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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Sep 5

New article! In this interdisciplinary piece, @jiannitien.bsky.social @katherinekenny.bsky.social @alexbroom.bsky.social Alice Motion & @bartlettquantum.bsky.social explore the ethical and social dimensions of nanotechnology innovation.

Find the full article here: bit.ly/464M1zR

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Jul 3

Will Robots take care of you in Old [email protected], co-lead of our AI Social Science Theme, was recently interviewed for this piece on AI companions in Old Age. Follow the link below to read the full article.

www.kiplinger.com/retirement/h...

Will an AI Robot Take Care of You in Old Age?

AI Robots may be just the help older adults and their caretakers need. Just don't expect them to be cute little humanoids — yet.

www.kiplinger.com

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Jun 27

What are the long-term impacts of childhood immigration detention? This new study led by @michpeterie.bsky.social, senior research fellow at The Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @sydney.edu.au is trying to find out youtu.be/r3sUeHLyMKw?...

The Long-Term Impacts of Childhood Immigration Detention: Dr Michelle Peterie

YouTube video by The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congratulations to the co-leads of our Race and Biohumanities Theme, Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade M'charek and Anne Pollock, on their new book!

You can read more on this web page: z.umn.edu/18996

And use the discount code MN92810 for 30% off when purchased through the above website.

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · May 26

In this new article, Shiva Chandra, @alexbroom.bsky.social, @katherinekenny.bsky.social, @michpeterie.bsky.social and co-authors explore contemporary GBTQ+ safe sex practices, and what they mean in the context of antibiotic resistant STIs.

You can read the full piece here: bit.ly/4msCTNb

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · May 20

New article in Sociology of Health & Illness on death and dying as a collective encounter "replete with relational complexities". Follow the link below to read the full piece. @alexbroom.bsky.social @katherinekenny.bsky.social @henriettabyrne.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dying as a Collective Encounter: Relationality and Affect at the End of Life

The end of life is replete with relational complexities. Yet, despite the work of humanities and social science scholars in the field of death and dying, our final days and weeks are still often fram...

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · May 13

A huge welcome to Postdoc Zoe Hogan who works with @michpeterie.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project about the long-term impacts of immigration detention in the lives of people who were detained as children.

You can read more about Zoe's work incl. her arts-based research here: bit.ly/43j0BTd

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Mar 26

In this new open access article, @alexbroom.bsky.social @katherinekenny.bsky.social, Nadine Ehlers, @henriettabyrne.bsky.social and Phillip Good explore "nuanced accounts of dying-in-time", highlighting tensions and vitalities of time at the end of life.

Read the full article here: bit.ly/43on0QJ

Tensions of time at the end (of life)

Perhaps the most valuable asset in our cultural imaginary is time. Yet, this notion of time-as-asset intensifies, is contested, and is often derailed …

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Mar 14

New ABC opinion piece by Research Fellows @barbaraneves.bsky.social and Geoffrey Mead on resisting AI hyper optimism is out! This piece coincides with the launch of our newest Research Theme on 'AI Social Science', led by Barbara Barbosa Neves and Kalervo Gulson.

www.abc.net.au/religion/res...

Resisting AI hyper-optimism: Why the Paris AI summit should have us all concerned - ABC Religion & Ethics

Over the last two years, AI summits held in the UK and South Korea focused on safety and the need for guardrails in the development of this powerful technology — but this year’s summit in Paris gave w...

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Mar 10

We're looking for a part-time Research Fellow in Sociology to join the team, working with @leahmouse.bsky.social on her research program on migration, im/mobility and belonging. Full details bit.ly/4iAohs3

Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social · Mar 10

JOB ALERT: I'm hiring a part-time research fellow to work with me @healthy-societies.bsky.social at @sydneyuni.bsky.social on my research program on migration, im/mobility and belonging, with a specific focus on healthcare worker migration. Applications close 27 April bit.ly/4iAohs3 #Academicsky

Beige background with a black line drawing of a handheld megaphone. Text reads: We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology. Work with Dr Leah Williams Veazey and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team to generate foundational knowledge about healthcare worker migration. Part-time (0.5FTE) for 1 year. Academic level A. Start May/June 2025.

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Mar 5

Great to see this new paper from the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team (part of our research program on #AntiMicrobialResistance #AMR) doi.org/10.1177/0162...

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Feb 24

It was such a pleasure to host colleagues from King's College London for our joint public colloquium on 'The State of Racialised Health'. Thank you to all who presented their work, attended the colloquium, and engaged so deeply with the sessions.

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Chris Pepin-Neff (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 @pepinneff.bsky.social · Feb 23

Just a start - but a great group of USYD colleagues!

cc: @sssharc.bsky.social
@healthy-societies.bsky.social
@sydneyuni.bsky.social
@usyd-sace.bsky.social
@seisydney.bsky.social
@sydneypolicylab.bsky.social

#auspol

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Feb 15

Read the story here: www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/immigra...

