J Bryant
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9188 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Bryant |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Bryant |
| ASSINATURA | BRYANT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5271-2881 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Exploring the benefits and challenges of lived and living experience among support workers in the alcohol, drug and mental health workforce in Australia
Study examined the role of AOD and mental health workers with lived and living experience (LLE). • It assessed the organisational supports needed to sustain safe and effective practice. • Workers described benefits in relationship with client when disclosing LLE. • Care is needed to balance authenticity with professional boundaries and self-protection. • Meaningful inclusion of LLE requires full structural and organisational support for workers. …
Beyond testing and contraception
This paper identifies the collective resources and strategies Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth draw upon to build safe and respectful sexual relationships. Interviews and a focus group were conducted with 26 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 16–30 years. Participants described a range of social and relational strategies for managing sexual wellbeing including the careful selection of partners; careful management of priv…
Aboriginal adults’ perspectives on talking with young people about sexual health and relationships in two communities in Western Sydney, Australia
This strengths-based study investigated Aboriginal adults’ views on young people’s sexual health, attitudes and relationships. Between 2019 and 2020, sixteen interviews were conducted with adults aged 25 and older from two Aboriginal communities in Western Sydney, Australia. In this paper, we discuss adults’ perspectives on intergenerational communication about sex in their communities. Participants highlighted intergenerational learning via talk…
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…
Social Relationships and Gender-Diverse Young People's Capacities to Manage Problematic Substance Use
Trans and gender-diverse young people seek help from alcohol and drug services at higher rates than their cisgender peers. However, little is known about the factors that influence their capacities to manage problematic substance use. The aim of this study was to explore social relationships as a potential factor shaping these capacities. In the qualitative study reported here, 12 interviews were conducted with five young people aged 19 to 21 yea…
A huge, unwieldy barrier to push through on a daily basis”
Understanding, responding to, and mitigating stigma need recognition as core aspects of AOD professional roles. To support worker retention and wellbeing, we suggest AOD services prioritise the development of strategies for working within a stigmatised context, while continuing to advocate against the injustices that stigma creates for people who use drugs
Explaining Health-Related Internet Use for Three Patient Engagement Activities in Rural Pacific Northwest
Different factors influence online PE activities among rural populations. Optimizing diverse PE activities should assess different predisposing, need, and enabling factors in rural health care
Learning how to live well
understanding of substance use as a practice that emerges from the social conditions of young people's lives
The Problem With Resilience
Narratives of resilience are proliferating in health policy and research where they are used to address problems threatening individuals and communities. Resilience approaches are often considered alternatives to other models of intervention because they signal a shift away from deficit assumptions to more empowering ways of promoting health. To date, however, there has been a lack of scrutiny of the nature, assumptions and effects of resilience …
People Like Us Would Have No Clue If the Information Is Online
Socio-cultural and behavioural factors are often not adequately considered in designing health promotion programs for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia. Given that people of Vietnamese background are disproportionately impacted by hepatitis B, the aim of this research was to better understand these factors to inform hepatitis B health promotion messages for the Vietnamese community. Twenty participants (four living wi…
Understanding cultural inclusion in alcohol and other drug services in New South Wales, Australia and assessing the acceptability of a cultural inclusion audit
The ‘missing’ in the ‘endgame’ of hepatitis C elimination
Understanding stigma and attitudes towards hepatitis B among university students in Australia of Chinese and Vietnamese background
This research provides insights that could inform culturally sensitive health promotion programs to address negative attitudes towards hepatitis B among the broader Chinese and Vietnamese communities living in Australia
Yarning as a method for building sexual wellbeing among urban Aboriginal young people in Australia
This paper describes the strategies used by Aboriginal young people to build positive relationships and sexual wellbeing. It does so to counter the risk-focussed narratives present in much existing research and to showcase the resourcefulness of Aboriginal young people. We used peer-interview methods to collect qualitative data from 52 Aboriginal young people living in western Sydney, Australia. Participants reported a strong desire to stay safe …
Alcohol and other drug continuing care for young people
‘Continuing care’ refers to the provision of co-ordinated care and support overtime. Currently, little is known about continuing care programs for young people who complete alcohol and other drug treatment. This paper analyses data from an interview-based study that aimed to identify the generative mechanisms underpinning an innovative continuing care program for young people. Researchers recruited 11 current and former program clients aged 17 to…
