Overview
Background
Dr Stefanie Plage is a Research Fellow with the Life Course Centre at the School of Social Science at UQ. Her expertise is in qualitative research methods, including longitudinal and visual methods. Her research interests span the sociology of emotions, disadvantage and health and illness. Stefanie has taught introductory and advanced courses in sociology and medical sociology, research design and qualitative inquiry, including the use of software for qualitative research (i.e. NVivo). Her work is multi-disciplinary. She completed her PhD at the Centre for Social Research in Health at The University of New South Wales. In her study she employed a mix of longitudinal qualitative interviews and visual elicitation methods to explore the lived experience of people with cancer. Currently, her research seeks to understand and improve the interactions of families experiencing social disadvantage with the social and health care systems.
Availability
- Dr Stefanie Plage is:
- Not available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Masters (Coursework), University of Essex
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Research interests
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Sociology of Health and Illness
Health and homelessness
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Sociology of Health and Illness
Lived experience of chronic illness and cancer
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Sociology of Health and Illness
Educational inclusion, participation and outcomes of children with cancer
Works
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2024
Other Outputs
Submission to the Mental Health Community Support Services - Psychosocial Supports Consultation
Plage, Stefanie, Olson, Rebecca, Suleman, Sameera, Setchell, Jenny, Costa, Nathalia, Mescouto, Karime and Dune, Tinashe (2024). Submission to the Mental Health Community Support Services - Psychosocial Supports Consultation. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Queensland Government.
2024
Other Outputs
Supportive housing for families in Brisbane: Successes and challenges of the housing model
Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose, Sharma, Nikita, Plage, Stefanie and Parsell, Cameron (2024). Supportive housing for families in Brisbane: Successes and challenges of the housing model. LCC Working Paper Series. 2024-02. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/7a4d8f6
2024
Book Chapter
Cancer Survivorship Heroism
Plage, Stefanie and Olson, Rebecca E. (2024). Cancer Survivorship Heroism. Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. (pp. 174-179) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-48129-1_185
2023
Other Outputs
Keeping families together: 2023 study report
Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose, Sharma, Nikita, Plage, Stefanie and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Keeping families together: 2023 study report. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Micah Projects.
2023
Journal Article
Seeing, sharing and supporting: assertive outreach as a partial solution to rough sleeping
Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Seeing, sharing and supporting: assertive outreach as a partial solution to rough sleeping. The British Journal of Social Work, 54 (2), 723-740. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcad251
2023
Journal Article
Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain: insights from an ethnographic study
Dillon, Miriam, Olson, Rebecca E., Plage, Stefanie, Miciak, Maxi, Window, Peter, Stewart, Matthew, Christoffersen, Anja, Kilner, Simon, Barthel, Natalie and Setchell, Jenny (2023). Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain: insights from an ethnographic study. Frontiers in Sociology, 8 1281912, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1281912
2023
Other Outputs
Hanging by a thread: our search for home
Wood, Leanne, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Parsell, Cameron, Maddren, Rees, Ledgerwood, Tahnee and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). Hanging by a thread: our search for home. Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia: Anglicare Southern Queensland; The University of Queensland.
2023
Other Outputs
Health, home, hope. A research report on Inclusive Health and Wellness Partnerships
Plage, Stefanie, Parsell, Cameron, Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Baker, Kirsten and Mansuri, Arif (2023). Health, home, hope. A research report on Inclusive Health and Wellness Partnerships. St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
2023
Other Outputs
Assertive outreach as a response to rough sleeping: seeing people, sharing information, and supporting housing access
Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Assertive outreach as a response to rough sleeping: seeing people, sharing information, and supporting housing access. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-20. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia. doi: 10.14264/a370d12
2023
Other Outputs
From Hostels to Hotels: An Empirical Study of Brisbane’s Innovative Homelessness Response
Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Christine, Parsell, Cameron, Robinson, Richard, Plage, Stefanie and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). From Hostels to Hotels: An Empirical Study of Brisbane’s Innovative Homelessness Response. LCC Working Paper Series 2. 2023-16. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia. doi: 10.14264/5bc9122
2023
Journal Article
Increases in income-support payments reduce the demand for charity: A difference-in-difference analysis of charitable-assistance data from Australia over the COVID-19 pandemic
Ablaza, Christine, Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron, Middlebrook, Nathan, Robinson, Richard N. S., Kuskoff, Ella and Plage, Stefanie (2023). Increases in income-support payments reduce the demand for charity: A difference-in-difference analysis of charitable-assistance data from Australia over the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One, 18 (7) e0287533, 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287533
2023
Journal Article
Health home hope - a photographic exhibition on housing and health
Plage, Stefanie and Perrier, Robert (2023). Health home hope - a photographic exhibition on housing and health. Parity, 36 (5), 7-7.
