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Mr Zhaoxi Zheng

Mr Zhaoxi Zheng

Postdoctoral Fellow

B. HlthSc,听Uni.Qld., 2018

B. HlthSc (Hons I),听鲍苍颈.蚕濒诲.,听2019

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Social Sciences

Zhaoxi Zheng (He/Him) is a sociologist, thanatologist, and an award-winning university educator.听Zhaoxi鈥檚 works centre around the sociologies of health and illness and contribute to scholarship through empirical, methodological, and philosophical innovations. His doctoral research - sitting at the intersections of philosophy, early childhood studies, and death studies - explored young children's everyday encounters with death and dying.听His works are written, performed, and published in traditional and creative academic styles.

Zhaoxi is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, investigating carers鈥 experiences and challenges when transitioning out of caring roles. He is also the Co-Director at SocioHealthLab and the national co-convenor for The Australian Sociological Association Health Thematic Group.

Phone
+61-2-9348 2625
Location
The Care Lab, R324, John Goodsell Building (F20)
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Olson RE; Zheng Z, 2023, 'Death and dying', in Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 77 - 81,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Zheng Z; Olson RE, 2023, 'How Are Normative Deaths Celebrated, Reinforced, or Disrupted in Children鈥檚 Media? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Coco and Soul', in Coleclough S; Michael-Fox B; Visser R (ed.), Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture, Springer International Publishing, pp. 115 - 131,
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Zheng Z; Olson RE; Staton S; Setchell J, 2025, '(Un-)Protocoling post-qualitative childhood research: a novice researcher', Children's Geographies, 23, pp. 34 - 52,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Zheng Z; Olson RE; Staton S, 2025, 'Improvising end-of-life with young children: death/s and its absolute', Mortality, pp. 1 - 21,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Coles L; Johnstone M; Pattinson C; Thorpe K; Van Halen O; Zheng Z; Bayliss O; Lakeman N; Western M; Povey J; Staton S, 2023, 'Identifying factors for poorer educational outcomes that may be exacerbated by COVID鈥19: A systematic review focussing on at鈥恟isk school children and adolescents', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58, pp. 13 - 40,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Cooke E; Zheng Z; Houen S; Thorpe K; Clarke A; Oakes C; Staton S, 2023, 'Discursive tensions: Outcomes and rights in educators鈥 accounts of children鈥檚 relaxation', Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 24, pp. 70 - 81,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zheng Z, 2023, 'Everything About Children, Death, and Ethics All at Once', International Review of Qualitative Research, 16, pp. 163 - 175,
  • Reports | 2022
    Zheng Z; Huber B; Wijngaarden C; Su Q, 2022, Understanding young adults鈥 perspectives and experiences of theatre, The University of Queensland, ,

Creative Work Prize, 2022, Australian Society of Death Studies

Postgraduate Scholarship, 2022, The Australian Sociological Association

Teaching and Learning Excellence Award for Tutor, 2022, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Queensland

Co-Director: , 2023 - Present

National Co-Convenor: , The Australian Sociological Association, 2024 - Present

Member:

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