Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Dr. Karen Lane

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email karen.lane@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 924 43977
Campus Burwood
Location Burwood D5.15
Role and profile Unit Chair ASC 246/346 (sociology of media and popular culture); Campus
Coordinator ASC 287/387 (Love, Sex and Relationships)
Teaching responsibilities ASC 246/346; ASC 287/387
Bachelor of Arts
Research interests Media; sociology of knowledge, sociology of professionalisation, midwifery,
obstetrics, consumer participation.
Current research projects Health cosmopolitanism: competing cosmologies and birth in Pacific nations; The
Social Construction of Risk and Birth (a critique of positivist models of knowledge
around birth; contesting ideas regarding childbirth and risk; modes of resolution in
different regimes0.
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Ethics Committee. Area Coordinator Tri2 2012
Qualifications PhD
Conferences Annual Conference: Normal Birth; Interdisciplinary Conference of the Social
Sciences
Research link View Deakin associated research data

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22nd April 2013