Opportunities and limits
Young people in residential alcohol and other drug (AOD) services build meaningful relationships with workers during their stays. In this paper we use an ethics of care framework to explore what young people said about care, how it was delivered and what they valued about it. Drawing on three waves of longitudinal interviews conducted with 38 young people over 12 months, we discuss our findings according to two overarching themes – opportunities …
Young people returning to alcohol and other drug services as incremental treatment
Young people who attend intensive alcohol and other drug (AoD) treatment commonly do so more than once. This paper aims to understand precipitators, enablers and barriers to young people's re-engagement in programs. Data come from a longitudinal qualitative study involving three waves of interviews with Australian young people recruited while attending intensive AoD programs (n = 38 at wave 1). We found that young people's ambitions for what they…
Aboriginal young people’s perspectives and experiences of accessing sexual health services and sex education in Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) young people seek information and access health services for their sexual health needs. This study examined Aboriginal young people's perspectives on sexual health services and sex education in Australia. Overall, 51 Aboriginal people aged 16-26 years were interviewed by peer researchers in Sydney, Australia in 2019-2020. The findings suggest that the internet was used to assess information quick…
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B
In Australia, the response to HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B has largely been through the constructed category of 'blood borne viruses' which treats these viruses as an interconnected set of conditions with respect to their mode of transmission. In this paper, we explore how people understand their viral infection, and compare the logics underpinning these different understandings. In-depth interviews were conducted with 61 participants who wer…
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…
Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young Australians’ experiences at school and university
This article explores LGBTQ + young adults’ schooling and university experiences at the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality in Australia. Using the lenses of sexual citizenship and belonging, a sociomaterial polytextual analysis of the ‘middle’ was conducted with data from qualitative in-depth narrative and photo-elicitation interviews among Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young adults. The analysis found that while participants had encoun…
Normalising sex and resisting shame
This paper explores young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in Australia – including their beliefs about broader social attitudes relating to sexuality, gender, and well-being – and how these understandings can impact young women’s sexual health. The project adopted a strengths-based approach and used peer interviewing to investigate how Aboriginal young people in urban settings develop and manage their sexual well-being. The find…
The healthcare field as a marketplace
Incentivisation of general practitioners (GPs) by pharmaceutical companies is thought to affect prescribing practices, often not in patients' interest. Using a Bourdieusian lens, we examine the socially structured conditions that underpin exchanges between pharmaceutical companies and GPs in Pakistan. The analysis of qualitative interviews with 28 GPs and 13 pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) shows that GPs, through prescribing medicines…
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses
In recognition of the broader relational aspects of viral infections, family support is considered important when someone is diagnosed with a blood-borne virus (BBV), such as HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV). However, families' own support needs are often not a priority in service provision within the BBV sector. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with 20 key informants working in various professional capacities in hea…
I just wanted a change, a positive change
In this article, we investigate young people's involvement with residential alcohol and other drug (AOD) services as part of their broader engagement with hope. This study draws on qualitative interviews conducted with 20 young people aged 17-23 from Victoria, Australia, who were either in, or had recently left, residential AOD services. Interviews explored their experiences with AOD services and included questions about their hopes for the futur…
Beyond deficit
Health research concerning Indigenous peoples has been strongly characterised by deficit discourse-a 'mode of thinking' that is overly focused on risk behaviours and problems. Strengths-based approaches offer a different perspective by promoting a set of values that recognise the capacities and capabilities of Indigenous peoples. In this article, we seek to understand the conceptual basis of strengths-based approaches as currently presented in he…
Hope as a form of agency in the future thinking of disenfranchised young people
This paper examines future thinking in a group of disenfranchised young Australians. We draw on literature about individualisation and choice biographies to understand participants’ narratives. Participants that managed to narrate a future expressed strong desires to be ‘normal’, articulating futures marked by traditional indicators: a job, home and family. Yet, their narratives of future were specific to the minimal opportunity structures availa…
Caesarean birth
Rethinking safety and fidelity
Hepatitis C (HCV) is a disease of the liver with a range of potentially debilitating symptoms, the severity of which differ from person to person. HCV is a major public health challenge. Globally an estimated one in 12 persons is affected by the virus, and substantial new transmissions occur each year. The vast majority of new transmissions occur among people who inject drugs, particularly through practices such as sharing of needles, syringes an…
