Andrew Mellor
Biographic Data
| ID | 738190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Mellor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mellor |
| SIGNATURE | MELLOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8862-3186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Addressing Menstrual Stigma
(1) Background: Menstruation is subject to stigma worldwide, which has led to restrictive cultural norms and taboos rooted in religion, customs, and patriarchal systems. The resulting ‘cultural stigma’ associated with menstruation exacerbates health inequities, restricts access to sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHRs), and undermines girls’ and women’s participation in educational, economic, social, and spiritual activities. This scoping …
Sex, Gender, and Diversity in Sex Work Research
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment
Social support from colleagues is important for workers’ health and wellbeing and provides both instrumental support through material assistance, and expressive support through emotional validation. Numerous structural barriers to supportive work relationships exist, especially in service jobs located at the bottom half of today’s ‘care economy’. In this paper, we present descriptive findings from sex workers’ evaluation of the quality of their c…
Structural interventions to reduce harms & promote the capabilities of girls experiencing multiple complexities
Structural interventions have the potential to reduce complexity in the lives of marginalised cis girls/young women and promote their health and well-being so that they have improved chances to reach their potential. However, most interventions available for this group focus on the micro/psychological level of wellness, risks associated with sexualized violence, and behaviour-based interventions which do little to address the root causes of compl…
Navigating Stigma in Romantic Relationships Where One or Both Partners Sell Sexual Services
Romantic relationships are an important part of our social identities and well-being. In this paper, we report on qualitative findings with thirty Canadian couples, interviewed together, where it was known that one or both partners sell sexual services for a living. We asked a series of open-ended questions related to the background of the couple's relationship, their day-to-day interactions and work-related stressors. Participants talked about t…
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act
Perspectives on Sexual Citizenship for People Living with Disabilities
Access to Sexual Rights for People Living with Disabilities
Towards a Holistic Model of Care for Moral Injury
Police members can be exposed to morally transgressive events with potential for lasting psychosocial and spiritual harm. Through interviews with police members and police chaplains across Australia and New Zealand, this qualitative study explores the current role that police chaplains play in supporting members exposed to morally transgressive events. The availability of chaplains across police services and the close alignment between the suppor…
Decriminalization and What Else? Alternative Structural Interventions to Promote the Health, Safety, and Rights of Sex Workers
Researchers have argued that the current punitive approaches to regulating sex work expose underlying structures that seek to preserve a social order embedded with stigmas related to the race, gender, sexuality, class, and migration status of sex sellers (Benoit et al [...]
Understanding the Diversity of People in Sex Work
Criminal laws in Canada and many other countries are currently premised on the assumption of homogeneity, that is, people in sex work are cis women and girls who are being sexually exploited/sex trafficked. This perspective is also shared by antiprostitution groups and many researchers investigating the "prostitution problem". Perpetuating this position obscures their demographic multiplicity and variety of lived experiences. We interviewed 10 le…
The Northern Silence
Becoming Wolf and other stories
Arts-based methodologies are increasingly being used in community-based research to explore and communicate issues of importance to Indigenous communities. Situating research in an Indigenist framework ensures that relational accountability—foundational to Indigenous ways of knowing and doing—is threaded throughout all stages of a research project. In this article, the authors describe how using Indigenist arts-based methodologies helped to devel…
Becoming Self-in-Relation
Two workshops were held with urban Indigenous youth who live in foster care on Lekwungen Territory on southern Vancouver Island. The workshops were informed by guidance from community knowledge holders and Elders and explored the meaning of Indigenous coming of age and adolescence with 15 youth through oral, visual, and text-based activities. Following a thematic analysis of the workshop transcripts, five themes emerged: self-continuity; self-awa…
“Youth Will Feel Honoured if They Are Reminded They Are Loved”
This paper presents the first phase of a community engagement project that explores (re)connecting to coming-of-age teachings grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and doing for urban Indigenous youth in foster or away-from-home care. An intergenerational group of urban Indigenous Knowledge Holders in and around Victoria, British Columbia, Canada came together to discuss what a culturally appropriate coming of age could look like for urban Indig…
Modelling vulnerability to gambling related harm
Electronic gambling machines (EGMs) are ubiquitous in social venues such as hotels and clubs in most Australian states, and account for 55% of total gambling expenditure in Australia; they are also associated with most gambling derived harm. Because of the difficulty of assessing the prevalence of problem gambling and the incidence of gambling derived harms, gambling expenditure (i.e., the losses of those gambling) is often used in gambling resea…
India since Partition
India Since Partition
Understanding the Diversity of People in Sex Work
Criminal laws in Canada and many other countries are currently premised on the assumption of homogeneity, that is, people in sex work are cis women and girls who are being sexually exploited/sex trafficked. This perspective is also shared by antiprostitution groups and many researchers investigating the "prostitution problem". Perpetuating this position obscures their demographic multiplicity and variety of lived experiences. We interviewed 10 le…
Decriminalization and What Else? Alternative Structural Interventions to Promote the Health, Safety, and Rights of Sex Workers
Researchers have argued that the current punitive approaches to regulating sex work expose underlying structures that seek to preserve a social order embedded with stigmas related to the race, gender, sexuality, class, and migration status of sex sellers (Benoit et al [...]
