# CoPQTI
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# 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](#)
##### 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](#)
##### Kerryn Drysdale (she/her)
Senior Research Fellow
##### CSRH/ADA
*Ask me about:*
- Qualitative methodologies
- Gender and sexuality
- Health and wellbeing
- LGBTQ social scenes.
[#### Bridget Haire](#)
##### Bridget Haire (She/her)
Senior Lecturer
##### UNSW School of Population Health/Medicine & Health
*Ask me about:*
Global health and policy reform.
[#### Andy Kaladelfos](#)
##### 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.
[#### Christy Newman](#)
##### 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.
[#### Anthony K J Smith](#)
##### 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.
[View profile](https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-anthony-k-j-smith)
### Higher Degree by Research Representatives
[#### Shutong (Ash) Chen](#)
##### Shutong (Ash) Chen (she/they)
PhD Candidate/ Research Assistance
##### School of Social Sciences
*Ask me about:*
- Social Movements
- Transnational queer activism
- Diaspora
- Citizenship
- Belonging.
[#### Min Lou](#)
##### 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
[#### Isurinie Anuradha Mallawaarachchi](#)
### 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
[#### Estelle Keerthana Ramaswamy](#)
##### 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.
### Members
[#### Claudia Allison](#)
##### 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](#)
##### 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.
[View profile](https://www.georgeinstitute.org.au/people/Jacek-anderst)
[#### Benjamin Bavinton](#)
##### 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.
[View profile](https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/our-people/benjamin-bavinton)
[#### Felicity Bell](#)
##### Felicity Bell
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
[#### Brandon Bear](#)
##### Brandon Bear (he/they)
Masters Candidate
**CSRH**
*Ask me about:*
- Health Equity
- Strengths Based Approaches
- Cultural Humility.
[#### Dr Sophie Bekir-Robinson](#)
##### 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.
- Part I: <https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/programs/flesh-meet-drysdale-robinson-1>
- Part II: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_I6AeF-q4A>
- Sophie Robinson, ‘Sisterhood, Separatism and Sex Wars: Rethinking Lesbian Feminism in Australia’. Chapter One. In (*Re)claiming Lesbian Feminisms: Transnational Dialogues with Contemporary Heteropatriarch*ies, 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](#)
##### Bella Bushby (she/her)
Lecturer
##### National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre
*Ask me about:*
- Bi+ sexual health
- HIV prevention.
[View profile](https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/our-people/bella-bushby)
[#### Yssy Burton-Clark](#)
##### Yssy Burton-Clark
Research Assistant
[#### Visakesa Chandrasekaram](#)
##### Visakesa Chandrasekaram
### Senior Lecturer
#### School of Law, Society and Criminology
#### Ask me about
- Decriminalisation & queer rights
- Arts-based research
- Queer South Asia
#### Publications
- Visakesa, V. (2020). Constitutionally recognised "other": The fundamental rights of LGBTI people in Sri Lanka. *Sri Lanka Journal of International Law*, *28*, 117–138. <https://jil.law.cmb.ac.lk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Vol28_05.pdf>
- Visakesa, V. (Director). (2014, January 30). *Frangipani* [Film]. YouTube. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB3dTftE7Hg>
[#### Simon Clay](#)
##### Simon Clay
Lecturer
**National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre**
*Ask me about:*
- Qualitative research
- LGBTQ+ health
- Gender studies
- Drug use.
[#### Clue Coman](#)
##### Clue Coman (they/them)
Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
##### ADA CSRH
*Ask me about:\
\*LGBTQ+ Human Rights
[#### Ava Del Tufo](#)
##### 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](#)
##### Chris Dietz (he/him)
Senior Research Associate
**International Centre for Future Health Systems**
*Ask me about:*
- Trans
- Gender
- Health
- Law
- Regulation
[#### Dan Dumbrell](#)
##### 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](#)
##### 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.
[View profile](https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/mx-baillee-farah)
[#### Charlotte Farrell](#)
##### Charlotte Farrell
Lecturer, Theatre and Performance
**School of Arts and Media**
*Ask me about:*
- Contemporary performance
- Performance art
- Theatre
[#### Caroline Ford](#)
##### 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.
[Gynacological Cancer Research](https://www.gyncancerresearch.org/)
[#### Vasiliki (Kiki) Franco-Klothos](#)
##### Vasiliki 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](#)
##### Dan Furlanetto (he/him)
PhD Candidate/Tutor
**Social Sciences/Medicine and Health**
*Ask me about:*
- Psychiatry
- Psychoanalysis
- Anti-LGBTIQ+ narratives and religion.
