B A Lohmeyer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 67733 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B A Lohmeyer |
| NOMBRES | B A |
| APELLIDO | Lohmeyer |
| FIRMA | LOHMEYER B A |
| AFILIACIONES | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3675-5539 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Who Uses Youth Mentoring Frameworks and Guidelines
Mentoring is a popular mode for supporting young people through periods of uncertainty. Youth mentoring frameworks have been developed in countries including Australia, the USA and New Zealand to guide the creation and evaluation of mentoring programs. Yet, how frequently and to what degree these frameworks are utilised is unknown. In addition, the research on youth mentoring is international and multi-disciplinary, leading to fragmentation and d…
A scoping review of podcasting in social work education
With over eight million series available on the two major platforms alone, podcasts are an important contemporary communication medium with a growing popularity in social work education. As social work continues to grapple with contemporary industry needs, student engagement, and the grand challenge of making the most of contemporary technology, podcasting offers one potential method to meet these challenges. This paper utilizes a scoping review …
Drawing Attention to the Silences in the Youth Loneliness Conversation using Youth Led Art-based Methods
There is growing awareness of the rising presence of loneliness among young people at a global scale (WHO 2024), with loneliness being labelled as a ‘global public healthy priority’ (WHO 2024; O’Sullivan et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health 18(19):9982 (2021)). Youth loneliness rates have been rising since 2008 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2023), one in four young people aged 15–24 in Australia experiencing loneliness in 2022 (Le…
The ‘Administrative Burden’ of Tackling Loneliness through Volunteering in Community Centres in South Australia
Loneliness is a growing public health and public policy concern and, internationally, governments are promoting volunteering as an important remedy for ageing populations. Research shows there are positive health and social outcomes from volunteering; however, the dominant approaches to understanding loneliness reinforce an individualising understanding of the issue as occurring primarily among older people, and investment in volunteering-based s…
Temporalities of Trauma
Foster carers raise children whose trauma backgrounds likely result in behaviours that are not simply challenging, but which can also result in vicarious trauma for foster carers. While a growing body of research has explored vicarious trauma among foster carers, to date research has not explored how temporal shifts produced by raising foster children can also compound vicarious trauma for foster carers. The present paper addresses this research …
Jesus, the Bible and ‘I feel like I should be left-leaning’
Existing literature on teaching sociology depicts a ‘liberalising effect’ of sociological ideas on student values. Furthermore, research on teaching sociology in conservative contexts is largely contained to North America and, as such, is silent on the impact of diffused religion, or what we term display-aversive spirituality, in the faith-based higher education sector in Australia. Drawing on insights gathered from 17 participants in student-to-…
A Rapid Review of Wellbeing, Offending & Successful Matching in mentoring for ‘at-risk’ young people
Mentoring promotes certainty by providing predictability through structured frameworks, establishing emotional ties and support networks, and prioritising enduring, longer-term relationships. • Mentoring outcomes significantly diminished after cessation of the relationship. • Employing ‘at-risk’ to describe the young people targeted by mentoring programs not only overlooks the complexity of their lives, but it obscures this context and individual…
Hmm, they’re not stranger danger’
The way that children and young people engage within research continues to progress from the historical bio-medical notions of passiveness, towards contemporary, collaborative methodologies, and frameworks. Children and young people have the right to participate meaningfully in processes that affect them, and scholarship surrounding how this happens continues to develop. However, contemporary literature is predominantly concerned with why childre…
Affective economies of loneliness in school
We need the vibes’
Young age is a critical risk factor for loneliness. Yet, loneliness research and methods are missing the perspectives of young people. Current methods for investigating loneliness obscure the unique experience of loneliness in earlier life and potentially place young people at risk of further social isolation. In this paper, we utilise a co-design process to create a safe method for investigating youth loneliness. This paper investigates what can…
The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research
Validating a Measure of Vicarious Trauma as Experienced by Foster Carers
Burnout, stress and fatigue are known contributors to foster placement breakdown, yet little is known about the prevalence and experience of vicarious trauma specifically among foster carers. This paper sought to develop and validate a measure of vicarious trauma among foster carers. In Study 1, we conducted qualitative interviews ( n = 28) and utilized a Delphi panel to develop 38 measure items. In Study 2, participants completed the new Vicario…
Mentoring Interventions for Young People Ageing Out of Out‐of‐Home Care as a Mechanism for the Relational Redistribution of Capital
Young people seeking employment while ageing out out‐of‐home care (OoHC) face unique social and emotional needs, typically met by familiar bonds that influence their ability to navigate the job market. Aiming to address this need, in partnerships with a community service provider, we developed a project and proposed a framework for a mentor programme design that would help young people exiting OoHC with access to social supports. Utilizing data f…
The affective and spatiotemporal benefits of podcasting for teaching social policy practice
Social policy, or policy practice, in social work education suffers from an image problem among students. Internationally, students prefer direct practice and find policy practice intimidating and boring. In response to provocations to adopt modern technologies, some academics in social work are employing podcasts in teaching and are making claims about the potential to enhance affective connection, demonstrate the relevance of difficult topics, …
But isn’t that normal?’
