Dr Johanna Schmidt
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: PhD Auckland
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
Current PhD supervisions
- Juliana Brown (Psychology), Ally training programme & network: Creating a space of inclusion and support for takatapui and LGBTIQ+ staff and students at the University of Waikato.
- Fungai Mhalanga (Sociology), Digging through community gardens: An investigation of the social benefits of community gardens.
Lynley Uerata (Sociology), Insecure, unpredictable, hoping to survive: Four cases of Māori people living precariously in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
Completed PhD supervisions
Kar Tou Tan (Psychology) Mental health of transgender people in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Inequities, minority stress, and protective factors. Graduated 2021.
Completed Masters supervisions
- Dalwinder Sandhu (60 point thesis, Social Policy, completed 2020) An overview of how Aotearoa/New Zealand’s domestic violence policy accommodates an Indian cultural perspective
- Juliana Brown (60 point dissertation, Psychology, completed 2016), '"We're like the sex CPR dummies": Negotiating (heteros)ex in a university residential setting'.
Research Interests
sexuality; gender and politics; transgender
Recent Publications
Tan, K. K. H., Schmidt, J. M., Ellis, S. J., Veale, J. F., & Byrne, J. L. (2021). ‘It’s how the world around you treats you for being trans’: mental health and wellbeing of transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Psychology & Sexuality, 1-13. doi:10.1080/19419899.2021.1897033 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14208
Tan, K. K. H., Treharne, G. J., Ellis, S. J., Schmidt, J. M., & Veale, J. F. (2020). Enacted stigma experiences and protective factors are strongly associated with mental health outcomes of transgender people in Aotearoa/New Zealand. International Journal of Transgender Health. doi:10.1080/15532739.2020.1819504 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14210
Tan, K. K. H., Schmidt, J. M., Ellis, S. J., & Veale, J. F. (2020). Mental health of trans and gender diverse people in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A review of the social determinants of inequities. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 64-72. Retrieved from https://www.psychology.org.nz/
Tan, K. K. H., Ellis, S. J., Schmidt, J. M., Byrne, J. L., & Veale, J. F. (2020). Mental health inequities among transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand: Findings from the counting ourselves survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(8). doi:10.3390/ijerph17082862 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13542
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Keywords
Gender
Sexuality, with a focus on marginalised sexualities; Gender, with a focus on marginalised genders; Transgender, with a Pacific focus; Gender and parenting; Gender and politics
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: K.2.09
Phone: ext 9365