Megan Warin

Research Interests

Epigenetics Gender Studies Maternal Health Public Health Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Studies of Science and Technology Social Theory Medical anthropology

Prof Megan Warin

Professor

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Megan is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences and has held academic positions in Anthropology (Durham University), Gender Studies, Public Health, and Psychiatry. Her research investigates gender and class differences in obesity, alcohol and breast cancer, public understandings of obesity science (developmental origins of health and disease and epigenetics), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander views on health, eating and intergenerational transmission, phenomenological approaches to embodiment and the nature of desire in disordered eating. Much of her research is interdisciplinary and works across biosocial approaches to cultural practices, embodiment and health, drawing on a range of scholarship (gender studies, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, lifecourse, philosophy, feminism & sociology) that seeks to engage with the social and life sciences.Megan's research work on cultures of food and eating has been translated into curriculum resources for teachers and school students in Australia on the Australian Broadcast Commission (ABC) website in conjunction with Magda Zubanski's series: 'The Big National Health Check'. Co-written with A/Prof Deana Leahy (Monash University) and other collaborators, these resources focus on the social determinants of health. https://wwingw.abc.net.au/education/magda-s-big-health-check-helps-reimagine-health-education/101761938Megan welcomes inquiries from PhD candidates interested in: food and eating/drinking, health, gendered bodies, eating disorders, sensory anthropology, phenomenology, obesity, lifecourse perspectives, biosocial approaches, the anthropology of epigenetics and the First 1000 days..

My current projects include:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health $124, 912 (Can) Examining pharmaceuticalization as a commercial determinant of health: A case study of Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists. Dr Natalie Riediger, Dr Andrea Bombak, Ms L Adams, Dr E Lacroix, Prof M Warin

ARC Discovery 250104494 From Oppression to Hope: Reducing Heavy-Drinking with Midlife Women. Prof Paul Ward; Prof Megan Warin; Prof Sarah MacLean; Dr Belinda Lunnay; Prof Catherine Palmer; Dr Samantha Meyer; ProfTonda Hughes; Prof Antonia Lyons; Dr Emily Nicholls

This project expects to generate new knowledge on the social and cultural drivers of heavy drinking using novel interdisciplinary approaches combining social practice theory, critical consciousness and pedagogies of oppression and hope. Expected outcomes include: community-level actions and policy/practice levers for alcohol reduction; and enhanced capacity for the research team to address the societal impacts of alcohol on the global stage. 

ARC LP210301337 Situating care: Addressing obesity in disadvantaged communities. Prof Megan Warin; Dr Tanya Zivkovic; Prof JaneMaree Maher (Monash); Mrs Danielle Abbott. Industry partners: The Australian Centre for Social Innovation Inc., Uniting Communities Inc. 

This project aims to drive an urgently needed shift from top-down interventions that focus on obesity as an individual problem of diets and exercise, to collective solutions of care generated by families for families, empowering social change at a local, community level. In collaboration with Australia’s leading designers of social innovation, this anthropology project expects to generate new knowledge about care, families and food practices in disadvantaged communities, and to construct new digital, policy, and program frameworks for broader adaptation. The advances are likely to have a strong bearing on how more equitable health policy and practices evolve in Australia and internationally.

Date Position Institution name
2018 - ongoing Professor University of Adelaide
2015 - 2019 ARC Future Fellow University of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2024 Recognition Inspirational women in science Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) Australia -
2024 Award Excellence in Teaching (Supervisory Practice) Award University of Adelaide Australia -
2024 Award Excellence in Teaching University of Adelaide Australia -
2023 Recognition Top 50 women at the cutting edge of science in Australia Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) Australia -
2019 Honour Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Australia -
2007 Fellowship Fellow Higher Education Academy UK (Advance HE) United Kingdom -

Date Institution name Country Title
2007 - 2008 Durham University United Kingdom Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
1998 - 2001 University of Adelaide Australia PhD

