Health and Environmental Sciences
For my master's research project, I’m exploring plurisexual young adults’ experiences of connection and/or disconnection with community. The term ‘plurisexual’ is used to include people who experience attraction to more than one gender. This may include, but is not limited to, people who identify as pansexual, bisexual, omnisexual, fluid, and queer and takatāpui people who experience attraction to more than one gender. This research is conducted by rainbow researchers.
This is a photovoice study meaning participants will take photos that represent/capture their experiences of dis/connection with community; and discuss their photos, what they mean to them, and what they tell us about their experiences of dis/connection with community in an interview. Participation involves:
- Engaging in an online photovoice training for up to one hour (one to one with Abbey, the primary researcher)
- Taking 3-5 photos over 7 days that represent/capture your experiences of dis/connection with community
- Engaging in an online or in-person interview for 30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes, and
- Providing amendments to your interview transcript (if you wish to).
For more information, and to express your interest, please contact Abbey Busch at gsg1108@autuni.ac.nz
Participants must:
- Be between the ages of, and including, 21 and 29 years
- Identify as plurisexual or as experiencing attraction to more than one gender
- Living in Aotearoa New Zealand currently
- Able to participate in an interview in English
- Have access to a portable device that photos can be taken on
Please note friends and students of the research supervisors, Elizabeth Du Preez and Paula Collens, are not able to participate in this research due to conflicts of interest.
Additionally, people currently under the care of Community Mental Health teams, or who have experienced psychiatric hospitalisation in the past six months, are not able to participate in this research, due to the limitations of the research team to provide appropriate support, given the scope and resourcing of this project.
Approved by the Auckland University of Technology Ethics Committee on 2025-04-09 for 3 years (until 9th April 2028).
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Abbey Busch, gsg1108@autuni.ac.nz
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