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Dr Tracy Morison PhD

Senior Lecturer

Doctoral Supervisor
School of Psychology

Tracy Morison is a senior lecturer in health psychology. She is also Editor of Feminism & Psychology and an Honorary Research Associate of the Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction programme at Rhodes University (South Africa) where she obtained her Ph.D. Her postdoctoral work was conducted at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa, where she subsequently worked as a senior researcher before returning to the academe. Dr Morison’s research is located at the intersection of health psychology, critical psychology, and feminism. Her work is driven by a social justice orientation and seeks to explore how the socio-political context shapes and constrains sexual and reproductive decision-making, relations, and practices. A key focus in her work is on gender, sexualities, and their interrelationship with other social locations. She draws on feminist and other critical theories and in-depth qualitative methodologies to illuminate the multiple, complex processes in which sexualities and reproduction are embedded.

In 2019 Dr Morison was awarded a grant by the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund for a transnational project (between New Zealand and South Africa) intended to develop Reproductive Justice theory. The project is concerned with the reproductive politics surrounding long-acting reversible contraception. In addition to academic articles and chapters, Dr Morison has published a monograph based on her doctoral research, entitled Men’s pathways to parenthood (Morison & Macleod, 2015, HSRC Press) and a co-edited book, Queer Kinship (Morison, Lynch, & Reddy, 2019, Routledge/Unisa Press). She is currently co-editing a book provisionally titled Reproductive health and justice: Counter perspectives (Morison & Mavuso, forthcoming). 

Tracy Morison is a senior lecturer in health psychology, an Editor for Feminism & Psychology, and an honorary research associate of the Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction programme at Rhodes University (South Africa). Her research is located at the intersection of health psychology, critical psychology, and feminism. She uses feminist and critical theories, alongside in-depth qualitative methodologies to investigate the multiple, complex processes in which sexual and reproductive health is embedded.

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Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: X86216
    Location: 3.04, School of Psychology
    Campus: Manawatu

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - Rhodes University (2011)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Prizes and Awards

  • Mid-career Researcher Award - International Society for Critical Health Psychology (2021)
  • Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Humanities Book Award - Long List: Morison & Macleod (2015) Men's pathways to parenthood. - Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Humanities Book Award (2016)
  • I am an Honorary Research Associate Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction, Department of Psychology, Rhodes University, South Africa. - Rhodes University (2012)
  • Selected for Emerging Psychologists’ Programme - International Congress of Psychology (2012)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

My main areas of interest and expertise are in sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice including, but not limited to the following.

  • Main focus areas: Contraception, abortion, and pregnancy
  • Reproductive decision-making (including choosing parenthood or voluntary childlessness)
  • Gender, especially men's roles and involvement in Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Sexuality / LGBTQ+ health
  • Related topics like sex education, activism/advocacy, and service access and utilisation
  • Feminist theory, including Feminist Poststructuralism and Reproductive Justice Theory

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Developmental Psychology and Ageing (170102): Gender Psychology (170105): Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology (170106): Psychology (170100): Psychology And Cognitive Sciences (170000): Social and Community Psychology (170113)

Keywords

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, & Justice
  • Gender and feminism
  • Critical theory
  • Qualitative methods

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 1 3

Current Projects

Project Title: Balancing access and agency in Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) programming: Developing a reproductive justice framework for Aotearoa New Zealand

Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) is seen as one of the most promising developments for public health and women's rights in the last decade. In Aotearoa/New Zealand LARC has been met with much enthusiasm. There have been significant efforts to increase access and uptake, mainly targeting 'at risk' women (teens and ethnic minorities) and those on welfare. Amid this enthusiasm, little attention has been given to women's reproductive autonomy or their own perspectives on LARC. As a result, the role of power relations remains overlooked and under-theorised, as do the politics surrounding LARC and reproductive health in Aotearoa. This provides an ideal case study to generate local data including women's perspectives, as well as to extend the framework of Reproductive Justice. This is a more holistic framework for understanding reproductive health issues that has significant potential for application in Aotearoa. To do this, the research will seek to highlight questions of power and agency in the provision of LARC in Aotearoa and explore how these insights can contribute to the theoretical development of the reproductive justice framework, both locally and transnationally.
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Date Range: 2019 - 2022

Funding Body: Royal Society of New Zealand

Project Team:

  • Dr Tracy Morison - Project Leader
  • Dr Jade Sophia Le Grice - Team Member
  • Catriona Macleod - Team Member

Research Outputs

Journal

Healy-Cullen, S., Taylor, JE., Ross, K., & Morison, T. (2021). Youth Encounters with Internet Pornography: A Survey of Youth, Caregiver, and Educator Perspectives. Sexuality and Culture.
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T., Ross, K., Taylor, J.
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Morison, T., Macleod, CI., & Lynch, I. (2021). ‘My friends would laugh at me’: embedding the dominant heterosexual script in the talk of primary school students. Gender and Education.
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Morison, T., & Eagar, D. (2021). Women’s perspectives on long-acting reversible contraception: a critical scoping review of qualitative research. Women and Health. 61(6), 527-541
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Morison, T. (2021). Reproductive justice: A radical framework for researching sexual and reproductive issues in psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 15(6)
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Healy-Cullen, S., Taylor, JE., Morison, T., & Ross, K. (2021). Using Q-Methodology to Explore Stakeholder Views about Porn Literacy Education. Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
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Lestari, MD., Stephens, C., & Morison, T. (2020). Constructions of older people's identities in Indonesian regional ageing policies: The impacts on micro and macro experiences of ageing. Ageing and Society.
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T., Stephens, C.
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Wootton, S., & Morison, T. (2020). Menstrual Management and the Negotiation of Failed Femininities: A Discursive Study Among Low-Income Young Women in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Women's Reproductive Health. 7(2), 87-106 Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23293691.2020.1740485
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Morison, T., & Herbert, S. (2020). Muted resistance: The deployment of youth voice in news coverage of young women’s sexuality in Aotearoa New Zealand. Feminism and Psychology. 30(1), 80-99
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Morison, T., & Herbert, S. (2019). Rethinking ‘Risk’ in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy: the Value of the Reproductive Justice Framework. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 16(4), 434-445
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Khuzwayo, Z., & Morison, T. (2017). Resisting Erasure: Bisexual Female Identity in South Africa. South African Review of Sociology. 48(4), 19-37
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Morison, T., Mtshengu, A., Sandfort, T., & Reddy, V. (2016). “As long as they behave themselves”: Heterosexual recuperation in South Africans’ talk about homosexuality. Psychology in Society. 51
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., & Lynch, I. (2016). 'We can't help you here': The discursive erasure of sexual minorities in South African public sexual and reproductive health services. Psychology of Sexualities Review. 7(2), 7-25
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., Lynch, I., & Macleod, C. (2016). Focus on ‘the ramily’? How South African family policy could fail us. HSRC Policy Briefs. , 1-5
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., Macleod, C., Lynch, I., Mijas, M., & Shivakumar, ST. (2016). Stigma Resistance in Online Childfree Communities: The Limitations of Choice Rhetoric. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 40(2), 184-198
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Lynch, I., & Morison, T. (2016). Gay men as parents: analysing resistant talk in South African mainstream media accounts of queer families.. Feminism & Psychology.
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T.
Lynch, I., & Morison, T. (2016). Gay men as parents: Analysing resistant talk in South African mainstream media accounts of queer families. Feminism and Psychology. 26(2), 188-206
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., Gibson, AF., Wigginton, B., & Crabb, S. (2015). Online Research Methods in Psychology: Methodological Opportunities for Critical Qualitative Research. Qualitative Research in Psychology. 12(3), 223-232
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Morison, T. (2015). Knowledge and Knowing in South Africa: Making a Case for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Psychology in Society. 12(3), 76-78
[Book Review]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., Gibson,, A., Wigginton, B., & Crabb, S. (2015). Online research methods: Methodological opportunities for critical qualitative research in psychology.. Qualitative Research in Psychology. 12(3), 223-232 Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uqrp20
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Morison, T., & Macleod, C. (2014). When veiled silences speak: reflexivity, trouble and repair as methodological tools for interpreting the unspoken in discourse-based data. Qualitative Research. 14(6), 694-711
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Morison, T. (2013). Moving from reproductive choice to reproductive justice.. HSRC Review. 13(6), 30-31 Retrieved from http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-may-2013/moving-from-reproductive-choice-to-reproductive-justice
[Journal article]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T. (2013). Heterosexual Men and Parenthood Decision Making in South Africa: Attending to the Invisible Norm. Journal of Family Issues. 34(8), 1125-1144
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Morison, T., & Macleod, C. (2013). A Performative-Performance Analytical Approach: Infusing Butlerian Theory Into the Narrative-Discursive Method. Qualitative Inquiry. 19(8), 566-577
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Book