[#### Angela Griffin](#)
##### Angela Griffin
Research Assistant
**Gendered Violence Research Network**
*Ask me about:*
- Gendered violences
- Sexual violence
- Student engagement in university governance.
[#### Kate Gunther](#)
##### Kate Gunther
PhD Student & Research Assistant
##### Faculty of Medicine and Health
*Ask me about:*
- Health equity
- Gender diversity in gynaecology
- Personalised medicine.
[#### Mandy Hagstrom](#)
##### Mandy Hagstrom
Dr/Senior Lecturer
##### School of Health Sciences/ Faculty of Medicine and Health
*Ask me about:*
- Female physiology
- Resistance training
- Sex and gender.
[#### Lily Halliday](#)
##### 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.
[View profile](https://www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/about-us/our-people)
[#### Mo Hammoud](#)
##### 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.
[#### Shannon Harvey](#)
##### 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](#)
##### 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.
[View profile](https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-martin-holt)
[#### Aditya Joshi](#)
##### 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.
[#### Emma Kirby](#)
##### Emma Kirby (she/her)
[#### Sophie Keeffe](#)
##### 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](#)
##### 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.
[#### Karen Kriss](#)
##### Karen Kriss
Senior Lecturer, Disability Advisor, Disability Champion
**School of Art and Design**
*Ask me about:*
- Animation theory
- Computer animation
- Disability
- Motion capture
[#### Chantel Le Cross](#)
##### Chantel Le Cross
Project Officer & Research Officer
##### Arts, Design and Architecture
*What to ask about:*
- Communications
- Content development
- Neurodiversity
- Health promotions.
[Paying the Price report](https://butterfly.org.au/who-we-are/research-policy-publications/payingtheprice2024/)
[Eating Disorder Safe](https://nedc.com.au/assets/NEDC-Publications/ED-Safe-Principles/Eating-Disorder-Safe-Principles_Final.pdf?2024121700)
[#### Lucas Lixinski](#)
##### 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.
[#### Limin Mao](#)
##### 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.
[View profile](https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-limin-mao)
[#### Tierney Marey](#)
##### 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.
[#### Heather McCormack](#)
##### 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.
[#### Adrien McCrory](#)
##### Adrien McCrory
Research Assistant
##### School of Law, Society & Criminology
*Ask me about:*
- Trans and gender diversity
- Criminal legal history
- Queer history
[#### Katherine Moline](#)
##### 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
[View profile](https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-katherine-moline)
[#### Claire O’Connor](#)
##### Claire O’Connor (she/her)
Senior research fellow
##### School of Psychology, Faculty of Science
*Ask me about:*
- Dementia
- Occupational therapy
- Reablement
- Implementation science.
[View profile](https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-claire-oconnor)
[#### Dr Aves Parsemain](#)
##### 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.
[#### Megan Rose](#)
##### Megan Rose (she/her)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
##### Vitalities Lab UNSW
*Ask me about:*
- Gender affirmation
- Femmephobia
- Gender diversity
- Neurodiversity.
[#### Aaron Saint-James](#)
##### Aaron Saint-James (he/him)
**School of Education; Arts, Design & Architecture (CSRH/ADA)**
*Ask me about:*
- Accessibility
- Neuro-inclusion
- UDL
- Neurodiversity
- Molecular biology
[ResearchGate profile](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aaron-Saint-James)
[PERSPECTIVE article](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1329810/full)
[#### Katherine Thompson](#)
##### 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
[View profile](https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/ms-katherine-meta-thompson)
[#### Kazi Ashraf Uddin](#)
##### 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.
[#### Jess Wilson](#)
