence, this review focuses on primary prevention. In …
A rapid gender impact assessment of Australian university responses to Covid-19
In March 2020, the Australian government introduced a raft of public health initiatives to curb the rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) including closing schools and work from home orders. As a group of female academics, we were immediately attuned to the potential of COVID-19 to dilute progress made towards reducing the academic gender gap. This study emerged in response and comprised a rapid gender impact assessment of Australia…
Why we need population data on gender norms, and why this is important for population health
Gender norms are essential barometers of gender equality; inequitable gender norms are indicative of core inequalities in society that undermine the health of many groups. Fundamentally embedded in the gender system, prescriptive and restrictive gender norms have been shown to have deleterious effects on the health of women, men, girls and boys, as well as gender and sexual minorities. Gender norms are mutable, and there is potential to target an…
Teaching Journalists About Violence Against Women Best Reportage Practices
Media reporting of violence against women (VAW) has the potential to contribute to improving the community’s understanding and response to this social problem. However, journalists are not immune to gender biases and myths concerning VAW. Both can affect how the subject is framed. We look at an Australian training programme implemented to improve VAW news reporting practices such as including social context, family violence experts and help-seeki…
Health Literacy in Male-Dominated Occupations
Low levels of health literacy are associated with poorer health outcomes. Both individual- and social-level factors have been identified as predictors of low health literacy, and men are known to have lower health literacy than women. Previous research has reported that men working in male-dominated occupations are at higher risk of accidents, injury, and suicide than other population groups, yet no study to date has examined the effect of gender…
Mediated representations of violence against women in the mainstream news in Australia
Despite readiness among journalists and readers to engage in news about violence against women, reporting that promotes public understanding of the issue is not always the norm
Public Engagement for Regulatory Reform
As a method of science communication, public consultations have the potential to offer members of society the opportunity to influence government policy. An important component of public consultations is the evaluation of stakeholder submissions (from individuals to large organizations). As a case study, we investigated an Australian public consultation on the regulation of autologous stem cell therapies (ASCT) facilitated by the Therapeutic Good…
Australian Media Messages
This study uses critical discourse analysis to examine news reporting of two cases of intimate partner violence in Australia. The fine-grained analysis of newswriting and news-editing practices focuses particularly on the lexical features and referential strategies used to represent the perpetrator and the victim, the crime, and the location of the crime. Findings show that reporting often omits social context, sensationalizes, and acts to shift …
Agreement between self-reported healthcare service use and administrative records in a longitudinal study of adults recently released from prison
BACKGROUND: Studies of healthcare service use often rely on self-reported data, especially in disadvantaged populations. Despite this, the reliability of self-reported healthcare service use is often questioned and routinely-collected, administrative data are usually considered preferable. In this paper we examine the agreement between self-reported healthcare service use and administrative records, in a large cohort of adults recently released f…
Prescribed contraceptives among woman after release from prison
Despite the high rates of unintended and complicated pregnancy among women who have spent time in prison, little is known about their use of prescribed contraceptives post-prison release. We used a routinely-collected medicine utilisation dataset linked to a longitudinal cohort of adults released from prison to describe the dispensing of contraceptive medication. The socio-demographic profiles of women in the cohort were characteristic of justice…
What happens to coroners’ recommendations for improving public health and safety? Organisational responses under a mandatory response regime in Victoria, Australia
Only a third of coroners' recommendations were implemented by the organisations to which they were directed. In drawing policy lessons, it is important to separate recommendations that were rejected from those in which action had already been taken. Rejected recommendations raise questions about the quality of the recommendations, the reasonableness of the organisation's response, or both. Supplanted recommendations focus attention on the adequac…
Stressful life events, social health issues and low birthweight in an Australian population-based birth cohort
There is a window of opportunity in antenatal care to implement targeted preventive interventions addressing potentially modifiable risk factors for poor maternal and infant outcomes. Developing the evidence base and infrastructure necessary in order for antenatal services to respond effectively to the social circumstances of women's lives is long overdue
Social Inequalities in the Organization of Pregnancy Care in a Universally Funded Public Health Care System
Postpartum anxiety, depression and social health
Health care providers including midwives, nurses, medical practitioners and community health workers need to be alert to women's social circumstances and life events experienced in the perinatal period and the interplay between social and emotional health. Usual management for postpartum mental health issues including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and pharmacological approaches may not be effective if social health issues are not addressed. Coord…
Australian Media Messages
This study uses critical discourse analysis to examine news reporting of two cases of intimate partner violence in Australia. The fine-grained analysis of newswriting and news-editing practices focuses particularly on the lexical features and referential strategies used to represent the perpetrator and the victim, the crime, and the location of the crime. Findings show that reporting often omits social context, sensationalizes, and acts to shift …
Why we need population data on gender norms, and why this is important for population health
Gender norms are essential barometers of gender equality; inequitable gender norms are indicative of core inequalities in society that undermine the health of many groups. Fundamentally embedded in the gender system, prescriptive and restrictive gender norms have been shown to have deleterious effects on the health of women, men, girls and boys, as well as gender and sexual minorities. Gender norms are mutable, and there is potential to target an…
Teaching Journalists About Violence Against Women Best Reportage Practices
Media reporting of violence against women (VAW) has the potential to contribute to improving the community’s understanding and response to this social problem. However, journalists are not immune to gender biases and myths concerning VAW. Both can affect how the subject is framed. We look at an Australian training programme implemented to improve VAW news reporting practices such as including social context, family violence experts and help-seeki…
Postpartum anxiety, depression and social health
