Dr Megan Warin

Biography/ Background

Dr Megan Warin is a social anthropologist whose teaching and research interests coalesce around the gendering of health and illness, the embodiment of food and memory, and theory in medical anthropology. In addition to Gender Studies and Anthropology, Megan has worked in and across a number of disciplines in Australian and UK universities, including psychiatry and public health, researching experiences of schizophrenia (with Dr Rod Lucas and Professor Robert Barrett), and cross-cultural attitudes (including Vietnamese and Cambodian) to health and health services in Adelaide, Australia. Her PhD work involved a phenomenological investigation of anorexia in multi-sited fieldwork settings of Vancouver, Edinburgh and Adelaide. Megan teaches in Gender, Work and Social Inquiry and is a member of the Lifecourse and Intergenerational Health (LIGHt) Research Group, where she is exploring gender and class differences in obesity as part of a NHMRC grant. She is also collaborating with Dr Simone Dennis (Australian National University, Canberra) examining Persian women's experiences of migration, trauma and food. In collaboration with a colleague from Durham University, UK (Dr Catherine Palmer) Megan established the National Anthropology and Public Health Course in Australia.

Qualifications

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Durham University, UK) 2008

PhD Social Anthropology and Gender Studies (University of Adelaide, South Australia) 2002

BA First Class Honours, Anthropology, University of Adelaide 1993

BA (Flinders University of South Australia) 1992

Research Funding

2008 Enhancing the Student Learning Experience (Durham University)

Project title: Social software: Developing an innovative e-learning community of practice at Durham

Chief Investigators, Megan Warin, Mike Cameron, Martin Edney (Learning technologies Team), Dr Steve Lyon and Jan Metcalfe (Anthropology, Durham University).

 

2007 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

A Healthy Start to Life for All Australians Strategic Award

Project title: Early life influences on obesity and fat patterning in children: critical periods, environmental determinants, and socio-cultural context

Chief Investigators: Dr Vivienne Moore (Department of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Dr Michael Davies (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide), Dr Megan Warin (LIGHt), Prof Jeffrey Robinson (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide).

  

2006 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant,

Project title: The architecture of everyday life: transforming Iranian migrant identities through domestic practices

Chief Investigators, Dr Megan Warin (CI) & Dr Simone Dennis (AI) (Australian National University, Canberra)

  

2005-2008 Premiers Science Research Award

Project title: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study: Promoting Health Wellbeing and Utilisation of Health Services by Middle aged and Older Men

Chief Investigators: Professor Gary Wittert (Head, Department of Medicine, University of Adelaide), Professor Janet Hiller (Department of Public Health, University of Adelaide), Assoc Prof Anne Taylor (Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit Strategic Planning and Research Branch, Strategic Planning and Population Health Division SA Department of Health), Dr Megan Warin, Assoc Professor Annette Braunack-Mayer, Dr Michael Fenech, Professor Ted Nettelbeck.

 

2004-2006 Florey Medical Research Grant, University of Adelaide

Project title: Florey Adelaide Male Aging Study

Chief Investigators: Prof Gary Wittert, Prof Janet Hiller, Dr Megan Warin, Assoc Prof Anne Taylor, Prof Villis Marshall (Professor of Surgery, University of Adelaide),  Dr Peter O’Loughlin (Diagnostic Endocrine Laboratory, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science), Prof Wayne Tilley, (Dame Roma Mitchell Laboratories, Hanson Institute and University of Adelaide).

Publications

Books

Warin, M (2009) Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia, Rutgers University Press, NJ

Book sections

Warin, M., Moore, V. & Davies, M. (2009) The Traffic in ‘Nature’ Maternal Bodies and Obesity. In Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women’s experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy. Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Tremane, S. (eds) New York.: Berghahn Books.

Warin, M. & Dennis, S. (2009) Telling silences: unspeakable trauma and the unremarkable practices of everyday life. In (Un)knowing Bodies. Sociological Review Monograph Series. Latimer, J. & Schillmeier, M. (eds) Blackwell: Oxford.

Layton, R & Warin, M (2009) Aboriginal Australia. In Barnard, A & J Spencer (eds) Encylopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge: London.

Journal papers: Academic

Warin, M (2009) Foucault's Muse: Jamie Oliver and the Art of Governing. Social Theory and Health (accepted October 2009).

Dennis, S & M Warin (2009) Honeyed tongues and hostile intimacy: Engaging trauma across migrant worlds Special issue Spaces of Intimacy, Emotion, Space and Society (accepted)

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(56).

Warin, M., Moore, V., Davies, M. & Turner, K. 2008. Consuming Bodies: Mall walking and the possibilities of consumption. Health Sociology Review 17(2).

Smith, J., Braunack-Mayer, A., Wittert, G. & Warin, M. 2008. Qualities men value when communicating with GPs: Implications for primary care settings. Medical Journal of Australia

Beasley, C. & Warin, M. 2008. Guest editorial: Re-imaginging preventive health. Health Sociology Review: International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice 17(2).

Warin, Megan., Turner, Karen., Moore, Vivienne. & Davies, Michael. 2007. Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI. Sociology of Health and Illness Advance online publication. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Smith, James., Braunack-Mayer, Annette., Wittert, Gary. & Warin, Megan. 2007. 'I’ve been independent for so damn long' Independence, masculinity and aging in a help seeking context. Journal of Aging Studies Vol 21(4).

Martin, S., Haren, M., Taylor, A., Middleton, S., Wittert, G., Warin, M. (2007) Cohort Profile: The Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 36(2):302-306.

 

McLoughlin, P. & Warin, M. 2007. Corrosive Places, Inhuman Spaces Mental Health in Australian Immigration Detention. Health and Place

Dennis, S. & Warin, M. 2007. Domestic temporalities Sensual patterning in Persian migratory landscapes. International Journal of Phenomenology 7(2).

Warin, Megan. 2006. Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia. Anthropology & Medicine 13(1): 41-54. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Warin, Megan & Dennis, Simone 2005. Threads of memory: Reproducing the cypress tree through sensual consumption. Journal of Intercultural Studies 26(1-2): 159-170. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Warin, Megan. 2005. Transformations of Intimacy and Sociality in Anorexia: Bedrooms in Public Institutions. Body & Society 11(3): 97-113. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Warin, Megan. 2004. Primitivising Anorexia: The Irresistible Spectacle of Not Eating. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 15(1): (95-104).

Warin, Megan. 2003. Miasmatic Calories and Saturating Fats: Fear of Contamination in Anorexia. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 27(1): 77-93. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Warin, Megan. 2003. Be-coming Clean: The Logic of Hygiene in Anorexia. SITES: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 1(1): (109-132).

Warin, Megan. 2000. The Glass Cage: An ethnography of exposure in schizophrenia. . Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (London) 4(1): (115-133.).

Warin, M., Baum, F., Kalucy, L., Murray, C. & Veale, B 2000. The power of place space and time in womens and community health centres. Social Science and Medicine 50: (1863-1875).

Book reviews

Warin, M. 2006. A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite. Health Sociology Review: International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice 15(2).

Warin, M. 2005. Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 1.

Entry last updated: Monday, 2 Nov 2009