Year Citation
2025 Ward, P. R., Warin, M., MacLean, S., Lunnay, B., Palmer, C., Meyer, S., . . . Nicholls, E. (2025). Exploring Ways to Reduce Heavy Drinking by Increasing Hope Among Midlife Women in Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.. JMIR research protocols, 14, e72628.
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2025 Ward, P., Foley, K., Warin, M., Lunnay, B., Palmer, C., & MacLean, S. (2025). A hope for hope: refocusing health promotion on hopefulness to reduce alcohol consumption and breast cancer. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(2), 188-1-188-8.
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2025 Ward, P. R., Foley, K., Warin, M., & Lunnay, B. (2025). A political economy of hope: Materialisations of social class and inequity in women's imaginings of alcohol (free) futures. Social Science and Medicine, 371, 117884-1-117884-9.
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2024 Warin, M., Beasley, C., & Chao, S. (2024). Leveraging feminist approaches to care. Thesis Eleven, 183(1), 3-11.
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2024 Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., & Kowal, E. (2024). Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics
of trauma. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 46(1), 1-1-1-23.
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2024 Foley, K., Ward, P. R., Warin, M., & Lunnay, B. (2024). Recalibrating temporalities of risk: alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk for Australian women pre-midlife before and during COVID-19. Health Risk and Society, 26(3-4), 152-171.
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2024 Warin, M., & Loblay, V. (2024). Shape shifting versions of class in Australia and the pursuit of equity in public health. Health Promotion International, 39(4), 9 pages.
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2024 Warin, M., Bombak, A., & George, B. (2024). Injecting Care and Negotiating Pleaasures with Weight Loss Pharmaceuticals. Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, 183(1), 49-68.
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2023 Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., Kowal, E., Meloni, M., Gilbert, S., . . . Brown, A. (2023). Epigenetic science and Indigenous health: key issues and considerations for future research. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 14(3), 1-24.
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2023 Warin, M., & Valdez, N. (2023). #My(white)BodyMyChoice. Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, 177(1), 71-75.
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2023 Warin, M. (2023). No Appetite for Change: Culture, Liberalism and other Acts of Depoliticization in the Australian Obesity Debate. Sociological Research Online, 28(4), 908-924.
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2023 Warin, M., Keaney, J., Kowal, E., & Byrne, H. (2023). Circuits of time: enacting postgenomics in Indigenous Australia. Body and Society, 29(2), 20-48.
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2022 Warin, M. (2022). Flexible Kinship. Medical Anthropology Quarterly: international journal for the cultural and social analysis of health, 35(4), 553-558.
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2022 Ward, P. R., Foley, K., Meyer, S. B., Wilson, C., Warin, M., Batchelor, S., . . . Lunnay, B. (2022). Place of alcohol in the ‘wellness toolkits’ of midlife women in different social classes: a qualitative study in South Australia. Sociology of Health and Illness, 44(2), 488-507.
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2022 Ward, P. R., Foley, K., Meyer, S. B., Wilson, C., Warin, M., Miller, E. R., . . . Lunnay, B. (2022). How does social class shape women's alcohol stockpiling during COVID-19?: A qualitative study in South Australia during the 2020 lockdown. SSM. Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100080-1-100080-7.
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2022 Huppatz, E., Lunnay, B., Foley, K., Miller, E., Warin, M., Wilson, C., . . . Ward, P. (2022). Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's
resilience during COVID-19. SSM. Mental Health, 2, 1-8.
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2022 Moore, V., & Warin, M. (2022). The reproduction of shame: pregnancy, nutrition and body weight in the translation of developmental origins of adult disease. Science, Technology and Human Values, 47(6), 1277-1301.
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2022 Lunnay, B., Foley, K., Meyer, S. B., Miller, E. R., Warin, M., Wilson, C., . . . Ward, P. R. (2022). 'I have a healthy relationship with alcohol': Australian midlife women, alcohol consumption and social class. Health Promotion International, 37(4), daac097-1-daac097-12.
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2022 Warin, M. (2022). Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era. Natali Valdez, Oakland: University of California Press, 2021, 284 pp.. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 36(3).
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2022 Meyer, S. B., Lunnay, B., Warin, M., Foley, K., Olver, I. N., Wilson, C., . . . Ward, P. R. (2022). Examining social class as it relates to heuristics women use to determine the trustworthiness of information regarding the link between alcohol and breast cancer risk. PLoS One, 17(9), 1-19.
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2022 Lunnay, B., Nicholls, E., Pennay, A., MacLean, S., Wilson, C., Meyer, S. B., . . . Ward, P. R. (2022). Sober Curiosity: A Qualitative Study Exploring Women’s Preparedness to Reduce Alcohol by Social Class. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(22), 17 pages.
