Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Sociology of health and illness, including sociology of public health and health promotion
Sociology of new and emerging technologies, particularly biomedical technologies and digital health technologies
Sociology of risk
Sociology of the body
Constructions of sex/gender
Sociology of emotions, including constructions of gender differences of emotionality
Sociology of food
Contemporary social theory
Sustainable Societies
Supervision interests
I am interested in supervising students in all of the above areas. Over the years, I have supervised a wide ranage of projects, including on gynaecological governance and endometriosis, the construction of dyslexia, the discourse of weight control, smoking culture in Indonesia, the history of palliative care, podiatric surgery and medical dominance, and discourses of sustainability.
Monash teaching commitment
ATS2717/3717 Sociology of Health and Medicine
ATS2730/3730 Sustainable Societies
APGS468 Qualitative Research Strategies
Community service
Member, National Council, National Tertiary Education Committee (2016-2018)
Member, Strategic and Scientific Advisory Committee, Centre for Research in Health, Sex and Society (2014-)
Member, National Enabling Technologies Strategy Stakeholders Advisory Council (DIISRHE) (2011-2012)
Member, Gene Technology Regulator Ethics and Community Consultative Committee (Dept Health and Aging) (2011-2014)
Member, Executive, The Australian Sociological Association (2008-2012)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Member, Strategic and Scientific Advisory Committee, Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
2014 → …
Research area keywords
- Construction of Sex/Gender
- Ethical Issues - Scientific Research
- Sociology of Science
- Research Training, Practice
- Biomedicine
- Men and Aging
- Social Inequalities
- Inequalities in Health
- Socio-cultural perspectives
- Sociology of Disability and Rehabilitation
- Sociology of Emotion
- Sociology of Risk
- Sociology of the Body
- Stem Cell Technologies
- Stem Cell Tourism
- Digital technologies
- anti-ageing treatments
- diagnosis
- screening
Network
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Understanding the role of digital technologies in addressing loneliness
Petersen, A. & Barbosa Neves, B.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
8/05/23 → 7/05/26
Project: Research
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The right to rehabilitation for people with dementia: tackling stigma and implementing evidence-based interventions
Callisaya, M., Hill, K., Swaffer, K., Russell, G., Mc O'Connor, C., Layton, N., Petersen, A., de Graaff, B., Collyer, T., Haines, T., Srikanth, V., Laver, K. E., Low, L., Skouteris, H., Cations, M. & Barbosa Neves, B.
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
1/06/22 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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Addressing emerging ethical, legal and social issues in governance of clinical and genomic datasets to improve human health
Newson, A. J., Ankeny, R., Dive, L., Kerridge, I. H., Stewart, C., Brown, A., Hermes, A., Irving, D., Miller, S., Smith, M. J., Hansen, D. E., McWhirter, R. E., Mumford, J., Ferrie, M., Lipworth, W., Petersen, A., Christodoulou , J., Delatycki, M., Gyngell, C., Stark, Z. L., Vears, D. F., MacArthur, D. G., Gaff, C. L., Savulescu, J., Brion, M., Vidgen, M., Hofmann, O., Keogh, L., Paterson, J., Prictor, M. J., Griffiths, K., Jorm, L., Leach Scully, J., Richards, B., Eckstein, L., Nicol, D., Nielsen, J., Otlowski, M. F. A., Baynam, G. S. & Rizzi, M.
1/06/22 → 31/05/27
Project: Research
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Improving decisions about access to stem cell interventions
Lipworth, W., Stewart, C., Munsie, M., Kerridge, I. H., Lysaght, T., Hooker, C., Petersen, A., Tanner, C., Gyngell, C. & Rudge, C.
1/06/21 → 31/05/24
Project: Research
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AI for Older Australians in Aged-Care Facilities: Challenges and Opportunities
Petersen, A., Barbosa Neves, B., Vered, M., Carter, A. & Seear, K.
1/02/20 → 1/02/21
Project: Research
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Artificial intelligence in long-term care: Technological promise, aging anxieties, and sociotechnical ageism
Neves, B. B., Petersen, A., Vered, M., Carter, A. & Omori, M., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Applied Gerontology. 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Emotions Online: Feelings and Affordances of Digital Media
Petersen, A., 2023, Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge. 185 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing
Pienaar, K. & Petersen, A., Jan 2022, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 44, 1, p. 25-40 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The knowing mother: Maternal knowledge and the reinforcement of the feminine consuming subject in magazine advertisements
Davis, T., Hogg, M. K., Marshall, D., Petersen, A. & Schneider, T., 2022, In: Journal of Consumer Culture. 22, 1, p. 40-60 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile5 Citations (Scopus) -
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information
Petersen, A., Schermuly, A. & Anderson, A., Aug 2022, In: Social Science & Medicine. 306, 8 p., 115115.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences (UK)
Petersen, Alan (Recipient), 1 Oct 2016
Prize: Election to learned society
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Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences Australia
Petersen, Alan (Recipient), 19 Oct 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
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Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, UK
Petersen, Alan (Recipient), 2005
Prize: National/international honour
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Stephen Crook Memorial Prize: Best authored book in Australian sociology for Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope
Petersen, Alan (Recipient), Munsie, M. (Recipient), Tanner, Claire (Recipient), MacGregor, C. (Recipient) & Brophy, J. E. M. (Recipient), 30 Nov 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Science, Technology and Society (Journal)
Alan Petersen (Guest editor) & Kiran Pienaar (Guest editor)
1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference 2018
Kiran Pienaar (Speaker), Alan Petersen (Speaker), Diana Bowman (Speaker) & Stephen Derrick (Speaker)
18 Aug 2018 → 1 Sep 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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European Society for Health and Medical Sociology
Kiran Pienaar (Speaker), Alan Petersen (Speaker), Diana Bowman (Speaker) & Stephen Derrick (Speaker)
6 Jun 2018 → 8 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Roundtable workshop: Testing for life? The sociology of diagnosis and screening
Kiran Pienaar (Speaker), Alan Petersen (Speaker), Diana Bowman (Speaker) & Stephen Derrick (Speaker)
13 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Citizens’ use of digital media to connect with healthcare: exploring the socio-ethical and regulatory implications (Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland)
Alan Petersen (Organiser), Claire Tanner (Organiser) & Megan Munsie (Organiser)
22 Jun 2017 → 24 Jun 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press/Media
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A trade in desperation: the rise of stem cell tourism (Pursuit)
Megan Munsie, Alan Petersen, Claire Tanner, Casimir MacGregor & Jane Elizabeth Mary Brophy
11/05/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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The hard sell of stem cells: we need a better way to protect patients from harm (Australian Doctor)
Claire Tanner, Alan Petersen & Megan Munsie
26/09/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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The hard sell of stem cells: we need a better way to protect patients from harm (The Conversation)
Claire Tanner, Megan Munsie & Alan Petersen
22/09/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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