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Feb 15

One of our projects: The Forgotten Children, Ten Years On, is featured in today’s Saturday Paper. Led by @michpeterie.bsky.social in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission, the project investigates how detention shapes children’s lives after their release.

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Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social · Feb 7

I made this starter pack of researchers affiliated with the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at @sydneyuni.bsky.social. It's a boutique list (for now) - let me know if you think you should be included and you're not!

Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Feb 7

Would you like to stay in touch with the work of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney? Here is a starter pack of researchers affiliated with @healthy-societies.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/SBh8kqK #AcademicSky

Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

Join the conversation

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Feb 7

Would you like to stay in touch with the work of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney? Here is a starter pack of researchers affiliated with @healthy-societies.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/SBh8kqK #AcademicSky

Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

Join the conversation

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · Feb 5

The CFP for #AusSTS2025 is now open! This year's theme is 📡SIGNALS AND NOISES📡 and will be hosted in Naarm/Melbourne, 9 - 11 July

Deadline for proposals: 14 March

Shout out to co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social

AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jan 30

The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…

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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · Jan 28

Looking forward to reading these!

Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Jan 28

Great to see this Journal of Sociology Special Issue out in the world. Edited by @healthy-societies.bsky.social researchers Katherine Kenny, @alexbroom.bsky.social, @michpeterie.bsky.social, @leahmouse.bsky.social & @bprainsack.bsky.social. Read the introductory essay here doi.org/10.1177/1440...

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Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social · Jan 28

It was a pleasure to co-edit this Special Issue with Katie Kenny, @michpeterie.bsky.social, Alex Broom & @bprainsack.bsky.social and to work with all the authors including @spqueensland.bsky.social & lots of people not yet on Bluesky!

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Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social · Jan 28

In naming this special issue ‘Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order’, we evoke the troubles & tensions the future can bring, and the ways the future can structure & dissolve our individual & collective hopes, fears & plans for us, the world, and generations to come. doi.org/10.1177/1440...

(Screenshot) In this special issue of The Journal of Sociology, we take various social tensions the COVID-19 pandemic brought out of the cultural shadows as impetus to centre the future as a key orientation for contemporary sociological scholarship. Mobilising attention to the different forms of temporal dis/order that have become intensified in recent years, we seek to develop a more explicit understanding of how the future features prominently, if often subtly, across all aspects of social life.
In naming this special issue ‘Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order’, we refer to the troubles and tensions that the future can bring forth. We also evoke the ways the future can both structure and dissolve our individual and collective hopes, fears and plans for what might happen to us, and the world, tomorrow, next year and/or for generations to come. Additionally, we bring to the fore of analysis the ways that both hope and fear surrounding the future can limit – or, indeed, be deployed to limit – our imaginaries in the present, including our individual and collective capacity to conceive of alternative and emancipatory futures, beyond various capitalist, colonialist and heteronormative pasts.

We are fortunate to include contributions from authors across Australia, the UK, Europe and China that address topics ranging from the seemingly mundane day-to-day activities of living during the pandemic, to questions of mortality, mobility, climate collapse and space colonisation. The contributions are united by their critical attention to the (frequently overlooked) temporal tensions that lie at the heart of many of the key social challenges we confront in the contemporary historical moment.

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Jan 28

Great to see this Journal of Sociology Special Issue out in the world. Edited by @healthy-societies.bsky.social researchers Katherine Kenny, @alexbroom.bsky.social, @michpeterie.bsky.social, @leahmouse.bsky.social & @bprainsack.bsky.social. Read the introductory essay here doi.org/10.1177/1440...

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Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social · Dec 16

Imogen is one of the fantastic PhD students we get to work with @healthy-societies.bsky.social and I'm so pleased her excellent work is getting out there in the world. If you're interested in young people's experiences of #chronicillness, her work is definitely worth a look.

Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Dec 16

Great to see this new paper young adults' experiences with chronic illness, led by @healthy-societies.bsky.social PhD student Imogen Harper. It explores the role and limits of diagnosis in young adults' experiences of chronic living.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Screenshot of a journal article published in the Sociology of Health and Illness. The title reads "Navigating the Limits of Diagnosis: Young Adults' Experiences of Chronic Living." Authors: Imogen Harper, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom.

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Dec 19

Congratulations to @michpeterie.bsky.social and Katherine Kenny for their recent academic promotions! Katie and Michelle are invaluable members of our team at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and of the broader University community. Congrats Katie and Michelle!

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · Dec 17

New article by Centre team members Shiva Chandra, Alex Broom, @michpeterie.bsky.social, Katherine Kenny and co-authors on the complexities of addressing antibiotic resistant STIs across scales and contexts, and the connections between them.

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