Fields of Research

Social change
Sociology and social studies of science and technology
Sociology
Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment
Sociology of the life course
Sociology of health
Higher education
Social theory
Sociology of inequalities
Aged health care
Urban sociology and community studies
Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy
Health policy
Sociology of education
Transgender studies
Housing policy
Art history
Visual cultures
Commercial law
Nursing
Sociological methodology and research methods
Social design
Consumption and everyday life
Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
Testing, assessment and psychometrics
Central nervous system
Health psychology
Social policy
Health services and systems
Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Continuing and community education

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in human society
Ageing and older people
Health related to ageing
Other culture and society
Social structure and health
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies
Work and labour market
Public services policy advice and analysis
Learner and learning
Expanding knowledge in education
Neonatal and child health
Health education and promotion
Professions and professionalisation
The creative arts
Policies and development
Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum
Gender and sexualities
Behaviour and health
Homelessness and housing services
Ability and disability
Other law, politics and community services
Community services
Mental health
Expanding knowledge in the biomedical and clinical sciences
Health protection and disaster response
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander determinants of health
Disability and functional capacity

Career Best Publications

Ableism in higher education: the negation of crip temporalities within the neoliberal academy; Higher Education Research & Development
Continuity, change and possibility in older age: identity and ageing-as-discovery; Journal of Sociology
Counting the costs of ageism: Discrimination and COVID-19; Australasian Journal on Ageing

