Our Research

The following were published from the ‘Changing Landscapes of Survivorship’ and aligned studies:*

Photo book

Kenny, K., Broom, A., Kirby E., & Plage, S. (2022) Picturing Cancer Survivorship: A Collection of Photographs from the Changing Landscapes of Survivorship Study. Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, The University of Sydney. ISBN: 978-1-74210-551-2.

Book

Broom, A., & and Kenny, K. (2021) Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life. Routledge: London and New York.

Journal Articles

Broom, A., Kenny, K., Veazey, L. W., Page, A., Prainsack, B., Wakefield, C. E., Khasraw, M., Itchins, M., & Lwin, Z. (2022). Living (well) with cancer in the precision era. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100096

Broom, A., & Kenny, K. (2021). The moral cosmology of cancer: Making disease meaningful. Sociological Review69(2), 468–483. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120962912

Broom, A., Kenny, K., & Kirby, E. (2018). On waiting, hauntings and surviving: Chronicling life with cancer through solicited diaries. Sociological Review66(3), 682–699. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026117719216

Broom, A., Kenny, K., & Kirby, E. (2020). Entangled and Estranged: Living and Dying in Relation (to Cancer). Sociology54(5), 1004–1021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520918853

Broom, A., Kenny, K., Kirby, E., & Lwin, Z. (2019). The collective/affective practice of cancer survivorship. British Journal of Sociology70(4), 1582–1601. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12616

Broom, A., Lewis, S., Parker, R., Williams Veazey, L., Kenny, K., Kirby, E., Kokanović, R., Lwin, Z., & Koh, E.-S. (2021). Personhood, belonging, affect and affliction. Sociological Review69(5), 1051–1071. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261211019266

Broom, A., Parker, R. B., & Kenny, K. (2019). Authenticity, ambivalence and recognition in caring at the end of life and beyond. Social Science and Medicine239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112554

Kenny, K., Broom, A., Kirby, E., Oliffe, J. L., Wyld, D., & Lwin, Z. (2020). Reciprocity, Autonomy, and Vulnerability in Men’s Experiences of Informal Cancer Care. Qualitative Health Research30(4), 491–503. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732319855962

Kenny, K., Broom, A., Kirby, E., & Ridge, D. (2019). In one’s own time: Contesting the temporality and linearity of bereavement. Health (United Kingdom)23(1), 58–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459317724854

Kenny, K., Broom, A., Kirby, E., Wyld, D., & Lwin, Z. (2017). Terminal anticipation: Entanglements of affect and temporality in living with advanced cancer. Subjectivity10(4), 374–392. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-017-0034-x

Kenny, K., Broom, A., Page, A., Prainsack, B., Wakefield, C. E., Itchins, M., Lwin, Z., & Khasraw, M. (2021). A sociology of precision-in-practice: The affective and temporal complexities of everyday clinical care. Sociology of Health and Illness43(9), 2178–2195. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13389

Kirby, E., Kenny, K., Broom, A., & Lwin, Z. (2022). Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers. Critical Public Health32(4), 472–484. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2035319

Kirby, E., Kenny, K., Broom, A., Macartney, J., & Good, P. (2018). The meaning and experience of bereavement support: A qualitative interview study of bereaved family caregivers. Palliative and Supportive Care16(4), 396–405. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951517000475

Kirby, E. R., Kenny, K. E., Broom, A. F., Oliffe, J. L., Lewis, S., Wyld, D. K., Yates, P. M., Parker, R. B., & Lwin, Z. (2020). Responses to a cancer diagnosis: a qualitative patient-centred interview study. Supportive Care in Cancer28(1), 229–238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-019-04796-z

Lewis, S., Broom, A., Kenny, K., & Kirby, E. (2020). Cancer caregivers’ experiences of prognosis in Australia: a qualitative interview study. BMJ Open10(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032361

Lewis, S., Kenny, K., Broom, A., Kirby, E., & Boyle, F. (2021). The social meanings of choice in living-with advanced breast cancer. Social Science and Medicine280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114047

Plage, S. (2022). The rhythms of cancer survivorship. Visual Communication, 21(4), 607–622. https://doi.org/10.1177/14703572221078040

Plage S. (2022). What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship. Visual Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2021.2008814

Plage, S., & Kirby, E. (2022). Reconfiguring time: optimisation and authenticity in accounts of people surviving with advanced cancer. Health Sociology Review, 31(1), 96-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.1918016

Plage, S., & Olson, R. E. (2021). Surprise reveals the affective-moral economies in cancer illness narratives. Qualitative Health Research, 31(14), 2730-2742. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211044468

Plage, S. (2021). Deploying normality: cancer survivor identity and authenticity in ritual-like practice. Medical Anthropology, 40(5), 473-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1909582

Plage, S. (2020). Cancer survivorship reimagined: a qualitative study on evolving interpretative repertoires of cancer and survivorship using participant-produced photography. European Journal of Cancer Care, 29(6), e13320. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13320

*Please feel free to email admin@picturingcancersurvivorship.org for copies of any research outputs that are inaccessible due to paywalls.