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Jun 23, 2025 | Claire Moran News | 0 comments

By Claire Moran

Aguilar Alonso, R., Walsh, K., van Leent, L., Williams, K. E., & Moran, C. (2025). Relationships and sexuality education for primary school students: results of a pre-post intervention study. Sex Education, 1-18.

Blackmore, B., Moran, C., & Wigginton, B. (2024). A content analysis of freely available menstrual education resources in Australia. Health Education Journal83(8), 868-877. 

Gregory, G., Malaweera Arachchige, S., Moran, C., Gullo, M. J., & Anderson, L. E. (2024). A pilot evaluation of a training programme on understanding and responding to sexual behaviours in children and young people. Sex Education24(3), 402-415.

Lirios, A., Mullens, A. B., Daken, K., Moran, C., Gu, Z., Assefa, Y., & Dean, J. A. (2024). Sexual and reproductive health literacy of culturally and linguistically diverse young people in Australia: a systematic review. Culture, Health & Sexuality26(6), 790-807.

Lilly, K., Walsh, A. L., Foreman, R., Moran, C., & Taylor, J. (2024). Communicating about sexual activity and intimacy after a heart attack: a cross-sectional survey of Australian health professionals, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(5), 478-485. 

Moran, C., Lilly, K., Walsh, A. L., Foreman, R., & Taylor, J. (2024). Australian health professionals’ perspectives on discussing sexual activity and intimacy with people who have had a heart attack: a qualitative study. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 30 PY23119.

Aguilar Alonso, R., Walsh, K., van Leent, L., & Moran, C. (2023). School-based relationships and sexuality education programmes in primary schools: contexts, mechanisms and outcomes. Sex Education24(2), 188–207.

van Leent, L., & Moran, C. (2023). “Healthy and Normal”: Parents’ Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity in Elementary Relationships and Sexuality Education. The International Journal of Diversity in Education, 23(2), 51.

van Leent, L., Walsh, K., Moran, C., Hand, K., & French, S. (2023). Effectiveness of relationships and sex education: A systematic review of terminology, content, pedagogy, and outcomes. Educational Research Review, 100527.

Anderson, L. E., Dingle, G. A., Moran, C., & Gullo, M. J. (2022). Testing a psychosocial model of sexual communication and sexual risk-taking among young people. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 34, 100788.

Moran, C., & Van Leent, L. (2022). Primary school parents’ perspectives on relationships and sexuality education in Queensland, Australia. Sex Education, 22(2), 184-197.

Moran, C., & Carroll, J. A. (2020). Consuming yourself into being: Women’s consumptive practices and the articulation of acceptable heterosexual femininity. The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities, 501-522.

Wunsch, A., & Moran, C. (2018). Traffic Lights: Understanding healthy sexual development and protecting children from harm. Educating Young Children, 24(3), 24-26.

Moran C. (2017).  De-constructing ‘the woman’ in women’s magazines. Invited Essay for the Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality.

Moran, C. (2017). Re-positioning female heterosexuality within postfeminist and neoliberal culture. Sexualities.  20: 121-139.

Moran, C. (2017).  Review of ABC of Domestic and Sexual Violence. Ed by Susan Bewley and Jan Welch.  Sexualities. 1363460717693670.

Moran, C., & Lee, C. (2016). ‘Everyone wants a vagina that looks less like a vagina’: Australian women’s views on dissatisfaction with genital appearance. Journal of Health Psychology, 1359105316637588.

Wigginton, B., Moran, C., Harris, M. L., Loxton, D., & Lucke, J. (2015).  Young Australian women explain their ‘choices’ to use contraception.  Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-15.

Moran, C., & Lee, C. (2014). What’s Normal? Influencing women’s perceptions of normal genitalia: An experiment involving exposure to modified and non-modified images. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 121, 761-766.

Moran, C., & Lee, C. (2013). Selling genital cosmetic surgery to healthy women: A multimodal discourse analysis of Australian surgical websites. Critical Discourse Studies, 10, 373-391.

Moran, C., & Lee, C. (2012). Women’s constructions of heterosexual non-romantic sex and the implications for sexual health. Psychology & Sexuality, 5, 161-182.

Moran, C., & Lee, C. (2012). Australian women talk about non-romantic sex. Psychology & Sexuality, 5, 210-231.

Moran, C., & Lee, C. (2011). On his terms: representations of sexuality in women’s magazines and the implications for negotiating safe sex. Psychology & Sexuality, 2, 159-180.

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