Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Social and Historical Perspectives

Natalie Ann Hendry is an educator and researcher who has worked and collaborated across community, secondary and hospital-based education sectors since 2003. Forever curious about the messy relationships between health, digital media and education, Natalie’s research engages with media studies, cultural studies and sociological theories and uses digital ethnography, creative methods and policy analysis approaches. She currently is a Senior Lecturer in Youth Wellbeing in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches social research methodology and social and critical approaches to wellbeing in schools.

Effie Karageorgos is Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle (UON), Australia. Her research focuses on the social history of war through the study of protest, violence, war, gender and psychiatry. She is an Editor of Health and History, the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine and has served as co-convenor of the UON Future of Madness Network. She coordinates the Social Production of Mental Health interdisciplinary seminar series with Natalie Ann Hendry.