I just wanted a change, a positive change
In this article, we investigate young people's involvement with residential alcohol and other drug (AOD) services as part of their broader engagement with hope. This study draws on qualitative interviews conducted with 20 young people aged 17-23 from Victoria, Australia, who were either in, or had recently left, residential AOD services. Interviews explored their experiences with AOD services and included questions about their hopes for the futur…
Belonging, Citizenship and Ambivalence among Young Gay, Bisexual and Queer Indian Singaporean Men
This article explores the attitudes and experiences of young ethnic Indian gay, bisexual and queer (GBQ) men in Singapore, where the state’s investments in economic progress, racial governmentality and “traditional” family policies significantly influence sexual and cultural citizenship. Based on abductively analysed in-depth interviews conducted on a subset of a larger qualitative study involving Singaporean lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer youn…
Practices of partnership
Despite the majority of needle-syringe sharing occurring between sexual partners, the intimate partnerships of people who inject drugs have been largely overlooked as key sites of both hepatitis C virus prevention and transmission, and risk management more generally. Drawing on interviews with 34 couples living in inner-city Australia, this article focuses on participants' accounts of 'sharing'. While health promotion discourses and conventional …
The embodied relationality of blood-borne viruses
Understanding 'risk' in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status
Risk' has long been at the centre of expert and popular perceptions of transmissible and stigmatised blood-borne viral infections, such as HIV and viral hepatitis. There is a substantial body of research on transmission risk among couples with mixed viral infection status (serodiscordance). But we know very little about how families affected by HIV and viral hepatitis engage with understandings of infectiousness and how these shape family relatio…
Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood-borne virus
Contemporary sociological work has emphasised that family is not static, but actively shaped by ideas of who and what makes family. Disclosure of an illness, including diagnosis of stigmatised infections such as HIV, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus, can change the dynamics of family relationships. This paper draws on 61 qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted between 2017 and 2019 with people in Australia with one or more of thes…
Experience as Evidence
Programs and policies are increasingly framed by the logics of “evidence-based policy,” a term subject to critical scrutiny and change after it emerged as an explicit valuing of specific types of quantitative data as objective, and a devaluing of most types of qualitative data. The transfer of “evidence-based” approaches to drug policy was mobilized by a distrust of people who use drugs, and of people who work with them. This distrust remains imp…
Normalisation of recreational drug use among young people
There is evidence to suggest that illicit drug use is increasingly a ‘normal’ part of the lives of many young people in Australia. The normalisation framework has been applied in limited contexts in Australia, and has not been assessed using longitudinal data. This paper uses cross-sectional periodic data collected at the Sydney Big Day Out music festival between 2006 and 2009 to examine several aspects of normalisation among festival patrons. Ov…
Young people returning to alcohol and other drug services as incremental treatment
Young people who attend intensive alcohol and other drug (AoD) treatment commonly do so more than once. This paper aims to understand precipitators, enablers and barriers to young people's re-engagement in programs. Data come from a longitudinal qualitative study involving three waves of interviews with Australian young people recruited while attending intensive AoD programs (n = 38 at wave 1). We found that young people's ambitions for what they…
Practising care in a pandemic
From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears have been raised worldwide regarding the unique challenges facing socially marginalised people such as those who inject drugs. This article draws on in-depth interviews conducted during the first year of the pandemic with people who inject drugs living in urban and regional Australia. Perhaps the most surprising finding to emerge was the number of participants who reported minimal disruption to thei…
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C
A virus has a social history. In the case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV, this history is one involving stigma and discrimination, advocacy and activism, and recent dramatic improvements in treatment. These social histories influence the experience of people who live with the viruses, and those who work with them. One aspect of this is the impact of social changes on the biographical disruption and integration brought about by illness. He…
Establishing the impact of consumer participation in alcohol and other drug treatment settings in Australia
It is generally recognised that engaging consumers to participate in policy making, programming, and practice is fundamental to effective alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment, however, literature continues to document challenges and barriers to its implementation in AOD settings. This study reports on an evaluation of the Consumer Participation Project implemented in key non-government AOD services in Australia. Data collection consisted of an …
Building inclusion, maintaining marginality