While growing attention has been paid to the abuse of parents by their children, research to date has almost exclusively focused on parents who have birthed and/or conceived their child. Given that the trauma histories that foster children bring with them may result in abusive behaviours, it is vital to focus on the specific experiences of foster parents with regard to parental abuse. The research reported in this article involved interviews with…
The whole system is designed to create more trauma than it solves
Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma
Positive Deviants? How Case Managers Navigate Administrative Evil and Neoliberal Violence When Working with Justice-Involved Young People
Mentoring for care-experienced young people
In Australia, out-of-home care (OoHC) is provided to safeguard children and young people unable to live with their families. Typically, this care stops at 18 years of age, leaving many young people without the relational support to find employment and stable accommodation. Mentoring is increasingly proposed as a way to support young people exiting care, though the types of mentoring and contextual factors vary considerably. This rapid review aims…
Youth Work, Youth Studies, and Co-design
Youth work practitioners and youth researchers both share a keen interest in the lives, experiences, and well-being of young people; however, the skills and expertise held by practitioners and researchers have not always been mutually valued leading to tensions and a research-practice gap. The rise of co-design methods that prioritise relational skills and ethics appears to mark a moment for closing or reducing this gap. Rather than accepting thi…
Bullying affects
Second paradigm school bullying scholars are challenging the reliance on psychological and behavioural paradigms both in Australia and globally. Approaching bullying as ‘social violence’ has enabled previously underexplored social and cultural dimensions to receive much-needed focus. Bourdieu’s ‘symbolic violence’ offers an avenue to explore the moral and affective dimensions of school bullying as ‘social violence’, yet it contains a controversia…
The institutionalised momentum of slow violence
As contemporary research explores the social and cultural dynamics of school bullying, notions of space and time provide avenues to unpack youth-centred insights into students’ bullying experiences. Furthermore, spatiotemporal analysis demonstrates the links between similar experiences, such as bullying and relationship violence, that are often siloed in research and policy. Yet, within this converging field, there are contradictory accounts, fro…
Social violence and the trivialising effects of youth in school bullying
School bullying attracts significant research and resources globally, yet critical questions are being raised about the long‐term impact of these efforts. There is a disconnect between young people's perspectives and the long‐established psychology‐based technical definitions of school bullying dominating practice and policy in Australia. This dominant paradigm has recently been described as the first paradigm of school bullying. In contrast, thi…
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence
The coupling of victim complicity with violence is intuitively objectionable, yet it is an underexamined aspect of Bourdieu's 'symbolic violence'. Within sociology, the nature of violence continues to be debated and refined with contested boundaries particularly concerning non-physical forms of violence. Symbolic violence offers an avenue to investigate this realm; however, it has been both employed and rejected without close examination of the i…
A critical examination of Australian youth case management
Case management is promoted as a trademark of community service practice with young people funded by neoliberal social policy. In spite of this, case management practice and case managers have largely escaped the attention of youth scholars. In this paper, we examine the funding parameters of two youth case management services in Australia to reveal the governing effects on young people, case managers and NGOs. We develop an analytical framework …
War, Heroes and Sacrifice
The precarity and violation that has resulted from decades of neoliberal reforms have been made clear in the global COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in terms of access to healthcare and financial inequality. However, ideological discourses of individual heroics have been rapidly deployed, to patch up the damage done to neoliberal rhetoric. In this paper, we argue a critical sociological lens reveals something important about this violence of neoli…
Keen as fuck
Youth researchers continue to pursue the ideals of youth participation in research. This pursuit reflects a broader concern for the problems of participant-researcher power dynamics in qualitative research. Youth researchers develop and adopt a variety of techniques and ethical principles that attempt to position young people as active research participants. However, these methods and principles have not solved the challenges of participation. In…