##### 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.
## Resources
- Events & recordings
- Events & recordings
- Relevant member publications
- Relevant member publications
- 2025
#### Day 1: Sessions 1A (Intersectionality) & 1B (Accessibility)
Thursday 25 September 2025 | UNSW Campus
#### Details:
Hosted by CoPQTI as part of Diversity Festival 2025, our two-day masterclass series invited Higher Degree Researchers (HDRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from all disciplines to explore how to make their research more inclusive-whatever the topic. Led by UNSW experts, the series offered four themed sessions focused on key domains of inclusive practice:
- Intersectionality
- Accessibility
- Community
- Decoloniality
##### Session 1A - Intersectionality
Led by Dr Rose Amazan, this session explored how intersecting identities shape research participation, power dynamics, and outcomes. Participants examined how to reflect on their own positionality and design research that accounts for complexity and lived experience.
##### Session 1B - Accessibility
Led by Professor Karen Fisher and Yssy Burton-Clark, this session focused on inclusive design, access needs, and adaptive research methods. Participants explored strategies for anticipating and responding to diverse access requirements across the research lifecycle.
Each recording includes closed captions, a full transcript, and chapter markers with descriptive labels to support accessible and user-friendly viewing. These features are designed to help viewers navigate the sessions with ease, revisit key concepts, and engage with the content in ways that best suit their access needs and learning preferences.
#### Day 2: Sessions 2A (Community) & 2B (Decoloniality)
Friday 26 September 2025 | UNSW Campus
#### Details:
Hosted by CoPQTI as part of Diversity Festival 2025, this two-day masterclass series supported HDRs and ECRs to embed inclusive practice across all stages of research.
##### **Session 2A - Community**
Led by Associate Professor Bridget Haire, this session examined how community engagement and accountability shape inclusive research practice. Participants explored the ethics of representation, the politics of participation, and the importance of building reciprocal relationships with communities impacted by research.
##### Session 2B - Decoloniality
Led by Dr Vissa Chandrasekaram, this session engaged participants in critical reflection on colonial legacies in research and the importance of Indigenous knowledges, sovereignty, and ethical relationships. Participants considered how to move beyond extractive research practices toward approaches grounded in reciprocity, accountability, and cultural safety.
Each recording includes closed captions, a full transcript, and chapter markers with descriptive labels to support accessible and user-friendly viewing. These features are designed to help viewers navigate the sessions with ease, revisit key concepts, and engage with the content in ways that best suit their access needs and learning preferences.
#### 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.
- 2023
#### 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.
- Publications
- 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>
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- 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>
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- Marey, T. (2024). Troubling the strictures for early-career researchers in academic publishing. Novice LGBTQ+ Scholars’ Practices in Writing for Scholarly Publication, 18.
- Mooney-Somers J, Anderst J & Deacon R (2023) ‘How a 25-year-old periodic survey for lesbian, bisexual and queer women responded and adapted to gender diversity: a reflexive analysis’, *Journal of Gender Studies.*<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2022.2162864>
- McCormack H; Nathan S; Varma R; Haire B, 2021, 'Dissonances in communication with sexual health consumers in an inner-Sydney sexual health clinic in relation to health literacy: A mixed-methods study', Health Promotion Journal of Australia, vol. 32, pp. 133 - 142, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpja.429>
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- Murray D, Mao L, Wong HTH, Chen T, Mackie B, Kao SC, Mahee AH, Dabbhadatta J, Prihaswan P, Stackpool G, Brooks M, Brown G & Lewis D (2020) ‘High levels of engagement with testing for HIV and sexually transmissable infection among gay Asian men in Sydney and Melbourne: an observational study’, *Sexual Health*17(2): 121-128. <https://doi.org/10.1071/sh18216>
- Newman C (2019) ‘Queer families: valuing stories of adversity, diversity and belonging’, *Culture, Health and Sexuality*21(3): 352-359. <https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2018.1468032>
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- Newman CE, Prankumar SK, Cover R, Rasmussen M, Marshall D & Aggleton P (2021) ‘Inclusive health care for LGBTQ+ youth: support, belonging and inclusivity labour’, *Critical Public Health* 31(4): 441-450. <https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1725443>
