PhD Student
Email: t.morgan@auckland.ac.nz
Background
Dr. Tessa Morgan is a Research Fellow in the Te Arai Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and a member of the Palliative and End-of-Life Group and Applied Social Science Group at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests centre on family caregiving at end-of-life and older people’s experiences of social connection and loneliness. Tessa holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and a BA Hons (1st class) in History from the University of Auckland.
Research Interests
Tessa’s research interests include: Palliative and end of life care, gender, family caregiving, research with older people, frailty, community care, feminist theory and qualitative methodologies
Selected Publications
Morgan, T., Duschinsky R., Barclay S. (2022) Dispensing care?: The dosette box as a low-fi technology within older people’s end-of-life caregiving practices Sociology of Health and Illness
Morgan, T., Duschinsky, R., Gott, M., Barclay, S. (2021) Problematising carer identification: A narrative study with older partner’s providing end-of-life care SSM Qualitative Research in Health
Morgan, T., Wiles, J., Williams, L., Gott, M. (2021): COVID-19 and the portrayal of older people in New Zealand news media Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51(1), S127-S142.
Morgan, T., Carey, M., Gott, M., Williams, L., Egli, V., Anderson, N. (2021) More than mortality data: a news media analysis of COVID-19 deaths in Aotearoa, New Zealand, Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 16(2), 419-431.
Morgan T, Bharmal A, Duschinsky R, Barclay S (2020) Experiences of oldest-old caregivers whose partner is approaching end-of- life: A mixed-method systematic review and narrative synthesis. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0232401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232401
Gott, M., Morgan, T., Williams, L. (2020) Gender and palliative care: a call to arms Palliative care and social practice 14: 1-15
Morgan, T., Wiles, J., Moeke-Maxwell, T., Black, S., Dewes, O., Park, H-J., Williams, L., Gott, M. (2019) Social connectedness: what matters to older people? Ageing and Society 41(5): 1-15.
Morgan, T., Wiles, J., Moeke-Maxwell, T., Black, S., Dewes, O., Park, H-J., Williams, L., Gott, M. (2019) ‘People haven’t got that close connection’: meanings of loneliness and social isolation to culturally diverse older people Ageing & Mental Health 24(10): 1627-1635.
Morgan, T, Williams, L., Gott, M., (2016) A Feminist Quality Appraisal Tool: exposing gender bias and gender inequities in health research, Critical Public Health, 27:2, 263-274
Morgan, T, Williams, LA, Trussardi, G, Gott, M. (2016) Gender and family caregiving at the end-of-life in the context of old age: A systematic review, Palliative Medicine, 30(7): 616-24