How do you manage colds & flu? How do you cope with kids putting everything in their mouths?! Researchers Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies want to hear about your experiences as parents or informal carers (grandparents, nannies etc) of young kids. kidsbugsanddrugs.org/about/family-l…

New job alert 🚨 We’re looking to hire a post-doc to work with us on our ARC project on care transitions TASA Brendan Churchill Louisa Smith Iva Strnadova UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5227…

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Come do a PhD with me at the The Matilda Centre The Henry Halloran Trust investigating the association between climate change and mental health, with particular focus on the role of built environment, place and community. Due 18 February.

More info here:

sydney.edu.au/scholarships/c…

📢PhD Scholarship SSPS Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies (Healthcare students, migration, work & care) - open for applications! As part of my DECRA Fellowship on healthcare worker migration & care, I have a PhD scholarship for a student to research healthcare students bit.ly/DE24PhD

PhD opportunity Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies with DECRA Fellow Dr Leah Williams Veazey, researching healthcare students, migration & care. Open for applications now! sydney.edu.au/scholarships/b… (please RT)

While it's often our privilege to support our parents, it's also difficult when they need help but refuse it. Some ideas for managing the tricky situation theconversation.com/how-do-i-handl…

New paper, led by Tim rhodes now online in Soc Sci & Medicine:

“Exhausting care: On the collateral realities of caring in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic”

#OpenAccess

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🚀Hot off the press! 📰

Explore the intersections of chronic illness and loneliness in our latest open access article 🔓: ‘There but not really involved’.

Read it here 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1016/j.socs…

Karen Willis Natasha Smallwood Centre for Disability Research and Policy Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health

A sad moment: the outgoing Editorial Board's last ever issue of CPH - as always, there are many cracking papers, and our final editorial reflecting on changes in academic publishing.
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Do you know any Melbourne-based PhD students or recent post-docs who might be interested in an exciting 0.5FTE fixed-term (0.6 months) opportunity BCNA for a Policy and Advocay Officer focusing on metastatic breast cancer? Please share. seek.com.au/job/72926900

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2025 Special Issue - call for expressions of interest to guest edit the issue.

HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop & edit a special issue exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise.

For details, visit tasa.org.au/content.aspx?p…

❗️JOB❗️We are advertising for a Level A/B Postdoc (2 yrs initially), to work with us on the sociology of death, dying and bereavement. Open to a range of backgrounds - suit someone keen on qualitative and sensitive research. Join the fab Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team! tinyurl.com/4998fuzj

3 * 5-year postdoc fellowships. Great opportunity to work on an ARC funded project on the NDIS and psychosocial disability. 👇🏼

JOB: 5 year full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Qualitative Policy Research.
Based at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at University of Sydney. The research focuses on psychosocial disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…

Want to know more about 'Writing Sociological Stories?' Don't miss Ash Watson's keynote presentation this month at #TASA2023 . Secure your registration here: buff.ly/3MqwK3z
#TASA2023 #sociology

Our (Tim rhodes Kari Lancaster) paper on how 'best practice' gets done (in times of uncertainty + disruption) is now out. We explore how healthcare in Covid-19 is made to work in its situation.

Read at SSM – Qualitative Research in Health: doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health

Great to see our latest AMR Hub article out open access! In it, we explore how economic structures shape the acceleration of antimicrobial resistance and undermine solutions tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Wonderful to work with Dr Andrea Smith Dr Katherine Kenny on this The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand story about why it is so important that we listen to the voices of those with metastatic breast cancer.

1 year ago today BCNA and I launched BCNA's inaugural Issues Paper 'Making Metastatic Breast Cancer Count' to draw attention to the gaps in #MBC prevalence data. Today they released 'Time to Count People with MBC - A Way Forward' lnkd.in/gakvd89z