Dr Louise Holdsworth B.Soc.Sc. (Hons) (SCU), PhD (SCU) Dr Louise Holdsworth completed her PhD thesis in 2008. Her thesis addressed the negotiated meanings and experiences of housing tenure in a social, economic and political context. Louise has previously worked through the University of Sydney on the Australian Rural Mental Health Study (ARMHS) coordinating the study on the Far North Coast of NSW. More recently she was part of a team working on a systematic review on service linkages in primary mental health care, funded through APHCRI at the ANU. Louise is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the CGER, predominantly researching problem gambling and co-morbid disorders. Louise's key areas of interest include: mental health issues; gambling issues; housing related concerns and policy; research concerning disadvantaged social groups, especially from a gendered perspective; qualitative research and feminist research.
Journal articles
Building effective service linkages in primary mental health care: a narrative review part 1 (with Jeffrey D. Fuller, David Perkins, Sharon Parker, Brian Kelly, Russell Roberts, Lee Martinez, and Lyn Fragar), BMC Health Services Research (2011)
Building effective service linkages in primary mental health care: a narrative review part 2 (with Jeffrey D. Fuller, David Perkins, Sharon Parker, Brian Kelly, Russell Roberts, Lee Martinez, and Lyn Fragar), BMC Health Services Research (2011)
Background: Primary care services have not generally been effective in meeting mental health care needs....
Sole voices: experiences of non-home-owning sole mother renters, Journal of Family Studies (2011)
The temporal sequencing of problem gambling and comorbid disorders (with John Haw and Nerilee Hing), International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (2011)
Two qualitative studies were undertaken to identify the prevalent comorbid mental disorders in treatment seeking...
Gutsy women? Conflicting discourses in women's travel guidebooks (with Erica Wilson and Mieke Witsel), Tourism Recreation Research (2009)
There is a growing body of information and advice on offer for contemporary women travellers....
Books
Just renting: experiences of sole mother non-home owners living in Northern NSW, Australia, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2010)
The goal of owning one's home, as opposed to 'just renting', is deeply ingrained in...
Theses
'Just renting': the experiences of sole mother non-home owners living in northern NSW, PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW (2007)
The goal of owning one’s home, as opposed to ‘just renting’, is deeply ingrained in...
Conference publications
A qualitative study of the temporal sequencing of problem gambling and co-morbid disorders (with John Haw and Nerilee Hing), 20th Annual Conference of the National Association of Gambling Studies (NAGS) (2010)
Disrupting the silences? Negotiating the dominant paradigm in tourism, leisure and hospitality research (with Margaret Tiyce and Kay Dimmock), Beyond the margins? The relevance of critical approaches in tourism and hospitality studies: Critical Approaches in Tourism and Hospitality (CATH) Special Interest Group (SIG) Symposium, (2010)
How effective are different service linkage strategies in primary mental health care? (with David Perkins, Jeffrey D. Fuller, Sharon Parker, Brian Kelly, Lyn Fragar, Lee Martinez, and Russell Roberts), Primary Health Care Research Conference (2010)
Aims & rationale/Objectives:
Linkages between primary care, mental health and other services are key components...
Housing needs and policies for non-home owning sole mother renters, 3rd Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference (2008)
The impact of renting on disadvantaged social groups, Experiencing the private rental market in Australia symposium (2008)
Reports
Farm-link: improving the mental health and wellbeing of people on NSW farms: evaluation report (with Jeffrey D. Fuller and T Fallon), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2009)
Systematic review on service linkages in primary mental health care: informing Australian policy and practice (with Jeffrey D. Fuller, David Perkins, Sharon Parker, Brian Kelly, Lyn Fragar, Lee Martinez, and Russell Roberts), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2009)