- Newman CE, Smith AKJ, Duck-Chong E, Vivienne S, Davies C, Robinson KH & Aggleton P (2021) ‘Waiting to be seen: social perspectives on trans health’, *Health Sociology Review*30(1): 1-8. <https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1868900>\
- Newman, Christy E, Smith, Anthony K J, Harvey, Shannon, Duck-Chong, Elizabeth (2023) Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations. Editorial Introduction to Special Collection of Culture, Health & Sexuality. 25(12), 1758-1761. <https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2277606>
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- Smith AKJ, Davis MDM, MacGibbon J, Broady TR, Ellard J, Rule J, Cook T, Duck-Chong E, Holt M & Newman CE (2023) ‘Engaging Stigmatised Communities in Australia with Digital Health Systems: Towards Data Justice in Public Health’, *Sexuality Research and Social Policy*20(3):1220-1231. <https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-023-00791-6>
- Smith, A. K. J., & Newman, C. E. (2023). LGBTQ+ health and social research. In K. Dew & S. Donovan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences (pp. 181–186). Edward Elgar Publishing. <https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885691.ch32>
- Smith, A.K.J and Newman, C.E. (2023) LGBTQ+ Health and Social Research. Elgar Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences. Editors: Kevin Drew and Sarah Donovan. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK.
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- Network publications
- Hammoud M, Haire B, Drysdale K (2024). *Advocating for the inclusion of gender and innate variations of sex characteristics in the 2026 Census* Joint Statement, representatives from the Kirby Institute, the Centre for Sex and Gender in Health and Medicine, the Centre for Social Research in Health, the Social Policy Research Centre, the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, UNSW’s Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans People and People with variations of sex characteristics (Intersex), and the Australian Human Rights Institute. [*https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/news/advocating-inclusion-gender-and-innate-variations-sex-characteristics-2026-census*](https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/news/advocating-inclusion-gender-and-innate-variations-sex-characteristics-2026-census)
- ABC Coverage: <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-05/census-lgbti-questions-2026/104310632?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web#statement>
- ABC’s 7.30 Report coverage: <https://www.facebook.com/abcnews.au/videos/growing-calls-for-the-government-to-include-questions-on-sexuality-and-gender-id/3816666378594358/?_rdr>
- The Guardian’s coverage: <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/05/census-questions-on-trans-and-gender-diverse-people-critical-for-health-care-experts-tell-labor?CMP=share_btn_url>
- Kaladelfos, A., Newman, C.E., Drysdale, K., Haire, B., Burton-Clark, Y., Brady, B., Smith, A., Joshi, A. (2024). *Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission: Current and emerging threats to trans and gender diverse human rights*. UNSW, Sydney.\
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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.
[Read the full article](/newsroom/news/2024/06/UNSW-achieves-platinum-employer-status-for-LGBTQIA-inclusion)
#### **🏆 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](https://www.inside.unsw.edu.au/social-impact/unsw-receives-cygnet-awards-lgbtqia-inclusion-and-flexible-work-and-care)
#### **📊 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](https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/news/advocating-inclusion-gender-and-innate-variations-sex-characteristics-2026-census)
#### **🎓 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)](/content/dam/pdfs/edi/2024-03-unsw-gender-equity-strategy-2024-2028-desktop-view.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](https://www.inside.unsw.edu.au/social-impact/unsw-receives-sage-athena-swan-cygnet-award-stemm-pathways)
#### **🧠 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](/edi/get-involved/diversity-festival)
#### **🌈 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](/edi/diversity-inclusion/lgbtqia-community/australian-workplace-equality-index)
#### **🎖️ 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](https://unsw.sharepoint.com/sites/ADA/SitePages/Equity,-Diversity-and-Inclusion.aspx) (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.
[Contact](mailto:copqti@unsw.edu.au)
## 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](https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8iT3syrKwZTh5BA)
### **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](https://www.education.unsw.edu.au/teaching/education-focussed-careers/communities-of-practice/current)
[SharePoint](https://unsw.sharepoint.com/sites/Education-Focussed/SitePages/Teaching-for-Equity-%26-Diversity.aspx)