Our new Australian grassroots sport and safeguarding study: To what extent do sport volunteers (the cornerstone of sport) have the skills, support and motivations to recognise and respond to abuse against young people in sport? Link to study below 👇🏻 #safeguarding #safesport

I don't know if there's any AuDHDer that gave everything in their application for the #DECRA 27 & have been in an ongoing crash since submitting, but if you are, I'm right there with you. It's disabling. Today I'm exec functioning/ energy spoons are in the dishwasher.

I didn't want to give the piece platforming Uta Frith more visibility, but since it's already widely circulating, as a researcher and as a late diagnosed autistic woman, I think I do have to speak up on Uta Frith's recent views on #austism featured in the tes magazine.

You know what's a sign of people caring about safer sport for young people: talking about it and acting on it when there's no major sporting events highlighting the problem.

Help - SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS: Any recommendation for a software for academic research that is both trustworthy for data privacy as well as user-friendly (for me ha) and for collaborative mapping projects with research participants? #networkanalysis #socialnetwork

Open letter to fellow Victorians, from a current #VicHealth Early Career Research fellow (me). Dear Victorians, please help #savevichealth ... Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/keep-viche... SHARE the petition. Follow Friends of VicHealth on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/frie...

"​VicHealth folding doesn’t just harm Victoria, it dismantles a global template for how to get health promotion right." www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...

Today is the last day of the Future Fellowship that I’ve been doing for the last five years. If any of the work we’ve done in thinking about queer in Indigenous lives, creativity, the colonial project of gender and everything else has had an impact on your work or life I’d love to hear from you.

Does anyone on this platform know of research that has attempted to evaluate the contribution of #criticaltheory in achieving its goal of liberation and emancipation?

It was my first sociology conference, and I think what I liked most about #TASA2025 was learning how diverse social science scholars integrate natural sciences literature and interpret it from social theory perspectives, e.g. sessions on youth and health.

Phrase of the year at #TASA2025 is reimagining futures. Everyone is reimagining.

7yrs ago (18 Nov 2018) on World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Se*ual Exploitation, Abuse, & Violence, I made the decision to publicly share my story. Speaking out was a 1st critical step in beginning to reclaim my voice. There's been progress but we can't step back. #endchildabuse

Today is #NationalSurvivorDay #everyvoice #supportsurvivor #csa #survivor

“Over a dozen Labor MPs, including senior figures in the party, have told ABC Investigations they want action on gambling reform.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling

Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.

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For the critical sport scholars - this includes an examination of women's view on sport betting/ gambling 👇🏻

Prof Samantha Thomas@docsamantha.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Women’s views about the use of gendered Corporate Social Responsibility strategies by harmful industries. Our new paper with @simonemccarthy.bsky.social Monique Murray, @hannahpitt.bsky.social @gracearnot.bsky.social globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

In loving memory of Virginia Giuffre - solidarity with all victims and survivors of these two men, and all those impacted by institutional decisions and silence. #safesport #princeandrew #volleyball #beachvolleyballl #adelaide2025

Some of my reflections on Australian sport to mark the 7th anniversary of the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse. #csa #survivor #safesport #abuseinsport open.substack.com/pub/aureliep...

Honouring the national apology to survivors of child abuse through action in sport

Today marks the 7th anniversary of the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.

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Please sign this petition + share "We call on the Australian Government and the Minister for Home Affairs to deny entry to convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde ahead of the Volleyball World Championships [...]." SIGN HERE bit.ly/4nLpTSN

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Ban Convicted Child Rapist Steven van de Velde from the 2025 Volleyball World Championship

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Calling all national/ international child abuse/ neglect academic/ professional associations to publicly denounce the inactions of politicians on the ongoing+livestreamed genocide of the Palestinian people. Not speaking up is being complicit. Please share/like to support.

Today's news could be very hard for many institutional child abuse survivors around the world and I want to share my support to the survivors of the Catholic Church/ other religious organizations. 1/ #csa #childabuse #catholicchurch #popeLeo #survivor #OlympicGames #abuseinsport

🌟 Invitation: Lived Experience Advisory Committee of people who've experienced child abuse in sport in Australia - Expression of Interest 🌟 APPLY HERE: vuau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #childabuse #abuseinsport #safesport #CSA #CSAsurvivors #survivors #violenceprevention #childmaltreatment

13-year-old boy murdered by his soccer coach. The coach had prior allegations of sexually assaulting a child. How did this happen? Did SafeSport and U.S. Soccer know about the allegations before he murdered a child? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Youth soccer coach charged with murder in death of 13-year-old boy

The youth soccer coach who was charged in a 13-year-old’s death has also been arrested on suspicion of a separate 2024 sexual assault.

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Excited to announce new research funding partnership with the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse for a collaborative project with people with lived experience of child abuse in sport, to improve the community sport sector response to child abuse. #childabuse #abuseinsport #safesport

Here's some behind the scene of our project examining how the Australian sport integrity system does/ doesn't respond to gender based violence in sport. You can follow more of my work and advocacy on my insta! www.instagram.com/sportsurvivo... #safesport #abuseinsport #gbv #genderbasedviolence

A kind reminder to those researching violence and discrimination (researchers and research funding bodies) - when asking people to join your research project so that they share their experiences of discrimination, abuse and violence, you absolutely need to financially compensate these people. 1/2

In light of yesterday's horrendous comments against the Matildas and all women and girls in sport, I'm just going to post one photo. Dear Marty, any year 10 girl has more morals than you do. #womensport #misogyny #matildas

En tant que signataire de cette tribune, je continue d’apporter mon soutien aux sportives qui portent le voile et défendent leur droit de jouer. #basketpourtoutes #sportpourtoutes www.nouvelobs.com/opinions/202...

Tribune | Les sportives qui portent le voile ont le droit de jouer, comme les autres !

Dans une tribune collective, des personnalités publiques et des présidents d’associations denoncent la proposition de loi qui voudrait interdire le port de tenue manifestant ostensiblement une apparte...

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The intense scrutiny over Sam Kerr's future in sport and its implications for player leadership—compared to the far less critical attention given to men who have actually been abusive toward women and young people in sport—is baffling.

Mental health is not the absence of so called mental 'disorders'. We need a neurodiversity paradigm shift. This has been advocated for a long time and by many before me.

I just created a Starter Pack specifically listing researchers and academics working on prevention and response to any form of child abuse and neglect (globally). Please share, promote your colleagues and promote yourself by tagging below (and I will update the list). #childabuse go.bsky.app/kNPvuk