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Six diverse people from behind wearing long coats, each dressed in one monoblock colour of the pride flag

Services for LGBQIA+ Youth

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

October is LGBTQ History Month. Today we have a bonus post in honour of National Coming Out Day. Social science studies can help organisations implement meaningful change to improve services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) youth.

  • “Implement a social and emotional well-being approach... frequently adopted in Aboriginal research and health practice.”
  • Collage showing young people wearing the pride and trans flags on their clothing and painted on their faces, while standing at a march. Key points from research by Dingle and Anderson, as well as this quote: “...[S]chool-based sexuality education in Australia is profoundly non-inclusive, heteronormative, and cisnormative, failing to represent or meet the needs of LGBTQIA+ students.”
  • Collage of polaroids and photos of queer Aboriginal people marching at Mardi Gras in Sydney, as well as hugging and laughing. Aboriginal artwork depicts a meeting place with people represented by dots, circles, and u-shapes, as well as joining song lines, depicted by concentric circles and wavery lines. Recommendations from Liddelow-Hunt and colleagues, as well as this quote: “Implement a social and emotional well-being approach... frequently adopted in Aboriginal research and health practice.”
  • Collage showing a polaroid and another cutout photo of diverse queer people, and a drawing of the globe. Recs from the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network, plus this quote: “Implementing an action plan to ensure organisations hold themselves accountable to LGBTQIA+ refugee and asylum seeker inclusion policies, recruitment strategies and service delivery.”
  • Polaroid of a young white boy in a wheelchair with people playing in a park in the background, plus a cutout of a young white boy wearing the pride flag, and a graphic of a house. Recs from Lim and colleagues, plus this quote: “Experiences of homelessness appear to be particularly pervasive among youth who are: (i) trans and gender-diverse, (ii) disabled and (iii) who reside outside of urban centres.”
  • Polaroid of a Black woman's hands holding small pins with pride flags and slogans, as well as a cutout of six queer people from behind wearing long coats, each dressed in one colour of the pride flag. Another cutout shows two women of colour hugging, and holding a sign saying FREE [watermelon drawing] AND HUGS. Text says: Learn more: SocialScienceInsights.com. At the bottom is a list of references
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News and Events, Social Policy

Race and Social Policy

Social Science Insights

‘Race at Work Within Social Policy,’ has been published in the book, Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence, edited by Dr Debbie Bargallie and Dr Nilmini Fernando. This book chapter demonstrates how inadequate racial literacy impacts social policy documentation, including policies attempting to implement anti-racism principles.

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Day in the Life of an Applied Sociologist
Street sign says 'Prevent aa second wave.' Next to is an abandoned shopping trolley

New Project on COVID-19

Social Science Insights

It’s been awhile. I’ve been on medical leave, just focusing on my health and wellbeing. I’ve been mostly resting. Slowly, at my own pace, I have also been tinkering away at some personal projects. Something I started before I went on leave is a collaboration with a colleage on the sociology of race.

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News and Events

Interview on My Sociological Practice

Social Science Insights

I’ve been interviewed for the Lady Science podcast. I talk about what sociology is, my career as an applied sociologist, and how Indigenous and other minority sociologists continue to challenge Western and colonial methods and ideas in sociology and in social policy.

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Social Science in Action
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Roma

Social Science Insights

Roma is a beautiful film that covers issues of gender, race, class and violence in Mexico. Dedicated to, and based on, writer/ director Alfonso Cuarón’s childhood nanny and housekeeper “Libo” (Liboria Rodríguez), the film follows Cleo (the sublime Yalitza Aparicio), a young Mixtec woman employed by an affulent Mexican family. She has lived with them since the children’s birth, herself perhaps still in her 20s. She is beloved by the children, but is still treated like a servant.

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Social Science Issues
A young Black woman scientist wears a face mask and blue uniform. She stands over a microscope in a lab

Black Women Mentors in Science

Social Science Insights

American biology student Stephani Page is undertaking her PhD research. She argues that there is a dire need to introduce diversity within the upper ranks of scientific leadership.

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How to Promote Gender Equality in Your Workplace

Social Science Insights

A forthcoming international survey of 240,000 workers by Barbara Annis shows that women feel professional exclusion in their workplaces, while men remain unaware that there’s a problem. Men resort to expressing old fashioned chivalry like opening doors and offering to pay for lunch, thinking this makes women feel more comfortable and appreciated. In fact, it is the way that men exclude women from promotional opportunities, meetings, and mentorship that is a problem for women.

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