India since Partition
India Since Partition
Modelling vulnerability to gambling related harm
Electronic gambling machines (EGMs) are ubiquitous in social venues such as hotels and clubs in most Australian states, and account for 55% of total gambling expenditure in Australia; they are also associated with most gambling derived harm. Because of the difficulty of assessing the prevalence of problem gambling and the incidence of gambling derived harms, gambling expenditure (i.e., the losses of those gambling) is often used in gambling resea…
“Youth Will Feel Honoured if They Are Reminded They Are Loved”
This paper presents the first phase of a community engagement project that explores (re)connecting to coming-of-age teachings grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and doing for urban Indigenous youth in foster or away-from-home care. An intergenerational group of urban Indigenous Knowledge Holders in and around Victoria, British Columbia, Canada came together to discuss what a culturally appropriate coming of age could look like for urban Indig…
Becoming Self-in-Relation
Two workshops were held with urban Indigenous youth who live in foster care on Lekwungen Territory on southern Vancouver Island. The workshops were informed by guidance from community knowledge holders and Elders and explored the meaning of Indigenous coming of age and adolescence with 15 youth through oral, visual, and text-based activities. Following a thematic analysis of the workshop transcripts, five themes emerged: self-continuity; self-awa…
The Northern Silence
Becoming Wolf and other stories
Arts-based methodologies are increasingly being used in community-based research to explore and communicate issues of importance to Indigenous communities. Situating research in an Indigenist framework ensures that relational accountability—foundational to Indigenous ways of knowing and doing—is threaded throughout all stages of a research project. In this article, the authors describe how using Indigenist arts-based methodologies helped to devel…
Perspectives on Sexual Citizenship for People Living with Disabilities
Access to Sexual Rights for People Living with Disabilities
Towards a Holistic Model of Care for Moral Injury
Police members can be exposed to morally transgressive events with potential for lasting psychosocial and spiritual harm. Through interviews with police members and police chaplains across Australia and New Zealand, this qualitative study explores the current role that police chaplains play in supporting members exposed to morally transgressive events. The availability of chaplains across police services and the close alignment between the suppor…
Decriminalization and What Else? Alternative Structural Interventions to Promote the Health, Safety, and Rights of Sex Workers
Researchers have argued that the current punitive approaches to regulating sex work expose underlying structures that seek to preserve a social order embedded with stigmas related to the race, gender, sexuality, class, and migration status of sex sellers (Benoit et al [...]
Understanding the Diversity of People in Sex Work
Criminal laws in Canada and many other countries are currently premised on the assumption of homogeneity, that is, people in sex work are cis women and girls who are being sexually exploited/sex trafficked. This perspective is also shared by antiprostitution groups and many researchers investigating the "prostitution problem". Perpetuating this position obscures their demographic multiplicity and variety of lived experiences. We interviewed 10 le…
Structural interventions to reduce harms & promote the capabilities of girls experiencing multiple complexities
Structural interventions have the potential to reduce complexity in the lives of marginalised cis girls/young women and promote their health and well-being so that they have improved chances to reach their potential. However, most interventions available for this group focus on the micro/psychological level of wellness, risks associated with sexualized violence, and behaviour-based interventions which do little to address the root causes of compl…
Navigating Stigma in Romantic Relationships Where One or Both Partners Sell Sexual Services
Romantic relationships are an important part of our social identities and well-being. In this paper, we report on qualitative findings with thirty Canadian couples, interviewed together, where it was known that one or both partners sell sexual services for a living. We asked a series of open-ended questions related to the background of the couple's relationship, their day-to-day interactions and work-related stressors. Participants talked about t…
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act
Sex, Gender, and Diversity in Sex Work Research
Co-worker dynamics among Canadian sex workers in a stigmatised and criminalised environment
Social support from colleagues is important for workers’ health and wellbeing and provides both instrumental support through material assistance, and expressive support through emotional validation. Numerous structural barriers to supportive work relationships exist, especially in service jobs located at the bottom half of today’s ‘care economy’. In this paper, we present descriptive findings from sex workers’ evaluation of the quality of their c…
Addressing Menstrual Stigma
(1) Background: Menstruation is subject to stigma worldwide, which has led to restrictive cultural norms and taboos rooted in religion, customs, and patriarchal systems. The resulting ‘cultural stigma’ associated with menstruation exacerbates health inequities, restricts access to sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHRs), and undermines girls’ and women’s participation in educational, economic, social, and spiritual activities. This scoping …
Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Sex work and related issues (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Population (5 works)