CoPQTI

UNSW Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (Intersex).
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The CoPQTI comprises UNSW academics, professional staff, and students, both LGBTQI+ and allies, who work with queer and trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics, to make research and practice more inclusive.

About the CoP

The continued explicit or implicit exclusion of queer and trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics, from public, social, and cultural life has long-reaching implications. This exclusion often starts with the language used in research and associated practice. Despite the proliferation of inclusive language guides in various domains, there is no 'one size fits all' model that can conceivably respond to the varied, complex and intersectional aspects of inclusivity. As such, language change needs to be accompanied by effective research practice.

The CoPQTI aims to generate and support enhanced capacity in sector-leading inclusive practice with queer and trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics, to:
1. Advise researchers
from across UNSW and beyond on the implementation of the national standards.
2. Provide HDR and staff training
on inclusive research practice across a range of policy areas, such as public health, medicine, law, and social sciences.
3. Develop an interdisciplinary research cluster
to investigate the considerable impact inclusive research will have on future research findings and public policy development.
4. Serve as a central platform
to generate interdisciplinary consideration of complex requests for advice from UNSW and beyond.

Co-Leads

Brooke Brady (she/her)

Research Fellow

UNSW School of Psychology/ Faculty of Science, and Neuroscience Research Australia

Ask me about: 

  • Digital health
  • Temporal dynamics of gender,
  • Psychometrics
  • Sex and gender difference
  • Life-course ageing.
Kerryn Drysdale (she/her)

Senior Research Fellow

CSRH/ADA

Ask me about:

  • Qualitative methodologies
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Health and wellbeing
  • LGBTQ social scenes.
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Bridget Haire (She/her)

Senior Lecturer

UNSW School of Population Health/Medicine & Health

Ask me about:

Global health and policy reform.

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Aditya Joshi (he/him)

Lecturer

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Ask me about:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Natural language processing
  • Large language models.
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Andy Kaladelfos (they/them)

Senior Lecturer, Co-Convenor Gender Based Violence Network

Faculty of Law and Justice

Ask me about: 

  • Sexual and gender-based violence
  • Trans justice
  • LGBTQ inclusion
  • Queer history
  • Queer criminology
  • Research methods.
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Christy Newman (they/them)

Professor of Health, Gender and Sexuality, and Deputy Dean Research

Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture

Ask me about:

  • LGBTQIA+ health and wellbeing
  • Collaborative research with queer, trans and intersex organisations
  • Social aspects of gender affirmation.
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Anthony K J Smith

Dr / Research Assistant

Centre for Social Research in Health / ADA

What to ask about:

  • Sociology of gender 
  • Sociology of sexuality 
  • Qualitative health research
  • Queer data justice
  • HIV and sexual health.
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Members

Claudia Allison (she/her)

Education Administration Officer

Guunu-maana (Heal) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program, The George Institute for Global Health, UNSW

Ask me about:

  • LGBTQIA+ mental healthcare (esp. trans / gender diverse teens & young people) 
  • Community / connection building in LGBTQIA+ folk.
Jacek Anderst (they/them)

PhD Candidate/ Research Assistance

School of Social Sciences

Ask me about: 

  • Non-binary inclusion in health research
  • Trans and gender diverse health
  • Community engagement.
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Benjamin Bavinton

Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader

Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Ask me about: 

  • HIV epidemiology and prevention
  • Behavioural surveillance 
  • Survey research.
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Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession

UNSW Law & Justice

Ask me about:

  • Gender diverse children
  • The legal system/family law system
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Brandon Bear (he/they)

Masters Candidate

CSRH

Ask me about:

  • Health Equity
  • Strengths Based Approaches
  • Cultural Humility.
Dr Sophie Bekir-Robinson (she/her)

CoPQTI Research Officer

ADA - CSRH

Ask me about:

  • Australian lesbian history
  • Feminist politics and activism
  • Sexual liberation movements
  • Australian masculinity politics

