Researcher

My Expertise

Social aspects of: queer and trans health; sexual and reproductive health; diverse genders, sexualities, relationships, and families; LGBTQIA+ inclusive health, education, and research systems

Fields of Research (FoR)

Sociology of health, Sociology of family and relationships, Sexualities, Transgender studies

Biography

Professor Christy E. Newman (they/them) is an LGBTQIA+ health sociologist at the Centre for Social Research in Health, and Deputy Dean Research in UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture

Over the last 20 years, Christy has contributed expertise on qualitative social research, critical health sociology, and gender and sexuality diversity to multidisciplinary projects on the social aspects of sexual and reproductive health. More recently, this...view more

Professor Christy E. Newman (they/them) is an LGBTQIA+ health sociologist at the Centre for Social Research in Health, and Deputy Dean Research in UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture

Over the last 20 years, Christy has contributed expertise on qualitative social research, critical health sociology, and gender and sexuality diversity to multidisciplinary projects on the social aspects of sexual and reproductive health. More recently, this scope has expanded through new collaborations investigating the care and support needs of populations whose experiences challenge a range of normative assumptions about health, identity, embodiment, and relationships, including in the context of digital health, mental health, adolescent health, dementia care, violence prevention, and cancer prevention

Christy is committed to supporting community-partnered and peer-led approaches, and to amplifying the voices of populations historically neglected or collapsed into broader population categories, particularly trans and gender diverse peoplebi+ and other multi-gender attracted people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex). This research has been funded by >$18 million in grants from the Australian Research Council (Discovery and Linkage grants), National Health and Medical Research Council (MRFF, Project and Partnership grants), public sector and for-purpose health agencies. 

Christy is regularly consulted on inclusive health, education and research practices as a social researcher, a queer/bi+ and non-binary person and parent, and as a co-lead of CoPQTI: the UNSW Community of Practice for inclusive research with Queer and Trans people, and people with Innate variations of sex characteristics (Intersex). They also post research updates on Instagram as @thisprofesh and Bluesky as @thisnewman.bsky.social

Selected past projects and publications include: 


My Awards

  • 2020 Research Supervisor Award, UNSW Arc Postgraduate Council
  • 2017 Mid-Career Interdisciplinary Achiever Award, Australasian Sexual Health Alliance
  • 2010 Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
  • 1998 University Medal in Arts, Murdoch University

My Research Supervision


Currently supervising

Doctoral graduates


My Engagement

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Location

311 Goodsell Building

Contact

+61 2 9385 4717