Associate Professor Niamh Stephenson

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School of Public Health and Community Medicine

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02 9385 1281

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n.stephenson@unsw.edu.au

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Associate Professor in Social Science

Research Interests:
Dr Stephenson is an Associate Professor in Social Science the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, whose research examines the relationships between public health and social and political change. Her current book project (co-authored with Prof. Susan Kippax) examines the global response to HIV and the role that response has played in the broader securitization of global public.

Her first book, Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change examines how HIV positive people's experiences are both shaped by and can subvert dominant understandings of HIV, health and illness (co-authored with Dimitris Papadopoulos, published by Palgrave, 2006).

Her second book, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century, examines recent shifts in the politics of experience in the fields of health, labour and migration (co-authored with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Vassilis Tsianos, Pluto, 2008).

She has published in the fields of sociology of health & medicine, social research, cultural studies and qualitative research methods and is currently researching pandemic influenza and biosecurity.

Broad Research Areas:
HIV - AIDS, Global Health, Infectious Diseases, Health Promotion

Qualifications:
BA Hons TCD, PhD Macquarie

Society Memberships & Professional Activities:
Editorial Boards: Culture,Health & Sexuality; Theory & Psychology, Subjectivity

Specific Research Keywords:
Social Change, Psychosocial Issues, Health Inequalities, Research methods, Social Determinants of Health

Research

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Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control

Ultrasound, embodiment and abortion: An analysis of foetal imaging and the ethics of the selective termination of pregnancy

Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control

Ultrasound, embodiment and abortion: An analysis of foetal imaging and the ethics of the selective termination of pregnancy

Pandemic influenza: people, policy, science

Field of Research (FOR) Tag :

Infectious Diseases

Sociology

Social and Community Psychology

Public Health and Health Services

Culture, Gender, Sexuality

Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology

Teaching & Supervision

I am available to supervise :

Yes

Areas of supervision :

Social studies of public health, sociology of health & illness

Currently supervising :

Rachel Rowe (Scientia PhD)

Mitchell Burger (Scientia PhD)

Kahabi Isangula (Int RTP PhD scholarship)

Supervision keywords :

social aspects

social change

social justice

social medicine

sociology

societies

emerging communicable diseases

international health

health promotion

Publications related to this Person

Books

Kippax S; Stephenson N, 2016, Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention, Anthem Press, London, UK, http://www.anthempress.com/socializing-the-biomedical-turn-in-hiv-prevention

Papadopoulos D; Stephenson N; Tsianos V, 2008, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century, Original, Pluto Press, London

Stephenson N; Papadopoulos D, 2006, Analysing everyday experience: Social research and political change, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230624993

Book Chapters

Stephenson N; Kippax S, 2017, 'Memory Work', in Willig C (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology, pp. 122 - 141

Kippax S; Stephenson N, 2015, 'Infectious disease and globalization', in The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies: Second Edition, pp. 216 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315867847

Stephenson N, 2012, 'The disappearing act of global health security', in Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 97 - 110

Papadopoulos D; Stephenson N, 2007, 'Travelling experience: Rethinking the limits of empirical evidence in social science', in Deventer V; Blanche T; Fourie; Segalo (ed.), Citizen City: Between Constructing Agent and Constructing Agency, edn. 1, Captus, York, Canada, pp. 128 - 139

Stephenson N, 2005, 'Interrogating the political value of psychology', in Contemporary Theorizing in Psychology: Global Perspectives, edn. 1, Captus Press Inc., York, pp. 124 - 131

Journal articles

Stephenson N; McLeod K; Mills C, 2016, 'Ambiguous encounters, uncertain foetuses: Women's experiences of obstetric ultrasound', Feminist Review, vol. 113, pp. 17 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.2016.6

Flowers P; Davis M; Lohm D; Waller E; Stephenson N, 2016, 'Understanding pandemic influenza behaviour: An exploratory biopsychosocial study', Journal of Health Psychology, vol. 21, pp. 759 - 769, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105314537542

Waller E; Davis M; Stephenson N, 2016, 'Australia’s pandemic influenza ‘Protect’ phase: emerging out of the fog of pandemic', Critical Public Health, vol. 26, pp. 99 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2014.926310