Health care providers including midwives, nurses, medical practitioners and community health workers need to be alert to women's social circumstances and life events experienced in the perinatal period and the interplay between social and emotional health. Usual management for postpartum mental health issues including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and pharmacological approaches may not be effective if social health issues are not addressed. Coord…
Stressful life events, social health issues and low birthweight in an Australian population-based birth cohort
There is a window of opportunity in antenatal care to implement targeted preventive interventions addressing potentially modifiable risk factors for poor maternal and infant outcomes. Developing the evidence base and infrastructure necessary in order for antenatal services to respond effectively to the social circumstances of women's lives is long overdue
Social Inequalities in the Organization of Pregnancy Care in a Universally Funded Public Health Care System
What happens to coroners’ recommendations for improving public health and safety? Organisational responses under a mandatory response regime in Victoria, Australia
Only a third of coroners' recommendations were implemented by the organisations to which they were directed. In drawing policy lessons, it is important to separate recommendations that were rejected from those in which action had already been taken. Rejected recommendations raise questions about the quality of the recommendations, the reasonableness of the organisation's response, or both. Supplanted recommendations focus attention on the adequac…
Prescribed contraceptives among woman after release from prison
Despite the high rates of unintended and complicated pregnancy among women who have spent time in prison, little is known about their use of prescribed contraceptives post-prison release. We used a routinely-collected medicine utilisation dataset linked to a longitudinal cohort of adults released from prison to describe the dispensing of contraceptive medication. The socio-demographic profiles of women in the cohort were characteristic of justice…
Agreement between self-reported healthcare service use and administrative records in a longitudinal study of adults recently released from prison
BACKGROUND: Studies of healthcare service use often rely on self-reported data, especially in disadvantaged populations. Despite this, the reliability of self-reported healthcare service use is often questioned and routinely-collected, administrative data are usually considered preferable. In this paper we examine the agreement between self-reported healthcare service use and administrative records, in a large cohort of adults recently released f…
Australian Media Messages
This study uses critical discourse analysis to examine news reporting of two cases of intimate partner violence in Australia. The fine-grained analysis of newswriting and news-editing practices focuses particularly on the lexical features and referential strategies used to represent the perpetrator and the victim, the crime, and the location of the crime. Findings show that reporting often omits social context, sensationalizes, and acts to shift …
Mediated representations of violence against women in the mainstream news in Australia
Despite readiness among journalists and readers to engage in news about violence against women, reporting that promotes public understanding of the issue is not always the norm
Public Engagement for Regulatory Reform
As a method of science communication, public consultations have the potential to offer members of society the opportunity to influence government policy. An important component of public consultations is the evaluation of stakeholder submissions (from individuals to large organizations). As a case study, we investigated an Australian public consultation on the regulation of autologous stem cell therapies (ASCT) facilitated by the Therapeutic Good…
Health Literacy in Male-Dominated Occupations
Low levels of health literacy are associated with poorer health outcomes. Both individual- and social-level factors have been identified as predictors of low health literacy, and men are known to have lower health literacy than women. Previous research has reported that men working in male-dominated occupations are at higher risk of accidents, injury, and suicide than other population groups, yet no study to date has examined the effect of gender…
Teaching Journalists About Violence Against Women Best Reportage Practices
Media reporting of violence against women (VAW) has the potential to contribute to improving the community’s understanding and response to this social problem. However, journalists are not immune to gender biases and myths concerning VAW. Both can affect how the subject is framed. We look at an Australian training programme implemented to improve VAW news reporting practices such as including social context, family violence experts and help-seeki…
A rapid gender impact assessment of Australian university responses to Covid-19
In March 2020, the Australian government introduced a raft of public health initiatives to curb the rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) including closing schools and work from home orders. As a group of female academics, we were immediately attuned to the potential of COVID-19 to dilute progress made towards reducing the academic gender gap. This study emerged in response and comprised a rapid gender impact assessment of Australia…
Why we need population data on gender norms, and why this is important for population health
Gender norms are essential barometers of gender equality; inequitable gender norms are indicative of core inequalities in society that undermine the health of many groups. Fundamentally embedded in the gender system, prescriptive and restrictive gender norms have been shown to have deleterious effects on the health of women, men, girls and boys, as well as gender and sexual minorities. Gender norms are mutable, and there is potential to target an…
Understanding the experiences of public experts on Covid-19 in Australia
Public experts emerged as vital media figures during the COVID-19 pandemic, influencing political discourse and health interventions. Our study, based on qualitative interviews with public experts who engaged with Australian media, sought to understand their unique experiences and motivations in a pandemic context. Despite significant negative repercussions such as receiving abuse from the public and dealing with difficult journalists, public exp…
A Systematic Review of Interventions Addressing the Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women With Disability
Women with disability experience significantly more violence and abuse than their nondisabled peers. Efforts to implement, evaluate, and scale-up strategies to prevent violence against women are rapidly expanding, but we know less about “what works” to prevent violence against women with disability. While secondary and tertiary prevention aim to identify violence early and prevent further occurrence, this review focuses on primary prevention. In …
Research as resistance
Background Epistemic justice requires that people hold meaningful authority over knowledge that concerns them. For criminalized women who use drugs, this authority is denied: overlapping credibility deficits across drug use, criminalization, and domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) domains render their knowledge illegitimate, their accounts not credible, and their definitions of the problem absent from research. Existing lived experience …
Medicine (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Public health (7 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)