Dr Mia Harrison
Lecturer
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
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
Centre for Social Research in Health
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.
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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
Guest Editor, special issue of Health Sociology Review: Matters of Time in Health and Illness
Treasurer, committee member, and former Convener, Australasian Science and Technology Studies Network (AusSTS)
Member, Society for Social Studies of Science
Member, Australian Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts for People and Environment (SHAPE) EMCR Network
Foundation member, UNSW Science and Society Research Group
Member, Australasian Health & Medical Humanities Network