Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson is Professor & Director of the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT and Visiting Professor, Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender, University of Brighton, UK. Her research is in the field of gender, sexuality and mental health, with specialisms in critical community psychology and psychosocial studies, qualitative, participatory and visual research methods, and interdisciplinary research about LGBTQ lives. Her research collaborations and partnerships focus on improving the lives of LGBTQ+ people and have impacted on social policy and practice, particularly in the field of suicide prevention, mental health and end of life care. Recent publications include Community Psychology and the Socio-Economics of Mental Distress (Palgrave, 2012) and Sexuality: A psychosocial manifesto (Polity, 2015). She is also Routledge book series editor, Transforming LGBTQ Lives.