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Dr Mia Harrison

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 Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW. Her work is informed by approaches in science and technology studies (STS), critical medical humanities, and sociology of health and illness. Mia's research explores the temporalities, places, materials, and affects of situated practices and complex social assemblages. She brings this conceptual thinking to bear on varied areas of research including: practices of health/care, particularly in relation with infectious diseases; experiences of long-term illness and disability; health and social systems and policies; production of scientific evidence; practices of eating; social inequalities.

Mia's work is characterised by critical and creative qualitative methodologies that attend to the materiality and temporality of research. She isparticularly interested in affective methods that think across and beyond disciplinary conventions.
E-mail
mia.harrison@unsw.edu.au
Location
320 Goodsell Building
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, 'Sexual Violence in Popular Media', in Ross K; Bachmann I; Cardo V; Moorti S; Scarcelli CM (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Wiley,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Harrison M, 2020, 'Domestic Labor in Popular American TV Shows', in Ross K; Bachmann I; Cardo V; Moorti S; Scarcelli CM (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Wiley,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Hickey-Moody A; Harrison M, 2020, 'Disabilities', in Daniel Thomas C (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, SAGE Publications, Inc.,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Harrison M, 2019, 'George R. R. Martin and the two dwarfs', in Ellis K; Goggin G; Haller B; Curtis R (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media, pp. 113 - 121
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Harrison M, 2018, 'Power and Punishment in Game of Thrones', in Schatz JL; George AE (ed.), The Image of Disability: Essays on Media Representations, McFarland,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Harrison M; Rhodes T; Lancaster K, 2024, 'Constitution of Long Covid illness, patienthood, and recovery: A critical synthesis of qualitative studies', BMJ Open, 14, pp. e083340,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Harrison M; Rhodes T; Lancaster K, 2024, 'Object oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research', Qualitative Research,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Harrison M; Smith AKJ; Adams S, 2024, 'Matters of time in health and illness', Health Sociology Review, 33, pp. 1 - 9,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Karras J; Harrison M; Steffens M; Abdi I; Seale H, 2024, '“COVID is a huge jigsaw puzzle that I am trying to make sense of myself”: Exploring the perceptions towards the COVID-19 vaccine communication strategy in Australia amongst unvaccinated Australian adults', Vaccine, 42, pp. 2407 - 2413,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Harrison M; Lancaster K; Rhodes T, 2023, 'The Fluid Hospital: On the Making of Care Environments in COVID-19', Health and Place, 83, pp. 103107 - 103107,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Harrison M; Rhodes T; Lancaster K, 2023, 'Situating 'best practice': Making healthcare familiar and good enough in the face of unknowns', SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 4, pp. 100343,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Karras J; Harrison M; Seale H, 2023, '‘Getting the vaccine makes me a champion of it’: Exploring perceptions towards peer-to-peer communication about the COVID-19 vaccines amongst Australian adults', Health Expectations, 26, pp. 1505 - 1513,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Harrison M; Lancaster K; Rhodes T, 2022, '“A matter of time”: Evidence-making temporalities of vaccine development in the COVID-19 media landscape', Time and Society, 31, pp. 132 - 154,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Harrison M; Rhodes T; Lancaster K, 2022, 'How do care environments shape healthcare? A synthesis of qualitative studies among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic', BMJ Open, 12, pp. e063867,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hickey-Moody A; Harrison M, 2018, 'Socially Engaged Art and Affective Pedagogy: A Study in Inter-Faith Understanding', Tate Papers,
  • Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2021
    Harrison M; Carroll S; Webster S, 2021, Romantic and Barbaric Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 14 September 2021, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2021
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2021, The Literary Coma, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 09 June 2021, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2021
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2021, Understanding Genre in A Song of Ice and Fire, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 21 July 2021, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2021
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2021, The Place-Making of King's Landing, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 23 June 2021, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2021
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2021, “Lord Snow’”: Class, Privilege and Ideology, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 08 July 2021, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2021
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2021, “Sleepy with Wine and Tired of Doom”: Slum Tourism at the Wall (A Clash of Critics), Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 19 August 2021, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, Boyhood, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 28 October 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, Calculating Innocence Versus Threat: A Philosophy of Oathkeeping, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 02 December 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, Constructing Normalcy in Westeros, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 04 November 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, Family and Legitimacy as a Construct, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 21 October 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, Fan Fiction in the World of Ice and Fire: Who Is an Author and Are They Dead?, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 11 November 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, On the Symbolism and Killability of Animals, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 23 December 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2020, Zombies as Metaphor: Climate Change and the Long Night, Editor(s): Harrison M; Webster S, Published: 23 September 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Theses / Dissertations | 2020
    Harrison M, 2020, Using Zombies in the Critical Medical Humanities: A Transdisciplinary Methodology for the Development of Ethical Thinking and Feeling,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Webster S; Evans T; Harrison M, 2020, Female Masculinity: On Tomboys and Gender Outlaws, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 18 November 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2020, Essos and the Orient: Dothraki Weddings and Desert Romances, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 25 November 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2020, Gender and Grief: ‘Right’ Ways of Mourning, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 16 December 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2020, Homes and Homelands, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 07 October 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2020, Homosociality, Grief, and Love Between Men, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 14 October 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2020, Sovereign Power and Punishment as Spectacle, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 30 September 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Webster S; Harrison M, 2020, Taking the Black: Restorative Justice and the Night’s Watch, Editor(s): Webster S; Harrison M, Published: 09 December 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2018
    Harrison M; Webster S, 2018, Trope Watchers, Published: 16 May 2018, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,

Higher EducationAcademy (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

Mia is currently working on projects in the following areas:

  • Covid-19 illness, research, and care (including Long Covid)
  • HepatitisC elimination strategies
  • Experiences of poverty andintersecting social inequalities
  • Health systems navigation

Guest Editor,
Steering committee and former Convener,
Member,
Foundation member, UNSW Science and Society Research Group
Steering committee,

My Research Supervision

Joshua Karras, PhD Candidate, School of Population Health: "Empowering Communities for Immunisation: A Communication-Based Approach with Broader Public Health Potential"