Claire Tanner

Experience

• 2021–present
  Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies, Monash University
• 2020–2021
  Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies, Monash University
• 2016–2020
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
• 2015–2016
  Lecturer Sociology, Monash University
• 2011–2015
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University

Education

• 2011 
  Monash University, PhD

Publications

• 2026
  Media reporting of cancel culture: A narrative anatomy of Billie Eilish’s cancellation, Social Semiotics
• 2025
  Pain(ful) research: Hyperembodiment and the value of lived experience of pain in qualitative research, Qualitative Research
• 2025
  Humanism strikes back? A posthumanist reckoning with ‘self-development’ and generative AI, AI & Society
• 2024
  “Oh how I love being a woman”: post-feminism and contemporary femininity on TikTok, Feminist Media Studies
• 2024
  ‘Sex is so much more than penis in vagina’: sex education, pleasure and ethical erotics on Instagram, Sex Education
• 2023
  Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze, Feminist Media Studies
• 2023
  Participatory Design and Evaluation of the “Stem Cells Australia” Website for Delivering Complex Health Knowledge: Mixed Methods Study, Journal of Medical Internet Research
• 2023
  How Great a Risk Do You Take? A Qualitative Study Exploring Attitudes of Individuals with Friedreich Ataxia Toward Gene Therapy, Human Gene Therapy
• 2022
  School food in Australia: a dog's breakfast? (Book Chapter), Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies
• 2021
  The family meals imperative and everyday family life: An analysis of children’s photos and videos, Journal of Public Health
• 2020
  Locus of care (Chapter), Health, Technology and Society: Critical Inquiries
• 2020
  Children, ‘healthy’ food, school and family: the ‘[n]ot really’ outcome of school food messages, Children's Geographies
• 2020
  Contact Us for More Information: An Analysis of Public Enquiries about Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine
• 2020
  The ineffable allure of sugar Hammer cake, That Sugar Film and contradictory pleasures, Food and Foodways
• 2019
  ‘Sticky’ foods: how school practices produce negative emotions for mothers and children, Emotions, Space and Society
• 2019
  Navigating the cartographies of trust: how patients and carers establish the credibility of online treatment claims, Sociology of Health and Illness
• 2019
  Citizens’ use of digital media to connect with healthcare: socio-ethical and regulatory implications, Health
• 2019
  The politics of evidence in online illness narratives: an analysis of crowdfunding for purported stem cell treatments, Health
• 2018
  Tackling the Ethical Challenges Associated with Premature Delivery of Stem Cell-Based Therapies, Stem Cell Reports
• 2017
  ‘No-one here’s helping me, what do you do?’: addressing patient need for support and advice about stem cell treatments, Regenerative Medicine
• 2016
  Stem cell tourism and the political economy of hope, Palgrave MacMillan
• 2016
  University students’ drinking as a social practice and the challenge for public health, Critical Public Health
• 2015
  Mothers caring through injury: how can we understand the dual burden of caregivers' recovery?, Journal of Family Studies
• 2015
  Starting antidepressant use: a qualitative synthesis of UK and Australian data, British Medical Journal Open
• 2015
  Social class, anxieties and mothers' foodwork, Sociology of Health and Illness
• 2015
  “My dirty little habit”: Patient constructions of antidepressant use and the ‘crisis’ of legitimacy, Social Science and Medicine
• 2015
  Seeing the Full Picture: The Hidden Cost of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Revolution, Book chapter in Regenerative Biology of the Eye, Humana Press
• 2014
  Food, fat and family: Thinking fathers through mothers' words, Women's Studies International Forum
• 2014
  Practicing Food Anxiety: Making Australian Mothers Responsible for Their Families’ Dietary Decisions, Food and foodways
• 2013
  Responsibility and resistance: women negotiating the nourishment of children, Families, Relationships and Societies
• 2013
  Vanity: 21st Century Selves, Palgrave MacMillan
• 2013
  'I don't want her to be overweight like I was as a girl': Mother/child bodily connections in nutritional carework , Australian Feminist Studies
• 2011
  Modernity’s ‘New Women’: Visual culture and gender play in 1890s Australia, Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation

Grants and Contracts

• 2025
  Safeguarding posthumous digital data: understanding Australians’ views

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2022
  ARISTOCRAT: Cartilage based stem cell therapies for joint deformity and facial disfigurement. A framework for point-of-care manufacturing and delivery

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Medical Research Future Fund

• 2021
  Improving decisions about access to stem cell interventions

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Medical Research Future Fund

• 2020
  Kids co-designing sustainable and healthy environments

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  VicHealth

• 2020
  A Citizen Science Approach to Monitoring unhealthy industry digital marketing to young people

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  VicHealth

• 2015
  Children as health advocates in families: assessing the consequences

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• The Australian Sociological Association
• The Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association

Research Areas

• Sociology (1608)
• Gender Specific Studies (169901)
• Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology (160808)
• Communication Technology And Digital Media Studies (200102)
• Social Theory (160806)