This paper draws on Bourdieusian concepts to examine the social mechanisms driving service 'choices' for marginalised young substance users. In doing so, it problematises the individualised understandings of 'choice-making' common in the existing literature. The paper uses interview data collected from 26 young substance users to describe the resources they bring to their service encounters, the capitals that they acquire through these interactio…
Young people at risk of transitioning to injecting drug use in Sydney, Australia
While numerous studies have examined characteristics of young people who have recently initiated injecting, little attention has focused on young people who may be at high risk of transitioning to injecting. This study sought to examine the extent that socially disadvantaged young people were exposed to injecting, determine their level of hepatitis C (HCV) knowledge and identify correlates of higher injecting exposure. A cross-sectional survey wa…
Using respondent-driven sampling with ‘hard to reach’ marginalised young people
This paper documents an experience of using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to recruit socially marginalised young people in Sydney, Australia. Respondents were young people aged 16–24 years who were current illicit drug users and who reported at least one feature of social marginalisation (e.g. recent homelessness or juvenile detention). Four seeds initiated the sampling and 61 respondents were recruited until the sampling was closed due to slo…
Access to Health Care
Learning how to live well
understanding of substance use as a practice that emerges from the social conditions of young people's lives
Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young Australians’ experiences at school and university
This article explores LGBTQ + young adults’ schooling and university experiences at the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality in Australia. Using the lenses of sexual citizenship and belonging, a sociomaterial polytextual analysis of the ‘middle’ was conducted with data from qualitative in-depth narrative and photo-elicitation interviews among Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young adults. The analysis found that while participants had encoun…
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses
In recognition of the broader relational aspects of viral infections, family support is considered important when someone is diagnosed with a blood-borne virus (BBV), such as HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV). However, families' own support needs are often not a priority in service provision within the BBV sector. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with 20 key informants working in various professional capacities in hea…
Health worker perceptions of the impact of Covid‐19 on harm reduction services for people who inject drugs
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected entire systems of health service provision globally, including health service closure, redeployment of staff and resources and implementation of infection prevention protocols. Harm reduction facilities face particular challenges responding to COVID-19, attempting to continue service provision to people who inject drugs with minimal service disruption whilst protecting their staff. This research assessed the imp…
Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) of People Who Inject Drugs
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a relatively new form of sampling hidden populations. RDS has the ability to produce valid population estimates, provided that certain assumptions are met. This study examined whether an RDS survey of people who inject drugs (PWID) conducted in South East Sydney was able to meet the assumptions and requirements necessary to produce valid population estimates. From November 2009 to March 2010, 261 participants w…
Alfred Gilbert
Journal Article Alfred Gilbert Get access Richard Dorment , Yale University Press , ISBN 0-300-03388-5 (cloth) £19.95, 0-300-03698-1 (paper) £9.95. 192 black and white illustrations and 8 colour plates, 320 pp. JULIUS BRYANT JULIUS BRYANT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 74–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/9.1.74 Published: 01 March 1986
Equal Contributions and Unequal Risks in a North-east Thai Village Funeral Society
Village funeral societies in north-east Thailand collect equal contributions from all participating households, even though some households are much more likely to experience deaths and receive money from the funeral society than others. The societies' use of the equal contributions rule is not an outcome of the asymmetric distribution of information on risks. It reflects, instead, an ambivalence over the relevance of expected returns, a willingn…
Access to Health Care
Critical Communication Challenges For the New Century
Journal Article Critical Communication Challenges For the New Century Get access Jennings Bryant Jennings Bryant 1Jennings Bryant (PhD, Indiana University) is a professor and director of the Institute for Communication Research at the University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 3, 1 September 2004, Pages 389–401, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.…
Risk practices and other characteristics of injecting drug users who obtain injecting equipment from pharmacies and personal networks
Rights, responsibilities and citizenship in heterosexual women's talk about sex
This paper draws on qualitative data from eighteen interviews with heterosexual women about their experiences of sex with men. Drawing on ideals of individualism and free choice, women construct a citizenship discourse in which they and others are positioned as active sexual subjects with rights and responsibilities to sexual choice, pleasure and fulfilment. \n\nCritical examination of respondents' discourse reveals how it is profoundly gendered,…
Feminine Sexual Subjectivities