Morison, T. (2021). Reproductive justice: Revitalising critical reproductive health research. In Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness. (pp. 169 - 182).
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Macleod, CI., & Morison, T. (2020). Fertility, childbirth and parenting: defining sexual and gender relations.. In FM. Cheung, & DF. Halpern (Eds.) he Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women. : Cambridge University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Macleod, CI., Feltham-King, T., Mavuso, JMJJ., & Morison, T. (2019). 'Failed' mothers, 'failed' womxn: Demarcating normative mothering. In Intersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts. (pp. 30 - 43).
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.
Macleod, C., Feltham-King, T., Mavuso, JMJ., & Morison, T. (2019). 'Failed' mothers,‘failed’ womxn: Demarcating normative mothering. In C. Zuffrey, & F. Buchanan (Eds.) Intersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts. (pp. 30 - 43). London: Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., Roberts, B., Gordon, S., Struwig, J., & Reddy, V. (2019). South African public opinion on family rights for lesbians and gay men: Entry points for activism and interventions. In Z. Mokomane, B. Roberts, J. Struwig, & S. Gordon (Eds.) SASAS: Family Cohesion, values and wellbeing. Pretoria, South Africa: HSRC Press
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Timol, F., Lynch, I., & Morison, T. (2019). Is a woman’s place still in the home? Gender-role attitudes and women’s position in the South African labour market. In Z. Mokomane, B. Roberts, J. Struwig, & S. Gordon (Eds.) SASAS Family Cohesion, values and wellbeing. Pretoria, South Africa: HSRC Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Reddy, V., Lynch, I., & Morison, T. (2019). Queer Kinship in South Africa: Where to next?. In T. Morison, I. Lynch, & V. Reddy (Eds.) Queer Kinship: South African perspectives on the sexual politics of family-making and belonging. : Unisa Press & Routlege
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.Edited by: Morison, T.
Macleod, C., Morison, T., & Lynch, I. (2019). Focus on ‘the family’? How South African family policy fails queer families. In T. Morison, I. Lynch, & V. Reddy (Eds.) Queer kinship: South African perspectives on the sexual politics of family-making and belonging. : Unisa Press & Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.Edited by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., Lynch, I., & Reddy, V. (2019). Queer kinship in South Africa. In T. Morison, I. Lynch, & V. REddy (Eds.) Queer kinship: South African perspectives on the sexual politics of family-making and belonging. : Unisa Press & Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.Edited by: Morison, T.
de Larch, G., Morison, T., Lynch, I., Reddy, V., Macleod, C., Lewis, D., . . . Adeagbo, O.(2019). Queer kinship: South African perspectives on the sexual politics of family-making and belonging.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Morison, T.Edited by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., Lyons, A., & Chamberlain, K. (2019). Critical health psychology: Applications for social action. In K. O'Doherty, & D. Hodgetts (Eds.) SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology. London: SAGE
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.Edited by: Hodgetts, D.
Morison, T., & Lynch, I. (2018). ‘Living two lives’ and ‘blending in’: Reproductive citizenship and belonging in the parenthood narratives of gay men.. In T. Morison, I. Lynch, & V. Reddy (Eds.) Queer kinship: South African perspectives on the sexual politics of family-making and belonging.. (pp. 167 - 189). Pretoria: Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.Edited by: Morison, T.
Lynch, I., Morison, T., Macleod, C., Mijas, M., du Toit, R., & Seemanthini, S. (2018). From deviant choice to feminist issue: An historical analysis of scholarship on voluntary childlessness (1920 to 2013).. In N. Sappleton (Ed.) Voluntary and involuntary childlessness: The joys of Otherhood?. (pp. 11 - 48). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing
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Nentwich, JC., & Morison, T. (2017). Performing the self: Performativity and discursive psychology. In CB. Travis, & JW. White (Eds.) American Psychological Association Handbook of the Psychology of Women. (pp. 209 - 228). Washington, United States of America: American Psychological Association
[Chapter]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., & Macleod, C.(2016). Men's pathways to parenthood: Silence and heterosexual gendered norms. Cape Town: HSRC Press
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Chitiga-Mabugu, M., Karuaihe, S., Reddy, V., Morison, T., Botsis, H., Ntuli, M., . . . Tsoanamatsie, N.(2014). South African women as champions of change: A civil society programme of action for the African women’s decade. Cape Town: HSRC Press
[Authored Book]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., & Reddy, V. (2013). Familiar claims: Representations of same-gendered families in South African mainstream news media. In C. Lubbe-De Beer, & J. Marnell (Eds.) Home affairs: Rethinking lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender families in contemporary South Africa. (pp. 21 - 49). Johannesburg, South Africa: Fanele Press
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Morison, T. (2008). “Our place in the family of things”: A story of animals, (re)connection and belonging in the world.. In D. Wylie (Ed.) Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa.. Newcastle (UK): Cambridge Scholars Press
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Thesis

