Dr Katherine Carroll
Areas of expertise
- Sociology 1608
- Sociological Methodology And Research Methods 160807
- Reproduction 111404
Research interests
- Sociological, interdisciplinary and feminist study of reproductive tissue banking and donation, particularly breastmilk and human eggs.
- Doing sociology with medicine in applied research settings to understanding the practices and experiences of healthcare delivery in complex, high-technology settings.
- Qualitative and collaborative research methods including video reflexive ethnography, photo elicitation interviewing and hospital ethnography.
Biography
Katherine is an applied sociologist and qualitative methodologist who works with the health sector to examine and transform how health services are experienced and delivered. She uses participatory, qualitative, and visual research methodologies with research participants, health professionals, patients, and care-givers. Her particular areas of interest include the sociology of reproduction and motherhood, perinatal medicine, and lactation sciences.
Katherine has a BA and PhD in Sociology, and a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. Her twin experiences of working as a sociologist and women’s health physiotherapist provide her with unique insights into conducting applied sociological research.
Prior to her appointment at the ANU, she held a position as Assistant Professor in the Mayo Clinic Medical School in the USA (2014-2016) where she established a Qualitative Research Services team to undertake qualitative and sociological research in and with medicine.
Katherine has helped pioneer the Video Reflexive Ethnography (VRE) methodology in Australian and American hospitals. She has worked in collaborative research partnerships with health professionals in the high-technology, ethically charged spaces of the neonatal intensive care unit, adult intensive care, surgery, surgical pathology, and the emergency department. She has published extensively on the methodology, including two co-authored books, Visualising Health Care Practice Improvement (2013, Radcliffe) and Video-Reflexive Ethnography in Health Research and Healthcare Improvement: Theory and Application (2019, Taylor and Francis).
Researcher's projects
1. An Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2018-2021) on Lactation and Milk Donation after Infant Death. Working directly with bereaved parents, health professionals, and human milk banks, this project seeks to advance lactation health service delivery in Australia and contribute new knowledge to the sociology of motherhood and lactation sciences (with Professor Catherine Waldby, ANU and Dr. Debbie Noble-Carr, ANU).
2. A Mayo Clinic funded research project on the communication with families regarding periviable infant resuscitation. This project works with audio-recordings of medical consultations between parents and neonatologists at Mayo Clinic, USA in order to improve understandings about medical communication in contexts of high uncertainty (with Dr. Chris Collura, Mayo Clinic).
Past student projects
Brydan Lenne (2018) Evidence Based Medicine in the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (PhD Candidate)
Creating a Breastfeeding Friendly ANU Campus (with Kathryn Eden, 4th year Sociology Student, 2017)
Dr. Heidi McLeod (2017) 'Respect and Shared Decision Making in the Clinical Encounter - A video reflexive ethnography' PhD Awarded.
Dr. Michael Gionfriddo (2016) ‘Asthma Medication Step-Down Decision Making: Qualitative Systematic Review and Study of Asthma Patients’ Experiences’ PhD Awarded.
Publications
- Noble-Carr, D, Carroll, K, Copland, S et al. 2022, ''It was a shared duty': Bereaved fathers' perspectives, experiences and practices in relation to their partner's lactation after infant death', Breastfeeding Review, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 7-17.
- Mesman, J & Carroll, K 2021, 'The Art of Staying With Making & Doing: Exnovating Video-Reflexive Ethnography', in GARY LEE DOWNEY AND TEUN ZUIDERENT-JERAK (ed.), Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel, MIT Press, Connecticut, pp. 155-178.
- Pratt , R, Ndagire, C, Oyenuga, A et al. 2021, 'HPV vaccination uptake among Somali American patients at an urban primary care clinic in Minnesota, USA: identifying and testing interventions to improve uptake using video reflexive ethnography', BMJ Open, vol. 11.
- Kaemingk, B, Carroll, K, Thorvilson, M et al. 2021, 'Uncertainty at the Limits of Viability: A Qualitative Study of Antenatal Consultations', Pediatrics (English edition), vol. 147, no. 4, pp. 1-11.
- Spencer-Bonilla, G, Serrano, V, Gao, C et al. 2021, 'Patient Work and Treatment Burden in Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed-Methods Study', Mayo Clinic Proceedings, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 359-367.
- Carroll, K, Mesman, J, McLeod, H et al. 2021, 'Seeing what works: identifying and enhancing successful interprofessional collaboration between pathology and surgery', Journal of interprofessional care, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 490-502.
- Noble-Carr, D, Carroll, K & Waldby, C 2021, 'Mapping Hospital-Based Lactation Care Provided to Bereaved Mothers:A Basis for Quality Improvement', Breastfeeding Medicine, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 779-789.
