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Dr Julie Spray

PhD

 
researcher
 

Biography

Julie Spray is an interdisciplinary medical and childhood anthropologist who researches children¿s perspectives on health and illness, public health policy and interventions, and health inequalities. Integrating biosocial, ethnographic and visual methods, her work advocates for greater inclusion in health policy of those marginalised by dominant social structures and values, particularly children and racially or economically disadvantaged communities. Her research has been based in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States with analyses focusing on intersecting issues of rheumatic fever, asthma, stress, infrastructure, nutrition, self-harm, mental health, Covid-19, and health policy. She is author of The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies, 2020).

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2022) 'What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic'
Julie Spray and Hannah Fechtel and Jean Hunleth (2022) 'What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic'. Sociological Research Online, 27 (3):574-586 [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'How do embodied experiences of asthma influence caregiver conceptual models?'
Julie Spray and Jean Hunleth and Sienna Ruiz and Julia Maki and David A. Fedele and Sreekala Prabhakaran and Hannah Fechtel and James A. Shepperd and Deborah J. Bowen and Erika A. Waters (2022) 'How do embodied experiences of asthma influence caregiver conceptual models?'. Social Science \&$\mathsemicolon$ Medicine, 294 [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Breathing Together: Children Co-constructing Asthma Self-Management in the United States'
Julie Spray and Jean Hunleth (2022) 'Breathing Together: Children Co-constructing Asthma Self-Management in the United States'. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'What is the state of children¿s participation in qualitative research on health interventions?: a scoping study'
Hunleth, J; Spray, J; Meehan, C,; Lang, C, Njelesani, J (2022) 'What is the state of children¿s participation in qualitative research on health interventions?: a scoping study'. BMC pediatrics, 22 [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic'
Spray J.; Fechtel, H.; Hunleth J. (2022) 'What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic'. Sociological Research Online, 27 (3):574-586 [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Love and Agency in Ethnographic Fieldwork with Children'
Spray, J (2022) 'Love and Agency in Ethnographic Fieldwork with Children'. Ethnography, [Details]
(2021) 'Drawing as Ethnographic PracticeDrawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method. By AndrewCausey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.Making Comics.By LyndaBarry. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2019'
Julie Spray (2021) 'Drawing as Ethnographic PracticeDrawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method. By AndrewCausey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.Making Comics.By LyndaBarry. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2019'. Visual Anthropology Review, 37 (2):453-462 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Not Breathing Easy: \textquotedblleftDisarticulated Homework\textquotedblright in Asthma Management'
Julie Spray and Chelsey R. Carter and Erika A. Waters and Jean M. Hunleth (2021) 'Not Breathing Easy: \textquotedblleftDisarticulated Homework\textquotedblright in Asthma Management'. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 35 (2):285-302 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Drawing Perspectives Together: What Happens When Researchers Draw with Children?'
Julie Spray (2021) 'Drawing Perspectives Together: What Happens When Researchers Draw with Children?'. Visual Anthropology Review, 37 (2):356-379 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Inequitable mobilities: intersections of diversity with urban infrastructure influence mobility, health and wellbeing'
Julie Spray and Karen Witten and Janine Wiles and Anneka Anderson and Dolly Paul and Julie Wade and Shanthi Ameratunga (2020) 'Inequitable mobilities: intersections of diversity with urban infrastructure influence mobility, health and wellbeing'. Cities \&$\mathsemicolon$ Health, 6 (4):711-725 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Situating household management of children's asthma in the context of social, economic, and environmental injustice'
Jean Hunleth and Julie Spray and Sienna Ruiz and Julia Maki and David A. Fedele and Sreekala Prabhakaran and Rachel B. Forsyth and Cassidy Sykes and Kaylah Crepps and James Shepperd and Deb Bowen and Erika A. Waters (2020) 'Situating household management of children's asthma in the context of social, economic, and environmental injustice'. Journal of Asthma, :1-9 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Children’s Accommodations for Resilience in Uncertain Times'
Julie Spray (2020) 'Children’s Accommodations for Resilience in Uncertain Times'. NEOS, [Details]
(2020) 'Beyond awareness: Towards a critically conscious health promotion for rheumatic fever in Aotearoa, New Zealand'
Anneka Anderson and Julie Spray (2020) 'Beyond awareness: Towards a critically conscious health promotion for rheumatic fever in Aotearoa, New Zealand'. Social Science \&$\mathsemicolon$ Medicine, 247 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Towards a child-centred public health: Lessons from rheumatic fever prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand'
Julie Spray (2020) 'Towards a child-centred public health: Lessons from rheumatic fever prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand'. Children \& Society, 34 (6):552-566 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Where Have All the Children Gone? Against Children's Invisibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic'
Julie Spray and Jean Hunleth (2020) 'Where Have All the Children Gone? Against Children's Invisibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic'. Anthropology Now, 12 (2):39-52 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Mismatches between health service delivery and community expectations in the provision of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic fever in New Zealand'
Anneka Anderson and Briar Peat and Janine Ryland and Malakai Ofanoa and Hannah Burgess and Gemma Malungahu and Julie Wade and Julie Spray and Alison Leversha (2019) 'Mismatches between health service delivery and community expectations in the provision of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic fever in New Zealand'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 43 (3):294-299 [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'The Value of Anthropology in Child Health Policy'
Julie Spray (2018) 'The Value of Anthropology in Child Health Policy'. Anthropology in Action, 25 (1):29-40 [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'Social group dynamics predict stress variability among children in a New Zealand classroom'
Julie Spray and Bruce Floyd and Judith Littleton and Susanna Trnka and Siobhan Mattison (2018) 'Social group dynamics predict stress variability among children in a New Zealand classroom'. HOMO, 69 (1-2):50-61 [DOI] [Details]

Books

  Year Publication
(2020) The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand.
Spray, J (2020) The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand. New Jersey: Rutgers. [Details]
(2020) The Children in Child Health.
JULIE SPRAY (2020) The Children in Child Health. : Rutgers University Press. [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2019) 'Ghosts in the Playground: Small Talk of Death in Everyday Childhoods'
Spray, J (2019) 'Ghosts in the Playground: Small Talk of Death in Everyday Childhoods' In: Death Down Under: Twenty-first Century Dying, Death, Disposal, and Memorialisation in the Antipodes. :23-43 Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. [Details]