Publications 

  • Robinson, Sophie. "Unfinished business: Documenting Australian lesbian feminism." In New Directions in Queer Oral History, pp. 101-110. Routledge, 2022.
  • Sophie Robinson, ‘Dyke Night’, Friendship as a Way of Life 2021, Paddington: UNSW Galleries, 2021.
  • Sophie Robinson, ‘Sisterhood, Separatism and Sex Wars: Rethinking Lesbian Feminism in Australia’. Chapter One. In (Re)claiming Lesbian Feminisms: Transnational Dialogues with Contemporary Heteropatriarchies, eds. Kath Browne et al, London: Zed Books, 2019.
  • Drysdale, Kerryn, Sophie Robinson, and Andrew Gorman-Murray. "Sex in placemaking activism: lesbians’ and queer women’s sex-based sociality in Sydney, Australia." Gender, Place & Culture 31, no. 4 (2024): 482-504.
  • Sophie Robinson, ‘Eggs, O’Wheels and Hexagons: Lesbian Feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s-1980s’, Women’s History Review – Special Issue: ‘Lesbian Nation’, (2021): 1-19.
  • Sophie Robinson, ‘The New Lesbian Sexual Revolution’, Australian Historical Studies, Special Issue – Beyond Liberation: New Histories of Sexuality in Late Modern Australia’, 2018.
  • Sophie Robinson, ‘Bar dykes and lesbian feminists: Lesbian encounters in 1970s feminism’, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Vol. 22, 2016: 52.
Bella Bushby (she/her)

Lecturer

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre

Ask me about:

  • Bi+ sexual health 
  • HIV prevention.
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Yssy Burton-Clark

Research Assistant

Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Senior Lecturer

School of Law, Society and Criminology

Ask me about

  • Decriminalisation & queer rights
  • Arts-based research
  • Queer South Asia

Publications

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Shutong (Ash) Chen (she/they)

PhD Candidate/ Research Assistance

School of Social Sciences

Ask me about: 

  • Social Movements
  • Transnational queer activism
  • Diaspora
  • Citizenship
  • Belonging.
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Simon Clay

Lecturer

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre

Ask me about:

  • Qualitative research
  • LGBTQ+ health
  • Gender studies
  • Drug use.
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Clue Coman (they/them)

Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

ADA CSRH

Ask me about:

LGBTQ+ Human Rights

Ava Del Tufo (she/her)

PhD Candidate

Kirby Institute Global Health Program

Ask me about:

  • TransHealth services
  • Rural health care
  • Transgender and gender diverse rural experiences.
Chris Dietz (he/him)

Senior Research Associate 

International Centre for Future Health Systems

Ask me about:

  • Trans
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Law
  • Regulation
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Dan Dumbrell

Dr/Project Officer

UNSW Ageing Futures Institute

Ask me about:

  • Connecting with researchers and projects on ageing and older people Interdisciplinary research collaboration and programs. 
  • Research translation to resources
  • Information about UNSW processes – both internal (e.g. finance) and external (e.g. events).
Baillee Farah

HDR Candidate, Teaching Fellow

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Faculty of Law & Justice, Centre for Criminology, Law & Justice

Ask me about: 

  • Harm reduction
  • Drug policy
  • Youth drug use
  • Research ethics and social research methods.
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Charlotte Farrell

Lecturer, Theatre and Performance

School of Arts and Media

Ask me about:

  • Contemporary performance
  • Performance art
  • Theatre
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Caroline Ford (she/her)

Professor, Head of Gynaecological Cancer Research Group

School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Ask me about: 

Inclusive approach to research in gynaecological cancer and benign gynaecological disease.

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Gynacological Cancer Research
Vasiliki(Kiki) Franco-Klothos (they/she)

Research Assistant

School of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice

Ask me about:

  • Accountability
  • Abolition
  • Mutual aid.
Dan Furlanetto (he/him)

PhD Candidate/Tutor

Social Sciences/Medicine and Health

Ask me about: 

  • Psychiatry
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Anti-LGBTIQ+ narratives and religion.
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Angela Griffin

Research Assistant

Gendered Violence Research Network

Ask me about:

  • Gendered violences 
  • Sexual violence 
  • Student engagement in university governance.
Kate Gunther

PhD Student & Research Assistant

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Ask me about:

