Nicole Cort

Biographic Data

ID3603796
NAMENicole Cort
GIVEN NAMESNicole
FAMILY NAMECort
SIGNATURECORT N
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
ORCID0000-0001-8434-5994
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS84
TOTAL CITATIONS613
AUTHOR COUNT84
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX14

  • Rethinking fussiness in commercial food contexts

    Open AccessJuliet Bennett, Ian Harper et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2026

    So-called ‘fussy’ or ‘picky’ eating has been construed as a problem of parenting feeding practices and children’s defiant eating behaviours. However, this ‘fussiness’ about food unfolds in a food environment rife with misleading marketing messages, conflicting information, and the widespread availability of ultra-processed food (UPF). Where fussiness leads to dietary patterns high in UPF, it can have significant implications for a child’s life-lo…

  • Caring infrastructures for sexual health and the implications of antibiotic-resistant STIs

    Open AccessChandra, Shiva Chandra et al.ARTICLEHealth Sociology Review2026

    Infrastructures fundamentally shape sexual health, but their gaps and failings often only come into view during moments of crisis. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a looming microbiological and global societal crisis, and one that is posing increasing challenges and risks for medical practice and public health alike. In sexual health, concerns have been raised about growing resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the less well-known Mycoplasma g…

  • Unpacking the Assumptions, Oversights and Consequences that Surround Young People’s Difficulties in Accessing Chronic Illness Diagnosis and Care

    Open AccessIan Harper, Nicole Cort et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Youth Studies2026

    Young people living with chronic illness navigate a series of age-specific difficulties that emerge from the way in which both youth and chronic illness are constructed in social and healthcare imaginaries. In this article we draw on 33 interviews with young adults (aged 19–29 years) living in Australia to examine the ways in which age is a factor that shapes the barriers and biases young people face when seeking therapeutic interventions for ill…

  • The school lunchbox as a social problem

    Open AccessJuliet Bennett, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2025

    School lunchboxes contain much more than just food. Maternal and paternal moralities, socioeconomic pressures, and the character of contemporary food systems can all be found within them. Lunchboxes, in turn, are microcosms of food system shifts, including the proliferation of highly-profitable, strategically-engineered ultra-processed foods. These commodities, often representing between 40% and 80% of energy intake depending on contexts, are hav…

  • Ensuring Responsible Nanotechnology Innovation

    Open AccessJianni Tien, K Kenny et al.ARTICLENanoEthics2025References: 1

    The challenge of considering the ethical, environmental, economic, social, legal and cultural (E 3 LSC) dimensions of nanotechnology innovation is of enduring and increasing importance for societies worldwide. This is made more pressing due to rising public interest in the realms of AI and quantum technology. Drawing on an interdisciplinary collaboration between nanotechnology and social science researchers, this paper discusses how E 3 LSC dimen…

  • Future/tense: A sociology of temporal dis/order

    Open AccessK Kenny, L W Veazey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sociology2025References: 23

    The last few years of pandemic living have highlighted various temporal tensions that characterise our individual and collective futures. In some ways, the scale of temporal disruption caused by the pandemic could be considered unprecedented. But in other ways, the temporal tensions that underpin social life are long-standing, even routine. In this special issue, ‘Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order’, we take the intensification of te…

  • Growing up, ill: The challenges of youth for young people living with chronic illness

    Open AccessIan Harper, K Kenny et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth Studies2025References: 23

  • The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance Meets Resistance

    Open AccessK Kenny, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2025References: 53

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly escalating global health threat, known increasingly through different forms of monitoring. Surveillance, both of resistant organisms and of the antimicrobial prescribing practices that contribute to their proliferation, has increased dramatically over the last decade. So too have audits, which are routinely deployed to evaluate, and ensure accountability for, the alignment of local prescribing practices…

  • It's very hard to have a future when you can't travel: Meaning, mobility and mortality after a cancer diagnosis

    Open AccessL W Veazey, K Kenny et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sociology2025Cited by: 2References: 51

    Being diagnosed with a life-limiting illness entails a fundamental reshaping of one's relationship with the future. From 'bucket lists' of destinations and experiences to 'flights of hope' for experimental or specialised medical care, diagnoses of serious illness are deeply entwined with travel in Australian cultural narratives. In this paper, we draw on a thematic analysis of interviews with cancer patients and their carers to ask what meanings …

  • Dying as a Collective Encounter: Relationality and Affect at the End of Life

    Open AccessAlex Broom, Nicole Cort et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2025References: 14

    The end of life is replete with relational complexities. Yet, despite the work of humanities and social science scholars in the field of death and dying, our final days and weeks are still often framed through a highly individualistic lens. As a result, the collective encounters of dying can become sidelined within the management of an individual's embodied journey. This, in some cases, has the effect of obscuring the presence and power of collec…

  • Navigating the Limits of Diagnosis: Young Adults' Experiences of Chronic Living

    Open AccessIan Harper, K Kenny et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2024References: 24

    Young adults living with chronic illness often experience considerable uncertainty across the emotional, cultural and medical spheres of their everyday lives. The process of seeking, receiving and reckoning with a diagnosis has frequently been an in‐road for qualitative examinations of these experiences. As a result, the biomedical diagnosis has often taken centre stage in research concerning how uncertainty is managed and/or more stability is fo…

