Dr Kerryn Drysdale, PhD, MA (Merit), BA(Hons)

Kerryn Drysdale is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH), a specialist research centre located in the Faculty of Arts, Design, and Architecture at UNSW Sydney. Through her disciplinary background in Cultural Studies, Kerryn endeavours to bring a critical cultural lens to everyday lived experiences as they pertain to public health concerns.

Kerryn currently conducts research in two broad programmes of work: (i) responding to health inequities and social determinants of health, particularly by working with marginalised or vulnerable populations to determine their health and wellbeing needs; and (ii) tracking social scenes for LGBTIQA+ people, with a specific focus on the sex-based social norms in precarious urban contexts that give rise to innovative and intra-community forms of health promotion and harm reduction.

Kerryn co-leads the UNSW Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (Intersex). In all her work, she champions community-engaged processes for working with affected communities on reducing health inequities, continuing her emphasis on accessible health research translation and dissemination. Kerryn is also involved in a number of community- and university-based advisory and service roles.