Youth and their workers
The effects of neoliberalism on young people and youth workers through outsourcing government services has attracted critique from multiple sources. Post-structural analysis interrogates subjectification effects of these policies on youth. However, this kind of analysis of the governmental formation of youth ought to consider the interaction between the knowledge of youth underpinning neoliberal social policy, and those employed by non-government…
Restorative Practices and Youth Work
Restorative practices (RP) and youth work continue to emerge as more formalized fields of theory and practice. The interaction between these fields requires attention as RP gain popularity among services delivered to young people. Of particular importance, and currently receiving inadequate attention, is a tension regarding the conceptualization of power in the relationship between practitioners and young people. This article examines the concept…
The whole system is designed to create more trauma than it solves
Bullying affects
Second paradigm school bullying scholars are challenging the reliance on psychological and behavioural paradigms both in Australia and globally. Approaching bullying as ‘social violence’ has enabled previously underexplored social and cultural dimensions to receive much-needed focus. Bourdieu’s ‘symbolic violence’ offers an avenue to explore the moral and affective dimensions of school bullying as ‘social violence’, yet it contains a controversia…
Youth as an artefact of governing violence
Young people are routinely depicted as uniquely violent. Much work has been done, particularly within the sociology of youth, to dispel this misconception. However, these portrayals persist, as does the narrative of youth as a period of transition. This article argues that the transition in youth is a process of governing violence into sanctioned forms. To achieve adult status young people must conform to sanctioned forms of violence. Furthermore…
Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma
A critical examination of Australian youth case management
Case management is promoted as a trademark of community service practice with young people funded by neoliberal social policy. In spite of this, case management practice and case managers have largely escaped the attention of youth scholars. In this paper, we examine the funding parameters of two youth case management services in Australia to reveal the governing effects on young people, case managers and NGOs. We develop an analytical framework …
The affective and spatiotemporal benefits of podcasting for teaching social policy practice
Social policy, or policy practice, in social work education suffers from an image problem among students. Internationally, students prefer direct practice and find policy practice intimidating and boring. In response to provocations to adopt modern technologies, some academics in social work are employing podcasts in teaching and are making claims about the potential to enhance affective connection, demonstrate the relevance of difficult topics, …
Youth Work, Youth Studies, and Co-design
Youth work practitioners and youth researchers both share a keen interest in the lives, experiences, and well-being of young people; however, the skills and expertise held by practitioners and researchers have not always been mutually valued leading to tensions and a research-practice gap. The rise of co-design methods that prioritise relational skills and ethics appears to mark a moment for closing or reducing this gap. Rather than accepting thi…
Social violence and the trivialising effects of youth in school bullying
School bullying attracts significant research and resources globally, yet critical questions are being raised about the long‐term impact of these efforts. There is a disconnect between young people's perspectives and the long‐established psychology‐based technical definitions of school bullying dominating practice and policy in Australia. This dominant paradigm has recently been described as the first paradigm of school bullying. In contrast, thi…
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence
The coupling of victim complicity with violence is intuitively objectionable, yet it is an underexamined aspect of Bourdieu's 'symbolic violence'. Within sociology, the nature of violence continues to be debated and refined with contested boundaries particularly concerning non-physical forms of violence. Symbolic violence offers an avenue to investigate this realm; however, it has been both employed and rejected without close examination of the i…
Restorative Practices and Youth Work
Restorative practices (RP) and youth work continue to emerge as more formalized fields of theory and practice. The interaction between these fields requires attention as RP gain popularity among services delivered to young people. Of particular importance, and currently receiving inadequate attention, is a tension regarding the conceptualization of power in the relationship between practitioners and young people. This article examines the concept…
