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DR MAGGIE KIRKMAN



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Organization: Population Health
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW (KCWH)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Diploma of the Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers College Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers College 31-Dec-1968
Certificate for Teaching Deaf Pre-School Children University of Sydney 31-Dec-1970
Bachelor of Arts with Honours University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1980
Doctor of Philosophy La Trobe University 31-Jul-1998

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Psychological Society 31-Dec-1994
Member Public Health Association of Australia 31-Dec-1996
Member Fertility Society of Australia 31-Dec-2000

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
SUPPORTING PARENTS IN TELLING ADOLESCENT CHILDREN ABOUT THEIR DONOR-ASSISTED CONCEPTION: RESEARCH, RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, AND PUBLIC INFORMATION Chief Investigator INFERTILITY TREATMENT AUTHORITY 01/07/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Women and technologies of reproduction. Editor's Introduction.


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 241-248
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  • Being a 'real' mum: Motherhood through donated eggs and embryos
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 241-248
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  • Disciplinary Discourses: Rates of cesarean section explained by Medicine, Midwifery, and Feminism
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Health Care for Women International
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 448-467
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Telling it your way. A guide for parents of donor-conceived adolescents
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Infertility Treatment Authority(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Families working it out: Adolescents’ views on communicating about donor-assisted conception.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Human Reproduction
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 2318-2324
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Clone being: Exploring the psychological and social dimensions [Book review]
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Sociology of Health and Fitness
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 989-999
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Reports

  • Parents disclosing donor conception to their children: What does the literature tell us?
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Infertility Treatment Authority(Melbourne)
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  • Telling donor-conceived people about their conception
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Infertility Treatment Authority(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Sperm wars: The rights and wrongs of reproduction
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: ABC Books(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • Going home and forgetting about it: Donor insemination and the secrecy debate
    Year: 2005
    Book: Sperm wars: The rights and wrongs of reproduction.
    Publisher: ABC Books(Sydney)
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  • I'll never be the same again
    Year: 2005
    Book: Sperm wars: The rights and wrongs of reproduction.
    Publisher: ABC Books(Sydney)
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  • Introduction: Genesis and generation
    Year: 2005
    Book: Sperm wars: The rights and wrongs of reproduction.
    Publisher: ABC Books(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Being open with your mouth shut: the meaning of 'openess' in family communication about sexuality
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Sex Education
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-66
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(London)
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  • Embedded in the sperm wars.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: On Line Opinion
    Volume: Thu 26 May 2005
    Page numbers: 00
    Publisher: Australia's e-journal of social and political debate
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  • Public health and the challenge of genomics
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 163-165
    Publisher: Public Health Association of Australia(Curtin)
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  • Regulating reprogenetics: A psychological perspective
    Year: 2005
    Journal: South Australian Council on Reproductive Technology Quarterly Bulletin
    Volume: 27
    Issue: Summer
    Page numbers: 1, 2, 4
    Publisher: Reproductive Technology(Adelaide)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Psychological perspective. Proceedings of the symposium Reprogenetics: Whose rules apply?
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Reprogenetics Symposium
    Conference Publication: Infertility Treatment Authority
    Page numbers: 9-11
    Publisher: Infertility Treatment Authority(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Genetic connection and relationships in narratives of donor-assisted conception.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 2-20
    Publisher: Australian Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society
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  • Saviours and satyrs: ambivalence in narrative meanings of sperm provision
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Culture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 319-335
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Egg and embryo donation and the meaning of motherhood
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Women and Health
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 1-18
    Publisher: Haworth Press(New York)
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  • Infertile women and the narrative work of mourning: barriers to the revision of autobiographical narratives of motherhood
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Narrative Inquiry
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 243-262
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company
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  • Narrative research into infertility, assisted reproductive technology, donor-assisted conception, teenage motherhood, adolescent sexuality
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Narrative Network News
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 36-37
    Publisher: Australian Psychological Society(Melbourne)
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  • Parents contributions to the narrative identity of offspring of donor-assisted conception
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 57
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2229-2242
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • The fertile imagination: narratives of reproduction
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: La Trobe University(Bundoora)
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Book Chapters

  • "I'm going to be a mother when I grow up"


    Year: 2002
    Book: Always a part of me: Surviving childbearing loss
    Publisher: ABC Books(Sydney)
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  • Talking to a tiger: Fathers reveal their difficulties in communicating about sexuality with adolescents
    Year: 2002
    Book: Talking sexuality: Parent-Adolescent Communication: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass(San Francisco)
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Journal Articles

  • Book review of Becker, G The elusive embryo
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Culture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 371-373
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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  • Moving on, living in the subjunctive mode: Revising autobiographical narratives after infertility.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Meridian
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 59-82
    Publisher: La Trobe University Department of English
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  • Out of our minds: Reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa. By Johannes Fabian
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Culture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 365-377
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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  • Sister-to-sister gestational "surrogacy" thirteen years on: A narrative of parenthood
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 135-147
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  • Teenage Mothers: 'It's not what people think; it's how you feel yourself'
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Echo: Journal of the Victorian Home Economics & Textile Teachers' Association
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 15-23
    Publisher: Victorian Home Economics & Textile Teachers' Association(Melbourne)
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  • Whats the Plot? Applying Narrative Theory to Research in Psychology
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Psychologist
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 30-38
    Publisher: Australian Psychological Society
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Getting over our infatuation with the gene? Genetic connection and relationships in donor-assisted conception.
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Towards Humane Technologies
    Conference Publication: Paper archivehttp://www.uq.edu.au/gsm/Papers.html
    Page numbers: 1-19
    Publisher: Univerity of Queensland(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Infertile women and radical feminism: Conflicting narratives of assisted reproductive technology
    Year: 2001
    Book: Technologies and health: Critical compromises
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Freeing up the subject: tension between traditional masculinity and involved fatherhood through communication about sexuality with adolescents
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Culture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 391-411
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  • I know I am doing a good job: canonical and autobiographical narratives of teenage mothers
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Culture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 279-294
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis