Kerryn Drysdale (she/her)
kerryndrysdale.bsky.social
Kerryn Drysdale (she/her)
@kerryndrysdale.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at UNSW, Sydney, living/working in nipaluna. LGBTIQA+ social scenes, health and wellbeing, community engagement.
This new article looks at collective immunities, which acknowledges the sociocultural and material conditions in which immunities extend beyond the atomised individual body. with @dalupton.bsky.social

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HMU for a copy if you can't get past the paywall.
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
New publication! Dhillon, H. M., Drysdale, K., Haire, B., valentine, kylie, Walsberger, S., Hartley, A., Jasicki, L., Daignault, C., & Smith, A. K. J. (2025). LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials: Ensuring justice and data equity. Research Ethics, 17470161251383558. doi.org/10.1177/1747...
LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials: Ensuring justice and data equity - Haryana M. Dhillon, Kerryn Drysdale, Bridget Haire, kylie valentine, Scott Walsberger, Anna Hartley, Lindsey Jasicki,...
This case study considers LGBTQ+ participation in cancer clinical trials as an issue of justice and data equity in research ethics. Although representation of L...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
New article out! Another in our suite of articles exploring immunity in the pandemic age. Read it here.
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Immune logics, immune selves and immunoprivilege in the COVID era: Perspectives from marginalised social groups
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a fraught immunopolitics in which the health and interests of powerful social groups have been privilege…
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August 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Hi folks, new article out. In the second of our series on inclusive language in cervical screening policy, we traced the downstream operationalisation in broader policy ecologies
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Beyond words: operationalizing inclusive language in Australian cervical screening health promotion policy
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May 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
TASA Thursdays | Reimagining Menopause: Mobilising Radical Imaginaries Across Social, Creative and Clinical Domains

Join us on Thursday 15th May at 12:30pm (AEST) for our TASA Thursdays session
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May 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Challenging the System: A Queer Legal Conversation with Sam Elkin

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Challenging the System: A Queer Legal Conversation with Sam Elkin
Join us for a conversation about the state of Australian LGBTIQA+ human rights explored through queer storytelling.
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May 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
When you are low-key worried no one will show up for your birthday party...
April 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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PhD students who complain about their supervisors ‘never hear outcome’, Australian survey led by @justinenolan.bsky.social et al finds www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-stu...
PhD students who complain about supervisors ‘never hear outcome’
‘A poor communicator who ghosts me’: disaffected research students and supervisors have similar grievances about each other, survey reveals
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hey, this is a super important initiative at Working It Out, and has been really set up to ensure mutual benefit and capacity building. Looking for people with intersectional experiences to provide strategic advice (LGBTIQA+, sex work, substance use, housing instability, dis/ability, race).
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Come on folk, get off your butts! Let's thank @arc-tracker.bsky.social. 3500+ of you follow their posts about proposed changes in ARC funding & which schemes remain open for now. But only 135 of you have signed up to support their nomination for a Eureka prize. Sign!

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Letter of Support for nomination of @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science
In signing this form you endorse the proposal to nominate @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize in the category 'Leadership in Science'. The list of signatories will be appended to the nomination form. I wi...
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March 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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I bet someone could do a reverse Omelas story right now where everyone in the village has to suffer so one guy gets to be happy and successful
March 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
New article out!

While anyone who knows me would query my knowledge of the statistics that form the basis of this study, I produced the arts based narratives that were used as the intervention (which is way more my speed).
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Using theory-informed, arts-based research translation to change community attitudes towards people who inject drugs newly released from prison: A randomised controlled trial
Community attitudes contribute to social exclusion of people with incarceration and injecting drug use histories. Interventions that positively impact…
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March 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Hey folks if you missed this, recording is now available
Co-designing intersectionality in a LGBTIQA+ disability storytelling project.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLG...
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Co-designing intersectionality in a LGBTIQA+ disability storytelling project

Tuesday 11 February 2025
3pm-4pm AEDT
This is an online event
Co-designing intersectionality in LGBTIQA+ disability storytelling project
Eventbrite - UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health presents Co-designing intersectionality in LGBTIQA+ disability storytelling project - Tuesday, 11 February 2025 - Find event and ticket informati...
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January 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
As part of a broader research programme, we conducted a scoping review to assess assumptions around menopause that does a disservice to cis and trans people alike.

Free copies here or HMU for the PDF

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Reimagining menopause by expanding assumptions shaping research: a scoping review of gender and sexuality diverse people’s experiences and expectations
Background: Menopause is socially coded as an experience of hormonal change which threatens the vitality and identity of (cisgender) women in midlife; yet this framing overlooks the diversity in me...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Kicking off 2025 with our new ARC Discovery project with @dalupton.bsky.social and Mark Davis - check out our website (and check back in to see our progress over the next three years).

immunitiesproject6.wordpress.com
Public Understandings Related to Immunity Systems and the Microbiome
A social research project funded by the ARC
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January 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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New OPEN ACCESS article by TASA member @kerryndrysdale.bsky.social et al. The salience of genomic information to reproductive autonomy: Australian healthcare professionals’ views on a changing prenatal testing landscape doi.org/10.1080/1463...
The salience of genomic information to reproductive autonomy: Australian healthcare professionals’ views on a changing prenatal testing landscape
Genomic testing in prenatal care is rapidly advancing and it is now possible to obtain an entire fetal genome via a blood test administered in early pregnancy. In the pursuit of reproductive autono...
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May 1, 2024 at 7:25 PM
One of our articles from 2023 has now found its home in a volume. In this article, we explored the potential between place based initiatives and virtual/online service delivery, provided the principles underpinning place-based initiatives are retained.
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Is there a role for hybrid service provision in place‐based initiatives within the human services sector? Findings from an Australian exploratory study
The value of place-based initiatives in the design and delivery of human services has long been recognised, but the need for hybrid service delivery to clients—that is any combination of online and .....
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December 4, 2024 at 2:38 AM
It's my first post on here, but it's good news to share. Looks like we start this fab project in 2025, funded by ARC DP25 scheme.
November 26, 2024 at 11:07 AM