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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

@healthy-societies.bsky.social

Research centre at The University of Sydney, focused on transforming how we think about, engage with, and foster health.

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies@healthy-societies.bsky.social · last yr.

Will Robots take care of you in Old Age?@barbaraneves.bsky.social, 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.

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies@healthy-societies.bsky.social · last yr.

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 · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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.
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies@healthy-societies.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance Meets Resistance - Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom, Leah Williams Veazey, Jennifer Broom, 2025

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly escalating global health threat, known increasingly through different forms of monitoring. Surveillance, both of res...

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Leah Williams Veazey@leahmouse.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper! "The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance meets Resistance" (open access) in @sthv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0162... By @katherinekenny.bsky.social @alexbroom.bsky.social Jennifer Broom & @leahmouse.bsky.social The paper asks what #AMR monitoring in hospitals makes in/visible.

Screenshot of article abstract: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly escalating global health threat, known increasingly through different forms of monitoring. Surveillance, both of resistant organisms and of the antimicrobial prescribing practices that contribute to their proliferation, has increased dramatically over the last decade. So too have audits, which are routinely deployed to evaluate, and ensure accountability for, the alignment of local prescribing practices with established “best practice” guidelines. However, governing AMR in this way raises important questions including: how do these forms of monitoring play out in practice, and with what consequences? How do they articulate with the machinations and temporalities of hospital governance more generally? Here, drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-six participants ranging from ward nurses to hospital executives in metropolitan Australia, we ask what, precisely, this particular way of monitoring medics and microbes—which we conceptualize here as the (anti)microbial gaze—makes visible in the hospital setting, what might be obscured, and how this particular way of knowing may delimit what is seen as possible in terms of intervening in the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance.
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies@healthy-societies.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Refugees released from detention denied tertiary education

Young refugees freed from Australian detention are then trapped by bridging visas that ban them from studying, deepening the damage inflicted by the immigration regime.

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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies@healthy-societies.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Leah Williams Veazey@leahmouse.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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@healthy-societies.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

Thinking about the future can make us all feel tense! In this Special Issue of the Journal of Sociology -Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order- we've brought together 10 articles to interrogate how the future is known, felt and valued. doi.org/10.1177/1440... @bprainsack.bsky.social

Screenshot of the title and abstract of a journal article entitled "Future/tense: A sociology of temporal dis/order." Authors are Katherine Kenny, Leah Williams Veazey, Michelle Peterie, Alex Broom and Barbara Prainsack
Leah Williams Veazey@leahmouse.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 · 2y ago

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.
Benjamin Marent@benjaminmarent.bsky.social · 2y ago

Call for Abstracts (DL 6 January 2025) Sociology of Health and Illness Special Issue on: Algorithms in Health and Medicine: Sociological Inquiries into Current Disruptions and Future Imaginaries Editors: B. Marent, F. Henwood, A. Petersen, B.B. Neves onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Sociology of Health & Illness Call for Abstracts – Algorithms in Health and Medicine: Sociological Inquiries into Current Disruptions and Future Imaginaries

This special issue aims to expand the sociological theorising of digital transformations in health care and medicine, focusing specifically on algorithmic (including AI and data-driven) technologies. We seek papers that will address increasingly important, and yet still emergent, matters of concern in the provision of healthcare and medicine and imaginaries of their futures. It is highly significant because advances in processing power and big data gathered through miniaturised sensors, advanced robotics, chatbots, and the Internet of Things, are contributing to an expansive range of algorithmic capabilities. Trained from big datasets, deep learning algorithms can recognise patterns and detect clinically relevant features in imaging data beyond what can be perceived by the human eye. In this way, algorithms have become important diagnostic agents in radiology, oncology, and reproductive medicine. Precision medicine is being rolled out with enormous investments in many countries, whereby algorithmic capabilities provide the basis for interpreting the patient’s genetic makeup to predict or diagnose diseases (such as cancer) and determine appropriate treatments. Through natural language processing capabilities, algorithms are being employed as conversational agents and increasingly utilised in therapeutic support for patients with depression and anxiety. For example, the Woebot app, operating on the principles and practices of cognitive behavioural therapy, walks users through a series of questions to understand their mental health problems and provide them with coping strategies. Algorithms are also beginning to understand context and, thereby, can adapt the interface of electronic health records to help clinicians focus on information relevant for the specific patient. The field of algorithmic medicine is rapidly expanding towards new areas such as examining facial micro-expressions to detect pain among people with dementia and neurological problems, mining genome data to identify severity risk of COVID infection, and the provision of the artificial pancreas to automate insulin dispensary in diabetes care.

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Leah Williams Veazey@leahmouse.bsky.social · 2y ago

A wonderful way to round out the year - presenting my work in progress to the USYD-NUS-SJTU SDG Futures of Care Workers Project team. Thanks to Bow Wu for the invitation! It was fabulous to meet NUS scholars Jung-Joo Lee & Janghee Cho and all the smart PhD students in the Affective Interactions lab.

A group photo of researchers posing in front of a slide presentation that reads: Work in progress presentation.. USYD-NUS-SJTU-SDG Project Futures of Care Workers.A female researcher (Leah Williams Veazey) standing at a lectern, to the side of a large presentation slide (in University of Sydney template) that reads: Future-proofing Australia's Care Economy.
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies@healthy-societies.bsky.social · 2y ago

This new publication by Imogen Harper, Katherine Kenny and Alex Broom explores the work of navigating the shortcomings of diagnosis for young adults living with chronic illness. Read the full article here: bit.ly/49hWNEo

Navigating the Limits of Diagnosis: Young Adults' Experiences of Chronic Living

Young adults living with chronic illness often experience considerable uncertainty across the emotional, cultural and medical spheres of their everyday lives. The process of seeking, receiving and re....

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