Research Publications

'Changing faces: how cosmetic injectables are reshaping our idea of beauty' - Interview by Miyuki Jokiranta
'Getting inked' no longer taboo
'I've got no idea': an ethnography of critical care nurses' nuanced and ambiguous professional identities in regional Australia; Health Sociology Review
'It's a risk that requires evaluation and rational appraisal': Scientific Constructions of Infectious Risk in Xenotransplantation ; Our Lands, Our Waters, Our Peoples
'Live-to-air interview, Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing
'Small Pricks' at Lunchtime: Some notes on Botox; TASA
'To actually be sociological': Autoethnography as an assessment and learning tool; Journal of Sociology
'To prove I'm not incapable, I overcompensate': disability, ideal workers, the academy; Economic and Labour Relations Review
(Re)examining ageing as a ‘lived experience'; Probus Club of Launceston Inc.
A crowdsourced sociology of COVID-19
A delicate balance: negotiating renal transplantation, immunosuppression and adherence to medical regimen; Health
A friendly place to age
Ableism in higher education: the negation of crip temporalities within the neoliberal academy; Higher Education Research & Development
Age and Ageism
Age Awareness - Interview with Alison Costelloe
Age discrimination and COVID-19; Talk at Glenorchy School for Seniors
Age discrimination and COVID-19; Howrah School for Seniors
Age friendly universities and age-aware curriculum development in the Decade of Healthy Ageing; Academy of Social Sciences Workshop Program
Age-friendly cities: a community-based, intergenerational approach; IAGG-ER 2019
Age-friendly cities: a community-based, intergenerational approach; The Australian Sociological Association Conference (TASA): Diversity & Urban Growth
Age-friendly Clarence; Lauderdale Probus
Age-friendly Clarence; Rosny School for Seniors
Ageing and life-long learning; U3A Clarence: 25th Anniversary Event
Ageing my Way
Ageing well in public housing, AHURI Final Report
Ageism and Risk During the Coronavirus Pandemic; The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives
Ageism and risk in COVID-19; A Climate for Change in Ageing (53rd AAG Conference)
Agency and the Interaction Order: The Feminine Tattooed Body; TASA 2016 Conference
Animals in Xenotransplantation; Implications and Implementation: The Meanings and Use of Our Research
Art of the Body: health, beauty and desire
Award for Sociology in Action 2020
Best Poster award AAG 2016 Conference
Book Review: Kate O’Loughlin, Collette Browning and Hal Kendig (eds), Ageing in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities; Journal of Sociology
Business models, consumer experiences and regulation of retirement villages; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Business models, consumer experiences and regulation of retirement villages
Cancer treatment decision-making with/for older adults with dementia: the intersections of autonomy, capital, and power; Health Sociology Review
Catering to sex, sexual, and gender diversity: an exploratory study on the effects of LGBTI awareness training on aged care staff in Tasmania, Australia; Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services
Chair of TASA Thematic Week; TASA Thematic Week
Challenges and Hurdles for Xenotransplantation Regulation in Australia; 24th Annual Scientific Meeting
Clarence study probes ageism
Clarence takes centre stage in ageism survey
Compliance in peritoneal dialysis: A qualitative study of renal nurses; International Journal of Nursing Practice
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Determining the functionality of the older; Health Service Improvemnet Reaserch Seminar
Confronting ageism in society and in medicine: What can be done?; CSRH Seminar Series
Confronting ageism through research: Translating research for the community; Ageing and New Media Symposium
Confronting ageism: The potential of intergenerational contemporary art events to increase understandings of older adults and ageing; Australasian Journal on Ageing
Constructing and fracturing alliance: actant stories and the Australian xenotransplantation network
Constructions and Experiences of Authenticity in Medical Tourism: The Performances of Places, Spaces, Practices, Objects and Bodies; Tourist Studies: An International Journal
Contagion or cure? Regulating Xenotransplantation; 3rd Annual Biosecurity Symposium
Continuity and change in older age: Identity and ageing-as-discovery; The Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association
Continuity, change and possibility in older age: identity and ageing-as-discovery; Journal of Sociology
Converting our innovative teaching and learning into publications; Nexus
Counting the costs of ageism: Discrimination and COVID-19; Australasian Journal on Ageing
COVID-19 is fuelling ageism in Australia
Creating the publics, medical science and knowledge: Xenotransplantation and Botox; The Politics of Knowledge in Health Care: Science, Evidence and Experience, TASA (the Australian Sociological Association) Health Symposium
Deaths of men living alone prompt calls for greater sense of community: interview with Tamara Glumac
Dementia prevention is not possible because people are unwilling to change their lifestyles; 3rd Tasmanian Dementia Symposium
Development and psychometric evaluation of the Dementia Public Stigma Scale; International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Discrimination against older people during the coronavirus pandemic: a case study in ageism; TASA Conference
Don't let zoonosis bug you
Engineering masculinity: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of trans masculine embodiment in magazines for trans men; Journal of Sociology
Engineering the Fitness of Older Cancer Patients for Chemotherapy; Design and Displacement - social studies of science and technology 4S/EASST Joint Conference 2012
Engineering the fitness of older patients for chemotherapy: An exploration of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in practice; Health
Engineering the fitness of older patients for chemotherapy: an exploration of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in pratice; Biopolitics of Science and Medicine Symposium
Examining community needs and wants for an age-friendly, intergenerational city: a report for the City of Clarence
Examining the graduate attribute agenda in Australian universities: a review of continuing problems and pitfalls; Learning and Teaching: the international journal of higher education in the social sciences
Exhibition puts focus on ageing
Experiencing older age, gender, and the body: Challenging and reinforcing ‘positive ageing’ discourses; TASA Conference 2018: Precarity, Rights and Resistance
Exploring ageism in Clarence
Expressions of interest: Clarence Community Project