  • Health equity
  • Gender diversity in gynaecology
  • Personalised medicine.
Mandy Hagstrom

Dr/Senior Lecturer

School of Health Sciences/ Faculty of Medicine and Health

Ask me about:

  • Female physiology 
  • Resistance training 
  • Sex and gender.
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Lily Halliday (she/her)

Impact, Programs and Partnerships Lead

Australian Human Rights Institute

Ask me about: 

  • Sex and gender in health and medical research
  • Gender equity
  • Women in leadership.
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Mo Hammoud (he/him)

Senior Research Fellow and Group Lead

Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney 

Ask me about:

  • LGBTQ+ population health and disparities
  • Cross-sectional and cohort mixed method study design
  • Cross-sectional and cohort study analyses.
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Shannon Harvey (they/them)

Doctoral Candidate

Social Policy Research Centre

Ask me about: 

  • Domestic and family violence
  • Non-binary people 
  • Community services 
  • Applied sociology 
  • Participatory methods.
Martin Holt (he/him)

Professor Associate Dean, Research Quality & Culture

Centre for Social Research in Health, Arts, Design & Architecture

Ask me about

  • HIV prevention
  • Gay and bisexual men
  • Public health and sociology of health.
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Emma Kirby (she/her)
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Sophie Keeffe

Data and Evaluation Officer

Access, Equity and Inclusion

Ask me about: 

  • Quantitative data and data visualisation
  • Attempts at corporate inclusion of gender diversity
  • Inclusive survey design.
Soph Kloosterman (she/her)

Research Officer

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Ask me about:

  • Sexual & reproductive health education 
  • Inclusive language in healthcare 
  • Biodiversity and sustainability.

Senior Lecturer, Disability Advisor, Disability Champion

School of Art and Design

Ask me about:

  • Animation theory
  • Computer animation
  • Disability
  • Motion capture 
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Chantel Le Cross

Project Officer & Research Officer

Arts, Design and Architecture

What to ask about:

  • Communications
  • Content development
  • Neurodiversity
  • Health promotions.
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Lucas Lixinski (him/he)

Professor

School of Global & Public Law, Faculty of Law & Justice

Ask me about:

  • International human rights law
  • Strategic litigation in LGBTIQ+ cases
  • Queering cultural heritage / heritage studies.
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Min Lou (they/them)

PhD Candidate

School of Psychology, Faculty of Science

Ask me about:

  • Differences in punishment sensitivity
  • Sex and gender in neuropsychology
  • Trans and gender affirming healthcare
  • Neurodiversity
Limin Mao

Professor

Centre for Social Research in Health/ADA International Centre for Future Health Systems/Medicine and Health

Ask me about:

  • Ethnicity
  • Sexual & gender diversity
  • Ageing
  • Chronic disease management
  • Sexual health and wellbeing.
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Tierney Marey (she/her)

Manager – Student Experience (ADA), PhD Candidate

Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture

Ask me about:

  • Embodiment
  • Equity in Higher Education
  • LGBTIQ+ Inclusion in Higher Education.
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Heather McCormack (she/they)

Scientia Research Fellow

Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Ask me about:

  • HIV and STI prevention and testing
  • Strengths-based approaches
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual health
  • Social aspects of sexual health
  • Mixed-methods research.
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Adrien McCrory

Research Assistant

School of Law, Society & Criminology

Ask me about:

  • Trans and gender diversity
  • Criminal legal history
  • Queer history

Isurinie Anuradha Mallawaarachchi (she/her)

PhD Candidate

School of Law, Society, and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice

Ask me about:

  • Street harassment
  • Gender-based violence
Katherine Moline (she/they)

Associate Professor

School of Art & Design / Arts Design and Architecture

Ask me about:

  • Creative arts methodologies
  • Speculative critical design
  • Socially engaged research in art and design
  • Curatorial practice
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Claire O’Connor (she/her)

Senior research fellow

School of Psychology, Faculty of Science

Ask me about:

  • Dementia 
  • Occupational therapy 
  • Reablement 
  • Implementation science.
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Dr Aves Parsemain (they/them)

Educational Developer

Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture

What to ask about:

