Kristi Urry

Dr Kristi Urry

Lecturer

School of Psychology

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

I am a lecturer in the School of Psychology, with a focus on teaching qualitative research methods in psychology.

My research is broadly situated in the field of health psychology and spans a range of topics and foci including sexuality and sexual health (care and rights), LGBT-QIA health, provision of person-centred health care, and healthcare systems as social structures. I work with colleagues across a range of institutions and disciplines including psychology, nursing, medicine, and criminology.

My work is broadly situated in the field of health psychology and spans a range of topics and foci including sexuality and sexual health (care and rights), LGBT-QIA health, provision of person-centred health care, and healthcare systems as social structures. I work with colleagues across a range of institutions and disciplines including psychology, nursing, medicine, and criminology.

My main program of research builds on my PhD, which I completed in the School of Psychology in 2020. My project, Sexuality and sexual health in mental health care settings: Perceptions of psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health nurses in Australia, was supervised of Professor Anna Chur-Hansen, Dr Carole Khaw, and Dr Brett Scholz. I used critical qualitative methodologies to explore how Australian mental health clinicians conceptualise sexuality, sexual health, and the relationship between sexuality and mental health and distress; and how they account for their reported practice choices, such as including or excluding aspects of sexuality from their everyday practice. The project findings contribute to current discussions around ethical practice, best care, and training standards regarding sexuality in mental health settings. My work aims to improve people's experiences and outcomes in mental healthcare by promoting a broader consideration of sexuality and sexual health within mental health services.

 

Research project supervision

I am open to discussing research projects within the field of health psychology and that are aligned with my research interests with honours and masters students. I generally use qualitative research methods, but other approaches may be considered as appropriate.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Penfold, A., Callaghan, P., & Urry, K. (2025). Online Communities and Identity: Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Emerging Adults Engaging With LGBTQIA+ Online Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Mar, 10.1037/ppm0000529, 2024). PSYCHOLOGY OF POPULAR MEDIA, 14(1), 2 pages.
    DOI
    2024 Urry, K., Breakey, G. R., Scholz, B., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2024). Approaches for improving sexuality and sexual health care in mental health settings: A qualitative study exploring clinicians' own perspectives.. Int J Ment Health Nurs, 33(1), 125-133.
    DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC2
    2024 Penfold, A., Callaghan, P., & Urry, K. (2024). Online communities and identity: Experiences of LGBTQIA+ emerging adults engaging with LGBTQIA+ online content during the COVID-19 pandemic.. Psychology of Popular Media, 14(1), 22-31.
    DOI Scopus1
    2024 Urry, K., Chur-Hansen, A., & Scholz, B. (2024). From member checking to collaborative reflection: a novel way to use a familiar method for engaging participants in qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 21(3), 357-374.
    DOI Scopus5
    2023 Feo, R., Young, J. A., Urry, K., Lawless, M., Hunter, S. C., Kitson, A., & Conroy, T. (2023). 'I wasn't made to feel like a nut case after all': A qualitative story completion study exploring healthcare recipient and carer perceptions of good professional caregiving relationships.. Health Expect, 27(1), 13 pages.
    DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC2
    2023 Feo, R., Urry, K., Conroy, T., & Kitson, A. L. (2023). Why reducing avoidable hospital readmissions is a 'wicked' problem for leaders: A qualitative exploration of nursing and allied health perceptions.. J Adv Nurs, 79(3), 1031-1043.
    DOI Scopus11 WoS3 Europe PMC6
    2023 Urry, K., Hunter, S., Feo, R., & Scholz, B. (2023). Qualitative Story Completion: Opportunities and Considerations for Health Research. Qualitative Health Research, 33(4), 345-355.
    DOI Scopus6 Europe PMC4
    2022 Urry, K., Chur-Hansen, A., & Khaw, C. (2022). ‘It’s Not Really a Part of Standard Practice’: Institutional Silencing of Sexuality Within Australian Mental Health Settings. Qualitative Health Research, 32(3), 543-555.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS2
    2022 Hindes, S., & Urry, K. (2022). How COVID-19 is (and is not) changing the way we talk about sex and dating: A critical analysis of sex advice during the pandemic. Sexualities, 27(3), 1-12.
    DOI Scopus2
    2020 Urry, K. L., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2020). Who decides when people can have sex? Australian mental health clinicians’ perceptions of sexuality and autonomy. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(13-14), 2188-2199.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC9
    2019 Urry, K., Chur-Hansen, A., & Khaw, C. (2019). ‘It's just a peripheral issue’: a qualitative analysis of mental health clinicians’ accounts of (not) addressing sexuality in their work. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(6), 1278-1287.
    DOI Scopus15 WoS7 Europe PMC11
    2019 Pearce, S., Urry, K., Sultan, A. J. M., & Challans, B. (2019). Locating the self: The sticky, shifting processes of knowledge-making, boundary-tracing and coming home. Writing From Below, (Space and Place).
    2018 Urry, K., Burns, N., & Baetu, I. (2018). Age-related differences in sequence learning: findings from two visuo-motor sequence learning tasks. British Journal of Psychology, 109(4), 830-849.
    DOI Scopus9 WoS5 Europe PMC5
    2015 Urry, K., Burns, N., & Baetu, I. (2015). Accuracy-based measures provide a better measure of sequence learning than reaction time-based measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1158-1-1158-14.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS14 Europe PMC8
    2015 Baetu, I., Burns, N., Urry, K., Barbante, G., & Pitcher, J. (2015). Commonly-occurring polymorphisms in the COMT, DRD1 and DRD2 genes influence different aspects of motor sequence learning in humans. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 125, 176-188.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS22 Europe PMC14

