SPSC Lecture: Professor Deborah Lupton

Professor Deborah Lupton will present the SPSC Summer Lecture – ‘Revisiting Risk Theory in the COVID-19 World’.

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Abstract

In this presentation I will draw on my current research on how risk theory can be revisited in the COVID-19 era. A chapter of a book I am writing on COVID and social theory is on risk theory and its application to global events, and I have also recently conducted an empirical study of Australians' risk narratives in the first six months of the pandemic. I will discuss both projects and the insights I have developed concerning how risk is portrayed, understood and practised in response to COVID. 

About the speaker

Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre and leading the Vitalities Lab. Her research is interdisciplinary, spanning sociology and media and cultural studies. She is the author/co-author of 18 books, the latest of which are Data Selves (2019) and The Face Mask in COVID Times (2021). She has also edited/co-edited a further eight books and published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Lupton is Leader of the UNSW Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an Honorary Doctor of Social Science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen. https://www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/deborah-lupton.