  • Conceptualising care: Critical perspectives on informal care and inequality

    Open AccessMichelle Peterie, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLESocial Theory & Health2023Cited by: 1References: 31

    Informal care occupies a paradoxical place in contemporary societies. It is at once reified as an inherent social good, and minimised, devalued, and pushed to the margins. The current ‘care crisis’ is bringing these tensions into sharp relief, fuelling renewed interest in care and its absences across a wide range of disciplines. In this article, we present an overview of five key literatures for comprehending informal care, with a focus on issues…

  • The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design

    Open AccessAlex Broom, Nicole Cort et al.ARTICLECritical Social Policy2023Cited by: 14References: 76

    Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly ad…

  • Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of Covid-19

    Open AccessL W Veazey, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2021Cited by: 5References: 21

  • Reciprocity, Autonomy, and Vulnerability in Men's Experiences of Informal Cancer Care

    Open AccessK Kenny, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2020Cited by: 3References: 47

    Men are increasingly participating, and acknowledging their roles, as informal carers. Yet, there has been comparatively little exploration of their experiences therein, especially within the context of cancer care. Here, drawing on semi-structured qualitative interviews with 16 Australian male carers for a relative with cancer, and using constructivist grounded theory, we explore their experiences of informal caring. Our analysis highlights a se…

  • Help-seeking prior to male suicide: Bereaved men perspectives

    Open AccessJohn L Oliffe, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 6References: 31

  • What lies beneath? Experiencing emotions and caring in oncology

    Open AccessW K Tim Wong, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2020Cited by: 5References: 55

    Medical encounters - while often viewed as centred on conveying clinical knowledge - are also sites of emotion and for exerting emotional labour by healthcare professionals. The temptation to view these encounters as largely 'technical' - an exchange of knowledge or information - can marginalise the complex emotions often experienced by healthcare professionals, and negates the critical work done in these encounters. Drawing on in-depth interview…

  • Is Depression Associated with Unhealthy Behaviors among Middle-Aged and Older Women with Hypertension or Heart Disease

    Open AccessHolger Cramer, Romy Lauche et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2019

  • Unravelling subjectivity, embodied experience and (taking) psychotropic medication

    Open AccessJ Flores, Jacinthe Flore et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Cited by: 6References: 32

    This paper explores how distinctions between 'intended' and 'side' effects are troubled in personal narratives of taking psychotropic medications. Grounded in interviews with 29 participants diagnosed with mental illness in Victoria, Australia between February and December 2014, we consider how people interpret pharmaceutical compounds beyond their desired or intended effects, and how such effects shape and transform subjectivity and their relati…

  • Unpacking Social Isolation in Men's Suicidality

    Open AccessJohn L Oliffe, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2019Cited by: 4References: 20

    Social isolation has featured as a significant and oftentimes all-encompassing risk factor for male suicide, yet, as an explanatory mechanism, it has not been unpacked in terms of what it constitutes in everyday life. The current photovoice study explores the various dimensions of the lived experience of social isolation, as embedded in accounts of suicidality drawn from 35 Canadian men. Study participants narrated the following factors as underp…

  • I Never Saw a Future: Childhood Trauma and Suicidality Among Sexual Minority Women

    Open AccessGenevieve Creighton, Genevieve M Creighton et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2019Cited by: 3References: 33

    While a significant health concern for sexual minority women, there is little qualitative research investigating their experiences of childhood trauma and suicidality. In this study, we used photovoice methods and an intersectionality framework. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we inductively derived three themes (a) Traumatized and discredited, (b) Cascading marginality, estrangement, and suicidality, (c) Reconstruction and reclaiming resilien…

  • Suicide Prevention From the Perspectives of Gay, Bisexual, and Two-Spirit Men

    Open AccessOlivier Ferlatte, John L Oliffe et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2019Cited by: 7References: 43

    Although gay, bisexual, and two-spirit men (GBTSM) experience high rates of suicidality, there have been few empirical studies of prevention initiatives and policies that could address or reverse this major social problem. This article reports on a photovoice study of 29 GBTSM who had a history of suicidality or lost a fellow GBTSM to suicide. We focused our analysis on participants' perspectives on suicide prevention. Participants described four…

  • Authenticity, ambivalence and recognition in caring at the end of life and beyond

    Open AccessAlex Broom, Nicole Cort et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Cited by: 7References: 33

  • In one's own time: Contesting the temporality and linearity of bereavement

    Open AccessK Kenny, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2019Cited by: 9References: 42

    This article explores the experience and meaning of time from the perspective of caregivers who have recently been bereaved following the death of a family member. The study is situated within the broader cultural tendency to understand bereavement within the logic of stages, including the perception of bereavement as a somewhat predictable and certainly time-delimited ascent from a nadir in death to a 'new normal' once loss is accepted. Drawing …

  • Depression at work, authenticity in question: Experiencing, concealing and revealing

    Open AccessDamien Ridge, Alex Broom et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2019Cited by: 2References: 37

    Australia and the United Kingdom have introduced policies to protect employees who experience mental illness, including depression. However, a better understanding of the experiential issues workers face (e.g. sense of moral failure) is needed for the provision of appropriate and beneficial support. We analysed 73 interviews from the United Kingdom and Australia where narratives of depression and work intersected. Participants encountered difficu…