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Social Sciences and Humanities
Australia
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
96
Citations
41912
World Ranking
118
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Deborah Lupton is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, and Health.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics:

  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Among recent papers authored by Deborah Lupton or closely associated researchers are:

  • The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world (2021) published in The Lancet
  • Young People's Use of Digital Health Technologies in the Global North: Narrative Review (2020) published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies (2020) published in Media International Australia
  • Towards more-than-human digital data studies: developing research-creation methods (2020) published in Qualitative Research
  • Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review (2024) published in Clinical Microbiology Reviews

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Ash Watson
  • Clare Southerton
  • Sophie Lewis
  • Marianne Clark
  • Mike Michael

Deborah Lupton's work is published in a range of academic venues with multiple publications in each, such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
  • Online Information Review
  • Social & Cultural Geography

Best Publications

  • The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body

    Deborah Lupton

  • Food, the body, and the self

    Deborah Lupton

  • The new public health: Health and self in the age of risk

    Alan R. Petersen;Deborah Lupton

  • The Quantified Self

    Deborah Lupton

  • Risk and everyday life

    John Tulloch;Deborah Lupton

  • Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences

    Deborah Lupton;Lesley Barclay

  • Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies

    Deborah Lupton

  • Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter.

    Deborah Lupton

  • Risk and sociocultural theory : new directions and perspectives

    Deborah Lupton

  • Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies

    Deborah Lupton

  • Risk as Moral Danger: The Social and Political Functions of Risk Discourse in Public Health:

    Deborah Lupton

  • The digitally engaged patient: Self-monitoring and self-care in the digital health era

    Deborah Lupton

  • Discourse analysis: a new methodology for understanding the ideologies of health and illness

    Deborah Lupton

  • M-health and health promotion: The digital cyborg and surveillance society

    Deborah Lupton

  • The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights:

    Deborah Lupton;Ben Williamson

  • 'Life would be pretty dull without risk': Voluntary risk-taking and its pleasures

    Deborah Lupton;John Tulloch

  • The experiences of new fatherhood: a socio‐cultural analysis

    Lesley Barclay;Deborah Lupton

  • Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps.

    Deborah Lupton

  • Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary

    Deborah Lupton

  • `Risk is Part of Your Life': Risk Epistemologies Among a Group of Australians

    Deborah Lupton;John Tulloch

  • Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body

    Deborah Lupton

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman University of Sydney
Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink Monash University
Mike Michael
Mike Michael University of Exeter
Lesley Barclay
Lesley Barclay University of Sydney
Pat Thomson
Pat Thomson University of Nottingham
Alan Petersen
Alan Petersen Monash University
Peter Aggleton
Peter Aggleton University of New South Wales
Alan Radley
Alan Radley Loughborough University
Sarah Nettleton
Sarah Nettleton University of York

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