  • Inclusive teaching practices 
  • Curriculum and course design
  • Supporting students.
Estelle Keerthana Ramaswamy

PhD Candidate

School of Social Sciences, Faculty of ADA

What to ask about:

  • Trans and Gender Diverse (TGD) People
  •  Gender-based/gendered violence
  •  Disaster Management
  •  Public Health
  •  Education

Publications

  • Ramaswamy, E. K. (2024). Combating colonially pathologised universalisation: a transwoman’s Indo-Australian lived experience. In Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge (pp. 119-133). Policy Press.
  • Ramaswamy, H. H. S., & Kumar, S. (2022). A critical analysis of unsustainable higher education internationalisation policies in developing economies. Policy futures in education, 20(4), 524-536.
  • Ramaswamy, H. H. S. (2021). Will comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) help in youth development?. Health Education, 121(2), 140-149.
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Megan Rose (she/her)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Vitalities Lab UNSW

Ask me about:

  • Gender affirmation
  • Femmephobia
  • Gender diversity
  • Neurodiversity.
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Aaron Saint-James (he/him)

School of Education; Arts, Design & Architecture (CSRH/ADA)

Ask me about:

  • Accessibility 
  • Neuro-inclusion
  • UDL
  • Neurodiversity
  • Molecular biology
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Loop bio
UNSW Untold Stories
UNSW Diversified
ResearchGate profile
PERSPECTIVE article
Katherine Thompson (she/her)

PhD Candidate, Centre for Social Research in Health

Sessional Academic, School of Education

CSRH/ADA

Ask me about:

  • Queer families
  • Social justice education
  • Anti-racism
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Kazi Ashraf Uddin

PhD candidate/Casual Academic

Law and Justice/ School of Social Sciences

Ask me about:

  • Qual method for transgender research in Global South 
  • Ethics in transgender research and transgender in Bangladesh.
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Jess Wilson (she/her)

Project Officer

Justice Health Research Program; School of Population Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine

Ask me about:

  • Trans youth health, mental health, and wellbeing
  • Gender and sexuality social justice
  • Telehealth/e-Health
  • Older adult mental health
  • Qualitative research

Publications

  • Wilson, J., Heinsch, M., & Canty, J. (2025). Mental health practitioners’ perspectives on supporting transgender and gender diverse youth: a scoping review. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-19.
  • Wilson, J. (2025). Interpretive Description and Reflexive Thematic Analysis: Exploring Conceptual Coherence and Methodological Integrity. Qualitative Health Research, 10497323251378303.
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Resources

  • Challenging the System: A Queer Legal Conversation with Sam Elkin

    The UNSW Community of Practice in Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (Intersex), and the Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice, welcomed co-host writer and lawyer Sam Elkin to discuss his new book, Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga which spans his years establishing Victoria’s first LGBTIQ legal service while the marriage equality debates were raging.

    Sam Elkin and Dr Andy Kaladelfos (UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice) explore fast-moving anti-trans political agendas, the challenges ahead for LGBTIQA+ rights, and how to keep ourselves safe in the face of it all.

  • SEXtember 2023 | Making research more inclusive of gender and sexuality diversity: HDR perspectives

    Challenge assumptions, forge connections, and reimagine intimacy at the 2023 Sex, Health, and Society Conference! 

    Chair: Kerryn Drysdale

    CSRH Seminar Series 2023 | Introducing the Community of Practice for Inclusive Research

    Seminar presented by a new Community of Practice at UNSW (CoPQTI) and UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health on 5 December 2023.

    Beyond Marriage Equality | LGBTQIA+ Rights in 2023

    This was the inaugural event of the Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer, Trans & Intersex people. Chair and one of the CoP's founders Dr Bridget Haire spoke with Alex Greenwich MP, Ash McCullough and Jessica Cunning about recent wins in this space and what more needs to be done to achieve rights for queer, trans and intersex people. Hear about how we can celebrate these achievements and learn lessons for future campaigns, especially in light of Alex's push for a NSW Equality Bill.