Morison, T. (2011). ‘But what story?’: A narrative-discursive analysis of ‘white’ Afrikaners accounts of male involvement in parenthood decision-making. (Doctoral Thesis)
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Report

Lynch, I., Morison, T., Essop, R., Macleod, C., Tolla, T., & Gqomfa, N. (2018). “Kwanele! Communities ensuring safe learning environments for girls” in Khayelitsha: Part of the Sexual Violence in Schools in South Africa (SeViSSA) initiative in South Africa: Midterm report.. Human Science Research Council/Rhodes University..
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T. (2017). ‘Dating rules’ and intimate partner violence in township schools: Findings from the SeViSSA baseline study.. www.hsrc.ac.za.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T. (2016). System failures and stigma: an unhealthy mix for women. Research Brief. AIDS Foundation of South Africa.
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Lynch, I., Morison, T., Moolman, T., Chiumbu, S., Makoae, M., & Fluks, L. (2016). Advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of sexual and gender minorities in Gert Sibande District, Mpumalanga: A rapid ethnographic assessment. Human Sciences Research Council.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., & Lynch, I. (2016). Use and perceptions of public Sexual and Reproductive Health services: A quantitative situational analysis in OR Tambo and Gert Sibande districts. Human Sciences Research Council.
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Lynch, I., Morison, T., Gomfa, N., Timol, F., & Macleod, C. (2016). “Kwanele! Communities ensuring safe learning environments for girls” in Khayelitsha: Part of the Sexual Violence in Schools in South Africa (SeViSSA) initiative in South Africa: Baseline report.. Human Sciences Research Council/Rhodes University.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Reddy, V., Morison, T., & Moolman, B. (2015). Making Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights Real in South Africa: A baseline study of selected sites in four provinces..
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., Goga, S., Rarieya, J., & Reddy, V. (2014). Framework for the development of a National Policy on Gender Equity in Basic Education.. Department of Basic Education.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., Botsis, H., Wiebesiek, L., Khalema, E., Vawda, M., Dlamini, N., . . . Reddy, V. (2012). Diagnostic review: National & provincial monitoring & evaluation systems focused on women, children & people with disabilities in South Africa. Department of Women, Children, and People with Disabilities.
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Morison, T. (2012). Good practice for addressing violence against women in South Africa Gender and Poverty Eradication..
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Conference