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2022 Allison, S., Wade, T., Warin, M., Long, R., Bastiampillai, T., & Looi, J. (2022). Response to Treasure and Schmidt: joined-up care for youth-onset eating disorders.. Australasian Psychiatry, 30(2).
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2021 Foley, K., Warin, M., Meyer, S., Miller, E., & Ward, P. (2021). Alcohol and flourishing for Australian women in midlife: a qualitative study of negotiating (un)happiness. Sociology, 55(4), 751-767.
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2021 Hockin-Boyers, H., & Warin, M. (2021). Women, exercise and eating disorder recovery: The normal and the pathological. Qualitative Health Research, 31(6), 1029-1042.
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2021 Allison, S., Warin, M., Bastiampillai, T., Looi, J., & Strand, M. (2021). Recovery from anorexia nervosa: the influence of women’s sociocultural milieux. Australasian Psychiatry, 29(5), 513-515.
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2021 Allison, S., Warin, M., Bastiampillai, T., & Looi, J. (2021). Sociocultural influences on the efficacy of psychological interventions for anorexia nervosa. The Lancet Psychiatry.
2021 Allison, S., Warin, M., Bastiampillai, T., & Looi, J. C. L. (2021). Sociocultural influences on interventions for anorexia nervosa. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(5), 362-363.
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2021 Lunnay, B., Foley, K., Meyer, S. B., Warin, M., Wilson, C., Olver, I., . . . Ward, P. R. (2021). Alcohol consumption and perceptions of health risks during COVID-19: a qualitative study of middle-aged women in South Australia. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 1-11.
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2021 Allison, S., Wade, T., Warin, M., Long, R., Bastiampillai, T., & Looi, J. C. L. (2021). Tertiary eating disorder services: is it time to integrate specialty care across the life span?. Australasian Psychiatry, 29(5), 516-518.
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2021 Zizzo, G., Warin, M., Zivkovic, T., & Maher, J. (2021). Productive exposures: Vulnerability as a parallel practice of care in ethnographic and community spaces.. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 32(2), 150-165.
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2021 Warin, M. J., & Moore, V. (2021). Epistemic conflicts and Achilles' heels: constraints of a university and public sector partnership to research obesity in Australia. Critical Public Health, 31(5), 617-628.
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2020 Musolino, C., Warin, M., & Gilchrist, P. (2020). Embodiment as a paradigm for understanding and treating SE-AN: Locating the self in culture. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 534-1-534-11.
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2020 Warin, M. J., & Valdez, N. (2020). #My(white)BodyMyChoice. Thesis Eleven (Online Special: Living and Thinking Crisis), 177(1), 71-75.
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2020 Nutrire CoLab., Burnett, D., Carney, M. A., Carruth, L., Chard, S., Dickinson, M., . . . Yates-Doerr, E. (2020). Anthropologists Respond to The Lancet EAT Commission. Bionatura, 5(1), 1023-1-1023-2.
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2020 Warin, M. J. (2020). The "gentle and invisible" violence of obesity prevention. American Anthropologist, 122(3), 663-664.
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2020 Warin, M. J., Kowal, E., & Meloni, M. (2020). Indigenous knowledge in a postgenomic landscape: The politics of epigenetic hope and reparation in Australia. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 45(1), 87-111.
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2019 Warin, M. (2019). The politics of disease: Obesity in historical perspective. Australian Journal of General Practice, 48(10), 728-731.
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2019 Warin, M. J., Jay, B., & Zivkovic, T. (2019). "Ready-made" assumptions: Situating convenience as care in the Australian obesity debate. Food and Foodways, 27(4), 273-295.
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2019 Farrell, L., Moore, V., Warin, M., & Street, J. (2019). Why do the public support or oppose obesity prevention regulations? Results from a South Australian population survey. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 30(1), 47-59.
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2018 Eli, K., & Warin, M. (2018). Anthropological Perspectives on Eating Disorders: Deciphering Cultural Logics. Transcultural Psychiatry, 55(4), 443-453.
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2018 Kowal, E., & Warin, M. (2018). Anthropology, Indigeneity, and the Epigenome. American Anthropologist, 120(4), 822-825.
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2018 Zivkovic, T., Warin, M., Moore, V., Ward, P., & Jones, M. (2018). Fat as productive: Enactments of fat in an Australian suburb. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 37(5), 373-386.
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2018 Musolino, C., Warin, M., & Gilchrist, P. (2018). Positioning relapse and recovery through a cultural lens of desire: A South Australian case study of disordered eating. Transcultural Psychiatry, 55(4), 534-550.
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2018 Warin, M. J. (2018). Information is not knowledge: Cooking and eating as skilled practice in Australian obesity education. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 29(1), 108-124.
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2018 Warin, M. J., & Hammarström, A. (2018). Material feminism and epigenetics: A ‘critical window for engagement’?. Australian Feminist Studies, 33(97), 299-315.
