Dr Tanya Zivkovic

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts

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

Tanya Zivkovic, PhD, is a social anthropologist whose research explores the body and cultural trajectories of the life course. She holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award in the School of Social Sciences and is examining ageing and end-of-life care in culturally diverse settings.

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Journals

Year	Citation
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
2018	Zivkovic, T. (2018). Forecasting and foreclosing futures: the temporal dissonance of advance care directives. Social Science and Medicine, 215, 16-22. DOI
2017	Warin, M., 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 Scopus5 WoS4 Europe PMC2
2016	Gunson, J., 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 Scopus4 WoS4
2015	Warin, M., Zivkovic, T., Moore, V., Ward, P., & Jones, M. (2015). Short horizons and obesity futures: disjunctures between public health interventions and everyday temporalities. Social Science & Medicine, 128, 309-315. DOI Scopus23 WoS20 Europe PMC7
2014	Zivkovic, T. (2014). Consuming the Lama: transformations of Tibetan Buddhist bodies. Body and Society, 20(1), 111-132. DOI
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 Scopus45 WoS41
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 Scopus23 WoS20 Europe PMC11
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 Scopus31 WoS26
2010	Zivkovic, T. (2010). Tibetan Buddhist embodiment: The religious bodies of a deceased lama. Body and Society, 16(2), 119-142. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2010	Zivkovic, T. (2010). The biographical process of a Tibetan lama. Ethnos, 75(2), 171-189. DOI Scopus2 WoS1

Books

Year Citation
2014 Zivkovic, T. (2014). Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-Between Bodies (1 ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis.

Year	Citation
2014	Zivkovic, T. (2014). Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-Between Bodies (1 ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis.

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	Zivkovic, T. M. (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.
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..

Date	Project/ No.	Investigators	Funding Body	Amount
2021-2017	Investigating the Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations in Advance Care Planning: Developing Complex and Sensitive Public Policy (APP1133407)	Dr 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	$379,367
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
2011	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

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2019	Principal Supervisor	Advance Care Planning in CaLD Contexts	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Rachael Anne De Haas
2016	Co-Supervisor	The Lived Experience of Nursing Home Residents	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Angela Rong Yang Zhang

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
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 Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: 83134819
Email: tanya.zivkovic@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 8313 4388
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Napier, floor 1
Room: 1 38a
Org Unit: Sociology, Criminology & Gender Studies

Dr Tanya Zivkovic

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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