Bridget McFarland

Dr Bridget McFarland

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Bridget Garnham is a Research Fellow and member of the National Enterprise for Rural Community Wellbeing. Her research draws intersections between psychology, sociology and rural studies to explore complex social issues connected to subjectivity and mental health/wellbeing. Her recent journal publications focus on the contexts and conditions that shape farmer distress and suicide prevention and issues of ageing and care planning for older rural parental-caregivers.  Bridget's book A new ethics of 'older': subjectivity, surgery and self-stylisation draws on Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) thought in relation to ethics, subjectivity and truth to explore how ‘older’ people engage with cosmetic surgery in the context of ethical stylisation of appearance, identity and lifestyle.

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2024 McFarland, B., Bryant, L., Wark, S., & Morales Boyce, T. (2024). Adaptive interviewing for the inclusion of people with intellectual disability in qualitative research. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 37(1), 1-10.
DOI Scopus18 WoS18 Europe PMC8
2024 Bryant, L., McFarland, B., & Andrew, J. (2024). Co-design communities of practice in community-based mental health and rural suicide prevention. Design for Health, 8(1), 4-23.
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2019 Garnham, B., Bryant, L., Ramcharan, P., Yu, N., & Adams, V. (2019). Policy, plans and pathways: the 'crisis' transition to post-parental care for people ageing with intellectual disabilities in rural Australian carescapes. Ageing and society, 39(4), 836-850.
DOI Scopus16 WoS15
2018 Bryant, L., & Garnham, B. (2018). Farming exit and ascriptions of blame: the ordinary ethics of farming communities. Journal of rural studies, 62, 62-67.
DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2018 Bryant, L., Garnham, B., Tedmanson, D., & Diamandi, S. (2018). Tele-social work and mental health in rural and remote communities in Australia. International social work, 61(1), 143-155.
DOI Scopus47 WoS47
2017 Garnhan, B., & Bryant, L. (2017). Epistemological erasure: the subject of abuse in the problematization of 'elder abuse'. Journal of aging studies, 41, 52-59.
DOI Scopus11 WoS11 Europe PMC6
2017 Bryant, L., & Garnham, B. (2017). Bounded choices: the problematisation of longterm care for people ageing with an intellectual disability in rural communities. Journal of rural studies, 51, 259-266.
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2015 Bryant, L., & Garnham, B. (2015). The fallen hero: masculinity, shame and farmer suicide in Australia. Gender, Place and Culture, 22(1), 67-82.
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2014 Bryant, L., & Garnham, B. (2014). The embodiment of women in wine: Gender inequality and gendered inscriptions of the working body in a corporate wine organization. Gender, work and organisation, 21(5), 411-426.
DOI Scopus40 WoS28
2014 Garnham, B. (2014). A cutting critique: transforming 'older' through cosmetic surgery. Ageing and society, 34(8), 1356-1379.
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2014 Bryant, L., & Garnham, B. (2014). Economies, ethics and emotions : farmer distress within the moral economy of agribusiness. Journal of rural studies, 34, 304-312.
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2013 Garnham, B. (2013). Designing 'older' rather than denying ageing: Problematizing anti-ageing discourse in relation to cosmetic surgery undertaken by older people. Journal of aging studies, 27(1), 38-46.
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2013 Bryant, L., & Garnham, B. (2013). Beyond discourses of drought: the micro-politics of the wine industry and farmer distress. Journal of rural studies, 32, 1-9.
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2013 Garnham, B., & Bryant, L. (2013). Problematising the suicides of older male farmers: subjective, social and cultural considerations. Sociologia ruralis, 54(2), 227-240.
DOI Scopus31 WoS27
2009 Garnham, B., Cheek, J., & Alde, P. (2009). The research/practice nexus : underlying assumptions about the nature of research uptake into practice in literature pertaining to care of the older person. International journal of older people nursing, 4(3), 219-226.
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2006 Cheek, J., Garnham, B. E., & Quan, J. (2006). What's in a number? Issues in providing evidence of impact and quality of research(ers). Qualitative health research, 16(3), 423-435.
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