Health and Environmental Sciences
For my Masters research project, I am exploring plurisexual young adults’ (21-29 years) experiences of dis/connection with community. The term ‘purisexual’ is used to include anyone who experiences attraction to more than one gender (e.g., pansexual, bisexual, fluid, omnisexual, takatāpui people who experience attraction to more than one gender).
This is a photovoice study, meaning participants take photos and explore their photos with researchers to convey their experiences. For this study, participants will engage in an online photovoice training (up to one hour) with myself, the researcher. Following this, participants will take photos that represent their experiences of dis/connection with community, and share these photos and what they mean to them within an interview (30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes). A token of thanks is provided to acknowledge participants’ contributions.
This research is conducted by rainbow researchers.
For more information and to express your interest, please email Abbey Busch at gsg1108@autuni.ac.nz
To participate participants must:
- Be aged between, and including, 21 to 29 years,
- identify as plurisexual or as experiencing attraction to more than one gender,
- living in Tāmaki Mākaurau, Auckland, at the time of their participation,
- be able to engage in a qualitative interview in English,
- and have access to a portable device they can take photos on.
Please note there are two exclusion criteria for this study:
1) Friends and students of the research supervisors, Elizabeth Du Preez, and Paula Collins, are not able to participate in this research due to conflicts of interest, and 2) people currently under the care of Community Mental Health teams, to 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 to provide appropriate support, given he scope and resourcing of this project.
Approved by the Auckland University of Technology Ethics Committee on 2025-04-09 for 3 years until 9 April, 2028.
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Abbey Busch, gsg1108@autuni.ac.nz
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