Researcher

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Sociology and social studies of science and technology, Sociology of health, Cultural studies

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Biography

Mia Harrison is a transdisciplinary researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW. Her work is characterised by critical and creative qualitative approaches that attend to the materiality, temporality, and affects of embodied experiences and knowledge-making practices. She brings these approaches to bear on a range ongoing projects that explore the following:

  • everyday practices of caring and living
  • consuming practices,...view more

Mia Harrison is a transdisciplinary researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW. Her work is characterised by critical and creative qualitative approaches that attend to the materiality, temporality, and affects of embodied experiences and knowledge-making practices. She brings these approaches to bear on a range ongoing projects that explore the following:

  • everyday practices of caring and living
  • consuming practices, including of food, medicine, non-prescription and illicit drugs, and popular culture
  • experiences of living with illness, disability, and poverty in and over time
  • structural capacities and effects of care enacted across health and social systems 
  • the production of scientific evidence, including its enactment in policy and practice

 

Mia's work is informed by thinking in science and technology studies (STS), critical medical humanities, sociology of health and illness, and new materialism. She is actively engaged in STS scholarship and community-building; e.g., she has been part of the organising committee of the AusSTS network since 2021 and convened the inaugural conference in Sydney, 2023, and has been Treasurer of the executive committee since the network incorporated in 2024. She is also a foundation member of the UNSW Science and Society Research Group.


My Qualifications

PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney

BA (Hons) in Communication, The University of Technology, Sydney

BA in Communication, The University of Technology, Sydney

BA in International Studies, The University of Technology, Sydney


My Awards

Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship (2021), Advance HE, UK

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship (2020), The University of Sydney, Australia

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Tutorials (2020), The University of Sydney, Australia


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

I am available to supervise HDR research projects that use qualitative methods from the humanities and social sciences, such as interviewing, ethnography, discourse and textual/media analysis, object-oriented methods, and arts-based or other creative methods.

 

Completed PhD Supervisions:

Dr Joshua Karras (2025, School of Population Health, UNSW)
 


My Engagement

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