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Read my interview with Current Sociology here isa-sociology.org/en/publication… Thanks for publishing this, Current Sociology!

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ARC Success for Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney & Carers NSW! This new Linkage Project, The Cost of Living (Well), will investigate the extent & consequences of rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs in Australia. Congratulations to Dr Katherine Kenny, Sophie Lewis, Alex Broom & team.

I'm THRILLED that our Australian Research Council LP23 with Carers NSW was funded!! 🥳🎉 Looking forward to leading this research into the growing problem of out-of-pocket costs (OOPCs) in the Australian healthcare system, and developing a Healthtalk Australia module on people's experiences of OOPCs

Congratulations to Dr Katherine Kenny, one of nine University of Sydney researchers to receive an ARC Linkage Project grant. Dr Kenny will lead a project examining the consequences of rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs in Australia. Read more: bit.ly/3L6eLhz

An honour to co-lead an Australian Human Rights Commission project, our 2nd round, to research Asian Australian's experiences of racism and multi-layered strategies for change. Kasun Ubayasiri Being Asian Australian Aaron Teo, Carl Anacin, Amy Kim GU_SocialCultural Griffith University

Bit of a blast from the past...my 2015 @STHV_journal article 'Blaming Deadmen' on the epistemological underpinnings of technological accidents was the subject of a recent episode of 'The Safety of Work'. Nice to see interdisciplinary relevance in action! tinyurl.com/47bp67xn

Excited to see our paper (co-authored w the amazing Dr Katherine Kenny) -on how microbiome research reframes motherhood as a form of micro(bial) management & the political stakes of caring for/with microbes - out & open access in Sociology of Health and Illness Journal ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

In a new Sociology of Health and Illness Journal paper Roberta Pala & Dr Katherine Kenny explore how microbiome research reframes motherhood. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Drawing on advice for Australian parents, the paper analyses messaging about securing the future-child's health by managing the maternal microbiome

Nurturing futures through the maternal microbiome doi.org/10.1111/1467-9…

I had a wonderful time sharing our research at the ICS seminar today. Thank you for the invitation! I'm particularly grateful for the amazing questions and comments I received. A lot of food for thoughts for me! Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

Our new open access Health Sociology Review article explores the place of stigma in public housing residents' experiences of COVID-19 lockdowns. Co-authored with Paul Kelaita & dxmurphy, we trace the biopolitics of stigma as a mode of public health governance: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'll be presenting some of my new research on young people's drug consumption next month. The presentation examines young women and gender diverse people's efforts to maximise the generative potential of consumption while minimising the gendered harms encountered on a night out.

Our 2nd event for Social Sciences Week Australia: New technologies in contemporary society: Promise, peril or something in-between? Register for this invigorating lunchtime seminar on Wed 11 Sept (12-1.30pm AEST) events.humanitix.com/new-technologi… hosted by Jianni (Janny) Tien Roberta Pala

We're hiring! Come work with Dr Michelle Peterie Alex Broom and team at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies on this ARC Linkage Project on childhood immigration detention. Details 👇but do reach out with any questions.

In this new open access article in Sociology Journal Nadine Ehlers, Alex Broom and Dr Katherine Kenny ask 'How are we to make sense of lived time in the unfolding of life-limiting illness, death and its aftermath?' Find the article here: bit.ly/3Zz2hYB

King’s College London is Hiring The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London is hiring an Assistant Professor in Critical Global Health. To find details on the job description, please click on the link below: docs.google.com/document/d/1cQ…

This promises to be a fantastic read by two stellar scholars @Henriettaroseb and Jaya Keaney - cannot wait to get stuck in!

SSSHARC at Sydney Thanks 🦈!! I don’t get on Twitter much these days but really appreciate your support. Couldn’t do much without the leadership and community at SSSHARC!

New Student Scholarship – open to ALL University of Sydney students - for a project that connects creative arts or humanities with health or medicine! To apply for up to $3000 for a project that you design, please apply here by November 20. Image Nikhil Mitra.