Facilitating the use of the sociological imagination: exploring the use of autoethnography in sociological education; Diverse Sociologies - Teaching Sociology Workshop
Fighting for Fair Work Conditions at UNSW and Macquarie University; NEXUS
Gender (un)Certainty in Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines; Everday Transformation: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian
Generic Graduate Attributes meet Threshold Learning Outcomes and Minimum Qualification Standards … or Why being generic is so last century; Nexis
Genomics: the clinical encounter and parallels across complementary and personalized medicine; Sociology Compass
George Clooney is the exception - the rest of us need Botox
George Clooney is the exception - the rest of us need botox
Governing risk and older age during COVID-19: contextualising ageism and COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian aged care facilities during 2020; Springer Nature
Health and Illness as Social Issues; The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical perspectives for 21st century Australia
Healthy ageing and age-friendly communities: Moving beyond individuals to communities; 2019 Theo Murphy Australian Frontiers of Science: Redefining Healthy Ageing Together
Heather & Christopher Chong Outstanding Achiever Award Finalist
Housing regulation and policy: An ageist system?; TASA 2021 Thematic Week
How are Cancer Treatment Recommendations and Decisions Reached with/ For older adults with dementia?; 4S SYDNEY TRANSnational STS: Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference
How are cancer treatment recommendations and decisions reached with/ for older adults with dementia?; Australian Dementia Forum 2019 Abstracts
How can Sociology inform and improve teh clinically-based Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) of older people with cancer?; Brocher Foundation Alumni Meeting
Human Rights and Globalizing Technology: The Case of Xenotransplantation and Xenotourism; Talking Biotechnology ... Reflecting on Science in Society
Images of ageing by older people: An exhibition
Informed Consent and Human Rights: Some Regulatory Challenges of Xenotransplantation; Social Alternatives
Institutional frameworks and terms of reference: The public discussion on clinical xenotransplantation in Australia; Science and Public Policy
Intergenerational transfers and the risk of elder abuse: the need for nuance in the asset economy debate; TASA Conference
Interview on ABC Breakfast - Inter-generational Project
Interview, ‘Older Tasmanians reveal thoughts on ageing through the lens for research project’
Interview: Ageing through the eyes of older Tasmanians
Interview: LINC groups help make learning easy
It's a risk that requires evaluation and rational appraisal': emotion and infectious risk in xenotransplantation; New Genetics and Society
Leisurely pursuit or hard work? Theorising health and medical tourism; 20th Annual Conference Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)
Letter from the Editors; Nexus
Letter from the Editors; Nexus
Live-to-air interview, ‘Ageing through the eyes of older Tasmanians’
Lived experiences of ableism in academia: strategies for inclusion in higher education; Sociology of Health & Illness
Living with and experiencing ageing as an older person; 13Th Global Conference: International Federation on Ageing
Living with and experiencing ageing as an older person; Capitalising on the Ageing Dividend: Re-Imagining Our Future, 49th Australian Association of Gerontology Annual Conference
Loneliness in the Digital Age: Sustaining healthy communities in the 21st Century; Red Cross Oration
Managing a PhD Project; Postgraduate Day - TASA Postgraduates 2017
May contain traces of…
May contain traces of…
Medical Marginalisation of Aboriginal Australians: Renal Transplantation and Xenotransplantation; TASA
Medical tourism, xenotourism and client expectations: between bioscience and responsibilisation; Medical Tourism: The ethics, regulation, and marketing of health mobility
Medicalisation and Biomedicalisation; The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical perspectives for 21st century Australia
My Approach to Teaching Sociology: A Reply to Gary Wickham; Nexus
Narratives about/on the body in older age; International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress
Newsletter of The Australian Sociological Association; Nexus
Newsletter of The Australian Sociological Association; NEXUS
Newsletter of the Australian Sociological Association; Nexus
Newsletter of the Australian Sociological Association; Nexus
Nexus; NEXUS
Nexus; Nexus
NEXUS - Newsletter of the Australian Sociological Association; Nexus
Nexus - Newsletter of the Australian Sociological Association; Nexus
No longer raising eyebrows: the contexts and domestication of Botox as a mundane medical and cultural artefact; Journal of Consumer Culture
Nurse-led model of assessment and care for older people with cancer; 23rd International Nursing Congress, Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society of Nursing
Older age, aged care, and ageism during the coronavirus pandemic: narratives from Australia; ENAS & NANAS Joint Conference
Overcoming and Reinforcing Dichotomies: The Animal/Human Divide and Xenotransplantation; Reviewing Humanness: Bodies, Technologies and Spaces
Panel discussion member; Health Sociology in the 21st century: Innovative Approaches to Researching Health and Society
Perceptions of ageing critiqued in exhibition
Perspectives from older people: What does it mean to age?; Cities and Successful Societies, The Australian Sociological Association Conference
Pigs Hearts and Human Bodies: A Cultural Approach to Xenotransplantation; M / C Journal
Poke the couch potatoes: Interview with Rex Gardner
Princess Alexandra Hospital model of comprehensive geriatric assessment of cancer patients : methodological and practical aspects; Cancer Forum
Professions and Professional Identity; The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical perspectives for 21st century Australia
Project on seniors will show what it means to age
Proof of life: Studio Sessions; The Homesickness Project
Proof of Life: Studio Sessions
R(e)examining ageing as a 'lived experience'; Glenorchy School for Seniors
Reclaiming the self; 2nd National Forum Age Friendly Cities Australia
Reclaiming the Self; 2nd National Forum: Age Friendly Cities Australia
Reclaiming the self
Reclaiming the self; Reclaiming the self – Exhibition and Presentation
Reclaiming the self: How do older people experience and perceive their ageing?
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing; COTA TAS Annual General Meeting
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing; NARI/MH/AUPOA 2017 Tuesday Seminar Series
