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Hepatitis C and data justice – new GLaD research explores the use and misuse of health data
Our latest article, published in Critical Public Health, explores the use and potential misuse of health data and its effect on people with or treated for hepatitis C.
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Listen to ‘After Cure’ – a new documentary podcast about hepatitis C in the age of curative treatment
‘After Cure’ is a new documentary podcast from the post-cure lives research team that explores experiences of hepatitis C in the new treatment era.
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‘I’m not hep C free’ – new research explores the afterlives of hepatitis C
What does ‘cure’ mean for people when treatment doesn’t bring about an end to the social effects of a disease? Our latest article explores the afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure.
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GLaD visits Europe
As part of our drugs and human rights project, GLaD researcher Sean Mulcahy is heading to Europe to present at conferences in London, Sheffield and Verona.
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Presentation
Harm Reduction International Conference: Strength in Solidarity (#HR23)
On behalf of GLaD’s research team working on the post-cure lives project, Emily Lenton presented at Harm Reduction International conference (#HR23) on a paper entitled ‘Hepatitis C data justice: The implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C’. The global conference, attended by over 1000 delegates from over 80 countries, is an incredible opportunity to connect with researchers, practitioners, allies in civil society, health and social justice organisations, and the GLaD team were thrilled to participate.
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Power, pain, ‘problem’ patients and practices of comparison – a Monash Health Humanities talk by Kate Seear
In a recent Monash Health Humanities, GLaD research lead Kate Seear drew connections between the ways in which people with endometriosis and people who use drugs are subject to stigmatising judgements regarding which patients are ‘genuine’ pain patients, deserving of care, and which are ‘non-genuine’, ‘drug seekers’ or ‘addicts’.
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Watch the GLaD team’s summer research showcase
Recently, GLaD reserchers Sean Mulcahy, Emily Lenton and Dion Kagan presented a 3-part showcase of research findings from current projects addressing LGBTIQA+ human rights, hepatitis C data justice, and life after hepatitis C cure. Watch a recording of their papers here.
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Inaugural Australian stigma conference hears call to address the health and human rights of people who use drugs
GLaD research lead Kate Seear gave a keynote presentation at the inaugural Australian Stigma Conference hosted by the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) in Canberra calling for reform to legal, social, policy and cultural dimensions of hepatitis C in order to better to address the health and human rights of people who use drugs.
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Project update
Post-cure and post-human rights – recent findings presented at the Australian Sociological Association conference
GLaD program lead Kate Seear and project officer Dion Kagan presented recent findings at The Australian Sociological Association conference earlier this month.
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Complicating cure
The law has the power to shape public understandings of hepatitis C infection, including how people with the virus understand themselves and their ability to avoid the stigma associated with it. The latest article from our project on the experiences of people treated for hepatitis C engages with the challenges posed by laws and policies devised in a pre-cure world.
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Listen to a showcase of important new research this World Hepatitis Day
To mark World Hepatitis Day in 2022, researchers in the GLaD and DruGS programs at ARCSHS got together with CEO of Hepatitis Australia Carrie Fowlie to share and discuss findings from three recent social research projects on hepatitis C. Listen to the conversation here.
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Submission
Victorian inquiry into cannabis considers law reform
A Victorian parliamentary committee recently released a report detailing the findings and recommendations from a major inquiry into the use of cannabis in Victoria. GLaD program lead Associate Professor Kate Seear was one of several people to make a submission to the inquiry.
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Welcome to GLaD
We are delighted to introduce you to a new research program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS).
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Podcast
Listen to our new podcast series: Rerighting Drugs
The team is proud to announce the release of a new podcast series, ‘Rerighting Drugs’. The series is emerges out of our drug policy and human rights project and explores the relationship between drug policy and human rights from the perspective of experts. Hosted by Kate Seear, the series examines why human rights might matter to people who […]
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Reducing drug-related harms in Australia through a new Reform Collaboratory
With new Australian drug laws required to comply with human rights frameworks, researchers at the GLaD program are conducting a new study funded by the Australian Research Countil to develop a world-first ‘post–human rights’ framework for drug policy.
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Dr Alejandra Zuluaga recently completed her PhD with ARCSHS and the GLaD program
GLaD researcher Alejandra Zuluaga has successfully completed her PhD in human rights and drug policy. Her thesis, ‘Coca, gender and the ontopolitics of human rights in the Colombian peace process’, was accepted without amendments. It received exceptionally positive examiner feedback, with one of the examiners recommending it for consideration for the Nancy Millis Medal, which […]
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Report
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New report from a national consultation on data-driven methods and health care
We have recently completed a major national consultation on the emergence of a range of data-driven methods intended to support the health needs of people who use illicit drugs and those with related health issues, such as hepatitis C. The consultation explored expert understandings of these methods, how and why these methods are being developed and […]
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New parliamentary issues paper on the health impacts of AOD
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care, and Sport has tabled an issues paper into the health impacts of AOD in Australia
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Inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence hands down recommendations
The report of the Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence has been tabled in Parliament
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News
Parliamentary report considers cannabis decrim
The inquiry into the Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis Bill has tabled its report.
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Report
Human rights and drug policy – launch of a four-year national research project report
The GLaD team has released their summary report from the post-human rights project.
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Announcement
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body
Call for papers and presentations for Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body: a seminar held as a satellite event alongside the Contemporary Drug Problems conference.
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Community
LGBTIQA+ inclusion in Greater Manchester
GLaD researcher, Sean Mulcahy, met with Laura Thomas, Co-Lead of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority LGBTQ+ Advisory Panel to discuss LGBTIQA+ inclusion and human rights.
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GLaD visits Hong Kong
In December, GLaD researchers attended the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia conference at the University of Hong Kong.
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Presentation
Are we human or are we dancer?: Reflections on sex, drugs, and bodies of law
GLaD Researcher Dr Sean Mulcahy was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex
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Podcast
Talking law and performance with Sara Ramshaw and Julie Lassonde
Listen to our interview with Canadian law and humanities scholar-practitioners Sara Ramshaw and Julie Lassonde
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Working with legal archives
Our latest article explores legal archival gaps and using the fragments and remnants that remain to speculate on the performance of parliamentary human rights scrutiny.
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News
Review of the General Insurance Code of Practice recommends reform
The independent review of the General Insurance Code of Practice has recommended changes drawing from our research on insurance discrimination and hepatitis C.
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The absent right to health in the Victorian and ACT human rights charters
Our latest article explores the absence of a right to health in the Victorian and Australian Capital Territory human rights charters.
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Submission
Workplace drug testing in Victoria
The Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee has recently conducted an inquiry into workplace drug testing in Victoria.
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Submission
Submissions on human rights, gender, and drugs
Recently, the GLaD team have led or contributed to several submissions to law reform, human rights, and parliamentary inquiries.
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Publications
Listening to women during legislative scrutiny
We’re delighted to announce publication of our latest article, ‘Mournful mothers and damaged damsels: Are we really listening to women during parliamentary human rights scrutiny’.
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Parliamentarians as ‘tribunes’ of the people
We are pleased to announce our latest paper: ‘“The tribunes of the people, the tongues o’ the common mouth”: Parliamentarians as representatives when scrutinising laws’
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