Youth and their workers
The effects of neoliberalism on young people and youth workers through outsourcing government services has attracted critique from multiple sources. Post-structural analysis interrogates subjectification effects of these policies on youth. However, this kind of analysis of the governmental formation of youth ought to consider the interaction between the knowledge of youth underpinning neoliberal social policy, and those employed by non-government…
Youth as an artefact of governing violence
Young people are routinely depicted as uniquely violent. Much work has been done, particularly within the sociology of youth, to dispel this misconception. However, these portrayals persist, as does the narrative of youth as a period of transition. This article argues that the transition in youth is a process of governing violence into sanctioned forms. To achieve adult status young people must conform to sanctioned forms of violence. Furthermore…
Youth and Violent Performativities
Keen as fuck
Youth researchers continue to pursue the ideals of youth participation in research. This pursuit reflects a broader concern for the problems of participant-researcher power dynamics in qualitative research. Youth researchers develop and adopt a variety of techniques and ethical principles that attempt to position young people as active research participants. However, these methods and principles have not solved the challenges of participation. In…
A critical examination of Australian youth case management
Case management is promoted as a trademark of community service practice with young people funded by neoliberal social policy. In spite of this, case management practice and case managers have largely escaped the attention of youth scholars. In this paper, we examine the funding parameters of two youth case management services in Australia to reveal the governing effects on young people, case managers and NGOs. We develop an analytical framework …
War, Heroes and Sacrifice
The precarity and violation that has resulted from decades of neoliberal reforms have been made clear in the global COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in terms of access to healthcare and financial inequality. However, ideological discourses of individual heroics have been rapidly deployed, to patch up the damage done to neoliberal rhetoric. In this paper, we argue a critical sociological lens reveals something important about this violence of neoli…
Bullying affects
Second paradigm school bullying scholars are challenging the reliance on psychological and behavioural paradigms both in Australia and globally. Approaching bullying as ‘social violence’ has enabled previously underexplored social and cultural dimensions to receive much-needed focus. Bourdieu’s ‘symbolic violence’ offers an avenue to explore the moral and affective dimensions of school bullying as ‘social violence’, yet it contains a controversia…
The institutionalised momentum of slow violence
As contemporary research explores the social and cultural dynamics of school bullying, notions of space and time provide avenues to unpack youth-centred insights into students’ bullying experiences. Furthermore, spatiotemporal analysis demonstrates the links between similar experiences, such as bullying and relationship violence, that are often siloed in research and policy. Yet, within this converging field, there are contradictory accounts, fro…
Social violence and the trivialising effects of youth in school bullying
School bullying attracts significant research and resources globally, yet critical questions are being raised about the long‐term impact of these efforts. There is a disconnect between young people's perspectives and the long‐established psychology‐based technical definitions of school bullying dominating practice and policy in Australia. This dominant paradigm has recently been described as the first paradigm of school bullying. In contrast, thi…
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence
The coupling of victim complicity with violence is intuitively objectionable, yet it is an underexamined aspect of Bourdieu's 'symbolic violence'. Within sociology, the nature of violence continues to be debated and refined with contested boundaries particularly concerning non-physical forms of violence. Symbolic violence offers an avenue to investigate this realm; however, it has been both employed and rejected without close examination of the i…
Mentoring for care-experienced young people
In Australia, out-of-home care (OoHC) is provided to safeguard children and young people unable to live with their families. Typically, this care stops at 18 years of age, leaving many young people without the relational support to find employment and stable accommodation. Mentoring is increasingly proposed as a way to support young people exiting care, though the types of mentoring and contextual factors vary considerably. This rapid review aims…