Tappin, J., Riley, S., & Morison, T.Sexual subjectivities and discourses of desire in mainstream online women’s media. . Online
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Morison, T., Riley, S.
Healy-Cullen, S., Morison, T., Ross, K., & Taylor, J.How youth, caregivers and educators draw on sexual scripts to make sense of young people’s engagement with Internet pornography. . Online
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Morison, T., Taylor, J.
Morison, T.“You have to be careful of your own agenda”: Discursive dilemmas in healthcare provider’s talk about Contraceptive Care. . Online
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Ryan, A., & Morison, T. (2021). Barriers to socially just Relationships and Sexuality Education in England: A policy analysis. Poster session presented at the meeting of British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference. Online
[Conference Poster]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T.(2021). 'We're not OK until we're all OK': Advancing Reproductive Health, Justice, and Well-Being in Social Research.
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Morison, T. (2021, April). ‘We are not OK until we are all OK’: Advancing Reproductive Health, Justice, and Well-Being in Social Research. Presented at Social Psychology Days 2021. Helsinki.
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Morison, T., Lynch, I., Essop, R., Fluks, L., & Macleod, C.(2019, April). Starting early: Promoting younger adolescents’ sexual & reproductive health through intimate partner violence intervention. .
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., & Herbert, S.(2017, December). Youth on the margins: A discursive analysis of Aotearoa NZ Sexual & Reproductive Health policy. .
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
Macleod, C., Lynch, I., Morison, T., & Saunders, B.(2017, July). “Girls want to be pleaded”: The sexual ‘hustler’ and provider masculinity.. .
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., Moolman, B., & Reddy, V.(2016, July). Beyond the clinic walls: Making sexual and reproductive rights real for marginalised groups. .
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
Lynch, I., Morison, T., Gomfa, N., Swartz, C., Macleod, C., Sanders, B., . . . Goldstein, S.(2016, May). What’s love got to do with it? Love and narratives of normalisation in township-based South African adolescents’ talk about intimate partner violence.. .
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., & Lynch, I.(2015, July). Gay men and fatherhood in South Africa: A discursive study.. .
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., & Rule, C.(2015, September). You have to keep reproducing success: South African students constructions of success & agency in Higher Education. . (pp. 72 - 72). Retreived from http://repository.hsrc.ac.za/handle/20.500.11910/1720
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T., & Lynch, I.(2014, September). Same different or deficient constructions of same gendered families in South African mainstream media. . (pp. 60 - 60).
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Morison, T.(2013, September). The childfree ‘choice’: Childfree social identity construction in virtual spaces.. . Retreived from http://repository.hsrc.ac.za/handle/20.500.11910/2828
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
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Morison, T.(2013, July). What to expect when you’re not expecting: Child freedom social stigma and reproductive justice. .
[Conference]Authored by: Morison, T.
Reddy, V., Salo, E., Morison, T., Botsis, H., Baloyi, A., Mtshengu, A., . . . Sandfort, T. (2012, July). Taverns, bars and shebeens: sexual risk and HIV within homo-social spaces among black men who have sex with men in South African townships.. Presented at XIX International AIDS Conference. Washington, DC, USA.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T. (2012, August). Heterosexual men and parenthood decision-making in South Africa: Attending to the invisible norm.. Presented at International Sociological Association forum. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., & Macleod, CI. (2011, August). Hearing the silences through the ‘noise’: Narratives of parenthood decision making among heterosexual, ‘white’ Afrikaners.. Presented at 17th South African Psychology Congress. International Convention Center, Cape Town, South Africa.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T. (2009, August). Choosing to parent: ‘Trouble’ in constructions of motherhood and fatherhood.. Presented at 15th South African Psychology Congress. International Convention Center, Cape Town, South Africa.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T. (2006, August). Our place in the family of things: representations of selves and belonging.. Presented at 3rd Literature and Ecology Colloquium. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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Other

Lynch, I., Essop, R., Tolla, T., & Morison, T. (2018). Intimate partner violence in Khayelitsha schools: A Culture of silence. (pp. 12 - 14).
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Lynch, I., Essop, R., Tolla, T., & Morison, T. (2018). Intimate partner violence in Khayelitsha schools: A culture of silence.. (pp. 10 - 12).
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Morison, T., Lynch, I., & Garden, E. (2017). SeViSSA Brief 2: A culture of silence that normalises widespread violence.. Human Sciences Research Council
[Other]Authored by: Morison, T.
Morison, T., Lynch, I., & Garden, E. (2017). SeViSSA Brief 1: Very high rates of sexual violence with younger learners most vulnerable.. Human Sciences Research Council
[Other]Authored by: Morison, T.
Lynch, I., Essop, R., Morison, T., & Tolla, T. (2017). 'Dating rules’ and intimate partner violence in township schools: Findings from the SeViSSA Baseline Study.. Human Sciences Research Council
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Morison, T., Lynch, I., & Macleod, C. (2016). Focus on ‘the family’? How South African family policy could fail us. (pp. 1 - 5). HSRC Press
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Morison, T. (2016). Gay Men as Parents and Caregivers: Information for South African service providers..
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Morison, T. (2015). What gay fathers can teach us about feminism and parenthood. : The Conversation
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Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • English
    Last used: Now
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent
  • Afrikaans
    Last used: Today
    Spoken ability: Average
    Written ability: Average
  • Xhosa
    Last used: Today
    Spoken ability: Needs work
    Written ability: Needs work

