Lactation Guidance for Bereaved Mothers’ after Infant Death by Health Professionals (Conference Presentation)
Conference
Dr Katherine Carroll will be presenting at The Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ): Surfing the Waves of Evidence - XXIII Annual Congress on the Gold Coast.
Surveillance, Trust and Democracy - Professor David Lyon
Lecture
Surveillance practices, often suspicious or clandestine, contrast with trusting relationships. In the twenty-first century, surveillance has expanded and intensified into a very complex global phenomenon, involving major corporate activity as well as policing and national security. Data analytics…
How to get off a platform: sociological exit strategies
Seminar
What or who will be on a platform? Reliance on platforms across education, government, media, sciences, health, civil society and almost any social field increases daily. Many social science, humanities, psychology and computer science research projects focus on platforms, implicitly or explicitly…
Tracking fertility, biosensing hormones: what is at stake for bodies, sexualities and sex/gender?
Seminar
Fertility- and hormonal- biosensing are becoming increasingly widespread across the global North. Multiple devices and apps, and their associated platforms, are used to track menstruation and ovulation, to measure sperm count, and to monitor hormonal changes associated with pregnancy, menopause and…
Towards a Fan-Observation Analysis
Seminar
The following argument develops an analytical framework to identify and investigate media-fandom observations sui generis. To accomplish this, the project’s author formulates a tripartite framework that, by way of analogy, draws from a psychoanalytic theory of mind to classify and investigate…
Thinking with the Problem: Sociology and the Craft of Description
Seminar
Howard Becker’s methodological practice of description has been debated, critiqued and renewed in a range of fields including sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, STS, drug policy and research and more recently Heather Love’s (2015) appraisal of deviance studies. Much of this debate concerns…
A conversation about self harm
Lecture
How can we understand self-harm from a sociological perspective? Two ground-breaking recent books address this question: Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies (2016) by Amy Chandler and Why do we Hurt Ourselves? Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life (2018) by Baptiste Brossard. The…