Our team
Dr Katherine Kenny is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Her research draws on social theory and qualitative methods to better understand how health and illness are understood, treated, experienced and made meaningful both in healthcare setting and in daily life.
She is the project lead for the ‘Kids, Bugs, and Drugs’ study.
Dr Katherine Kenny
Dr Leah Williams Veazey
Dr Leah Williams Veazey is a Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. She is the author of Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities (Routledge, 2021) and has published widely in social science and clinical journals. Her research interests include migration, care, health, and digital cultures. Her research uses qualitative methods, most commonly, in-depth interviews, to explore contemporary social experiences, with a focus on the intersections of health, mobility and relational sociology.
Dr Jianni Tien is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. She works at the intersection of science and technology studies, the feminist environmental humanities, and sociology of health. She researches the ontologies and epistemologies at work in our Anthropocene era and the power structures that underpin them, including questions of situated and enforced Western knowledges.
Dr Jianni Tien
Dr Jennifer Hagedorn
Dr Jenni Hagedorn is a Research Associate at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. She has a diverse background researching and teaching design and digital technologies and is an advocate for responsible and ethical digital technologies that position people at the centre of design. Specialising in social media emergent technologies, she uses digital ethnographic methods to explore the intersection of design and digital and the cultures that emerge through this.
Dr Roberta Palla
Dr Roberta Pala is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Her research draws on Science and Technology Studies (STS)- Feminist STS, social theory, bio politics and sociology of health. Her work looks at the entangled nature of social and scientific events and considers biological interventions and technological artefacts as material sites of political investigation.
Imogen Harper is a Sociology PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Her research is in conversation with literature from critical disability studies, along with sociological literature on health, illness, the body, knowledge production, digital environments, and youth. She is interested in bringing together in-depth qualitative interviews with emerging methods of digital ethnography to create a contemporary social analysis of these experience.