Associate Professor Alicia Evans
Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
Areas of expertise: mental health; qualitative research methodology; Foucault; psychoanalysis
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0219-3382
Phone: +61 3 9953 3187
Email: alicia.evans@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Melbourne Campus
Alicia Evans is a nurse academic and Lacanian psychoanalyst. Her nursing speciality is in mental health. Alicia is the Faculty of Health Sciences consultant for qualitative research methodologies. Her own program of research focuses on psychoanalytic and post-structural analysis of nursing and psychiatric practices.
Select publications:
- Evans, A.M., Quinn, C., McKenna, B., & Willis, K. (2021). Consumers living with psychosis: Perspectives on sexuality. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30(2), 382-389.
- Evans, A.M., Holmes, D., & Quinn, C. (2020). Madness, sexuality and risk: A post-structural analysis. Nursing Inquiry, 27(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12359
- Evans, A.M., Quinn, C., & McKenna, B. (2020). The governance of sexuality in a Recovery- oriented mental health service: Psychosis, consumers and clinical approaches. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 27(2), 194-202. doi:10.1111/jpm.12569
- Evans, A.M., Traynor, M. & Glass, N. (2014). Anxiety and surplus in nursing --practice: lessons from Lacan and Bataille. Nursing Philosophy, 15(3), 183-191.
- Traynor, M. & Evans, A. (2014). Slavery and jouissance: analysing complaints of suffering in nurses’ talk about nursing work. Nursing Philosophy, 15(3), 192-200.
- Evans, A.M., Traynor, M. & Glass, N. (2014). An exploration of jealousy in nursing: a Kleinian analysis. Nursing Inquiry, 21(2). 171-178. doi: 10.1111/nin.12036.
