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Leah Williams Veazey
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow (sociology, health, migration, care) at The Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies (@healthy-societies.bsky.social) at The University of Sydney. Lover of books, Londoner at ❤️
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JOB ALERT: I'm hiring a part-time research fellow to work with me @healthy-societies.bsky.social at @sydneyuni.bsky.social on my research program on migration, im/mobility and belonging, with a specific focus on healthcare worker migration. Applications close 27 April bit.ly/4iAohs3 #Academicsky
Beige background with a black line drawing of a handheld megaphone. Text reads: We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology. Work with Dr Leah Williams Veazey and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team to generate foundational knowledge about healthcare worker migration. Part-time (0.5FTE) for 1 year. Academic level A. Start May/June 2025.
March 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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New paper! "The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance meets Resistance" (open access) in @sthv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0162...

By @katherinekenny.bsky.social @alexbroom.bsky.social Jennifer Broom & @leahmouse.bsky.social The paper asks what #AMR monitoring in hospitals makes in/visible.
Screenshot of article abstract: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly escalating global health threat, known increasingly through different forms of monitoring. Surveillance, both of resistant organisms and of the antimicrobial prescribing practices that contribute to their proliferation, has increased dramatically over the last decade. So too have audits, which are routinely deployed to evaluate, and ensure accountability for, the alignment of local prescribing practices with established “best practice” guidelines. However, governing AMR in this way raises important questions including: how do these forms of monitoring play out in practice, and with what consequences? How do they articulate with the machinations and temporalities of hospital governance more generally? Here, drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-six participants ranging from ward nurses to hospital executives in metropolitan Australia, we ask what, precisely, this particular way of monitoring medics and microbes—which we conceptualize here as the (anti)microbial gaze—makes visible in the hospital setting, what might be obscured, and how this particular way of knowing may delimit what is seen as possible in terms of intervening in the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance.
March 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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It was a pleasure to co-edit this Special Issue with Katie Kenny, @michpeterie.bsky.social, Alex Broom & @bprainsack.bsky.social and to work with all the authors including @spqueensland.bsky.social & lots of people not yet on Bluesky!

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January 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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In naming this special issue ‘Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order’, we evoke the troubles & tensions the future can bring, and the ways the future can structure & dissolve our individual & collective hopes, fears & plans for us, the world, and generations to come. doi.org/10.1177/1440...
(Screenshot) In this special issue of The Journal of Sociology, we take various social tensions the COVID-19 pandemic brought out of the cultural shadows as impetus to centre the future as a key orientation for contemporary sociological scholarship. Mobilising attention to the different forms of temporal dis/order that have become intensified in recent years, we seek to develop a more explicit understanding of how the future features prominently, if often subtly, across all aspects of social life. In naming this special issue ‘Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order’, we refer to the troubles and tensions that the future can bring forth. We also evoke the ways the future can both structure and dissolve our individual and collective hopes, fears and plans for what might happen to us, and the world, tomorrow, next year and/or for generations to come. Additionally, we bring to the fore of analysis the ways that both hope and fear surrounding the future can limit – or, indeed, be deployed to limit – our imaginaries in the present, including our individual and collective capacity to conceive of alternative and emancipatory futures, beyond various capitalist, colonialist and heteronormative pasts. We are fortunate to include contributions from authors across Australia, the UK, Europe and China that address topics ranging from the seemingly mundane day-to-day activities of living during the pandemic, to questions of mortality, mobility, climate collapse and space colonisation. The contributions are united by their critical attention to the (frequently overlooked) temporal tensions that lie at the heart of many of the key social challenges we confront in the contemporary historical moment.
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Thinking about the future can make us all feel tense! In this Special Issue of the Journal of Sociology -Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order- we've brought together 10 articles to interrogate how the future is known, felt and valued.