Youth Work, Youth Studies, and Co-design
Youth work practitioners and youth researchers both share a keen interest in the lives, experiences, and well-being of young people; however, the skills and expertise held by practitioners and researchers have not always been mutually valued leading to tensions and a research-practice gap. The rise of co-design methods that prioritise relational skills and ethics appears to mark a moment for closing or reducing this gap. Rather than accepting thi…
Jesus, the Bible and ‘I feel like I should be left-leaning’
Existing literature on teaching sociology depicts a ‘liberalising effect’ of sociological ideas on student values. Furthermore, research on teaching sociology in conservative contexts is largely contained to North America and, as such, is silent on the impact of diffused religion, or what we term display-aversive spirituality, in the faith-based higher education sector in Australia. Drawing on insights gathered from 17 participants in student-to-…
A Rapid Review of Wellbeing, Offending & Successful Matching in mentoring for ‘at-risk’ young people
Mentoring promotes certainty by providing predictability through structured frameworks, establishing emotional ties and support networks, and prioritising enduring, longer-term relationships. • Mentoring outcomes significantly diminished after cessation of the relationship. • Employing ‘at-risk’ to describe the young people targeted by mentoring programs not only overlooks the complexity of their lives, but it obscures this context and individual…
Hmm, they’re not stranger danger’
The way that children and young people engage within research continues to progress from the historical bio-medical notions of passiveness, towards contemporary, collaborative methodologies, and frameworks. Children and young people have the right to participate meaningfully in processes that affect them, and scholarship surrounding how this happens continues to develop. However, contemporary literature is predominantly concerned with why childre…
Affective economies of loneliness in school
We need the vibes’
Young age is a critical risk factor for loneliness. Yet, loneliness research and methods are missing the perspectives of young people. Current methods for investigating loneliness obscure the unique experience of loneliness in earlier life and potentially place young people at risk of further social isolation. In this paper, we utilise a co-design process to create a safe method for investigating youth loneliness. This paper investigates what can…
The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research
Validating a Measure of Vicarious Trauma as Experienced by Foster Carers
Burnout, stress and fatigue are known contributors to foster placement breakdown, yet little is known about the prevalence and experience of vicarious trauma specifically among foster carers. This paper sought to develop and validate a measure of vicarious trauma among foster carers. In Study 1, we conducted qualitative interviews ( n = 28) and utilized a Delphi panel to develop 38 measure items. In Study 2, participants completed the new Vicario…
Mentoring Interventions for Young People Ageing Out of Out‐of‐Home Care as a Mechanism for the Relational Redistribution of Capital
Young people seeking employment while ageing out out‐of‐home care (OoHC) face unique social and emotional needs, typically met by familiar bonds that influence their ability to navigate the job market. Aiming to address this need, in partnerships with a community service provider, we developed a project and proposed a framework for a mentor programme design that would help young people exiting OoHC with access to social supports. Utilizing data f…
The affective and spatiotemporal benefits of podcasting for teaching social policy practice
Social policy, or policy practice, in social work education suffers from an image problem among students. Internationally, students prefer direct practice and find policy practice intimidating and boring. In response to provocations to adopt modern technologies, some academics in social work are employing podcasts in teaching and are making claims about the potential to enhance affective connection, demonstrate the relevance of difficult topics, …
But isn’t that normal?’
While growing attention has been paid to the abuse of parents by their children, research to date has almost exclusively focused on parents who have birthed and/or conceived their child. Given that the trauma histories that foster children bring with them may result in abusive behaviours, it is vital to focus on the specific experiences of foster parents with regard to parental abuse. The research reported in this article involved interviews with…
The whole system is designed to create more trauma than it solves
Foster carer experiences of vicarious trauma
Sociology (19 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Youth Development and Social Support (9 obras) · Criminology (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (8 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras)