My Expertise
Vulnerable populations of young people including street-involved, substance-using youth
Innovative approaches to harm reduction
Illicit and injecting drug use and hepatitis C
Sexuality and sexual health
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Sociology, Sociology of health, Infectious diseases, Social determinants of healthSEO tags
Biography
Joanne Bryant is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2023 -2026).
Joanne has led a range of impactful research projects focused on young people’s substance use and sexual health, concentrating specifically on marginalised young people, street-involved young people, and Aboriginal young people. Joanne has published...view more
Joanne Bryant is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2023 -2026).
Joanne has led a range of impactful research projects focused on young people’s substance use and sexual health, concentrating specifically on marginalised young people, street-involved young people, and Aboriginal young people. Joanne has published over ninety peer review papers and forty technical research monographs. She has secured over $11M in research funding, including from the ARC and NHMRC, and is a member of several government and sector expert advisory committees on blood borne viruses, sexual health and AOD. For 17 years, she was a researcher at the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health.
Joanne is past Joint Editor and Senior Editorial Advisor to the journal Health Sociology Review, and current member of The Australian Sociological Association.
My Grants
Selected Projects
Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2023-2026 “Reimagining strengths approaches to drug and alcohol care for young people” Bryant. $1,115,000
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2020-2023 “Aftercare for young people: A sociological study of resource opportunities” Bryant, MacLean, Skattebol, Hallam, Ferry. $308,000
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant 2018-2020 “Fostering the sexual well-being of Aboriginal young people by building on social, cultural and personal strengths.” Bryant, Bell, Bolt, Graham, Doyle, Murphy, Treloar, Browne, Aggleton. $211,000
NSW Health COVID-19 Research Grants Round 1 Existing Projects 2020-2021 “A rapid qualitative assessment of COVID-19 health needs in an urban Aboriginal community.” Bryant, Bolt, Beetson, Doyle, Graham, Bell, Murphy, Newman, Gardner, Wilms, Penning, with partner organisations South Western Sydney Local Health District, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District. $152,092
Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies NADA 2019-2020 “Access and Equity Project: research enquiry into the current barriers and enablers associated with access and equity in NGO alcohol and other drug treatment in NSW.” Bryant, Brener, Horwitz, Lafferty. $77,000
NSW Health NGO Evaluation Grants. 2017-2019 “Evaluation of the Ted Noffs Street University Program.” Bryant, Ferry, Noffs, Palmer, Mao, Treloar $150,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Synergy Grant, 2020-2025 “Eliminating endemic sexually transmissible infections in remote Australia using targeted multidisciplinary strategies.” Ward, Guy, Kaldor, Bryant, Liu, Whiley, Donovan. $5M.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2016-2018 Critical perspectives on serodiscordance in family life. Newman, Persson, valentine, Hamilton, Bryant, Wallace. $355,000
My Qualifications
BSc, MSc, PhD
My Awards
UNSW Arc Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor Award 2020
UNSW Arc Postgraduate Supervisor Award 2018
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Joanne supervises postgraduate students with an interest in the social construction of youth, illicit drug use, harm reduction, sexuality and sexual health. She supervises research projects that draw on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches.
Students
Brandon Bear, Salutogenic behaviours in sexuality and gender diverse individuals
Theresa Caruana, Stigma, health worker attitudes and client outcomes in drug treatment
Ellen Finlay, Longevity, Commonality and Difference. The historical, sociopolitical & biomedical aspects of longevity and population ageing in Australia among Aboriginal people
Sujith Kumar (2021) Sexual citizenship among minority ethnic LGBTQ youth in Australia
Kristy Gardner (2021) The role of technology in facilitating access to sexual health education and services for Aboriginal youth in an urban setting
Naveed Noor (2019) The social logic of sexual risk taking among homeless young people in Pakistan
Hannah Wilson (2014) Exploring the potential role of tattooists delivering harm reduction to at risk clients
Maude Frances (2014) Consuming information about hepatitis C: Reflexivity, sociality and practice
Dana Paquette (2011) The role of respondent-driven sampling in the behavioural surveillance of people who inject drugs
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5271-2881