doi.org/10.1177/1440... @bprainsack.bsky.social
Screenshot of the title and abstract of a journal article entitled "Future/tense: A sociology of temporal dis/order." Authors are Katherine Kenny, Leah Williams Veazey, Michelle Peterie, Alex Broom and Barbara Prainsack
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A wonderful way to round out the year - presenting my work in progress to the USYD-NUS-SJTU SDG Futures of Care Workers Project team. Thanks to Bow Wu for the invitation! It was fabulous to meet NUS scholars Jung-Joo Lee & Janghee Cho and all the smart PhD students in the Affective Interactions lab.
A group photo of researchers posing in front of a slide presentation that reads: Work in progress presentation.. USYD-NUS-SJTU-SDG Project Futures of Care Workers. A female researcher (Leah Williams Veazey) standing at a lectern, to the side of a large presentation slide (in University of Sydney template) that reads: Future-proofing Australia's Care Economy.
December 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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A busy first day at #tasa2024 - listened to 2 keynotes, chaired a panel on ARC funding and gave my own talk on the social worlds of migrant health workers.
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November 27, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Will be interesting to see how the Australian Sociology community uses social media at this year's #TASA2024... Already seen more posts about it on LinkedIn than Bluesy... Anyway, if you're going, I look forward to seeing you IRL 😊
November 25, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Heading to Perth next week for #TASA2024. Who else is going? I'll be speaking, listening, chairing and convening panels (as well as bravely smiling at rooms full of people I don't know / taking deep breaths / getting lost). Say hi here so we can say hi there!
November 19, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Beautiful beautiful Queenstown. In town for (half) marathon weekend. Despite a pretty disastrous training run-up, my legs carried me all the way to the end and I even enjoyed it. Sorry to everyone I’ve been whinging to about my various injuries and anxieties! 🏃🏼‍♂️ ⛰️ 🍷
Beautiful scenery in Queenstown, New Zealand. Mountain, water, sky.
November 16, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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Quick trip to Brisbane for the FECCA conference #feccaconference2024. Looking forward to discussions on race, belonging, health, and multicultural Australia. Say hi (and offer me caffeine) if you’re there too.
October 15, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Coming up @healthy-societies.bsky.social: a lunchtime seminar by @profcolinclark.bsky.social from Scotland, who is visiting our sunny shores. The talk focuses on the implications of Brexit for freedom of movement for Central & Eastern European Roma communities in the UK. Fri 25 Oct, 12.30pm
Black, red and white event flyer. Text reads: Hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Event title: Should we stay or should we go? Brexit, European Freedom of Movement, and the Roma in Scotland. Speaker: Professor Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland. This talk focuses on the implications of Brexit for freedom of movement for central and Eastern European Roma minority communities living and working in the UK. Professor Clark will draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Scotland, tracing how Slovak, Polish and Romanian Roma families have thought about, planned for, and responded to Brexit. The talk also explores the wider ‘place’ of Scotland in Europe and how it positions itself as part of the ‘European project’. Friday 25 October 2024. 12.30-1.30pm. Rm 341, A02 Social Sciences Building (and on zoom).
October 3, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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Great to be at this #SocialSciencesWeek event at UTS to celebrate the visual ethnography “On Sundays We Play” - migrant domestic workers in Singapore playing social volleyball - congrats to Kris Aquino & colleagues!
September 12, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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Two weeks until Social Sciences Week Australia! Register for our online seminar, "Harmful care, careful harm: Relational entanglements in migration"...

Kick start your week with a delicious and nutritious energy boost of intellectual adventure. Register: bit.ly/HS24SSW (9 Sep online)
Two weeks today we will be in the midst of this (sure to be) fabulous event. We've pulled together a line-up of great minds who will all be drawing on their expertise in various corners of migration scholarship to help us to think through care and harm in migration contexts. Specifically, we will be exploring how care and harm can be interwoven and mutually constitutive - whether by accident or design - and what this means for migration-related scholarship and activism. Michelle Peterie, Marie Segrave, Sukhmani Khorana, Sherene Idriss, Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Matt Withers, University of Sydney, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies
August 26, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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Social Sciences Week is coming up & I’m chairing a public seminar exploring how the idea of "Harmful care, careful harm: Relational entanglements in migration" plays out in diverse migration contexts including aged care, immigration detention and the family home.