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

Tracy is a member of the Health Pscyhology programme. She is the course co-odinator for the postgraduate Health Promotion and Health Psychology Practicum courses. 

Courses Coordinated

  • 175.744 Health Psychology: Promoting Health
  • 175.749 Health Psychology Practicum
Contact Supervisor

Graduate Supervision Statement

I welcome students who wish to use qualitative methods and critical theories to explore issues in sexual and reproductive health, gender and health, and sexual identity. My approach to supervision is to see students as apprentice researchers and I try to balance formal guidance with pastoral care. Drawing on my background in research project management, I frame the task for students as a project with component parts, to scaffold the process as they work systematically through each phase. I also aim to help students develop generic research skills (e.g. project management, budgeting, information management). 


Dr Tracy Morison is available for Masters and Doctorial supervision.

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Co-supervisor 3 0

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • Jessica Tappin - Doctor of Philosophy
    Understanding the social discourses that shape the way young women learn about sexual desire.
  • Diah Lestari - Doctor of Philosophy
    Multigenerational caregiving for older people in Bali
  • Siobhan Healy-Cullen - Doctor of Philosophy
    'Porn Literacy' as Pedagogy?: Understanding and Responding to Young People's Engagement with Internet Pornography

Media and Links

Media

  • 31 May 2013 - Magazine
    Opinion editorial: Reproductive Justice
    News Magazine article
  • 31 Jan 2015 - Magazine
    Article: Family Diversity
    News magazine article
  • 30 Sep 2015 - Magazine
    Article: 'Non-conventional' families
    News magazine article
  • 28 Mar 2019 - Newspaper
    Interview for WIRED: voluntary childlessness
    WIRED article by Emma Gray Ellis
  • 28 Apr 2015 - Radio
    Interview: voluntary childlessness
    Radio 702 (South African national Talk Radio station)
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  • 23 Sep 2015 - Radio
    Interview: Gay fathers & caregivers
    Unisa Radio (South African campus radio station)
  • 22 Sep 2015 - Online
    Article: Gay fathers & caregivers
    Invited contribution for The Conversation
  • 17 Aug 2017 - Radio
    Interview: Men's Pathways to Parenthood
    Interviewed on SAFM 'The Talk Shop' with Naledi Moleo (a South African national radio station) about my co-authored book (Morison & Macleod, 2015)
  • 07 Oct 2021 - Video
    Interviewee: video series, menstruation & gender
    Expert on social and cultural dimensions of menstruation for video series byby Education Outdoors New Zealand (EONZ)
  • 07 Oct 2020 - Newspaper
    Op-ed: social stigma behind & period poverty
    We need to tackle the social stigma behind period poverty
  • 06 Jun 2019 - Newspaper
    Interview NZ Herald: Voluntary childlessness
    Jamie Morton for New Zealand Herald
  • 05 Nov 2018 - Newspaper, Online
    Interview: same-sex parenthood & families
    Interview for News24 about my queer parenthood and my forthcoming editted book, Queer Kinship, with Beth Amato.
  • 02 Dec 2015 - Radio
    Interview: Gay fathers & caregivers
    Interview on SAFM (national South African radio station) about my research
  • 01 Mar 2013 - Magazine
    Interview - voluntary childlessness
    Interview on voluntary childlessness for Women's Health, "What to expect when you're not expecting" (by Carrie Anton), March 2013
  • 01 Feb 2020 - Magazine
    Interview North & South: Voluntary childlessness
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