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Contraceptive awareness and use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth: a cross-sectional analysis from the ‘Next Generation Youth Wellbeing Study’
(2026-03-03) Gibberd, Alison J.; Ford, Elizabeth M.; Graham, Simon; McKay, Christopher D.; Chamberlain, Catherine; Williams, Robyn; Davis, Katiska; Eades, Sandra J.
Background: Contraception enables reproductive choices, yet little is known about its use by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. This study describes contraceptive awareness and use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the ‘Next Generation Youth Wellbeing Study’ participants aged 16–24 years from Central Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales. They reported their awareness of contraceptive methods, contraceptive use and reasons for not using condoms. Results: Among the 375 participants, awareness was particularly high for condoms (83%), the oral contraceptive pill (78%) and Implanon (77%). Females, older participants and sexually active participants demonstrated higher awareness. Among 219 participants who were sexually active, 27% reported using no contraception the last time they had sex, whereas 44% used condoms. The most common reasons for not using condoms were using another contraception method (28%), being in a long-term relationship (24%) and not having or liking condoms (22%). After condoms, long-acting reversible contraception was most frequently used, then the oral contraceptive pill. Conclusions: Participants had a good awareness of contraceptive options. Understanding how females and sexually active participants became aware may guide initiatives to increase awareness in other groups. Not using contraception was common. Strategies to normalise discussions about contraception, increase health service visits, influence school sex education and address power imbalances in relationships may increase use. Higher uptake of long-acting reversible contraception over the oral contraceptive pill suggests that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth may have adopted these more effective contraceptives earlier in time than non-Indigenous youth.
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Homelessness in contemporary Britain: Conceptualisation and measurement
(Taylor and Francis - Balkema, 2013-02-01) Pleace, Nicholas; Burrows, Roger; Quilgars, Deborah
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How do You Feel Doctor? An Analysis of Emotional Aspects of Routine Professional Medical Work
(2008-02-01) Nettleton, Sarah; Burrows, Roger; Watt, Ian
Although there has long been a fascination with the emotional responses of doctors to their everyday working lives within the popular media, this has not generally been matched by a parallel analytic interest within medical sociology. Indeed, in a recent paper published in this journal Graham (2006) has argued that the discipline lacks much in the way of a compassionate appreciation of the lives of doctors. This paper explicitly responds to this observation by offering an analysis of the emotional aspects of routine professional medical work. This analysis is based upon qualitative interviews with 52 doctors working in the UK National Health Service (NHS) in England. The paper aims to provide an empathetic understanding of their views on, and responses to, their professional working lives. We are interested in how they 'feel' about being a doctor. The feelings they articulate are riven with ambivalence. We suggest that this is generated by a contextual tension which presumes that the medical profession are required to reproduce medicine as an abstract system - an objective, trustworthy, reliable, effective, competent and fair mode of healing - and yet individual practitioners are also required to be caring, emotionally intelligent, intuitive, and sensitive.
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Class places and place classes geodemographics and the spatialization of class
(2007) Parker, Simon; Uprichard, Emma; Burrows, Roger
This paper argues that the 'spatial turn' in the sociology of class - the clustering of people with a similar habitus into what we might think of as 'class places' - is connected in a number of important ways with the ongoing informatization of place, particularly as manifest in the urban informatics technology of geodemographics. This is a technology concerned with the development of the classification of places to commercial and policy ends - the assigning of postcodes to a set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive categories, or 'place classes'. What interests the authors is the manner in which there is a strong concordance between the conclusions of academic sociologists working on the spatialization of class and those of - what might be thought of as - 'commercial sociologists' working in the geodemographics industry. Although the conceptual argot is very different, both have in common an interest in the codification and spatial mapping of habitus, and both arrive at very similar substantive conclusions about contemporary processes of sociocultural spatial clustering. But the authors' interest is not just in the observation that there is an analytic convergence in academic and commercial concerns with the relationship between 'class places' and 'place classes'; rather, it is in their possible co-construction. They argue that geodemographic classifications are not only sociologically important phenomena but also represent an interesting example of a new form of software-mediated recursive urban ontology.
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Information Communication: Editorial comment
(2007) Ellison, Nick; Burrows, Roger; Parker, Simon