Qualifications
Research Interests
Dr Lovell is a qualitative health researcher with an academic background in health geography. Her research is concerned with access and delivery of care in the community, with a particular focus on sexual and reproductive health. Dr Lovell has published widely in journals such as Social Science & Medicine and Critical Public Health. She has ten years of experience supervising postgraduate students and teaching qualitative research methods.
My academic background is in Health Geography which is broadly interested in how our social and physical environments shape human health. I primarily undertake qualitative research informed by a range of methodologies including feminist and post-structural approaches.
Recent Publications
- Watterson RL., Crowe M., Jordan J., Lovell S. and Carter JD. (2023) A Tale of Childhood Loss, Conditional Acceptance and a Fear of Abandonment: A Qualitative Study Taking a Narrative Approach to Eating Disorders. Qualitative Health Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323231152142.
- Ahuriri-Driscoll A., Lovell S., Kawa DT., MacDonald LTAOT. and Mathias K. (2022) The future of Māori health is here – The 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand health reforms. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 28 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100589.
- Cammock R., Lovell S. and Vaka S. (2022) Cultural values influencing iTaukei women’s discussion of family planning in the home. Culture, Health and Sexuality http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2146204.
- Lovell SA. (2022) Methodologies of Human Geography‘s Sub-Disciplines. 105-108. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003038849-11.
- Lovell SA., Coen SE. and Rosenberg MW. (2022) INTRODUCTION. 1-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003038849-1.