The relationship between discourse, sex and the body has attracted sustained interest from scholars in sociology and cultural studies over the last 20 years. It is only recently, however, that sociological analyses of sexuality have begun to explore the specificity of the body and its relationship to human agency. This work suggests that, far from serving as a passive surface upon which sexual scripts are inscribed, the body in sexual action is i…
Initiators
Caesarean birth
Secondary exchange of sterile injecting equipment in a high distribution environment
Evolving Knowledge and Practice
The exponential rate of development in science and technology in recent decades has had a profound social impact. In particular, computing and the Internet have indelibly altered the world's social, economic, and intellectual landscapes. The Information Age has transformed leisure, employment, business, and financial systems, and modified historical approaches to organizing and executing political and social action. A concomitant revolution in co…
Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) of People Who Inject Drugs
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a relatively new form of sampling hidden populations. RDS has the ability to produce valid population estimates, provided that certain assumptions are met. This study examined whether an RDS survey of people who inject drugs (PWID) conducted in South East Sydney was able to meet the assumptions and requirements necessary to produce valid population estimates. From November 2009 to March 2010, 261 participants w…
Perception of Hepatitis C Risk among Injecting Drug Users Who Obtain Injecting Equipment from Pharmacies in Western Australia
This study describes perceptions of hepatitis C (HCV) risk among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Western Australia (WA), and seeks to determine the relationship between perceptions of risk and injecting equipment sharing practices. One hundred and forty five participants recruited from 30 high-distributing pharmacies throughout WA completed surveys during a two-week period. Respondents reported that they did not see themselves as highly suscept…
Normalisation of recreational drug use among young people
There is evidence to suggest that illicit drug use is increasingly a ‘normal’ part of the lives of many young people in Australia. The normalisation framework has been applied in limited contexts in Australia, and has not been assessed using longitudinal data. This paper uses cross-sectional periodic data collected at the Sydney Big Day Out music festival between 2006 and 2009 to examine several aspects of normalisation among festival patrons. Ov…
Patterns of Alcohol and Other Drug Use Associated with Major Depression Among Gay Men Attending General Practices in Australia
Respondent-Driven Sampling and the Recruitment of People with Small Injecting Networks
Syringe Coverage in an Australian Setting
Use of respondent-driven sampling to enhance understanding of injecting networks
Comparing ‘doctor’ and ‘patient’ beliefs about the role of illicit drug use in gay men’s depression
High rates of both illicit drug use and depression are consistently reported among gay men. However, little is known about how beliefs about drug use shape clinical encounters between gay men and health professionals, and that in turn affect clinical communication and care, particularly in relation to depression. We compared 'doctor' and 'patient' beliefs about the role of illicit drug use in gay men's depression. Semi-structured interviews were …
Risk Practices Among Aboriginal People Who Inject Drugs in New South Wales, Australia
Rethinking safety and fidelity
Hepatitis C (HCV) is a disease of the liver with a range of potentially debilitating symptoms, the severity of which differ from person to person. HCV is a major public health challenge. Globally an estimated one in 12 persons is affected by the virus, and substantial new transmissions occur each year. The vast majority of new transmissions occur among people who inject drugs, particularly through practices such as sharing of needles, syringes an…
A study of young people who inject drugs
The population of young people who inject drugs (PWID) displays a unique constellation of features that are not found in other groups who are at risk of acquiring hepatitis C: they exhibit a smaller pool of existing infection and a higher incidence of unsafe injecting. This means there is vast opportunity to prevent the spread of hepatitis C for young PWID. This article uses survey data collected from clients of a community pharmacy needle exchan…
Using respondent-driven sampling with ‘hard to reach’ marginalised young people
This paper documents an experience of using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to recruit socially marginalised young people in Sydney, Australia. Respondents were young people aged 16–24 years who were current illicit drug users and who reported at least one feature of social marginalisation (e.g. recent homelessness or juvenile detention). Four seeds initiated the sampling and 61 respondents were recruited until the sampling was closed due to slo…
Young people at risk of transitioning to injecting drug use in Sydney, Australia
While numerous studies have examined characteristics of young people who have recently initiated injecting, little attention has focused on young people who may be at high risk of transitioning to injecting. This study sought to examine the extent that socially disadvantaged young people were exposed to injecting, determine their level of hepatitis C (HCV) knowledge and identify correlates of higher injecting exposure. A cross-sectional survey wa…
Hope as a form of agency in the future thinking of disenfranchised young people
This paper examines future thinking in a group of disenfranchised young Australians. We draw on literature about individualisation and choice biographies to understand participants’ narratives. Participants that managed to narrate a future expressed strong desires to be ‘normal’, articulating futures marked by traditional indicators: a job, home and family. Yet, their narratives of future were specific to the minimal opportunity structures availa…
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