Dr Tanya Zivkovic

ARC Externally Funded Research Fellow (C)

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Tanya Zivkovic, PhD, is a social anthropologist whose research explores the body and cultural trajectories of the life course. She previously held an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award in the School of Social Sciences and has been awarded a Future Fellowship to explore organ donation in culturally diverse settings.

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Journals

Year	Citation
2024	Zivkovic, T., Nguyen, N., De Haas, R., & Faulkner, D. (2024). 'Softening hedges' as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants. Qualitative Research, 1-18. DOI
2024	Zivkovic, T., & Marino, S. (2024). "The clock is ticking": (dis)orientations to ageing and end-of-life care in advanced capitalism and care directives. Journal of Sociology, 19 pages. DOI
2024	Maher, J. M., Abbott, D., & Zivkovic, T. (2024). The dynamics of peer-to-peer care: Peers as radical care practitioners. Thesis Eleven, 183(1), 119-129. DOI
2024	Zivkovic, T. (2024). Under pressure: Care, capacity and organ donation. Thesis Eleven, 183(1), 87-102. DOI
2023	Zhang, A., & Zivkovic, T. (2023). Rethinking restriction in residential aged care: Dis/abling movement and relations in the time of COVID-19. Space and Culture, 26(3), 351-364. DOI
2023	Zivkovic, T. (2023). Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID. Sociological Review, 71(6), 1341-1361. DOI
2022	Zivkovic, T. M. (2022). Unfinished Lives and Multiple Deaths. Body and Society, 28(3), 63-88. DOI
2021	Zivkovic, T. M. (2021). Lifelines and end-of-life decision-making: an anthropological analysis of advance care directives in cross-cultural contexts. Ethnos, 86(4), 1-19. DOI Scopus6 WoS4
2021	Zivkovic, T. M. (2021). About face: Relationalities of ageing and dying in Chinese migrant families. Social Science & Medicine, 291, 1-8. DOI Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC2
2021	Souza, M., Borgstrom, E., & Zivkovic, T. (2021). Rethinking end of life care: Attending to care, language and emotions. Social Science and Medicine, 291, 1-3. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2021	Nguyen, N., Zivkovic, T., De Haas, R., & Faulkner, D. (2021). Problematizing "planning ahead": a cross-cultural analysis of Vietnamese health and community workers' perspectives on Advance Care Directives. Qualitative Health Research, 31(12), 2304-2316. DOI Scopus3 WoS1 Europe PMC1
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. DOI Scopus2
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. DOI Scopus7 WoS5
2019	Zivkovic, T. M. (2019). Preparing for (life after) death: Advance care directives and cyclic temporalities. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 30(3), 264-276. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
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. DOI Scopus11 WoS5 Europe PMC3
2018	Zivkovic, T. (2018). Forecasting and foreclosing futures: the temporal dissonance of advance care directives. Social Science and Medicine, 215, 16-22. DOI Scopus28 WoS19 Europe PMC7
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. DOI Scopus15 WoS11 Europe PMC4
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. DOI Scopus11 WoS8
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. DOI Scopus74 WoS58 Europe PMC18
2014	Zivkovic, T. (2014). Consuming the Lama: transformations of Tibetan Buddhist bodies. Body and Society, 20(1), 111-132. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2013	Zivkovic, T. (2013). Returning from the dead: Contested continuities in Tibetan Buddhism. Mortality, 18(1), 17-29. DOI
2013	Zivkovic, T. (2013). Embodying the past: Gelongma Palmo and Tibetan Nyungne rituals. Journal of Ritual Studies, 27(2), 45-63.
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. DOI Scopus96 WoS76
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. DOI Scopus49 WoS38 Europe PMC15
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. DOI Scopus56 WoS41
2010	Zivkovic, T. (2010). Tibetan Buddhist embodiment: The religious bodies of a deceased lama. Body and Society, 16(2), 119-142. DOI Scopus6 WoS4
2010	Zivkovic, T. (2010). The biographical process of a Tibetan lama. Ethnos, 75(2), 171-189. DOI Scopus6 WoS3