    • Aggleton P, Cover R, Logie CH, Newman CE & Parker R (2023) Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights, Milton Park: Routledge.
    • Anderst J, McMillan K, Gorman H, O'Connor M & Worth H (2022) ‘’When they do that kind of bad things to me, I feel that they encourage me to be strong and be who I am': How transfeminine people in Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands experience discrimination, acceptance and a sense of place', Culture, Health & Sexuality 24(3): 421-436. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691058.2020.1852313
    • Brady B, Rosenberg S, Newman CE, Kaladelfos A, Kenning G, Duck-Chong E & Bennett J (2022) ‘Gender is dynamic for all people’, Discover Psychology 2: 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44202-022-00054-2
    • Brown, S, Pocock, C, Lixinski, L et al. 2024. ‘‘Manifesto for Queer Heritage Practice 1.0’: Call for action’, Historic Environment 35(1), pp. 84-101, https://australia.icomos.org/publications/historic-environment/historic-environment-vol-35-numbers-1-2023-2024-queer-heritage-guest-editors-steve-brown-celmara-pocock-robert-mason/
    • Bryant J, Smith AKJ, Persson A, valentine k, Drysdale K, Wallace J, Hamilton M & Newman CE (2023) ‘Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B’, Culture, Health & Sexuality 25(9): 1214-1229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2149858
    • Callander D, Newman CE, Holt M, Rosenberg S, Duncan DT, Pony M, Timmins L, Cornelisse V, Duck-Chong L, Wang B & Cook T (2021) ‘The complexities of categorizing gender: a hierarchical clustering analysis of data from the first Australian Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey’, Transgender Health 6(2):7481. https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2020.0050
    • Carcel, C., Vassallo, A., Hallam, L., Shanthosh, J., Thompson, K., Halliday, L., Anderst, J., Smith, A. K., McKenzie, B. L., Newman, C. E., Bennett‐Brook, K., Wainer, Z., Woodward, M., Norton, R., & Chappell, L. (2024). Policies on the collection, analysis, and reporting of sex and gender in Australian health and medical research: A mixed methods study. Medical Journal of Australia, 221(7), 374–380. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52435
    • Cover, Rob and Newman, Christy (eds) (March 2025) Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar-encyclopedia-of-queer-studies-9781803922096.html 
    • Del Tufo A, Foster R, Haire B, Newman CE, Smith AKJ, Crowley M, Burn D & McNulty A (2023) ‘Understanding the health care needs of transgender and gender diverse people engaging with rural Australian sexual health centres: a qualitative interview study’, Sexual Health 20(4): 339-346. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH22159
    • Drysdale K (2019) Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15777-7
    • Drysdale K (2021) ‘’Scene' as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures', Sexualities 26(5-6): 604-619. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460721995467
    • Drysdale K, Bryant J, Dowsett GW, Lea T, Treloar C, Aggleton P & Holt M (2021) ‘Priorities and practices of risk reduction among gay and bisexual men in Australia who use crystal methamphetamine for sex’, International Journal of Drug Policy 93: 103163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103163
    • Drysdale K, Bryant J, Hopwood M, Dowsett GW, Holt M, Lea T, Aggleton P & Treloar C (2020) ‘Destabilising the ’problem' of chemsex: Diversity in settings, relations and practices revealed in Australian gay and bisexual men's crystal methamphetamine use', International Journal of Drug Policy 78: 102697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102697
    • Drysdale, K., Burton-Clark, I., & Moline, K. (2025). Reimagining menopause by expanding assumptions shaping research: a scoping review of gender and sexuality diverse people’s experiences and expectations. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2024.2447785
    • Drysdale K, Cama E, Botfield J, Bear B, Cerio R & Newman CE (2021) ‘Targeting cancer prevention and screening interventions to LGBTQ communities: A scoping review’, Health and Social Care 29(5): 1233-1248. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13257
    • Drysdale, K., Creagh, NS, Nightingale, C., Whop LJ, and Kelly-Hanku, A., (2024). “Inclusive language in health policy - a timely case (study) of cervical screening in Australia”, Health Sociology Review, Volume 33 (3), p 325-341. [online 5 June]. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14461242.2024.2356868
    • Drysdale K, Robinson S & Gorman-Murray A (2022) ‘Sex in placemaking activism: lesbians’ and queer women's sex-based sociality in Sydney, Australia' Gender, Place & Culture. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2119943
