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2024, 'Making the unbearable, bearable: Qualitative examination of patient, family and nurses’ perspectives on the role and value of specialist metastatic breast care nurses', European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2024.102523
,2024, 'The incurable self: Negotiating social bonds and dis/connection with metastatic breast cancer', Sociology of Health and Illness, 46, pp. 295 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13704
,2024, 'There but not really involved: The meanings of loneliness for people with chronic illness', Social Science and Medicine, 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116596
,2024, 'Choreographing a good death: Carers’ experiences and practices of enacting assisted dying', Sociology of Health and Illness, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13761
,2024, 'Professionally led support groups for people living with advanced or metastatic cancer: a systematic scoping review of effectiveness and factors critical to implementation success within real-world healthcare and community settings', Journal of Cancer Survivorship, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11764-023-01515-w
,2023, 'Friendship, connectedness and (in)authenticity for those with chronic illness: Trading in one social gain for another', SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100246
,2023, 'Chronic condition self-management is a social practice', Journal of Sociology, 59, pp. 215 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14407833211038059
,2023, 'Australians' experiences of COVID-19 during the early months of the crisis: A qualitative interview study', Frontiers in Public Health, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1092322
,2022, 'A time for self-care? Frontline health workers’ strategies for managing mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic', SSM - Mental Health, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100053
,2022, 'First Nations Perspectives in Law-Making About Voluntary Assisted Dying', Journal of law and medicine, 29, pp. 1168 - 1181
,2022, 'Potential inequities in availability of care from breast care nurses: a qualitative study reporting the experiences and perspectives of women with metastatic breast cancer in Australia', BMC Health Services Research, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08269-8
,2022, 'Coping with COVID-19: The sociomaterial dimensions of living with pre-existing mental illness during the early stages of the coronavirus crisis', Emotion, Space and Society, 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100860
,2022, '‘The day everything changed’: Australians’ COVID-19 risk narratives', Journal of Risk Research, 25, pp. 1147 - 1160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2021.1958045
,2022, 'Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management', Critical Public Health, 32, pp. 438 - 449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2046705
,2022, 'Sociomaterialities of health, risk and care during COVID-19: Experiences of Australians living with a medical condition', Social Science and Medicine, 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114669
,2021, 'Hopeful dying? The meanings and practice of hope in palliative care family meetings', Social Science and Medicine, 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114471
,2021, 'Learning about COVID-19: a qualitative interview study of Australians’ use of information sources', BMC Public Health, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10743-7
,2021, '“Covid Just Amplified the Cracks of the System”: Working as a Frontline Health Worker during the COVID-19 Pandemic', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910178
,2021, 'Participants’ experiences of and perceived value regarding different support types for long-term condition self-management programmes', Chronic Illness, 17, pp. 242 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742395319869437
,2021, 'Personhood, belonging, affect and affliction', Sociological Review, 69, pp. 1051 - 1071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261211019266
,2021, 'The social meanings of choice in living-with advanced breast cancer', Social Science and Medicine, 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114047
,2021, 'Between knowing and doing person-centredness: A qualitative examination of health professionals’ perceptions of roles in self-management support', Health (United Kingdom), 25, pp. 339 - 356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459319889087
,2021, 'The agentic Self and uncontrollable body: Young people’s management of chronic illness at university', Health (United Kingdom), 25, pp. 357 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459319889088
,2020, 'Retirees’ perceptions of goal setting: A qualitative study', Australasian Journal on Ageing, 39, pp. e360 - e367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajag.12798
,2020, 'The (Co)Production of Difference in the Care of Patients With Cancer From Migrant Backgrounds', Qualitative Health Research, 30, pp. 1619 - 1631, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320930699
,2020, 'How do facilitators of group programmes for long-term conditions conceptualise self-management support?', Chronic Illness, 16, pp. 104 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742395318792068
,2020, 'Cancer caregivers' experiences of prognosis in Australia: a qualitative interview study', BMJ Open, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032361
,2019, 'Goals for living with a chronic condition: The relevance of temporalities, dispositions, and resources', Social Science and Medicine, 233, pp. 13 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.031
,2019, 'Controlled, Constrained, or Flexible? How Self-Management Goals Are Shaped By Patient–Provider Interactions', Qualitative Health Research, 29, pp. 557 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732318774324
,2019, 'Goal setting in group programmes for long-term condition self-management support: experiences of patients and healthcare professionals', Psychology and Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2019.1623891
,2019, 'Responses to a cancer diagnosis: a qualitative patient-centred interview study', Supportive Care in Cancer, 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-019-04796-z
,2018, 'Navigating and making choices about healthcare: The role of place', Health and Place, 52, pp. 215 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.009
,2017, 'Living with a chronic health condition: Students’ health narratives and negotiations of (ill) health at university', Health Education Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0017896917738120
,2017, 'Healthcare in the news media: The privileging of private over public', Journal of Sociology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783317733324
,2017, 'The experience of facilitators and participants of long term condition self-management group programmes: A qualitative synthesis', Patient Education and Counseling, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.06.035
,2017, 'Gatekeepers in the healthcare sector: Knowledge and Bourdieu's concept of field', Social Science and Medicine, 186, pp. 96 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.06.004
,2017, 'Patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perceptions of self-management support interactions: Systematic review and qualitative synthesis', Chronic Illness, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742395317710082
,2016, 'Living Well? Strategies Used by Women Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer', Qualitative Health Research, 26, pp. 1167 - 1179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732315591787
,2016, 'Knowledge matters: producing and using knowledge to navigate healthcare systems', Health Sociology Review, 25, pp. 202 - 216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2016.1170624
,2016, 'Obese people's perceptions of the thin ideal', Social Science and Medicine, 148, pp. 60 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.034
,2015, 'Obese adults’ perceptions of news reporting on obesity: The panopticon and synopticon at work', SAGE Open, 5, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244015612522
,2015, '‘I’m managing myself’: how and why people use St John’s wort as a strategy to manage their mental health risk', Health, Risk and Society, 17, pp. 439 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2015.1096328
,2015, 'Challenging stereotypes and legitimating fat: An analysis of obese people’s views on news media reporting guidelines and promoting body diversity', Journal of Sociology, 51, pp. 431 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783313480395
,2015, 'A qualitative study of women's experiences of healthcare, treatment and support for metastatic breast cancer', Breast, 24, pp. 242 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2015.02.025
,2015, 'The Experience of Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer—A Review of the Literature', Health Care for Women International, 36, pp. 514 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2014.896364
,2015, ''You just change the channel if you don't like what you're going to hear': gamblers' attitudes towards, and interactions with, social marketing campaigns', Health Expectations, 18, pp. 124 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.12018
,2014, '"Don't eat that, you'll get fat!" exploring how parents and children conceptualise and frame messages about the causes and consequences of obesity', Social Science and Medicine, 119, pp. 114 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.024
,2013, 'Clustering of attitudes towards obesity: A mixed methods study of Australian parents and children', International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-10-117
,2013, 'Eat, drink and gamble: Marketing messages about 'risky' products in an Australian major sporting series', BMC Public Health, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-719
,2013, 'What Influences the Beliefs, Behaviours and Consumption Patterns of 'Moderate Risk' Gamblers?', International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 11, pp. 474 - 489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-013-9432-7
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