2023
Conference Publication
Climbing, stalling, falling: how people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures
Plage, Stefanie, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Parsell, Cameron and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). Climbing, stalling, falling: how people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 25 June-1 July 2023.
2023
Conference Publication
Of good mothers and violent fathers: findings from the keeping families together evaluation
Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Perales, Francisco and Ablaza, Christine (2023). Of good mothers and violent fathers: findings from the keeping families together evaluation. Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: challenges and opportunities in times of crisis, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 23 June 2023.
2023
Journal Article
Social science as social action to address inequalities
Staines, Zoe, Smith, Kiah, Plage, Stefanie, Nahar Lata, Lutfun, Fay, Suzanna, Zheng, Zhaoxi, Simpson Reeves, Laura, Beazley, Helen, Kuskoff, Ella, Clarke, Andrew, McGowan, Glenys, Shevellar, Lynda and Prangnell, Jonathan (2023). Social science as social action to address inequalities. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (1), 108-127. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.272
2023
Other Outputs
An empirical study of the Park Hotel Homelessness Response: a report for the St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland
Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Christine (Tin), Parsell, Cameron, Robinson, Richard, Plage, Stefanie and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). An empirical study of the Park Hotel Homelessness Response: a report for the St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2023
Other Outputs
Permanent supportive housing: A ten-year study of entries and exits
Parsell, Cameron, Perales, Francisco, Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose and Plage, Stefanie (2023). Permanent supportive housing: A ten-year study of entries and exits. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-05. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/c46109d
2023
Other Outputs
Program evaluation on the characteristics of specialist psychosocial mental health support programs for people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds in Queensland Final Report
Olson, Rebecca, Cordeiro da Costa, Nathalia, Plage, Stefanie, Dune, Tinashe and Setchell, Jenny (2023). Program evaluation on the characteristics of specialist psychosocial mental health support programs for people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds in Queensland Final Report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: SocioHealthLab and Queensland Health.
2023
Other Outputs
Health home hope: a photographic exhibition on housing and health
Plage, Stefanie, Perrier, Robert, Bubenik, Andrea, Baker, Kirsten, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Kuskoff, Ella and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Health home hope: a photographic exhibition on housing and health. West End, Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2023
Other Outputs
Brisbane Common Ground: analyses of tenancy sustainment and exits
Parsell, Cameron, Perales, Francisco, Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose and Plage, Stefanie (2023). Brisbane Common Ground: analyses of tenancy sustainment and exits. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Stefanie Plage is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
A Qualitative Life Course Study on Extremely Poor Couples with Controlled Fertility Behaviours: The Case of Timorese Couples
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Zoe Staines
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Doctor Philosophy
Harnessing Emerging Technologies to Achieve the Quintuple Aim: Insights from Diabetes Care
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lee Woods, Professor Clair Sullivan
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Doctor Philosophy
Documenting and working through loss and grief from climate change in the Cook Islands
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jenny Munro
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Doctor Philosophy
Gender Inequality over the Life Course
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Kieren Lilly, Professor Janeen Baxter
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Doctor Philosophy
Slippery and Sticky Sensibilities: The Moral and Intimate Economies of Dating App Use
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Mair Underwood, Professor Rebecca Olson
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Doctor Philosophy
Exploring wellbeing in young people treated for cancer
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Mitchell, Associate Professor Jemma Venables
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Beyond pathology: (re)conceptualising distress in physiotherapy and chronic low back pain care
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Rebecca Olson
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