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2017 Gunson, J., Warin, M., & Moore, V. (2017). Visceral politics: obesity and children’s embodied experiences of food and hunger. Critical Public Health, 27(4), 407-418.
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2017 Warin, M. (2017). Incisive Gutting – and Tolerating a Capacity for Harm [Review of Elizabeth Wilson's 'Gut Feminism']. Somatosphere.
2017 Nash, M., & Warin, M. (2017). Squeezed between identity politics and intersectionality: A critique of ‘thin privilege’ in Fat Studies. Feminist Theory, 18(1), 69-87.
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2017 Warin, M. J., Zivkovic, T., Moore, V., & Ward, P. (2017). Moral fiber: Breakfast as a symbol of 'a good start' in an Australian obesity intervention. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 36(3), 217-230.
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2016 Musolino, C., Warin, M., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2016). Developing shared understandings of recovery and care: A qualitative study of women with eating disorders who resist therapeutic care. Journal of Eating Disorders, 4(1), 1-10.
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2016 Jones, M., Cargo, M., Warin, M., & Verity, F. (2016). OPALesence: Epistemological pluralism in the evaluation of a systems-wide childhood obesity prevention program. Evaluation International Journal of Theory Research and Practice, 22(1), 29-48.
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2016 Farrell, L., Warin, M. J., Moore, V., & Street, J. (2016). Emotion in obesity discourse: Understanding public attitudes towards regulations for obesity prevention. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38(4), 543-558.
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2016 Farrell, L., Warin, M., Moore, V., & Street, J. (2016). Socio-economic divergence in public opinions about preventive obesity regulations: Is the purpose to ‘make some things cheaper, more affordable’ or to ‘help them get over their own ignorance’?. Social Science and Medicine, 154, 1-8.
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2016 Warin, M., Moore, V., Davies, M., & Ulijaszek, S. (2016). Epigenetics and obesity: The reproduction of habitus through intracellular and social environments. Body and Society, 22(4), 53-78.
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2016 Gunson, J. S., Warin, M., Zivkovic, T., & Moore, V. (2016). Participant observation in obesity research with children: Striated and smooth spaces. Children's Geographies, 14(1), 20-34.
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2015 Warin, M. (2015). Material feminism, obesity science and the limits of discursive critique. Body and Society, 21(4), 48-76.
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2015 Warin, M., Zivkovic, T., Moore, V., Ward, P. R., & Jones, M. (2015). Short horizons and obesity futures: Disjunctures between public health interventions and everyday temporalities. Social Science & Medicine, 128, 309-315.
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2015 Musolino, C., Warin, M. J., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2015). ‘Healthy anorexia’: The complexity of care in disordered eating. Social Science & Medicine, 139, 18-25.
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2015 Musolino, C., Warin, M., Wade, T., & Gilchrist, P. (2015). Disordered eating and choice in postfeminist spaces. Outskirts, 33, 1-20.
2014 Platten, B., Warin, M., & Coggrave, S. (2014). Mouthing disgust and pleasure in eating disorders: the sensorial agency and gendered dimensions of consuming bodies. The Senses and Society, 9(2), 194-211.
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2014 Allison, S., Warin, M., & Bastiampillai, T. (2014). Anorexia nervosa and social contagion: clinical implications. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48(2), 116-120.
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2013 Warin, M., & Gunson, J. (2013). The weight of the word: knowing silences in obesity research. Qualitative Health Research, 23(12), 1686-1696.
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2012 Warin, M., Zivkovic, T., Moore, V., & Davies, M. (2012). Mothers as smoking guns: fetal overnutrition and the reproduction of obesity. Feminism & Psychology, 22(3), 360-375.
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2011 Broom, D., & Warin, M. (2011). Gendered and class relations of obesity: Confusing findings, deficient explanations. Australian Feminist Studies, 26(70), 453-467.
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2011 Giles, L., Davies, M., Whitrow, M., Warin, M., & Moore, V. (2011). Maternal depressive symptoms and child care during toddlerhood relate to child behavior at age 5 years. Pediatrics, 128(1), 78-84.
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2011 Warin, M., Moore, V., Zivkovic, T., & Davies, M. (2011). Telescoping the origins of obesity to women's bodies: How gender inequalities are being squeezed out of Barker's hypothesis. Annals of Human Biology, 38(4), 453-460.
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2011 Warin, M. (2011). Foucault's progeny: Jamie Oliver and the art of governing obesity. Social Theory and Health, 9(1), 24-40.
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2010 Zivkovic, T., Warin, M., Davies, M., & Moore, V. (2010). In the name of the child: the gendered politics of childhood obesity. Journal of Sociology, 46(4 Sp Iss), 375-392.
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2010 Dennis, S., & Warin, M. (2010). Honeyed tongues and hostile intimacy: Engaging trauma across migrant worlds. Emotion, Space and Society, 3(1), 50-55.
