GLaD researchers
Presentation
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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Community
Presentation
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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Presentation
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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Announcement
New article
Publications
Research
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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Announcement
Podcast
Research
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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Announcement
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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New article
The trouble with normalisation – new research on the mainstreaming of hepatitis C care and its impact on stigma
Our latest article investigates the mainstreaming of hepatitis C care – a process known as ‘normalisation’ – and whether it can reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with the virus.
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New article
New research on the human rights culture in the ACT
Our latest article considers how a ‘culture of human rights’ is defined in research into human rights charters across Australian jurisdictions, including the ACT.
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News
New health information sharing legislation could compromise Victorians’ privacy rights
New Victorian legislation will introduce an electronic patient health information sharing system to enable public hospitals and other specified health services to share Victorians’ health information.
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New article
New research on gender in alcohol and other drug regulation
In our latest article, we explore how alcohol and other drugs issues are considered in human rights scrutiny processes in Australian parliaments.
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Publications
New research on insurance discrimination and hepatitis C
Our latest article considers Australian insurance law and practice in the context of hepatitis C.
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New project
Mapping Australian legislation on LGBTIQA+ rights
GLaD program researcher Sean Mulcahy is conducting a new project designed to audit Australian legislation that has been subject to human rights scrutiny
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Project update
Research
Thinking dignity and freedom this Human Rights Day
Each year on the 10th of December, the United Nations celebrates International Human Rights Day. In 2022, the theme for the day is ‘Dignity, freedom and justice for all’. In January 2021, our program lead, Associate Professor Kate Seear, commenced her Australian Research Council-funded Future Fellowship, exploring the intersections between human rights, drug policy and gender. The […]
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Publications
On tables, doors and listening spaces
Our article, ‘On tables, doors and listening spaces: Parliamentary human rights scrutiny and engagement of others’, is published in the Australian Journal of Human Rights.
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News
Visiting Fellowship at Warwick Law School
GLaD Program researcher, Dr Sean Mulcahy, recently visited the University of Warwick after securing a Visiting Research Fellowship
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News
International Overdose Awareness Day and drug policy reforms in Victoria
In the lead up to International Overdose Awareness Day, we highlight some of the policy reforms in the state of Victoria to tackle overdose
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Research
New research raises concerns about hepatitis C post-cure life
We are pleased to announce the next publication from our ARC-funded project, ‘Addressing hepatitis C-related legal, policy and practice discrimination in a post-cure world’. Co-authored by GLaD program lead Kate Seear, with Suzanne Fraser, Sean Mulcahy, Dion Kagan, Emily Lenton, Adrian Farrugia and kylie valentine, and published in the international journal Social and Legal Studies, […]
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Presentation
Talking drugs, dance and human rights at the Global Meeting on Law and Society
GLaD project officer Sean Mulcahy recently presented a paper co-authored with project lead Kate Seear at the Global Meeting on Law and Society in Lisbon.
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New article
New research on debates about roadside drug testing and human rights
Our new paper explores how this debate on roadside drug testing in the ACT unfolded.
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Submission
The Australian debate about religious discrimination and other rights
An important debate about religious discrimination and the intersections between religious beliefs and other rights has unfolded in Australia. In this post, we report on the debate surrounding the Religious Discrimination Bills.
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Uncategorized
Australia’s national hepatitis C strategy must address post-cure lives
The Australian Department of Health will soon embark on developing the sixth iteration of the national hepatitis C strategy, anticipated to be its last, and firmly upholding the strategy of setting targets aligned with the global goal of eliminating hepatitis C as a public health concern by 2030.[1] Australia was one of the first countries […]
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