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The Need for Intersectionality in Harm Reduction and Gender-Based Violence

Edited by:

Alex Workman, MRes, Western Sydney University, Australia
Angela Dwyer, PhD, University of Tasmania, Australia
Pranee Liamputtong, PhD, College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Vietnam
Tony Rossi, PhD, Western Sydney University, Australia

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 26 May 2025

Harm Reduction Journal is calling for submissions to our Collection on The Need for Intersectionality in Harm Reduction and Gender-Based Violence.


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New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, SDG 5: Gender Equality, SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities, and SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Angela Dwyer, PhD, University of Tasmania, Australia

Dr Angela Dwyer is a sociologist and Associate Professor in Policing at the University of Tasmania. Her research on how sexuality, gender, and sex diversity influences policing contributed to founding the discipline of queer criminology. She has more than 100 publications in this field and three co-edited books: Q Policing: LGBTQ+ experiences, perspectives and passions; Transgender Identities and Criminal Justice: An Examination of Issues in Victimology, Policing, Sentencing, and Prisons; and Queering Criminology. Her work on this was awarded the Richard Tewksbury Award by the Western Society of Criminology 2022-2023.

Pranee Liamputtong, PhD, College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Vietnam


Pranee Liamputtong is a medical anthropologist focused on the health of women, children, immigrants, refugees, the elderly, and transgender individuals. Her research covers gender, sexual health, reproductive issues, mental health, and chronic diseases, with recent studies on gender and sexual health among Asian and refugee/immigrant women and transgender individuals. She is currently researching air pollution's impact on maternal and infant health in Vietnam. A qualitative researcher, she has authored several influential books on qualitative and health research methods. She teaches Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health and Health Promotion.

Tony Rossi, PhD, Western Sydney University, Australia


Professor Tony Rossi is the Deputy Dean of the School of Health Sciences at Western Sydney University. His research is shaped by his curiosity largely about how people relate to their world through life and work.  He has published in the areas of teacher education, teachers’ work, medical education, community sport, elite sport, coach education, family feeding practices, and physical activity studies, all from a qualitative perspective and underpinned by socio-cultural and socio-political theories. He still teaches and currently runs a qualitative research methods subject in two postgraduate Health Science programs.

Alex Workman, MRes, Western Sydney University, Australia

Alex Workman is an epidemiological criminologist focused on the social justice outcomes of marginalized populations, particularly those who are gender and sexuality diverse. His research explores the intersections of public health, criminology, policing, and human rights, emphasizing autonomy, dignity, and self-determination. Alex teaches health and social sciences, including philosophy, cultural safety, and human rights. He co-founded the Intersectionality in Law Enforcement and Public Health Special Interest Group for GLEPHA and has edited volumes on cultural safety and critical whiteness.

About the Collection

This special collection of the Harm Reduction Journal focuses on the significance of intersectionality in advancing understandings of how to reduce gender-based violence and other harms in social issues such as alcohol use, gambling, tobacco, sex work, the internet, human enhancement drugs, psychoactive and addictive substances, incarceration, road trauma, youth justice issues, domestic and intimate partner violence, filicide, infanticide, parental exploitation, victims and perpetrators, and law enforcement.
Contributors are encouraged to explore diverse ways in which they have addressed these social issues, upholding human rights. This collection encourages contributors to think of intersectionality with specific emphasis on marginalised and vulnerable communities, such as people living with disability, gender and sexuality diversity, religious minorities, the young and the elderly and incarcerated individuals. Addressing intersectionality in the context of institutional responses, we encourage scholars, practitioners and academics from diverse disciplines to identify alternative ways of reducing harm through allied health professions such as occupational therapy, recreational therapy, and others, and people from criminal justice/criminology/law enforcement, social work, psychology/counselling, doctors, and nurses. We encourage submissions that speak to unconventional ways of addressing the issues either through co-designed research, methodological approaches, research findings etc.
 

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles, Commentaries and Perspectives. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “The Need for Intersectionality in Harm Reduction and Gender-Based Violence" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.