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2009 Warin, M., & Dennis, S. (2009). Telling silences: unspeakable trauma and the unremarkable practices of everyday life. The Sociological Review, 56(Issue suppl s2), 100-116.
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2008 Beasley, C., & Warin, M. (2008). Guest editorial: Re-imaginging preventive health. Health Sociology Review, 17(2), 124-128.
2008 Smith, J., Braunack-Mayer, A., Wittert, G., & Warin, M. (2008). Qualities men value when communicating with general practitioners: implications for primary care settings. Medical Journal of Australia, 189(11-12), 618-621.
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2008 Warin, M., Moore, V., Davies, M., & Turner, K. (2008). Consuming bodies: Mall walking and the possibilities of consumption. Health Sociology Review, 17(2), 187-198.
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2008 Smith, J., Braunack-Mayer, A., Wittert, G., & Warin, M. (2008). It's sort of like being a detective: Understanding how Australian men self-monitor their health prior to seeking help. BMC Health Services Research, 8(1), WWW 1-WWW 10.
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2008 Warin, M., Turner, K., Moore, V., & Davies, M. (2008). Bodies mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30(1), 97-111.
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2007 Dennis, S., & Warin, M. (2007). Domestic temporalities: sensual patterning in Persian migratory landscapes. Indo - Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 7(2), 1-9.
2007 Smith, J., Braunack-Mayer, A., Wittert, G., & Warin, M. (2007). 'I've been independent for so damn long!': Independence, masculinity and aging in a help seeking context. Journal of Aging Studies, 21(4), 325-335.
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2006 Warin, M. (2006). Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia. Anthropology & Medicine, 13(1), 41-54.
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2005 Warin, M. (2005). Transformations of intimacy and sociality in anorexia: bedrooms in public institutions. Body and Society, 11(3), 97-113.
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2005 Warin, M., & Dennis, S. (2005). Threads of memory: reproducing the cypress tree through sensual consumption. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26(1-2), 159-170.
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2004 Warin, M. (2004). Primitivising anorexia: the irresistible spectacle of not eating. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 15(1), 95-104.
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2003 Warin, M. (2003). Be-coming clean: the logic of hygiene in anorexia. Sites, 1(1), 109-132.
2003 Warin, M. (2003). Miasmatic calories and saturating fats: Fear of contamination in anorexia. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, 27(1), 77-93.
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2000 Warin, M. (2000). The glass cage: an ethnography of exposure in schizophrenia. Health, 4(1), 115-133.
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2000 Warin, M., Baum, F., Kalucy, E., Murray, C., & Veale, B. (2000). The power of place: space and time in women's and community health centres in South Australia. Social Science & Medicine, 50(12), 1869-1875.
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Year Citation
2024 Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., Kowal, E., & Meloni, M. (2024). Intergenerational Trauma. In M. Pentecost, J. Keaney, T. Moll, & M. Penkler (Eds.), The Handbook of DOHaD & Society: past, present and future directions of biosocial collaboration (pp. 166-173). Cambridge University Press.
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2024 Moore, V., & Warin, M. (2024). The promise and treachery of nutrition in the developmental origins of adult disease: science, biopolitics and gender. In M. Pentecost, J. Keaney, T. Moll, & M. Penkler (Eds.), The Handbook of DOHaD and Society
Past, Present, and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration (pp. 69-80). Cambridge University Press.
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2024 Moore, V., & Warin, M. (2024). The promise and treachery of nutrition in DOHaD: Science, biopolitics, and gender. In Handbook of Dohad and Society Past Present and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration (pp. 69-80).
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2024 Keaney, J., Byrne, H., Warin, M., & Kowal, E. (2024). Intergenerational trauma. In Handbook of Dohad and Society Past Present and Future Directions of Biosocial Collaboration (pp. 166-173). Cambridge University Press.
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2023 Lunnay, B., Warin, M., Foley, K., & Ward, P. (2023). Is Happiness a Fantasy Only for the Privileged? Exploring Women's Classed Chances of Being Happy Through Alcohol Consumption During COVID-19. In P. Ward, & K. Foley (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World: Imagined Emotions and Emotional Futures (pp. 113-133). Emerald Publishing.
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2022 Warin, M. J. (2022). Kristeva, anorexia and hunger’s abject desires. In N. Bubandt, & T. Schwarz Wentzer (Eds.), Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis. (1 ed., pp. 18 pages). London: Routledge.
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2020 Warin, M. J. (2020). Beyond carrot sticks and sermons: The practice of education in obesity interventions. In D. Leahy, K. Fitzpatrick, & J. Wright (Eds.), Social Theory and Health Education: Forging New Insights in Research (pp. 230-240). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2018 Warin, M., & Martin, A. (2018). Emergent postgenomic bodies and their (non)scalable environments. In M. Meloni, J. Cromby, D. Fitzgerald, & S. Lloyd (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society (pp. 703-725). London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