Davis MDM; Stephenson N; Lohm D; Waller E; Flowers P, 2015, 'Beyond resistance: social factors in the general public response to pandemic influenza', BMC public health, vol. 15, pp. 436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1756-8

Davis M; Flowers P; Lohm D; Waller E; Stephenson N, 2015, 'Immunity, Biopolitics and Pandemics: Public and Individual Responses to the Threat to Life', Body & Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X14556155

Lohm D; Davis M; Flowers P; Stephenson N, 2015, '‘Fuzzy’ virus: indeterminate influenza biology, diagnosis and surveillance in the risk ontologies of the general public in time of pandemics', Health, Risk and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2015.1031645

Lohm D; Flowers P; Stephenson N; Waller E; Davis MDM, 2014, 'Biography, pandemic time and risk: Pregnant women reflecting on their experiences of the 2009 influenza pandemic', Health (London, England : 1997), vol. 18, pp. 493 - 508, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459313516135

Nathan S; Braithwaite J; Stephenson N, 2014, 'The scope and impact of community participation: The views of community representatives in an Australian health service', Journal of Health, Organisation and Management, vol. 28, pp. 405 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-03-2013-0059

Davis M; Lohm D; Flowers P; Waller E; Stephenson N, 2014, '"We became sceptics": Fear and media hype in general public narrative on the advent of pandemic influenza', Sociological Inquiry, vol. 84, pp. 499 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soin.12058

Jackson Y; Stephenson N, 2014, 'Neglected tropical disease and emerging infectious disease: An analysis of the history, promise and constraints of two worldviews', Global Public Health, vol. 9, pp. 995 - 1007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.941297

Davis M; Flowers P; Stephenson N, 2014, 'We had to do what we thought was right at the time: Retrospective discourse on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the UK', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 36, pp. 369 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12056

Stephenson N; Davis M; Flowers P; MacGregor C; Waller E, 2014, 'Mobilising "vulnerability" in the public health response to pandemic influenza', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 102, pp. 10 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.031

Nathan S; Stephenson N; Braithwaite J, 2014, 'Sidestepping questions of legitimacy: How community representatives manoeuvre to effect change in a health service', Health (United Kingdom), vol. 18, pp. 23 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459312473617

Kippax S; Stephenson N; Parker RG; Aggleton P, 2013, 'Between individual agency and structure in HIV prevention: Understanding the middle ground of social practice', American Journal of Public Health, vol. 103, pp. 1367 - 1375, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301301

Nathan S; Braithwaite J; Stephenson N, 2013, 'Facilitating the action of community representatives in a health service: The role of a community participation coordinator', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-154

Ijamakinwa OC; Stephenson N, 2012, 'Pandemic influenza preparedness: Africa at the crossroads', Journal of Public Health in Africa, vol. 3, pp. 116 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2012.e28

Tsianos V; Papadopoulos D; Stephenson N, 2012, 'This Is Class War from Above and They Are Winning It: What Is to Be Done?', Rethinking Marxism, vol. 24, pp. 448 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2012.685285

Ezegbe C; Stephenson N, 2012, 'The reach and limits of the US President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) funding of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Nigeria.', African journal of reproductive health, vol. 16, pp. 23 - 34

Kippax S; Stephenson N, 2012, 'Beyond the distinction between biomedical and social dimensions of HIV: Prevention through the lens of a social public health', American Journal of Public Health, vol. 102, pp. 789 - 799, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300594

Kippax S; Stephenson N, 2012, 'Kippax and Stephenson respond', American Journal of Public Health, vol. 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300915

Ijamakinwa O; Stephenson N, 2012, 'Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Africa at the crossroads', Journal of Public Health in Africa, vol. 3, pp. 116 - 120

Stephenson N; Papadopoulos D, 2011, 'Exit from the Regime of Life Control: Biopolitics, Anticipatory Risk and the Excess of Experience', SOMATECHNICS, vol. 1, pp. 412 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2011.0027

Davis M; Stephenson N; Flowers P, 2011, 'Compliant, complacent or panicked? Investigating the problematisation of the Australian general public in pandemic influenza control', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 72, pp. 912 - 918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.016

Stephenson N, 2011, 'A social public health.', American journal of public health, vol. 101, pp. 1159, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300240