- Sweeney, L, Carroll, K, Noble-Carr, D et al. 2020, 'Lactation after infant death: an analysis of Australian healthcare agencies' online health information', Health Sociology Review, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 45-61.
- Carroll, K, Noble-Carr, D, Sweeney, L et al. 2020, 'The “Lactation After Infant Death (AID) Framework”: A Guide for Online Health Information Provision about Lactation after Stillbirth and Infant Death', Journal of Human Lactation, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 280-291.
- Rasmussen, M, Carroll, K, Evans, A et al 2020, 'Researching Young Men and Family Formation: Two Stories, DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1097184X19895298, Men and Masculinities.
- Eden, K, Carroll, K, Williamson Smith, R et al. 2019, 'Designated private breastfeeding spaces in the university sector: An audit of one Australian university', Breastfeeding Review, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 43-52.
- Iedema, R, Carroll, K, Collier, A et al 2019, Video-Reflexive Ethnography in Health Research and Healthcare Improvement: Theory and Application, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton.
- Asiedu, G, Fang, J, Harris, A et al 2019, 'Health Care Professionals' Perspectives on Teleneonatology Through the Lens of Normalization Process Theory', Health Science Reports, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. e111: 1-11.
- Olney, C, Vos-Draper, T, Egginton, J et al 2019, 'Development of a comprehensive mobile assessment of pressure (CMAP) system for pressure injury prevention for veterans with spinal cord injury', The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, vol. Online, pp. 1-10.
- Carroll, K & Lenne, B 2019, 'Suppress and Express: Breastmilk Donation after Neonatal Death', in Charlotte Beyer & Andrea Robertson (ed.), Mothers Without Their Children, Demeter Press, Canada, pp. 229-244.
- Carroll, K & Mesman, J 2018, 'Multiple Research Roles in Video-Reflexive Ethnolography', Qualitative Health Research, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1145-1156pp.
- Fang, J, Asiedu, G, Harris, A et al 2018, 'A Mixed-Methods Study on the Barriers and Facilitators of Telemedicine for Newborn Resusciation', Telemedicine and e-Health, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 811-817.
- Carroll, K 2018, 'Approaching Bereavement Research with Heartfelt Positivity', in Tracey Loughran and Dawn Mannay (ed.), Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities, and Relationships, Emerald Publishing, UK, pp. 97 - 112.
- Asiedu, G, Carroll, K, Griffin, J et al 2018, 'Home enteral nutrition: Use of photo�elicitation to capture patient and caregiver experiences', Health Science Reports, vol. 1, no. 8, pp. 1-11pp.
- Carroll, K & Krolokke, C 2018, 'Freezing for love: enacting 'responsible' reproductive citizenship through egg freezing', Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 992-1005pp.
- Asiedu, G, Ridgeway, J, Carroll, K et al 2018, '"Ultimately, mom has the call": Viewing clinical trial decision making among patients with ovarian cancer through the lens of relational autonomy', Health Expectations, vol. online.
- Ridgeway, J, Asiedu, G, Carroll, K et al 2017, 'Patient and family member perspectives on searching for cancer clinical trials: A qualitative interview study', Patient Education and Counseling, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 349-354.
- Carroll, K 2016, 'The Milk of Human Kinship: Donated Breast Milk in Neonatal Intensive Care', in Charlotte Krolokke, Lene Myong, Stine W Adrian and Tine Tjornhoj-Thomsen (ed.), Critical Kinship Studies, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., London, pp. 15-31.
- Breitkopf, C, Ridgeway, J, Asiedu, G et al 2016, 'Ovarian cancer patients' and their family members' perspectives on novel vaccine and virotherapy trials', Clinical Trials, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 660-664.
- Carroll, K 2015, 'Breastmilk Donation as Care Work', in Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom (ed.), Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural contexts and Confrontations, Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, pp. 173-186.
- Carroll, K 2015, 'Representing Ethnographic Data Through the Epistolary Form: A Correspondence Between a Breastmilk Donor and Recipient', Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 686-695.
- Carroll, K & Iedema, R 2015, 'Communicating Care: Informed Consent', in Rick Iedema, Donella Piper and Marie Manidis (ed.), Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, pp. 189-205.
- Iedema, R & Carroll, K 2015, 'Research as Affect-Sphere: Towards Spherogenics', Emotion Review, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 67-72.
- Wyer, M, Jackson, D, Iedema, R et al 2015, 'Involving patients in understanding hospital infection control using visual methods', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 24, no. 11-12, pp. 1718-1729.
- Carroll, K, Lenne, B, McEgan, K et al 2014, 'Breast milk donation after neonatal death in Australia: a report', International Breastfeeding Journal, vol. 9, pp. 1-9.
