A5032540364- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Media and Politics
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Disaster Response and Management
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Burn Injury Management and Outcomes
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior
The University of Sydney
2018-2025
Infectious Diseases Institute
2023
University of Technology Sydney
2023
Westmead Hospital
2023
University of Wollongong
2023
Taronga Conservation Society Australia
2023
UNSW Sydney
2021
RMIT University
2021
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
2021
The University of Queensland
2021
The last few years of pandemic living have highlighted various temporal tensions that characterise our individual and collective futures. In some ways, the scale disruption caused by could be considered unprecedented. But in other underpin social life are long-standing, even routine. this special issue, ‘Future/Tense: A Sociology Temporal Dis/Order’, we take intensification relation to COVID-19 pandemic, well beyond it, as impetus interrogate how future is variously known, felt valued...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly escalating global health threat, known increasingly through different forms of monitoring. Surveillance, both resistant organisms and the antimicrobial prescribing practices that contribute to their proliferation, has increased dramatically over last decade. So too have audits, which are routinely deployed evaluate, ensure accountability for, alignment local with established “best practice” guidelines. However, governing AMR in this way raises...
Abstract For three years, COVID-19 has circulated among our communities and around the world, fundamentally changing social interactions, health care systems, service delivery. people living with (and receiving treatment for) cancer, pandemic conditions presented significant additional hurdles in an already unstable shifting environment, including disrupted personal contact providers, interrupted access to clinical trials, distanced therapeutic encounters, multiple immune vulnerabilities,...
Objectives To explore informal caregivers’ perspectives on precision medicine in cancer care. Design Semi-structured interviews with the caregivers of people living and receiving targeted/immunotherapies. Interview transcripts were analysed thematically using a framework approach. Setting Recruitment was facilitated by two hospitals five Australian community groups. Participants Informal (n=28; 16 men, 12 women; aged 18–80) Results Thematic analysis identified three findings, centred largely...
Being diagnosed with a life-limiting illness entails fundamental reshaping of one's relationship the future. From ‘bucket lists’ destinations and experiences to ‘flights hope’ for experimental or specialised medical care, diagnoses serious are deeply entwined travel in Australian cultural narratives. In this paper, we draw on thematic analysis interviews cancer patients their carers ask what meanings attached narratives – whether completed constrained, imagined interrupted context diagnosis....
Facebook groups are spaces where women form communities and share their lived experiences. These peer-created peer-moderated have 'closed' security settings, indicating that interactions within the group to be considered private. They attract membership from who desire safe, 'trusted', gender-specific spaces, though as this article demonstrates, these perceived 'safe spaces' often fraught with difficulties. This considers intimate which traverse public private, potentially allowing remove...
Abstract Mental ill‐health is a serious and growing problem among university students in Australia. Within this cohort, international are particularly vulnerable. International Australia have fewer social rights than domestic at elevated risk of isolation, exploitation employment, precarious housing, financial insecurity, racism discrimination. When mental health challenges arise, also less likely their counterparts to access support services. Against the backdrop escalating problem, article...
Objectives During a precommissioning inspection of new biocontainment centre, radiographers noted structural features quarantine rooms that could compromise staff and patient safety the X-ray image quality, even after significant modifications had been made to an earlier radiography protocol. The aim this study was explore effectiveness modified protocol, in space, identify improvements, if required. Design A qualitative using situ simulation video-reflexive methods. Setting newly built...
Since the advent of digital and mobile communication technologies, scholars have been investigating how these technologies are changing experiences migration mobility. In field gender migration, researchers shown experience can change maternal practices, alter understandings 'good motherhood'. These 'digital migrant' 'migrant motherhood' literatures intersected in studies technologically mediated transnational mothering, context mother–child separation. contrast, this study focuses on...
Objectives General practitioners (GPs) and their staff have been at the frontline of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Australia. However, experiences responding to managing risks viral transmission within facilities are poorly described. The aim this study was describe experiences, infection prevention control (IPC) strategies adopted by general practices, including enablers challenges implementation, contribute our understanding response critical sector. Design Semistructured interviews were...
From the adoption of mask-wearing in public settings to omnipresence hand-sanitising, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought unprecedented cultural attention infection prevention and control (IPC) everyday life. At same time, threat enlivened unsettled hospital IPC processes, fracturing confidence, demanding new forms evidence, ultimately involving a rapid reassembling what constitutes safe care. Here, drawing on semi-structured interviews with 63 frontline healthcare workers from two states...
This article explores the importance of relationships between migrant mothers in Australia through lens Facebook groups created by and for mothers, referred to here as glocalised maternal communities. The combination migration motherhood creates a dual rupture mothers’ social networks, leading isolation emotional challenges. Drawing on thematic analysis interviews conducted with 41 from range communities (including Indian, Malaysian, Swedish, German, Brazilian British), living Melbourne...
Debates about the state of Australian sociology have raged for as long has existed in Australia. Concerns discipline’s future may be inevitable a critical, reflexive discipline, but to those entering it is neither instructive nor productive subjected lingering disciplinary anxieties. After more than fifty years, time take stock differing visions sociology, and examine arguments health, or otherwise, sociology. To advance this debate, we consider signs benchmarks ‘successful’ expressed The...
What does migrancy mean for personhood, and how this flow through caring relations? Drawing on life history interviews photo elicitation with 43 people who identify as migrants live cancer, here we argue the significance of recognising complex personhood it inflects illness care. social science theory around temporalities, moralities belonging, assemble a series cross-cutting themes at intersection care; relations that transcend cultural origins yet are vividly illustrated in relation to...