    • Drysdale K, Wells N, Smith AKJ, Gunatillaka N, Sturgiss EA & Wark T (2023) ‘Beyond the challenge to research integrity: imposter participation in incentivised qualitative research and its impact on community engagement’, Health Sociology Review 32(3): 372-380. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2023.2261433
    • Fonseca LC, Tedrus GMAS, Prandi LR, Almeida AM & Furlanetto DS (2011) ‘Alzheimer’s disease: relationship between cognitive aspects and power and coherence EEG measures', Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 69(6): 875-881. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0004-282x2011000700005
    • Furlanetto DS (2022) ‘Voices from Beyond: A psychopathological analysis of the onset anomalous experiences in spiritists mediums’, Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental 25(1): 20-42. https://doi.org/10.1590/1415-4714.2022v25n1p20.2
    • Furlanetto DS, Niel MM, Junior QC & Trevizol AP (2022) ‘From Cursed to Blessed: the Impact of Spirituality on the Life Course of 10 Brazilian Spiritist Mediums’, Journal of Religion & Health 61(3): 2514-2526. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01061-0
    • Gibson, AF, Drysdale K, Botfield J, Mooney-Somers J, Cook T & Newman CE (2022) ‘Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic’, Culture, Health & Sexuality 24(10): 1366-1379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2021.1952307
    • Grant R, Smith AKJ, Newett L, Nash M, Turner R & Owen L (2021) ‘Tasmanian healthcare professionals’ & students' capacity for LGBTI + inclusive care: A qualitative inquiry', Health and Social Care 29(4): 957-966. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13130
    • Hagstrom, A. D., Parsons, J. L., Nimphius, S., et al. (2025). It is time to improve our research design, reporting and interpretation of sex and gender in exercise science and sports medicine research. British Journal of Sports Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2024-109342
    • Harvey S, Mitchell M, Keeble J, Nicholls CM & Rahim N (2014) Barriers faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Accessing Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment and Sexual Violence Services, Cardiff: Welsh Government. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345559116_Barriers_Faced_by_Lesbian_Gay_Bisexual_and_Transgender_People_in_Accessing_Domestic_Abuse_Stalking_and_Harassment_and_Sexual_Violence_Services
    • Haupt S, Carcel C, Halliday L, Billiards S, Carson L, Redman K, Lappan-Newton S, Aubrey KR, Bickendorf X, Bourke JE, Buchert M, Da Gama Duarte J, Dasvarma A, Drake-Brockman TFE, Drysdale K, Dymock SCC, Eadie LN, Eckersley-Maslin M, Falk Eissmann F, Fazio J, Haire BG, Holder M, Kleppe N, Knight K, Mauclair J, Northcott C, Oliver BGG, O'Mara TA, Pang K, Philpot S, Purves-Tyson T, Stewart-Olsen J, Ursich L, Vukelic N, Yakou M, Graham B, Lamon S, Huxley R, Thompson K, Bennett-Brook K, Jenkins C, Wainer Z, Woodward M, Chappell L, Norton R (2025). “Catalysing change in health and medical research policy: an Australian case study of deliberative democracy to reform sex and gender policy recommendations”, Frontiers in Public Health. Volume 12. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1522213/full
    • Holt, M., Chan, C., Broady, T., MacGibbon, J., Mao, L., Smith, A., Rule, J., & Bavinton, B. (2024). Variations in HIV prevention coverage in subpopulations of Australian gay and bisexual men, 2017-21: implications for reducing inequities in the combination prevention era. AIDS and Behavior, 28, 1469-84. doi: 10.1007/s10461-023-04172-3
    • Holt, M., Broady, T., Callander, D., Pony, M., Duck-Chong, L., Cook, T., & Rosenberg, S. (2022). Sexual experience, relationships, and factors associated with sexual and romantic satisfaction in the first Australian Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey. International Journal of Transgender Health, 24(1), 38-48. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2021.2016540
    • Kaladelfos A & Smaal Y (2019) ‘Sexual violence and male prisons: an Australian queer genealogy’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice 31(3): 349-364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2019.1641881
    • Liu E, Prankumar S, Wong H & Mao L (2023) Ageing at the intersection of diversities: Assessing and addressing formal and informal care needs when diversities intersect, the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (Maridulu Budyari Gumal).
    • Lixinski L, (2020) 'Rights Litigation Piggybacking: Legal Mobilization Strategies in LGBTIQ International Human Rights Jurisprudence', Florida Journal of International Law 31(3): 273 - 314. https://fjil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/348376-FJIL_31-3_Lixinski_1.pdf
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CoPQTI Contributions to Inclusive Practice