Register: bit.ly/HS24SSW
August 6, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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ARC Success for @healthy-societies.bsky.social, University of Sydney and Carers NSW! This newly funded ARC Linkage Project, "The Cost of Living (Well)", will investigate the extent & consequences of rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs in Australia.
The Cost of Living (Well): A Sociological Study of Cost, Value, and Care. This project aims to uncover the full extent and consequences of rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs in Australia. Out-of-pocket costs (OOPCs) often come as a rude shock and can lead to financial distress, compromised care, increased inequalities, and significant suffering. Taking a person-centred, strengths-based approach, this project will identify how people in need of high-cost care, their carers, and their healthcare providers navigate the difficulties posed by the new OOP economy of healthcare. Expected outcomes include publicly accessible resources and targeted policy and practice advice that will provide significant benefit by reducing the burdens, suffering, and harms caused by high OOPCs in Australia's current healthcare system.
June 21, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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Have you thought/written about the ways migrants care for one another in community? Check out this call for chapter proposals for an interdisciplinary volume I'm co-editing with Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. See bit.ly/CoCiM24 for full details, then send in your abstract!
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Yellow bold letters on navy blue background. Communities of Care. Call for Papers. Writings on migrant communities' strategies of care for one another. White and yellow text on navy background. Communities of Care in Migration. Editors: Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (San Francisco State University), Leah Williams Veazey (University of Sydney). Call for Chapter Proposals. Migration disrupts, fractures and re-shapes migrants’ social infrastructures, requiring migrants to make new connections, re-build communities and nurture new relationships. At the heart of this core migrant practice is the concept, and labour, of care as collectively produced and enacted. Grounded in the scholarship of feminists of colour (Hill Collins), in which care work is expanded beyond a biologically determined family formation, and beyond paid care work, we aim to highlight the horizontal and multidirectional care among migrants (Francisco-Menchavez, Williams Veazey) and the thick and complex networks or webs of care that many migrants create and sustain. Submit title, 300-500 word abstract and bio to vfm@sfsu.edu by 15 April.
April 4, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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Looking forward to hosting Professor Daniel Faas for our next Sociology & Criminology Seminar at The University of Sydney on 4 March. If you're nearby, come along to hear Professor Faas talk about the Impact of Migration on Education. Or contact me for zoom details. More info bit.ly/42EhlU8
Image is of students in a classroom, seen from behind. One male student has his hand raised. Text reads: Sociology & Criminology Seminar Series 2024. The Impact of Migration on Education: Policies, Practices and Trends. Monday 4 March 2024, 1.30pm. Room 650, A02, and on zoom. Professor Daniel Faas, Trinity College Dublin. All welcome. Contact Leah Williams Veazey leah.williamsveazey@sydney.edu.au for zoom details. The University of Sydney logo and a QR code.
February 14, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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PhD Scholarship (Healthcare students, migration, work & care) at The University of Sydney - now open for applications! As part of my DECRA Fellowship on healthcare worker migration & care, I have a PhD scholarship for a student to research healthcare students - closes 29 Feb bit.ly/DE24PhD.
Image is of 5 students in a seminar room, one is standing clutching books, the others are sitting. Text reads: PhD Scholarship: Healthcare students, migration, work and care. Dr Leah Williams Veazey, ARC DECRA Fellow in Sociology at The University of Sydney, is offering a Scholarship for a PhD student to undertake research on healthcare students' perspectives on migration, work and care. For more information, see https://bit.ly/DE24PhD, QR code or email leahwilliamsveazey@sydney.edu.au. Closing date 29 February 2024.
January 31, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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New year, new role. I've now officially started my DECRA study on healthcare worker migration & their networks of care. Which means @healthy-societies.bsky.social (Uni of Sydney) is recruiting a Research Fellow (my previous role) - closing date 1 Feb 2024 usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Announcement bubble: We are hiring. Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow in Sociology (Level A/B, full-time, fixed-term 2 years).
January 16, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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Research-based tips on keeping kids cool in strollers:
- Avoid covering pram with dry materials
- Drape a moist cloth over pram (re-wet every 20 minutes)
- Add a clip-on fan to provide more cooling
- Regularly check on infants for signs of heat stress

Read more: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...
Infographic explaining the difference in temperature of different interventions. Starting with a stroller air temperature of 37.5 degrees centigrade. Fan only: -0.1 degree. Dry muslin + fan: +1.5 deg. Dry muslin only: +2.6 deg. Dry flannelette only: +3.7 deg. Dry flannelette plus fan: +2.4 deg. Moist muslin only: -3.0 deg. Moist muslin plus fan: -4.7 deg. Image is of strollers illustrating the cloth/fan/temperature information above.
December 8, 2023 at 7:15 AM
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Coffee number three for the day. Virtually unheard of for me but worth it for a quick day trip to Melbourne for the AusMob Challenging Mobilities symposium. Futuristic visions of cars and cities; tailgating, deer paths and mountain biking; and fish markets in flux - and that’s only session 1!
A bronze coloured keep cup.
November 30, 2023 at 12:20 AM
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If you’d told me 2 years ago that I’d be able to run 1000km in a year, I’d have laughed in your face in quite a rude manner. And yet, here we are. Challenge completed. And all while (some of) the jacaranda blossom is still on the trees. 🏃🏽‍♀️ 💜
November 24, 2023 at 1:53 AM
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On the topic of research funding, I am so pleased that @michpeterie.bsky.social (and team) have been awarded ARC Linkage Project funding for this incredibly timely and important work: The Forgotten Children, Ten Years On.

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Top half of image is black text on grey background. ARC Linkage Project Funding Announcement: The Forgotten Children, Ten Years On. Underneath, there is a picture of researcher Dr Michelle Peterie with a funding announcement: This project aims to investigate the rippling impacts of immigration detention in the lives of people who were detained as children. Utilising an innovative arts-based, person-centred design, and in partnership with Australia’s national human rights institution and children themselves, the project aims to generate a foundational evidence-base that advances knowledge and provides the basis for improved policy and practice. Addressing the current dearth of evidence concerning the long-term impacts of childhood detention, the project will offer critical recommendations to improve services and reduce harm, while fostering increased public awareness through a high-impact radio documentary that tells the stories of Australia’s forgotten children.
November 14, 2023 at 12:52 AM
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We are delighted to welcome two new Research Fellows to the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team: Dr Juliet Bennett and Dr Shiva Chandra. Watch this space for their fabulous work!
White text on light brown background: Welcome new SCHS Research Fellows! Two headshots below. On the left is Dr Juliet Bennett, a woman with short dark hair, smiling into the camera. On the right is Dr Shiva Chandra, a man with curly dark hair, also smiling into the camera. A caption at the bottom states their names.
October 12, 2023 at 4:30 AM