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2023 Urry, K. (2023). Implicating the Institution: Who Is Responsible for Sexuality-Related Silence in Mental Health Settings?. In Z. Boden-Stuart, & M. Larkin (Eds.), Relationships and Mental Health: Relational Experience in Distress and Recovery (pp. 199-217). Springer International Publishing.
    DOI

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2017 Urry, K. L. (2017). (Non)Disclosure of sexual identity in sexuality research: Reflexive account from a queer researcher. In Qualitative Methods in psychology Conference 2017. Aberystwyth, Wales.

  • Conference Items
    Year Citation
    2017 Urry, K., Chur-Hansen, A., & Khaw, C. (2017). Who decides when people can have sex? Mental healthcare providers’ perceptions of sexuality and autonomy. Poster session presented at the meeting of 10th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology. Loughborough, England.
    2016 Baetu, I., Pitcher, J., Urry, K., & Burns, N. (2016). Individual differences in sequence learning correlate with polymorphisms in dopaminergic genes. Poster session presented at the meeting of Personality and Individual Differences. Elsevier BV.
    DOI
    2016 Burns, N., Baetu, I., & Urry, K. (2016). Implicit learning: the Serial Reaction Time Task and intelligence. Poster session presented at the meeting of Personality and Individual Differences. Elsevier BV.
    DOI

Riggs, D., Ussher, J., Newman, C., Due, C... Urry, K (Chief Investigator K). 2024-2027. Developing an Inclusive Mental Healthcare Model of Care for LGBTQ people in South Australia. $705,205.60. Medical Research Future Fund.

  • Read about the project here

Urry, K. (Chief Investigator) & Feo, R. EMCR Research Participation Support Grant Scheme 2021. $1920. Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University.

Chur-Hansen, A. & Urry, K. (Project lead). School of Psychology RIBG Small Grant (COVID scheme). 2020, University of Adelaide.

2024

  • Advanced Career and Research Skills (year 3): Qualitative research methods
  • Big Picture Psychology - Global Challenges, Psychological Perspectives (year 2): Health psychology and sexual health, Course coordinator 

2023

  • Big Picture Psychology - Global Challenges, Psychological Perspectives: Health psychology and sexual health
  • Doing Research in Psychology (year 2): Qualitative research methods
  • Psychology, Science & Society (Year 3): Critical health psychology
  • Research in Psychology (Year 1): Qualitative research methods

2022

  • Advanced Career and Research Skills (Year 3, advanced stream): Qualitative research methods
  • Big Picture Psychology - Global Challenges, Psychological Perspectives (Year 2): Health psychology and sexual health
  • Doing Research in Psychology (Year 2): Qualitative research methods
  • Psychology, Science & Society (Year 3)
  • Psychology Skills & Applications (Year 1): Cultural humility
  • Research Internship (Year 2/3): Course coordinator

2021

  • Applied Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (Online Graduate Diploma of Psychology, Advanced: Year 4): Developed video-based qualitative research methods teaching materials to be included within the course, ongoing.

2020

  • Big Picture Psychology: Global Challenges, Psychological Perspectives (Year 2)
  • Perception and Cognition (Year 3): Course coordinator
  • Perception and Cognition (Year 3): Perception
  • Psychological Skills and Applications (Year 1)

2018

  • Psychology, Science & Society (Year 3): Tutor

2017

  • Psychology, Science & Society (Year 3): Tutor

2016

  • Learning and Behaviour (Year 3): Tutor

  • Committee Memberships
    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2019 - ongoing Representative International Society of Critical Health Psychology Executive Commmittee n/a (International committee) Australia
    2017 - 2018 Chair 2018 Postgraduate Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference Committee University of Adelaide Australia
    2016 - 2017 Representative School Committee - School of Psychology The University of Adelaide -
    2015 - ongoing Member 2016 Postgraduate gender and Sexualities Conference Committee - -

  • Memberships
    Date Role Membership Country
    2016 - 2017 Member Australian Psychological Society Australia

  • Review, Assessment, Editorial and Advice
    Date Title Type Institution Country
    2020 - ongoing Peer review for Supportive Care in Cancer Peer Review Supportive Care in Cancer -
    2020 - ongoing Peer Review for Community Mental Health Journal Peer Review Community Mental Health Journal -
    2019 - ongoing Peer review for Sexual and Relationship Therapy Peer Review Sexual and Relationship Therapy -
    2018 - 2019 Guest editor for Writing From Below Editorial Writing From Below -
    2017 - ongoing Peer review for Writing From Below Peer Review Writing From Below -
    2017 - ongoing Peer review for Journal of Health Psychology Peer Review Journal of Health Psychology -
  • Position: Lecturer
  • Phone: 83131331
  • Email: kristi.urry@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Hughes, floor Level Seven
  • Room: 725
  • Org Unit: Psychology
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