2023–Ongoing

🏳️‍🌈UNSW Achieves Platinum Employer Status for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion

Summary:
UNSW was awarded Platinum status in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), recognising its leadership in LGBTQIA+ inclusion. The award cites CoPQTI as a key initiative under the Gender Equity Strategy, supporting inclusive research with queer, trans, and intersex communities.
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🏆 UNSW Receives Cygnet Awards for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion and Flexible Work and Care

Summary:
UNSW earned two SAGE Athena Swan Cygnet Awards, one of which acknowledges LGBTQIA+ inclusion. CoPQTI is highlighted as a foundational initiative supporting inclusive research and advancing equity for trans and intersex people.
View the Inside UNSW article

📊 Advocating for Inclusion in the 2026 Census | Kirby Institute

Summary:
CoPQTI is listed among the signatories of a joint statement urging the inclusion of gender and innate variations of sex characteristics in the 2026 Census. The statement emphasizes the importance of inclusive data for equitable public health policy.
Read the Kirby Institute statement

🎓 UNSW Gender Equity Strategy 2024–2028

Summary:
UNSW’s first Gender Equity Strategy outlines institutional commitments to inclusive practice. CoPQTI is embedded as a strategic initiative supporting research equity for LGBTQIA+ communities and people with variations of sex characteristics.
Access the strategy document (PDF)

🧪 Athena Swan Cygnet Award – STEMM Student Pathways

Summary:
UNSW’s fourth Cygnet Award focuses on improving student pathways in STEMM. CoPQTI is part of the broader equity framework supporting underrepresented groups, including gender-diverse and intersex students.
Explore the award announcement

🧠 Diversity Festival | Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Summary:
Diversity Festival showcases UNSW’s commitment to inclusion through events and workshops. CoPQTI members have participated in sessions that promote inclusive research and visibility for queer and trans communities.
Visit the Diversity Festival page

🌈 Australian Workplace Equality Index | UNSW EDI

Summary:
UNSW’s AWEI submission includes CoPQTI as a key contributor to its Platinum status. The initiative is recognized for advancing inclusive research and supporting trans and intersex staff and students.
Learn more on the AWEI page

🎖️ Additional contributions

  • Nominated for a UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award, 2024
  • Representative position on the CSGEHM Steering Committee (SCT), Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine, a consortium with The George Institute and the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW and Deakin University, 2025-current
  • Representative position (non-voting) on the Arts, Design & Architecture Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDI Committee), UNSW, 2025-2027.

Contact us

If you have general questions, collaboration ideas, or would like to explore how the CoPQTI can support your work, please reach out to our CoPQTI leads.
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Join us

If you are a UNSW staff member, student, or affiliate and share our focus on inclusive research with LGBTQIA+ communities and people with innate variations of sex characteristics, we welcome you to express your interest in joining the CoPQTI. 
Join us

Teaching for Equity and Diversity Community of Practice (TED CoP)

Teaching for Equity and Diversity Community of Practice (TED CoP) is an Education Focussed (EF) initiative set up by the University to promote communities of good practices within the EF cohort, and Professional staff are most welcome.

The TED CoP is an Education-Focused initiative established by the university to promote communities of good practice within the Education-Focused cohort. It provides a space for educators and professional staff to develop, share, and implement inclusive and accessible teaching strategies that enhance student engagement and success. TED CoP welcomes members from across disciplines who are committed to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education.
Current EF CoPs
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