Stephenson N, 2011, 'Emerging infectious disease/emerging forms of biological sovereignty', Science Technology and Human Values, vol. 36, pp. 616 - 637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243910388023

Magnani E; Stephenson N, 2010, 'A review of Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977–78', Subjectivity, vol. 3, pp. 211 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sub.2010.5

Stephenson N; Jamieson M, 2009, 'Securitising health: Australian newspaper coverage of pandemic influenza', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 31, pp. 525 - 539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01162.x

Wraith C; Stephenson N, 2009, 'Risk,insurance, preparedness and the disappearance of the population: The case of pandemic influenza', Health Sociology Review, vol. 18, pp. 220 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2009.18.3.220

Diprose R; Stephenson N; Mills C; Race K; Hawkins G, 2008, 'Governing the future: The paradigm of prudence in political technologies of risk management', Security Dialogue, vol. 39, pp. 267 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010608088778

Stephenson N, 2008, 'From the feminist politics of lived experience to the social spaces of epidemics', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, pp. 531 - 536, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164640802433456

Stephenson N, 2006, 'X. Breaking alignments between 'the personal' and 'the individual': What can psychology do for feminist politics?', Feminism and Psychology, vol. 16, pp. 79 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959-353506060824

Stephenson N; Kippax S, 2006, 'Transfiguring Relations: Theorizing Political Change in the Everyday', Theory & Psychology, vol. 16, pp. 391 - 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354306064285

Holt M; Stephenson N, 2006, 'Living with HIV and negotiating psychological discourse', Health, vol. 10, pp. 211 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459306061789

Stephenson N; Papadopoulos D, 2006, 'Outside Politics/Continuous Experience', Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, vol. 6

Stephenson N, 2005, 'Living history, undoing linearity: Memory-work as a research method in the social sciences', International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice, vol. 8, pp. 33 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1364557032000081645

Kippax S; Stephenson N, 2005, 'Meaningful evaluation of sex and relationship education', Sex Education, vol. 5, pp. 359 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681810500278436

Stephenson N, 2004, 'Elaborating Sociability: the mattering of unspeakable excess', Critical Psychology: the INternational Journal of Critical Psychology, vol. 12, pp. 163 - 186

Stephenson N, 2003, 'Rethinking collectivity: Practicing memory-work', Critical Psychology: the INternational Journal of Critical Psychology, vol. 9, pp. 160 - 176

Stephenson N, 2003, 'Interrupting neo-liberal subjectivities', Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 17, pp. 135 - 146

Stephenson N, 2001, '"Speaking as a woman": Agency in intersubjective communication', Australian Psychologist, vol. 36, pp. 19 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050060108259627

Stephenson N, 1996, 'Mary Crawford: Talking Difference', Feminism & Psychology, vol. 6, pp. 532 - 536, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353596064007

Conference Papers

Stephenson N, 2001, 'Being cliched: Women's talk and feminine subjectivities', in Morss JR; Stephenson N; VanRappard H (eds.), THEORETICAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS, KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, pp. 241 - 250, presented at 8th Biennial Conference of the International-Society-for-Theoretical-Psychology (ISTP), SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 01 April 1999, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000179321400021&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Theses / Dissertations

Nathan SA, 2013, What do community representatives want to achieve and how do they operate in a health service context?, UNSW Australia, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/53036

Conference Abstracts

Isangula KG; Stephenson N; Seale H; Nyamhanga T; Kapologwe N, 2016, 'Acculturation of trust in a Patient - Doctor Relationship as a tool for improving NCDs/Hypertension service uptake and adherence to medications in low income Africa', in The National Institute for Medical Research:AJSC Program abstract book, The 30th Annual Joint Scientific Conference: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; Investing Innovative Research to fill the Critical Gaps, Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, pp. 86 - 86, presented at The 30th Annual Joint Scientific Conference: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; Investing Innovative Research to fill the Critical Gaps, Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 04 - 06 October 2016, http://www.nimr.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/AJSC30_2016_PROGRAMME_ABSTRAT-BOOK.pdf

Edited Books

Stephenson N; Radtke L; Jorna R; Jorna H, (eds.), 2003, Theoretical Psychology: Critical Contributions, Original, Captus Press, York

Morss J; Stephenson N; Van Rappard H, (eds.), 2001, Issues in Theoretical Psychology, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers

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