Writing for a wider audience

Academics often write for a wider audience to share knowledge with a broader community, to bridge the gap between specialised knowledge and the general public. I frequently "translate" academic work for a non-specialist or lay audience; my goal is to make the insights from my research more widely accessible and applicable.

MEDIA ENGAGEMENT

Interviews, expert advice, consultation (Selected)

Otherhood
Telehealth service will expand access to safe abortions, advocates say (2022, Nov) - RNZ News (newspaper)
Phone option for abortions rolling out (2022, Nov) - RNZ, Morning Report (Radio)

Yes, you should talk to your toddler about periods. Here's how. (2022, July) - Stuff

What the abortion statistics actually say (2022, Sept) - The Whole Truth, Stuff - Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air
'Why Don't You Want Kids?' 'Because Apocalypse!'- (2019, March) Wired Magazine

BLOG POSTS / OP EDS

Who Decides Women’s Best Interests? Examining patient-provider power relations in counselling on long-acting reversible contraception (2022, May) - International Society for Critical Health Psychology
The Right to Choose is not Enough: A Cautionary Tale (2022, March) - ALRANZ, Abortion Rights Aotearoa.
Creative writing for social research (2021, March) - International Society for Critical Health Psychology
Responding to a pandemic: What can we learn from African feminists? (2020, April) - Feminism & Psychology
Responding to a pandemic: What can we learn from African scholars? (2020, May) - International Society for Critical Health Psychology
Period power? Ideas for intervening in menstrual poverty (2019, July) - International Society for Critical Health Psychology
What gay fathers can teach us about feminism and parenthood, (2015, Sept) The Conversation.

Phone option for abortions rolling outRNZ Morning Report

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