Conference presentations
Riley, S., Healy-Cullen S., Rice C., Tiidenberg K., Hawkey A., Evans A., Stephens C., Tappin, J., Ensslin A., Lupton, D., Ussher, J. Assemblages of menstrual tracking apps: Current and imagined possibilities for tracking apps as digital health technologies of empowerment (2025, August 28–31). Symposium conducted at the New Zealand Psychological Society Annual Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. https://www.psychology.org.nz/events/annual-conference
Healy-Cullen, S. & Riley, S. A critical feminist analysis of postpartum experiences with menstrual tracking apps (2025, August 28–31). Symposium conducted at the New Zealand Psychological Society Annual Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. https://www.psychology.org.nz/events/annual-conference
Healy-Cullen, S., Riley, S., Hawkey, A., Ussher, J., Evans, A., Tiidenberg, K., Rice, C., Ensslin, A., Stephens, C., & Lupton, D. ‘It just adds more fuel to the weak woman fire’: Perimenopausal ‘excuses’, feminist dilemmas, and the politics of menstruation tracking apps. (2025, July 1–4). Symposium conducted at the International Society of Critical Health Psychology Conference, University of Galway, Ireland. http://ischp2025.ie/
Riley, S., Healy-Cullen S., Rice C., Tiidenberg K., Hawkey A., Evans A., Stephens C., Tappin, J., Ensslin A., Lupton, D., Ussher, J. Assemblages of menstrual tracking apps: Current and imagined possibilities for tracking apps as digital health technologies of empowerment (2025, July 1–4). International Society of Critical Health Psychology Conference, University of Galway, Ireland. http://ischp2025.ie/
Riley, S., Healy-Cullen S., Rice C., Tiidenberg K., Hawkey A., Evans A., Stephens C., Tappin, J., Ensslin A., Morison, T., Lupton, D., Ussher, J. Presenting a novel critical scoping review methodology for mapping and interpreting research literature. (2025, July 1–4). International Society of Critical Health Psychology Conference, University of Galway, Ireland. http://ischp2025.ie/
Ensslin, Astrid (2025) "Von Instabods bis FEMtech: Weiblichkeit in digitalen Medien", knowledge transfer talk given at the International Women's Day, City of Regensburg, 8th March. https://www.uni-regensburg.de/newsroom/presse/kurznachrichten/index.html?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5BhideDate%5D=0&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=23621&tx_news_pi1%5BsimpleList%5D=1&cHash=df9952565de1916aff2d45b50e027921
Ensslin, S. (2025). Inscription and writing of female bodies (worlds) in digital media: Instabods, Femtech and digital narrative therapy. Gendering Knowledge: Body and Embodiment. University of Hamburg, Germany.
Riley, S. (2024, December 4-6). Menstrual tracking apps as intimate technology: A cooperative inquiry study with women and non-binary people in perimenopause. Digital Intimacies. Monash University's Caulfield Campus in Naarm/Melbourne, UK.
Riley, S. (2024, Oct 16). Making sense of body-mind-technology entanglements using assemblages of perimenopause and menstruation tracking apps as an example. SACS Research Seminar Series. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Riley, S. (2024, July 29-August 1). Theory and method: Making sense of menstruation tracking apps. Qualitative research in sports and exercise science. University of Bath, UK.
Riley, S., Morison, T., Evans, A., Tiidenberg, K., Rice, C., Ensslin, A., Ussher, J., Lupton, D., Tassell-Matamua, N., Stephens, C., Hawkey, A., Healy-Cullen, S., & Wilks, C. (2024, February 13-15). Theorising menstruation tracking apps. Auckland, New Zealand. In Sickness and in Health conference. Auckland, New Zealand.
Riley, S. (2023, July 26-28 ). The problem of menstrual tracking apps: Addressing higher order questions about this emerging literature. International Society of Critical Health Psychology Rancagua, Chile.
Riley, S (2023, November 6-7). Introducing the Tracking Bodies project: Exploring the possibilities of menstrual tracking apps for people with diverse embodied experiences. Menstrual Health Research Network Hui, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Academic articles, Books and Book Chapters
Riley, S., Morison, T., McGuigan, K., Brittain, E., Terry, G., Kora, A., Healy-Cullen, S., van Ommen, C., & Baken, D. (Eds.). (2025). Critical health psychology: Foundations, approaches and applications. Massey University. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/critical-health-psychology
Riley, S., Healy-Cullen, S., Easterbrook-Smith, G., Mullany, K., Rice, C., & Ensslin, A. (in press). Feminist critical health methodologies in action: Showcasing cooperative inquiry with a project on menstrual tracking apps. In A. Ortiz Aragón, M. Brydon-Miller, & M. Raider-Roth (Eds.), Your Modern Guide to Action Research (pp. x). Edward Elgar.
Riley, S., Healy-Cullen, S., & Tiidenberg. (in press). Constructions of intimate data: An example of using poststructuralist discourse analysis in feminist action research. In S. Goodman, R. Sambaraju, & A. Locke (Eds.), International Handbook of Applied Discursive Psychology (pp. x). Routledge.
Riley, S., Healy-Cullen S., Morison T., Evans A., Tiidenberg K., Rice C., Ensslin A., Stephens C., Hawkey A. (2025). Problematising menstrual tracking apps: Presenting a novel critical scoping review methodology for mapping and interpreting research literature. Psychology & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2445518
Paskova, K. (2023). A Foucauldian-informed discourse analysis of men’s use of a partner-share feature to track their female partner’s menstrual cycle: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, Distance, New Zealand (Masters dissertation, Massey University). http://hdl.handle.net/10179/19058
Riley, S., & Paskova, K. (2022). A post-phenomenological analysis of using menstruation tracking apps for the management of premenstrual syndrome. Digital Health, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221144199
In the news
Massey University (2025, August 19). Do hugely popular menstruation tracking apps help their users? Massey University News. https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/do-hugely-popular-menstruation-tracking-apps-help-their-users/
Healy-Cullen, S., & Riley. S (2025, August 13). Rethinking menstruation tracking apps: Whose bodies do they serve? Women’s Health Week. https://www.womenshealthweek.nz/stories/rethinking-menstruation-tracking-apps-whose-bodies-do-they-serve-gxsmv
Massey University (2023, November). Research project on menstruation tracking apps will look at user experience. Massey University News. https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/research-project-on-menstruation-tracking-apps-will-look-at-user-experience/
Massey University (2023, October 26). Ground-breaking books produced by our renowned Critical Health Psychology Masters programme. Massey University News. https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/ground-breaking-books-produced-by-massey-universitys-renowned-critical-health-psychology-masters-programme/
Riley, S. (2023, August). 5-4-1 interview with Sarah Riley. Paradoxa by Dave Nicholls. https://paradoxa.substack.com/p/5-4-1-interview-with-sarah-riley?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#details
Riley, S. (2023, August). 5-4-1 interview with Sarah Riley. Paradoxa by Dave Nicholls. https://paradoxa.substack.com/p/5-4-1-interview-with-sarah-riley?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#details