Mia Harrison
Organising Team
Mia Harrison is a transdisciplinary researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW. Her work is characterised by critical and creative qualitative approaches that attend to the materiality, temporality, and affects of embodied experiences and knowledge-making practices. She brings these approaches to bear on a range ongoing projects that explore the following:
everyday practices of caring and living
consuming practices, including of food, medicine, non-prescription and illicit drugs, and popular culture
experiences of living with illness, disability, and poverty in and over time
structural capacities and effects of care enacted across health and social systems
the production of scientific evidence, including its enactment in policy and practice
Mia's work is informed by thinking in science and technology studies (STS), critical medical humanities, sociology of health and illness, and new materialism. She is actively engaged in STS scholarship and community-building; e.g., she has been part of the organising committee of the AusSTS network since 2021 and convened the inaugural conference in Sydney, 2023, and has been Treasurer of the executive committee since the network incorporated in 2024. She is also a foundation member of the UNSW Science and Society Research Group.