Research Supervisor Connect
Emma's research and teaching areas include critical mental health theory, intersections between gender inequality and contemporary psychiatric practices, power inequalities between professionals and service users, and medicalisation/therapeutic trends within neoliberal societies. Currently, Emma is investigating gendered coercion within psychiatric settings, through a participatory action research methodology that draws upon the perspectives of service users/survivors, family/loved ones, and mental health professionals. Through processes of creativity and dialogue, this project aims to develop new knowledge about ways of responding with women in times of distress/suffering that provide alternatives to coercive practices. In other current projects, she is exploring the complexities of de-institutionalisation; the long-term effects of childhood emotional abuse through an intersectional feminist lens; and the possibilities that are opened up through peer-led (rather than professionalised) responses to mental distress/difference.
Sydney School of Education and Social Work
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3397