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Hello! I’m Leah Williams Veazey, a sociologist and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow working in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. I specialise in research around migration, care, health, motherhood and digital cultures. My research uses qualitative methods, most commonly in-depth interviews, to explore contemporary social experiences, with a focus on the intersections of health, mobility and care.

My first book, Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities, was published by Routledge (2021). It was awarded the Raewyn Connell Prize for Best First Book by an Author in Australian Sociology by The Australian Sociological Association.

Since receiving my PhD in Sociology from The University of Sydney in 2019, I have worked on a series of projects funded by the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. These projects have explored Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic; patient and carers’ perspectives on innovative cancer treatments; and contemporary experiences of death, dying and bereavement in Australia. You can see my published work from these projects here.

Drawing together my interests in the fields of migration, health and care, my new project explores how healthcare workers’ family relationships and networks of care affect their mobility decisions and trajectories, their experiences of the workplace and plans for the future. This is a three-year project, starting in 2024, funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. If you are interested in this project, please get in touch!