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2016 Warin, M. (2016). Relatedness in Anorexia. In L. Manderson, A. Hardon, & E. Cartwright (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology (1 ed., pp. 125-129). London: Routledge.
2015 Zivkovic, T., Warin, M., Moore, V., Ward, P., & Jones, M. (2015). The sweetness of care: biographies, bodies and place. In E. Abbotts, A. Lavis, & L. Attala (Eds.), Careful Eating: Bodies, Food and Care (pp. 109-12). Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.
2014 Warin, M., Zivkovic, T., Moore, V., & Davies, M. (2014). Mothers as smoking guns: fetal overnutrition and the reproduction of obesity.. In D. K. Eli, & P. S. Ulijaszek (Eds.), Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media (pp. 73-89). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
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2011 Warin, M., Moore, V., & Davies, M. (2011). The Traffic in 'Nature': Maternal Bodies and Obesity. In M. Unnithan Kumar, & S. Tremayne (Eds.), Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy (Vol. 22, 1 ed., pp. 22-42). United States of America: Berghahn Books.
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- Gard, M., Powell, D., & Tenorio, J. (2021). Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies. Routledge.
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Date Project Name Investigators Funding Body Amount
2025-2026 Examining pharmaceuticalization as a commercial determinant of health: A case study of Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists Dr Natalie Riediger, Dr Andrea Bombak, Ms L Adams, Dr E Lacroix, Prof M Warin Canadian Institutes of Health Research Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health  $125,000 (Can)  
2025-2028 From Oppression to Hope: Reducing Heavy-Drinking with Midlife Women Prof Paul Ward; Prof Megan Warin; Prof Sarah MacLean; Dr Belinda Lunnay; Prof Catherine Palmer; Dr Samantha Meyer; ProfTonda Hughes; Prof Antonia Lyons; Dr Emily Nicholls ARC Discovery $768,000
2023-2026 Situating care: Creating change and building stronger communities Prof Megan Warin; Dr Tanya Zivkovic; Prof JaneMaree Maher; Mrs Danielle Abbott. ARC Linkage $408,000
2021-2022 From Theory to Practice: Leveraging Feminist Approaches to Care at a Time of Crisis Prof Megan Warin, Dr Sophie Chao and Emerita Prof Chris Beasley (for The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender) Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Workshop Grant $9000
2020-2021 The Care Project - Improving the wellbeing of older Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri women. Dr Annapurna Nori, Prof Vivienne Moore, Dr Odette Pearson and Prof Megan Warin RACGP Foundation Grant $8973
2019 - 2023 Epigenetic Charisma: The Politics of Epigenetic Hope and Hype in Australia Kowal, E.; Warin, M & Meloni, M ARC Discovery $348,000
2019 - 2023 Risk, Trust and Socio-economic Status: Understanding middle-aged women’s responses to alcohol/breast cancer risks Ward, P; Warin, M; Wilson C; Olver I; Miller, E; Bissell P; Meyer, S & Macdonald, S ARC Discovery $461,000
2018 - 2020 Family by Family: Addressing childhood obesity through local understandings and local solutions Warin M; Zivkovic T & Maher J Channel 7 Children's Research Fund $74,000
2016 - 2022 Improving nutrition and health outcomes for women and babies in the Aboriginal Family Birthing Program Middleton, P; Stuart-Butler, D; Ah Kit, J; Brown, S; Rumbold, A; Makrides, M; Warin, M; Brown, A; Mensah, F & Deverix J NHMRC $975,881
2016 Indigenous knowledge in a postgenomic landscape: The politics of epigenetic reparation Warin, M Faculty Active Research Grant $3,992
2015 - 2019 Food/Body encounters: new approaches and alternative solutions to obesity prevention and policy Warin, M ARC Future Fellow $789,729
2013 Developing a new biocultural framework to address 'wicked public health problems. Warin, M; V Moore, J Dodd, A Chong (Ypih) Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit. Interdisciplinary Research Fund $22,000
2012 - 2015 Steward or nanny state: Consulting the public about the use of regulations and laws to address childhood obesity. Braunack-Mayer, A; Street, J; Reynolds, C; Moore, V; Warin, M; Carter, D; Moss, J & Merlin, T Australian National Preventive Health Agency Research Grants Program $288,381
2012 - 2015 An ethnographic study of obesity risk in a disadvantaged community. Warin, M; Moore, V; Ward, P; Jones, M & RA: Zivkovic, T ARC Linkage $162,885
2012 Biological postcards: The popularisation of Barker’s hypothesis Warin, M Faculty Research Active Grant Scheme $7396
2012 - 2013 Food stories: How children from socially disadvantaged areas engage with childhood obesity prevention programs. Warin, M Channel 7 Children's Research Fund $75,000
2011 - 2014 Dynamics of denial: Why are people with eating disorders reluctant to engage with treatment services? Warin, M; Wade, T & Gilchrist, P  ARC Linkage $108,000
2007- 2010 Early life influences on obesity and fat patterning in children: critical periods, environmental determinants, and socio-cultural context Moore V; Davies, M; Robinson J; Warin, M & Worsley, T National Health and Medical Research Council $1.1 million
2006-2008 The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study: Promoting Health Wellbeing and Utilisation of Health Services by Middle aged and Older Men Wittert, G; Hiller, J; Taylor, A; Warin, M; Braunack-Mayer, A, & Nettelbeck T.. Premiers Science Research Award $300,000
2004-2007 Florey Adelaide Male Aging Study Wittert, G; Marshall, V; Hiller, J; Warin, M; Taylor, A; O’Loughlin, P; Tilley, W; Choong, C; Wallace, J; Forbes, B; Sugarman, R. Florey Medical Research Grant $450, 000

