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Below are recently published papers. After is some info on several research projects I am currently involved in, organized by how close they are to completion.

Resent Published Research (Links in titles)

Weatherly, C. & Kang, J. (2026). “We do it for other reasons. It’s conservation, it’s the right thing to do”: Centering farmer perspectives in agricultural policy reform for climate resilience. Journal of Community Practice, 1–21.

Weatherly, C. & Doherty, F. (2025). “It's one thing after another, after another”: Exploring farmer mental health and climate change through participatory and systems-based perspectives. Journal of Rural Studies., 114.

Weatherly, C., Meirose, J., Abdelghani, M, Caiza, G.R., Irfan, M., Gaveras E., & Johnson, N. & Roth, K. (2025). Community-based suicide interventions in rural United States: A scoping review.Community Mental Health Journal.

Hopkins, N., Weatherly, C., Reese, C., & Proctor, C. (2025). “At some point, you just run out of road”: Farmers’ Concerns About the Future of Agriculture. Community Science.

Scheyett, A., Brown, B., Weatherly, C. (2025). Time is a Precious Commodity: Reframing Farmer Stress and Mental Health Through the Lens of Time Poverty.OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 10(1).

Kang, J. & Weatherly, C. (2025). Carbon Emission Disparities and Ethical Concerns: A Case Study of Jjokbang-chon, South Korea. Submitted to Ethics & Social Welfare, 1-18.

Kang, J., Gounder., B., Weatherly, C., Jankowski, A., & Mason, L.R. (2025). Rethinking Academic Conferences: Uncovering Carbon Footprints of SSWR and Pursuing Sustainable Alternatives in the Climate Crisis Era.Advances inSocial Work, 25(1).

Weatherly, C., Carag, J, Zohdy, S., & Morrison, M.(2023). The mental health impacts of human-ecosystem-animal relationships: A systematic scoping review of Eco-, Planetary, and One Health approaches. One Health, 17.

Current Projects:

The importance and utility of arts-based methods in social work research: An example using climate change and farmer mental health.
This project is near and dear to my heart. It examines painting as an analytic tool in research on farmer mental health, climate change, and industrial agriculture. Centered on an autoethnographic painting created after some time I spent in a hog concentrated animal feeding operation, this paper explores how art-making helped surface the emotional realities of farmers, animals, and the broader systems that shape industrialized farming. Basically, I try to see how arts-based analysis can deepen ecosocial and more-than-human approaches to social work research.

Conceptualizing and measuring animal mental health: A scoping review.
This scoping review, conducted with my colleague/friend who is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, investigates the conceptual and epistemic boundaries of “animal mental health” in the scholarly literature. The project examines how different fields define, measure, or contest the term, with attention to the forms of knowledge that are privileged or excluded in discussions of animal well-being. In doing so, the review considers what animal mental health might offer to ecosocial work, One Health, and multispecies scholarship.

Understanding farmworkers’ health needs: stakeholder perspectives
This project focuses on the mental health and wellbeing of Georgia farmworkers. The initial idea was to look at weather/climate issues, but since interviews started in January of 2026, more pressing stressors came to the forefront. Working with colleagues in Mercer University’s Department of Public Health, we are interviewing community stakeholders to better understand farmworkers’ priority concerns, available resources, service gaps, and opportunities for future programming. The goal is to support the development of culturally responsive interventions grounded in farmworkers’ lived realities.