- Carroll, K 2014, 'Body dirt or liquid gold? How the 'safety' of donated breastmilk is constructed for use in neonatal intensive care', Social Studies of Science, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 466-485.
- Iedema, R & Carroll, K 2014, 'Intervening in health care communication using discourse analysis', in John Flowerdew (ed.), Discourse in Context:Contemporary Applied Linguistics 3, Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, pp. 185-204.
- Herrmann, K & Carroll, K 2014, 'An Exclusively Human Milk Diet Reduces Necrotizing Enterocolitis', Breastfeeding Medicine, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 184-190.
- Carroll, K & Herrmann, K 2013, 'The Cost of Using Donor Human Milk in the NICU to Achieve Exclusively Human Milk Feeding Through 32 Weeks Postmenstrual Age', Breastfeeding Medicine, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 286-290.
- Carroll, K 2013, 'Infertile? The emotional labour of sensitive and feminist research methodologies', Qualitative Research, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 546-561.
- Carroll, K 2013, 'Book Review: Beyond Health, beyond Choice: Breastfeeding constraints and realities', Breastfeeding Review, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 36-37pp.
- Waldby, C, Kerridge, I, Boulos, M et al 2013, 'From altruism to monetisation: Australian women's ideas about money, ethics and research eggs', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 94, pp. 34-42.
- Iedema, R, Mesman, J & Carroll, K 2013, Visualising Health Care Practice Improvement: Innovation from within, Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, London.
- Waldby, C & Carroll, K 2012, 'Informed Consent and Fresh Egg Donation for Stem Cell Research Incorporating Embodied Knowledge Into Ethical Decision-Making', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 29-39.
- Waldby, C & Carroll, K 2012, 'Egg donation for stem cell research: ideas of surplus and deficit in Australian IVF patients' and reproductive donors' accounts', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 513-528.
- Naylor, J, Mittal, R, Carroll, K et al 2012, 'Introductory insights into patient preferences for outpatient rehabilitation after knee replacement: implications for practice and future research', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 586-592.
- Carroll, K & Herrmann, K 2012, 'INTRODUCING DONOR HUMAN MILK TO THE NICU LESSONS FOR AUSTRALIA', Breastfeeding Review, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 19-26.
- Iedema, R & Carroll, K 2011, 'The "clinalyst" Institutionalizing reflexive space to realize safety and flexible systematization in health care', Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 175-190.
- Carroll, K & Mesman, J 2011, 'Ethnographic context meets ethnographic biography: a challenge for the mores of doing fieldwork', International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 155-168.
- Iedema, R, Long, D & Carroll, K 2010, 'Corridor communication, spacial design and patient safety: enacting and managing complexities', in Alfons van Marrewijk & Dvora Yanow (ed.), Organizational Spaces: Rematerializing the Workaday World, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 41-57.
- Iedema, R & Carroll, K 2010, 'Discourse research that intervenes in the quality and safety of care practices', Discourse & Communication, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 68-86.
- Nugus, P, Carroll, K, Hewett, D et al. 2010, 'Integrated care in the emergency department: A complex adaptive systems perspective', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 71, no. 11, pp. 1997-2004.
- Forsyth, R, Carroll, K & Reitano, P 2009, 'Illuminating Everyday Realities: The Significance of Video Methods for Social Science and Health Research', International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, vol. 3, pp. 214-217.
- Carroll, K, Iedema, R & Kerridge, R 2008, 'Reshaping ICU Ward Round Practices Using Video-Reflexive Ethnography', Qualitative Health Research, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 380-390.
- Carroll, K, Bridgeford, S, Iedema, R et al 2007, 'Rostered Labour and Intensive Work Places: The Organisational and Industrial Relations Complexities of providing 24 hour care', National Conference on Women and Industrial Relations, Darwin Web Design, Darwin, pp. 24-34.
- Long, D, Forsyth, R, Iedema, R et al 2006, 'The (im)possibilities of clinical democracy', Health Sociology Review, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 506-519.
- Iedema, R, Long, D, Carroll, K et al 2005, 'Corridor work: how liminal space becomes a resource for handling complexities of multi-disciplinary health care', Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies, APROS, Melbourne.
- Carroll, K 2005, 'Lactation Consultancy: Experts of Instinct?', International Breastfeeding Conference, Australian Breastfeeding Association, Hobart.
- Carroll, K & Reiger, K 2005, 'Fluid experts: Lactation consultants as postmodern professional specialists', Health Sociology Review, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 101-110.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Lactation After Infant Death: The inclusion of partners' experiences (Primary Investigator)
- Lactation after loss in contemporary motherhood and healthcare delivery. (Primary Investigator)
- Examining Prenatal Decision-Making for Infants with Life-Threatening Illness (Secondary Investigator)
