Select Publications
Books
2022, Participatory Action Research: Ethics and decolonization, Oxford University Press, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/participatory-action-research-9780197644966?cc=au&lang=en&
,2019, Arts-based methods in refugee research: Creating sanctuary, Springer, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8008-2
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Breaking Barriers or Building Walls? Strategies to overcome the barriers to help-seeking among Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) survivors from refugee backgrounds', in Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research: Knowledge-Building, Application, and Impact, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003241492-53
,2024, 'Preface', in Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge, Policy Press, pp. xxii - xxiv
,2024, 'The potential of lived experience-led knowledge to dismantle the academy', in Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge: Decolonising and Disrupting the Academy, pp. 152 - 162
,2024, 'Unpacking disruptive methodologies: What do we know about lived experience-led knowledge and scholarship?', in Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge: Decolonising and Disrupting the Academy, pp. 1 - 18
,2022, 'How Do We Engage in Co-research?', in Participatory Action Research, Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 60 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512456.003.0004
,2022, 'How Do We Influence Policy?', in Participatory Action Research, Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 118 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512456.003.0007
,2022, 'Participatory Action Research Is Ethical, Right?', in Participatory Action Research, Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 79 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512456.003.0005
,2022, 'What Does Participation Entail?', in Participatory Action Research, Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 41 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512456.003.0003
,2022, 'What Is Participatory Action Research?', in Participatory Action Research, Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512456.003.0001
,2022, 'What of Gender Equality?', in Participatory Action Research, Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 98 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512456.003.0006
,2022, 'Why Decolonize?', in Participatory Action Research, Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 21 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512456.003.0002
,2021, 'Health on the move: Walking interviews in health and wellbeing research', in Lupton D; Leahy D (ed.), Creative Approaches to Health Education, Routledge
,2021, 'Health on the Move', in Creative Approaches to Health Education, Routledge, pp. 136 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003126508-10
,2021, 'Participatory Action Research: A theoretical and critical introduction.', in Popularizing Scholarly Research: Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities, Oxford University Press
,2020, 'Sitting with the mess', in Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K (ed.), Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward., Palgrave, pp. 39 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46855-2_3
,2019, 'Systemic policy barriers to meaningful participation of students from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds in Australian higher education: Neoliberal settlement and language policies and (deliberate?) challenges for meaningful participation', in McBrien J (ed.), Educational Policies and Practices of English-Speaking Refugee Resettlement Countries, Brill / Sense, pp. 88 - 109, https://brill.com/display/book/9789004401891/BP000016.xml
,2019, 'Mental health and critical multicultural practice: An arts-based approach', in Nipperess S; Williams C (ed.), Critical Multicultural Practice: New perspectives in Australian social work, Allen & Unwin, https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/academic-professional/social-work/Critical-Multicultural-Practice-in-Social-Work-Edited-by-Sharlene-Nipperess-and-Charlotte-Williams-9781760297831
,2018, ''They’d just flown away’: reflections on shifting gender norms in the context of engagement with asylum seekers and refugees through community music.', in Shevellar L; Westoby P (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Research, Routledge, pp. 41 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315612829
,2018, 'They’d just “flown away”', in The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Research, Routledge, pp. 41 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315612829-3
,2017, 'Community Music Research and Evaluation Through a Social Determinants Lens', in Sunderland N; Bendrups D; Bartleet B-L; Lewandowski N (ed.), Music, health and wellbeing: Exploring music for health equity and social justice, Springer, pp. 121 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95284-7_7
,2017, 'Visual depictions of refugee camps: (de)constructing notions of refugee-ness?', in Liamputtong P (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences, Springer, Singapore, pp. 1811 - 1828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2779-6_47-1
,2017, 'Visual Depictions of Refugee Camps: (De)constructing Notions of Refugee-ness?', in Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2779-6_47-1
,Edited Books
Lenette C, (ed.), 2025, Anti-Colonial Research Praxis: Methods for Knowledge Justice
Higgins M; Lenette C, (ed.), 2024, Disrupting the academy with lived experience-led knowledge, Policy Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.56687/9781447366362
Higgns MS; Lenette C, (ed.), 2024, Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge
Journal articles
2024, '“This is not why we brought our children here!”: Tensions and challenges in responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences in African-background refugee families', Child Abuse and Neglect, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107101
,2024, 'Online Bilingual Co-Design: Developing Resources with People with Disability and Family Members from Refugee Backgrounds', The Qualitative Report, http://dx.doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.6377
,2023, 'Suicide Research with Refugee Communities: The Case for a Qualitative, Sociocultural, and Creative Approach', Social Sciences, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12110637
,2023, '‘My Dad Was, Is a Soldier’: Using Collaborative Poetic Inquiry to Explore Intergenerational Trauma, Resilience, and Wellbeing in the Context of Forced Migration', Social Sciences, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12080455
,2022, 'Who is the Host? Interrogating Hosting from Refugee-Background Women’s Perspectives', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43, pp. 621 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2063819
,2022, 'The Importance of Local and Global Social Ties for the Mental Health and Well-Being of Recently Resettled Refugee-Background Women in Australia', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, pp. 10917 - 10917, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710917
,2022, '“In the beginning it was difficult but things got easier”: Service use experiences of family members of people with disability from Iraqi and Syrian refugee backgrounds', Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 20, pp. 33 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jppi.12424
,2022, 'Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support someone with disability', Disability and Society, 38, pp. 1848 - 1870, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2045189
,2022, 'Cultural safety in participatory arts-based research: How can we do better?', Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.35844/001c.32606
,2022, 'Who is the host? Interrogating ‘hosting’ from resettled refugee-background women’s perspectives', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43, pp. 621 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2063819
,2022, 'How can story completion be used in culturally safe ways?', International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, pp. 16094069221077764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069221077764
,2022, '“This bloody rona!”: Using the digital story completion method and thematic analysis to explore mental health impacts of COVID-19 in Australia', BMJ Open, 12, pp. e057393, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057393
,2021, 'Short Take: Walking Interviews with Refugee-background Women', Field Methods, 33, pp. 305 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1525822X20987331
,2021, 'Facilitated arts engagement with women veterans for health and well-being', Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 12, pp. 193 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00061_1
,2021, 'Walking interviews with refugee-background women', Field Methods, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1525822X20987331
,2021, 'Exploring the intersection of human rights, health, disability and refugee status: An arts-based approach', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 26, pp. 387 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2021.1882044
,2020, '“To the Arabic community disability is not normal”: Understandings of disability among Iraqi and Syrian people from refugee backgrounds.', Journal of Refugee Studies, 34, pp. 2849 - 2870, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa111
,2020, 'Persistent psychological distress in resettled refugee women-at-risk at one-year follow-up: Contributions of trauma, post-migration problems, loss, and trust.', Transcultural Psychiatry, 58, pp. 157 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461520965110
,2020, 'Self-representation in participatory video research: Ethics and lessons learnt', Art/Research International, 5, pp. 399 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29498
,2020, '“We were not merely participating; we were leading the discussions”: Participation and self-representation of refugee young people in international advocacy', Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 18, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2019.1679404
,2020, 'SELF-REPRESENTATION IN PARTICIPATORY VIDEO RESEARCH: ETHICS AND LESSONS LEARNT', Art/Research International A Transdisciplinary Journal, 5, pp. 399 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29498
,2020, 'Women and Stigma: A Protocol for Understanding Intersections of Experience through Body Mapping', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, pp. 5432 - 5432, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155432
,2020, 'Enabling pathways for students from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds in higher education: Aspirations about progression to postgraduate studies', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 39, pp. 244 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdaa001
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