
Emma Kirby 🏳️🌈
@dremmakirby
Sociologist, University of New South Wales
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11-10-2013 13:19:48
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1/2 Check out our publication on the role of surprise in illness narratives in cancer care. @RebeccaEOlson SocioHealthLab Life Course Centre @HASSUQ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper from me, Alex Broom John MacArtney @lewis_soph and Phillip Good: Hopeful dying? The meanings and practice of hope in palliative care family meetings. Reach out if you can't access a full text copy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers by Emma Kirby 🏳️🌈, Dr Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom & Zarnie Lwin OAM doi.org/10.1080/095815…



So pleased to be able to share the findings and recommendations from our Economic and Social Research Council study. So many people to thank - too many for one Tweet! But I have to start with *a really big thank you* to Abi Eccles Jo Fleming 🌱 Catherine Grimley for all their hard work throughout the study!

Now out! Collection in @CPH_journal edited by Rebecca Lynch and me - on #chronic illness and #publichealth – editorial here (may be £;DM if no access) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy Wear it Purple Day! Inclusivity and support for LGBTQIA+ youth today and every day Wear it Purple UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health


Come join our lovely community of geographers at the University of Melbourne! Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Human Geography University of Melbourne with a particular focus on environmental politics and policy. Closing date 16 October. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/909981/…

Thrilled and excited to start this ARC Linkage Project to better understand and support informal care transitions. Working with excellent colleagues @thisnewman Brendan Churchill Louisa Smith Iva Strnadova and equally excellent partners Carers NSW Carers Victoria !


It has been such a privilege to contribute to this project for UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture and to work alongside Aves (featured below), Nwosu Lucius SAN and other incredible staff and students to bring this important project to life 🏳️⚧️

So Fi Zine 13 out now! Dispatch from #isawcs23 , by Ash Watson open.substack.com/pub/awtsn/p/so…

If you missed this, it is now available on UNSW Social Policy Research Centre YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=FYiz9E…

New paper alert 🚨 We reflect on grant funding ‘failure’ to think more broadly about what is lost, individually and collectively, within increasingly competitive and marketised research support landscapes Erica Borgstrom @Annelie3ssen Marian Krawczyk John MacArtney Professor Kathryn Almack

The Guardian reporting here matches findings from our Economic and Social Research Council funded Dying in the Margins study about lack of responsiveness in the housing sector for tenants at end of life End of Life Studies Marie Curie Scotland UofG Social Sciences theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

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…

Do you use the term "loved ones" as a general term? Ever wondered what it means or how it might be understood? Kate Woodthorpe and I did: endoflifestudies.academicblogs.co.uk/is-everyone-a-… Tl:dr Emphasising "love" misses the diversity of reasons people care for each other End of Life Studies