 

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Gender and Sexualities in the Digital Age

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Principal Supervisor Dissonant embodiments: understanding the phenomenological, sensory, and temporal dimensions of neurodivergent embodiment and the constraints of normativity. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Lila Wolff
2024 Principal Supervisor Dissonant embodiments: understanding the phenomenological, sensory, and temporal dimensions of neurodivergent embodiment and the constraints of normativity. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Lila Wolff
2021 Principal Supervisor Disruptive Bodies in Discursive Spaces: Radical Fat Acceptance and Fat Bodies on Instagram Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Tarmia Klass
2021 Principal Supervisor Disruptive Bodies in Discursive Spaces: Radical Fat Acceptance and Fat Bodies on Instagram Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Tarmia Klass
2019 Co-Supervisor The Care Project - Improving the Wellbeing of Older Kaurna Ngarrindjeri Women Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Annapurna Nori
2019 Co-Supervisor The Care Project - Improving the Wellbeing of Older Kaurna Ngarrindjeri Women Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Annapurna Nori

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2019 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Embodied Measuring: Outwitting Type 2 Diabetes in Middle Class Urban India Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Pallavi Laxmikanth
2019 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Unsettling epigenetics: contested understandings of trauma and evidence in settler colonial Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Henrietta Rose Byrne
2013 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Enacting Knowledge, Power, and Equity: Understanding the Public Appetite for Preventive Obesity Regulations Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Lucy Farrell
2012 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Assemblages of Care: Why Women with Disordered Eating are Ambivalent to Seek Therapeutic Care Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Connie Marguerite Musolino
2011 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Navigating “madness” and “fatness”: distorted spatiotemporalities in experiences of antipsychotic-induced weight gain Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Tara Lee Bates
2010 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Gender and Invested Agency: Cultural Expressions in the United Arab Emirates Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Jillian Schedneck
2009 - 2011 Co-Supervisor To Entrap and Empower: Maternal Responsibility in an Age of Neo-Liberal Health Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Toni Delany
2009 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Negotiating Perceptions of Failure, Risk and Redemption in an Australian Breast Milk Bank Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Gabbie Zizzo
2005 - 2007 Co-Supervisor The Trouble with White Pants: Medicalisation and Agency in the Context of Menstrual Suppression Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jessica Gunson
2004 - 2005 Co-Supervisor What is Social Support? A Grounded Theory of Social Interaction in the Context of the New Family Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Philippa Williams
2003 - 2012 Co-Supervisor Beyond Masculinity: A Qualitative Study of Men's Help Seeking and Health Service Use in South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr James Smith

