A5024034821- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Critical Realism in Sociology
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Sex work and related issues
University College London
2023-2025
National Institute for Health Research
2023-2025
The Open University
2020-2022
Objectives Trans and/or gender diverse (T/GD) people in the UK are less likely to access sexual health services (SHS) than cisgender and more report negative experiences. The British Association for Sexual Health HIV (BASHH) developed expert recommendations T/GD-inclusive SHS, but these lack service user perspectives. This study addressed this gap by asking T/GD how SHS could be T/GD-inclusive. Methods Semistructured interviews (n=33) focus groups (n=26) were conducted with aged 17–71 years...
Background Despite the effects of poor relationship quality on individuals’, couples’, and families’ well-being, help seeking often does not occur until problems arise. Digital interventions may lower barriers to engagement with preventive care. The Paired app, launched in October 2020, aims strengthen enhance couple relationships. It provides daily questions, quizzes, tips, detailed content facilitates in-app sharing question quiz responses tagged between partners. Objective To explore...
Digital technologies play an increasing role in intimate couple relationships, prompting new approaches to better understand the contemporary digital relationship landscape. This article uses feminist materialist assemblage thinking explore functioning and processes of a support app, Paired. Deploying diffractive analysis, it presents three composite narratives that temporality work situated practices coupledom. Composite retain emotional truth original accounts through combined participant...
Abstract Long‐established studies and scales have advanced understandings of family function, marital satisfaction, couple relationship quality. The underpinning constructs nevertheless remain under‐conceptualized largely removed from the heuristic everyday life dynamic contemporary coupledom. We propose that a paradigm shift is required to sufficiently engage with digital worlds 21st century intimacies. Ideas in feminist new materialism revitalize epistemology ontology science. This enables...
Abstract Objectives Trans and/or gender diverse (T/GD) people in the UK are less likely to access sexual health services (SHS) than cisgender but more report negative experiences. The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) developed expert recommendations T/GD-inclusive SHS, these lack service user perspectives. This study addressed this gap by asking T/GD how SHS could be T/GD-inclusive. Methods Semi-structured interviews (n=31) focus groups (n=21) were conducted with aged...
<h3>Introduction</h3> Trans and/or gender diverse (TGD) people in the UK are less likely to access sexual health services (SHS) than cisgender and more report negative service experiences. The BASHH Gender Sexual Minorities Special Interest Group (GSM SIG) developed expert recommendations for TGD-inclusivity but lacked evidence from users. This study aimed address this gap by asking TGD their perspectives on how SHS could be inclusive. <h3>Methods</h3> (n=53) took part semi-structured...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Despite the effects of poor relationship quality on individuals’, couples’, and families’ well-being, help seeking often does not occur until problems arise. Digital interventions may lower barriers to engagement with preventive care. The <i>Paired</i> app, launched in October 2020, aims strengthen enhance couple relationships. It provides daily questions, quizzes, tips, detailed content facilitates in-app sharing question quiz responses tagged...
This article describes methodological and ethical issues associated with examining discourses of ‘normality’ in the context normalisation HIV relationships. It considers how sensitivity was anticipated, encountered managed recruitment participants during research interviews, discussing implications these this project. reflects on tensions present when generating data topics externally deemed to be ‘sensitive’ but considered ‘normal’ by participants. In doing so, it has wider relevance for...