Select Publications
Book Chapters
2024, 'When caring ends: Exploring the hidden aspects of loss in trajectories out of caring in Australia', in Understanding the Grief and Loss Experiences of Carers: Research, Practitioner and Personal Perspectives, pp. 110 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435365-9
,2023, 'On familial haunting: donor-conceived people’s experiences of living with anonymity and absence', in Donor-linked families in the digital age: Relatedness and regulation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009008129.012
,2022, 'Doing reflexivity in research on donor conception: examining moments of bonding and becoming', in Reproductive Citizenship: Technologies, Rights and Relationships, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9451-6_12
,Journal articles
2024, 'On the sensations of direct-to-consumer DNA testing: realisations, resemblance and relationships', Emotions and Society, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/26316897y2024d000000045
,2024, 'From lived experience to lived expertise: How donor-conceived witnesses claim and sustain epistemic authority', Journal of Pragmatics, 221, pp. 89 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.12.006
,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
,2023, 'Embodied sociotechnical imaginaries: how donor-conceived people imagine identity, family and reprodigital futures beyond regulation', Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 4, pp. 1221913, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2023.1221913
,2022, 'More than Humor: Memes as Bonding Icons for Belonging in Donor-Conceived People', Social Media and Society, 8, pp. 20563051211069055, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051211069055
,2022, 'Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People', Sociology, 57, pp. 36 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385221091184
,2021, 'Situated Talk: a method for a reflexive encounter with #donorconceived on TikTok', Media International Australia, 186, pp. 66 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X211064646
,2021, '(How) Will it end? A qualitative analysis of free-text survey data on informal care endings', International Journal of Care and Caring, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16357694113165
,Conference Papers
2020, 'THE ‘SEARCH-FOR METHOD’: EXAMINING INSTANCES OF SUPPORT IN FACEBOOK GROUPS FOR DONOR-CONCEIVED PEOPLE', Online, presented at Association of Internet Researchers, Online, 03 May 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11289
,Conference Presentations
2019, '“I would like to think that we – the donor-conceived people – are the real experts”: using linguistic methods to examine donor-conceived people’s accounts in public hearings', presented at The Australian Sociological Association 2019 Conference: Creativity and Methodological Innovation in the Sociology of Familial and Intimate Relationships Workshop, Sydney, 29 November 2019
,2019, 'Evaluating contraceptive methods using peer support from Reddit', presented at 2019 Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference, Perth, 16 September 2019 - 19 September 2019
,Conference Abstracts
2020, '“It’s Terrible That Some People Have 300 Siblings But You Can Make A Really Funny Meme About National Sibling Day”: Bonding Around Donor Conception Memes.', in “It’s Terrible That Some People Have 300 Siblings But You Can Make A Really Funny Meme About National Sibling Day”: Bonding Around Donor Conception Memes., Sydney, presented at Digital Intimacies 6: Connection in Crisis, Sydney, 07 December 2020
,2020, '“Telling It Like It Is”; Examining Donor-Conceived Witnesses’ Participation in Public Hearings.', in “Telling It Like It Is”; Examining Donor-Conceived Witnesses’ Participation in Public Hearings., presented at International Communication Association Pre-conference: Storytelling, Persuasion and Mobilization in the Digital Age
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