Date Role Membership Country
2015 - ongoing Member EpicSA - Epigenetics Consortium of South Australia Australia
2015 - ongoing Member Society for the Social Study of Science United States
2012 - ongoing Member American Anthropology Association United States
2012 - ongoing - International Fellow, Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University United Kingdom
2010 - ongoing Member Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide -
2009 - ongoing Member Lifecourse and Intergenerational Health Group Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2019 - ongoing Editor Inscriptions: Writing the Social Studies of Science Manchester University Press United Kingdom
2018 - ongoing Associate Editor Social Science and Medicine Elsevier United Kingdom
2016 - ongoing Editor Frontiers in Sociology - Sociological Theory - -

Date Office Name Institution Country
2020 - ongoing Chair - Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship Committee Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship Committee, Ministerial appointment by Premier of South Australia, Office for Women Australia
2020 - ongoing Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia ACT Australia
2017 - ongoing Research Leader - Robinson Research Institute University of Adelaide Australia
2017 - ongoing International Board Member, Mind the body: Rethinking embodiment in healthcare University of Tilburg Netherlands
2014 - ongoing Founder and Co-cordinator, Early Career Researcher network Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide Australia
2014 - ongoing Director, Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender University of Adelaide Australia
2012 - 2017 Co-cordinator, Australian Food, Society and Culture Network University of Sydney Australia
2012 - ongoing International Fellow, Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity, Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology University of Oxford United Kingdom
2011 - ongoing Member - Catherine Helen Spence Scholarship Committee SA Gov, Office for Women, Ministerial appoinment Australia
2010 - ongoing Fellow Higher Education Academy (HEA) United Kingdom
2010 - 2011 Chair, NHMRC Career Development Award Peer Review Panel National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) -
2009 - 2014 Co-convenor, Academic Women’s Forum University of Adelaide -

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