Books

Year	Citation
2019	Warin, M., & Zivkovic, T. (2019). Fatness, obesity and disadvantage in the Australian suburbs: unpalatable politics. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI Scopus21
2014	Zivkovic, T. (2014). Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-Between Bodies (1 ed.). London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. DOI Scopus2

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
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.
2015	Zivkovic, T. (2015). Cultures of the body: medical pluralism, bacteria and Tibetan refugees. In A. Di Castro, & D. Templeman (Eds.), Asian Horizons: Giuseppe Tucci's Buddhist, Indian, Himalayan and Central Asian Studies (pp. 585-596). Melbourne: Monash University 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.. Scopus3
2014	Zivkovic, T. (2014). A female Tibetan Buddhist diviner in Darjeeling. In T. Lewis (Ed.), Buddhists: understanding Buddhism through the lives of practitioners (1 ed., pp. 201-208). United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons.

Date	Project/ No.	Investigators	Funding Body	Amount
2023-2026	Situating care: Addressing obesity in disadvantaged communities	Prof Megan Warin; Dr Tanya Zivkovic; Prof JaneMaree Maher; Mrs Danielle Abbott.	Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage	$408,000
2024-2020	Critical Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of Australian Organ Donation	Dr Tanya Zivkovic	Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship	$821,000
2023-2017	Investigating the Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations in Advance Care Planning: Developing Complex and Sensitive Public Policy	Associate Professor Jaklin Eliott, Professor Ian Olver, Professor Gregory Crawford, Dr Teresa Burgess, Associate Professor Terry Dunbar, Associate Professor Bernadette Richards, Dr Tanya Zivkovic, Dr Debbie Faulkner, Ms Michele McKinnon	National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership Project	$782,000
2019	Family by Family: Addressing childhood obesity through local understandings and local solutions	Professor Megan Warin, Dr Tanya Zivkovic, Professor JaneMaree Maher	Channel 7 Children's Research Fund	$74,000
2016-2015	Hearing the Voices of the Vulnerable in End-of-Life Care Planning	Professor Gregory Crawford, Dr Teresa Burgess, Associate Professor Jaklin Eliott, Associate Professor Bernadette Richards, Dr Tanya Zivkovic, Associate Professor Alwin Chong, Dr Debbie Faulkner	Northern Communities Health Foundation	$25,000
2018-2015	Last Rights? Supporting End-of-life Care in a Culturally Diverse Society	Dr Tanya Zivkovic	Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)	$327,612
2014	Barbara Kidman Postdoctoral Fellowship	Dr Tanya Zivkovic	University of Adelaide	$30,000
2012	Tibetanising Bacteriology: The Cultural Transformations of Biomedicine	Dr Tanya Zivkovic	Australian Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Award (India)	$25,000
2011	In-Between Bodies: The Biographical Process of Tibetanised Lamas	Dr Tanya Zivkovic	Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland	$14,000

2024 Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences

2024 Sociological Research Project

2019 Honours Coordinator Sociology, Criminology and Gender Studies

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2024	Co-Supervisor	Dissonant embodiments: understanding the phenomenological, sensory, and temporal dimensions of neurodivergent embodiment and the constraints of normativity.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Lila Wolff
2022	Principal Supervisor	Coming of Age With Three Kidneys: An Ethnographic Exploration of How Young Kidney Transplant Recipients Navigate the Transition to Adulthood and Adult Care	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Caitlin Jane Fox

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2021 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Embodied Measuring: Outwitting Type 2 Diabetes in Middle Class Urban India	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Pallavi Laxmikanth
2016 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	At Home in a Nursing Home: On Movement and Care	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Angela Rong Yang Zhang
2013 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	Navigating “madness” and “fatness”: distorted spatiotemporalities in experiences of antipsychotic-induced weight gain	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Tara Lee Bates
2013 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	Assemblages of Care: Why Women with Disordered Eating are Ambivalent to Seek Therapeutic Care	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Connie Marguerite Musolino

Position: ARC Externally Funded Research Fellow (C)
Email: tanya.zivkovic@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83134388
Campus: North Terrace
Org Unit: School of Social Sciences