ProfessorStephen Bell

Sexual, reproductive and maternal health of young people

Adolescent-responsive health services and systems; contraceptive innovation: safe abortion, enabling socio-structural environments; intersections of health and climate change; Youth-led co-design of services, programs and policies; qualitative research design; health and social risks; agency and action; sex-positive and rights-based approaches

Socio-structural determinants of health and wellbeing

Critical qualitative enquiry; lived experiences research; operation of determinants of health; production of health inequities

Community action, activism and resistance for social justice and health equity

Community-based participatory research; working with community researchers; understanding operations of power; social change; role of community organisations and collectives; theorising agency

Community-based HIV research with key populations

Individual and collective agency; forms of solidarity and action; concepts of agency, vulnerability and social practice; community-led innovation in HIV testing, treatment and care

Innovation in qualitative, participatory and ethnographic research

Community-led research; working with community researchers; longitudinal research design; photovoice; peer research; participatory video