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing
Reclaiming the self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing
Reclaiminmg the Self: How older people perceive and experience their ageing; Connect North: Spotlight Symposium: Research in the North
Reflections on teaching sociology to first-year nursing students; Neoliberalism and Contemporary Challenges for the Asia-Pacific, annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
Report from the Thematic Group portfolio leader; Nexus: Newsletter of the Australian Sociological Assocation
Reviewing Humanness: Bodies, Technologies, And Spaces; EASST Review
Riding against the Silver Tsunami: What does it mean to ‘age’?
Science Stories: Selecting the Source Animal for Xenotransplantation; Social Change in the 21st Century
Seeing through the PRISM: the history of everyday surveillance
Self-reported Student Confidence in Troubleshooting Ability Increases After Completion of an Inquiry-Based PCR Practical; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
Should we proceed? The constraints of public consultation on xenotransplantation in Australia; The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference
Should we proceed? The constraints of public consultation on xenotransplantation in Australia; The Australian Sociological Association 2011
Snap it, Chat it, Share it, Show it
Social Challenges, Social Changes: Book of Abstracts and Refereed Papers; TASA Conference
Sociology and ERA: A Report on the Implications and Steps for the Discipline; Nexus
Supporting the Residential Aged Care Workforce for Covid-19 Recovery
Tackling stigma is key to eradicating elder abuse, by Biwa Kwan
TASA Conference 2022: Social Challenges, Social Changes; SA Conference
Tasmanian kidney donors needed for organ transplant survey
Teaching Health Sociology in Australia; Nexus
Teaching Sociology: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future; Reflections, Intersections and Aspirations: 50 years of Australian Sociology
The Boundaries of Cleanliness: Animal Bodies in Xenotransplantation; Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting with JSSTS
The conditions of exposure and immediacy: Internet surveillance and Generation Y; Journal of Sociology
The impact of animal-to-human transplantation on altruistic organ donation; Emerging and Enduring Inequalities: the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association 2012
The Modernistic Posthuman Prophecy of Donna Haraway; Social Change in the 21st Century
The myth of the “data-driven” society: exploring the interactions of data interfaces, circulations, and abstractions; Sociology Compass
The social aspects of xenotransplantation; Sociology Compass
The Sociology of Health & Illness: Critical Perspectives for 21st Century Australia; Pearson Australia Group
The textures of globalization: biopolitics and the closure of xenotourism; New Genetics and Society
The world according to
Thematic Group Report
Thematic Group Report; 2016/17 Annual Report of The Australian Sociological Association
Theme box 54: Haraway: crossing the boundaries: some thoughts about cyborgs; History of Illustration
Treasurer's Report
Treasurer’s Report
Tutorial examples; TASA 2017 Postgraduate Day
Understanding ageism and age friendly communities; Age-friendly Universities Workshops
Update on thematic group activities; Nexus
Vice President's Report
Vice President's Report
Visual Methods for Assessment in Sociology; Challenging Identities, Institutions and Communities: the Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association
Visualising the future
Visualising the future of the City of Clarence: Images and stories by the citizens of Clarence
Watching me watching you (and liking it): surveillance isn't all bad
We've Got Enough Problems: Subjective Understandings of Infectious Risk in Xenotransplantation; Society for Social Studies of Science and theEuropean Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Rotterdam Conference
What constitutes adequate public consultation? Xenotransplantation proceeds in Australia; Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
What does it mean to be an older person?
What is Ageism, and what can we do about it?; Social Sciences Week
What is health and medical tourism?; TASA
What's in a number? As a community, how do we tackle ageism?; COTA TAs Annual General Meeting
When Species Meet; EASST Review
Why pigs? Science stories on animals in xenotransplantation ; Animals and Society II. Considering Animals
Why Reset the Net falls short in protecting you from surveillance
Xeno-what? Animal-to-human transplantation; Howrah School for Seniors
Xeno-what? Animal-to-human transplantation; Lauderdale Probus
Xeno-what? Animal-to-human transplantation; U3A Hobart
Xenotourism and Xenotravel: Some notes on global regulation; Social Change in the 21st Century
Xenotransplantation and the fragility of human rights; life, death and human nature: bioethics and biolaw in the twenty-first century
Xenotransplantation: discussing the sociological and ethical issues with Peta Cook - Podcast Undisciplinary - hosted by Jane Williams and Chris Mayes

Research Projects

2012: Emerging and Enduring Inequalities (Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association TASA), Brisbane; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Ageing, ageism, and intergenerational relations: Exploring the experiences, dynamics, and potentials; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Constructing and Fracturing Alliances: Actant Stories and the Australian Xenotransplantation Network; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Examining community needs and wants for an age-friendly, intergenerational city; Tasmanian Community Fund (TasCF)
Public housing: an effective and appropriate tenure for ageing well?; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Reclaiming the self: How do older people perceive and experience their ageing?; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Retirement villages: Business models, consumer experiences and regulation; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
The impact of Xenotransplantation on Altruistic Organ Donation Rates in Australia; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Translating Awareness, Literacy, and Knowledge of Traumatic Brain Injury (TALK-TBI); Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
Supporting the residential aged care workforce for COVID-19 recovery

Research Candidate Supervision

A study into 'personalised' health treatments and intervention strategies through the lens of biomedicalisation
Grey Nomads in Australia- Technologies of Mobility and the Transformation of Ageing
The Construction and Experience of Smartphones by Users
Women Managing Ageing- Bodies, Gender and Identities