Professor of Sociology @ The University of Sydney; Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @Sydney_CHS
Joined September 2013
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Alex Broom retweeted
27 Nov 2024
New publication led by @shiva_c92 on sampling and recruitment of LGBTQ populations in health research. The article investigates the potential of sampling populations based on practices, as opposed to exclusively based on identities. Read more here: bit.ly/3ZoYjkv
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Alex Broom retweeted
20 Nov 2024
This book is a #MustRead!
@seyeabimbola’s writing is powerful, and the messages are highly relevant. It's refreshing to have such a prominent voice in global health, a space often narrated by others.
Unmissable—and it even comes with a playlist!
18 Nov 2024
I'm happy to announce that my book titled "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health" is now out!
You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: editions.ird.fr/produit/728/…
The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K…
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Alex Broom retweeted
18 Nov 2024
I'm happy to announce that my book titled "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health" is now out!
You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: editions.ird.fr/produit/728/…
The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K…
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Alex Broom retweeted
6 Nov 2024
Another brilliant paper (one of many) at our @Sydney_CHS and @CPC_usyd workshop today: A/Prof Sukhmani Khorana speaks about the importance of moving beyond 'charity' models of food relief by building dignity, agency and solidarity into our food systems @sukhmani_sees
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Alex Broom retweeted
Congratulations to one of our wonderful Deputy Directors, Dr Katherine Kenny @kennykatherine, who recently received the ‘Supervisor of the Year’ award from the Sydney University Postgraduate Respresentative Association (SUPRA)!
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Alex Broom retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Prof @BroomAlex encouraging us to think about the political uses of 'unintended-ness' at today's @Sydney_CHS & @CPC_usyd workshop on 'Biology, Society & (Mal)Nutrition', organised by the brilliant @juliet_bennett
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Alex Broom retweeted
New article in Qualitative Health Research on how funding models structure the ways that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is perceived. Authored by @kennykatherine @BroomAlex @MichPeterie @juliet_bennett and @jenniferkbroom. Link here: bit.ly/40xheup
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Alex Broom retweeted
31 Oct 2024
A huge thank you to Prof @alison_phipps and Dr @SabaVasefi for sharing their incredibly powerful, moving, and inspiring work at our Healthy Societies Annual Lecture today. And thank you to all who attended and witnessed the scholarship, poetry and song!
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Alex Broom retweeted
31 Oct 2024
What an honour to host Prof Alison Phipps & Dr @SabaVasefi at @Sydney_CHS today, for our 2024 Healthy Societies Lecture. As my co-organiser @leahmouse summed it up, "there was policy & poetry, song & scholarship". Thank you to everyone who joined us for this powerful event
16 Oct 2024
We are INCREDIBLY excited that Prof Alison Phipps & Dr Saba Vasefi will be delivering our @Sydney_CHS Healthy Societies lectures this year. Join us on 31 Oct at @Usyd_ssps @ArtSS_Sydney. All welcome!
Register here or contact me or @leahmouse for details: eventbrite.com.au/e/towards-…
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Alex Broom retweeted
31 Oct 2024
Joined remarkable, gently thoughtful colleagues in Centre for Healthy Societies to give Healthy Societies lecture today strengthening the work between @UofGlasgow and @Sydney_Uni with @UofGUnescoRILA
in joint lecture with Saba Vasefi, songs and joyful jacarandas. #NewScots
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Alex Broom retweeted
28 Oct 2024
This Thursday Prof Alison Phipps will deliver a @Sydney_CHS Healthy Societies lecture, alongside Dr Saba Vasefi and chaired by Prof Alex Broom, at @Usyd_ssps @ArtSS_Sydney.
Register here to join online or in person from 12:30pm - 2:30pm AEDT: bit.ly/486ozTy
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Alex Broom retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Our 2024 Healthy Societies lecture is coming up NEXT WEEK!
Join us at @Sydney_Uni or online as Prof Alison Phipps & Dr Saba Vasefi discuss refugee integration, belonging, resistance & creativity with @Sydney_CHS Director @BroomAlex
All welcome. Register eventbrite.com.au/e/towards-…
16 Oct 2024
We are INCREDIBLY excited that Prof Alison Phipps & Dr Saba Vasefi will be delivering our @Sydney_CHS Healthy Societies lectures this year. Join us on 31 Oct at @Usyd_ssps @ArtSS_Sydney. All welcome!
Register here or contact me or @leahmouse for details: eventbrite.com.au/e/towards-…
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Alex Broom retweeted
16 Sep 2024
New grants!
We're aiming to turbocharge @Sydney_Uni research engagement in #SoutheastAsia.
Applications for SSEAC’s 2024 grant schemes are now open!
Ignition Grants (up to $100k) & Incubator Grants (up to $20k).
Details here: bit.ly/SSEACgrants
#research #SSEAC #grants
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Alex Broom retweeted
16 Oct 2024
We are INCREDIBLY excited that Prof Alison Phipps & Dr Saba Vasefi will be delivering our @Sydney_CHS Healthy Societies lectures this year. Join us on 31 Oct at @Usyd_ssps @ArtSS_Sydney. All welcome!
Register here or contact me or @leahmouse for details: eventbrite.com.au/e/towards-…
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Alex Broom retweeted
📢 Reminder, applications for this position with @MichPeterie close in just under two weeks on 13 October! See the below post for details:
JOB ALERT: @Sydney_CHS is looking for a Postdoc Research Fellow/Research Fellow in Sociology (Level A/B) to work w/ @MichPeterie on the impacts of immigration detention & deportation on children & families. bit.ly/3ySljhF
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Alex Broom retweeted
18 Sep 2024
In this new open access article in @sociologyjnl Nadine Ehlers, @BroomAlex and @kennykatherine ask 'How are we to make sense of lived time in the unfolding of life-limiting illness, death and its aftermath?'
Find the article here: bit.ly/3Zz2hYB
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Alex Broom retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for @Sydney_CHS's annual Healthy Societies Symposium and the launch of our new research theme on 'Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging'. Looking forward to many more conversations like this in the coming months and years | #SSW2024
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Alex Broom retweeted
A big thank you to all presenters and attendees for joining us to start @SocSciWeek at @Usyd_ssps and to officially launch the @Sydney_CHS Research Theme on Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging led by @MichPeterie @leahmouse and @sukhmani_sees
9 Sep 2024
#SocSciWeek2024 @Sydney_Uni starts with a fantastic discussion with @Sydney_CHS on the harm experienced by migrants and their families, and how we can meaningfully care for them.
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Alex Broom retweeted
3 Sep 2024
We're hiring! Come work with @MichPeterie @BroomAlex and team at the @Sydney_CHS on this ARC Linkage Project on childhood immigration detention. Details 👇but do reach out with any questions.
2 Sep 2024
📢 Incredibly excited to be recruiting a (fixed-term) colleague to work alongside me, @BroomAlex, @GregMarston8 & the @Sydney_CHS team on our ARC LP about childhood immigration detention. Details below 👇 Apps close 13 Oct. Reach out if you have questions 🙏 @Usyd_ssps @AustSoc
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