Background

Angela is a mixed methods researcher combining ethnographic and human centred design methods with social theory to develop innovative, deep and practical public health insights. With a background in Anthropology and International Development, she has over eight years of international experience designing and implementing mixed methods research across a variety of sectors to achieve high impact design research & evaluation.

During her career Angela has contributed to work across a diverse range of thematic areas including; maternal and child health, sexual health, mental health, eliminating violence against women, climate change, disaster risk preparedness and response and NCDs.

Recent design research projects include; digital health interventions, digital and communications products and service design. Rights based, innovative and collaborative principles inform her research practice. Angela complete a PhD in 2020 which focused on designing evidence-informed and needs-based sex education interventions for young people.

Qualifications

• 2020 PhD Public Health and Preventive Medicine- Burnet Institute/Monash University
• 2010: BA/International Development (Hons), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Projects (6)

Current (6)

• Breaking the cycle: supporting people with drug use histories to avoid reincarceration
  Re-designing the post release experience for people with drug use histories using systems and co-design
• Coping with COVID-19: Young people’s health and wellbeing in Australia
  Investigating the effect of social isolation during COVID-19 on young people’s health.
• EVE-M
  Transforming Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Pornography and Young People
  Exploring trends in pornography use among young people in the Australian context.
• Responding to COVID-19 and preparing for the future
  Understanding people’s experiences and needs during self-quarantine for COVID-19 to inform current and future pandemic response
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll (Big Day Out Study)
  A landmark study since 2005 of young people's risk behaviours including sex, drug use and alcohol.

Publications (6)

2020 (2)

• A descriptive analysis of young women.
  Davis AC, Temple-Smith MJ, Carrotte E, Hellard ME, Lim MSC
  Sex Health. 2020 Jan; 17:69-76
• ‘Not my child’: parenting, pornography, and views on education.
  Davis AC, Wright C, Curtis M, Hellard ME, Lim MSC, Temple-Smith MJ
  J Fam Studies. 2020 Jan; Epub ahead of print

2019 (2)

• A Health Education Website Developed to Meet Young People's Information Needs About Web-Based Pornography and Sharing of Sexually Explicit Imagery (SCOPE): Usability Study.
  Davis AC, Wright CJC, Temple-Smith MJ, Hellard ME, Lim MSC
  JMIR Form Res. 2019 Aug; 3(3):e12824
• Personal and reported partner pornography viewing by Australian women, and association with mental health and body image.
  Laemmle-Ruff IL, Raggatt M, Wright CJC, Carrotte ER, Davis A, Jenkinson R, Lim MSC
  Sex Health. 2019 Jan; 16(1):75-79

2018 (2)

• Correlates of in-person and technology-facilitated sexual harassment from an online survey among young Australians.
  Douglass CH, Wright CJC, Davis AC, Lim MSC
  Sex Health. 2018 Jun; 15(4):361-365
• What Behaviors Do Young Heterosexual Australians See in Pornography? A Cross-Sectional Study.
  Davis AC, Carrotte ER, Hellard ME, Lim MSC
  J Sex Res. 2018 Jan; 55(3):310-319

News Articles (3)

2020 (2)

• Burnet's COVID-19 self-isolation study
• Burnet's EVE-M team celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

2018 (1)

• Sexting trends a feature of Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll survey