Dr Dion Kagan

Dr Dion Kagan

Research Associate
Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Dion Kagan is a Research Associate based in the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW. He is a researcher in the Health+Law Partnership, which works with national and state-based health and legal communities to improve access to justice and quality of life for people living with Hepatitis B and HIV in Australia.

Dion has a diverse and multi-disciplinary background in humanities and social-sciences research, with a particular interest in the experience of people living with blood-borne viruses, including HIV and hepatitis. His research has included projects on HIV, hepatitis C, stigma and discrimination, community health, media, technology, gender, sexuality and lifestyle practices, and has included projects at La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University, and in consultancy-based projects for government clients.

Dion came to UNSW from the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), La Trobe University where he was a member of the Gender, Law and Drugs (GLaD) research program doing socio-legal research on hepatitis C, stigma and discrimination in the era of curative treatment. Prior to that, he worked as a lecturer in Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Critical Sexualities Studies at both La Trobe university and the University of Melbourne, where he completed a PhD in the School of Culture and Communication. Dion is also a professional writer and Institue of Professional Editors (IPED)-certified editor who has worked for academic and trade publishers.

Dion is the author of Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of ‘Post-Crisis’.

 

Location
Room 306, Level 3, Law and Justice
  • Books | 2018
    , 2018, Positive Images, Kagan D, (ed.), I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350987593
    Books | 2018
    Kagan D, 2018, POSITIVE IMAGES: GAY MEN & HIV AIDS IN THE CULTURE OF ‘PO ST-CRISIS’
  • Book Chapters | 2017
    Kagan D, 2017, 'REPRESENTING QUEER SEXUALITIES', in Routledge Companion to Media Sex and Sexuality, pp. 91 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315168302-10
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Kagan D, 2016, 'Cultural Studies', in , Wiley, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect225
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kagan D, 2015, 'Cultural Studies', in The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect225
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Farrugia A; Lenton E; Seear K; Kagan D; valentine K; Fraser S; Mulcahy S; Edwards M; Jeffcote D, 2024, ''We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift', Social Science and Medicine, 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116416
    Journal articles | 2024
    Kagan D, 2024, 'Grad school in end times', Meanjin, 83, pp. 215 - 219
    Journal articles | 2024
    Lenton E; Kagan D; Seear K; Mulcahy S; Farrugia A; valentine K; Edwards M; Jeffcote D, 2024, 'Troubling complaint: Addressing hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination through complaint mechanisms', Sociology of Health and Illness, 46, pp. 1400 - 1418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13776
    Journal articles | 2023
    Kagan D; Seear K; Lenton E; Farrugia A; Valentine K; Mulcahy S, 2023, ''I'm not hep C free': Afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure', Medical Humanities, 49, pp. 678 - 687, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012653
    Journal articles | 2023
    Kagan D; Seear K; Lenton E; Farrugia A; valentine K; Mulcahy S; Fraser S, 2023, 'The trouble with normalisation: Transformations to hepatitis C health care and stigma in an era of viral elimination', Sociology of Health and Illness, 45, pp. 1421 - 1440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13638
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mulcahy S; Lenton E; Seear K; Valentine K; Kagan D; Farrugia A; Edwards M; Jeffcote D, 2023, 'Between Public and Private: Electronic Health Record-sharing, Health Privacy Principles, and Hepatitis C', Journal of law and medicine, 30, pp. 847 - 861
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mulcahy S; Seear K; Fraser S; Farrugia A; Kagan D; Lenton E; Valentine K, 2023, 'Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law', Law and Literature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2023.2221950
    Journal articles | 2023
    Seear K; Fraser S; Mulcahy S; Kagan D; Lenton E; Farrugia A; valentine K, 2023, 'Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject', Social and Legal Studies, 32, pp. 216 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09646639221115698
    Journal articles | 2023
    Seear K; Mulcahy S; Kagan D; Lenton E; Fraser S; Valentine K; Farrugia A, 2023, 'Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post-hepatitis C futures', Sociology of Health and Illness, 45, pp. 179 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13562
    Journal articles | 2023
    valentine K; Lenton E; Seear K; Fraser S; Kagan D; Farrugia A; Mulcahy S; Edwards M; Jeffcote D, 2023, 'Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C', Critical Public Health, 33, pp. 803 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2023.2287959
    Journal articles | 2022
    Mulcahy S; Seear K; Fraser S; Farrugia A; Kagan D; Lenton E; Elphick L; Holas N, 2022, 'Insurance discrimination and hepatitis C: Recent developments and the need for reforms', Insurance Law Journal, 32, pp. 93 - 105, https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/journal_contribution/Insurance_discrimination_and_hepatitis_C_Recent_developments_and_the_need_for_reforms/22091411/1
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kagan D, 2015, '‘Re-crisis’: Barebacking, sex panic and the logic of epidemic', Sexualities, 18, pp. 817 - 837, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460714557663
    Journal articles | 2014
    Kagan D, 2014, 'Possessions and dispossession: Homo economicus and neoliberal sociality in the line of beauty', Continuum, 28, pp. 797 - 807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2014.966407
    Journal articles | 2011
    Kagan D, 2011, 'Homeless love: Heritage and AIDS in BBC2's The Line of Beauty', Literature Film Quarterly, 39, pp. 276 - 296
    Journal articles |
    Kagan D, 'DOMINATION AND SUBMISSION', MEANJIN, 80, pp. 223 - 226
    Journal articles |
    Kagan D, 'FISH IN AND OUT OF WATER', METRO, pp. 34 - 41
    Journal articles |
    Kagan D, 'Telling Our Love Story: AIDS, ADAPTATION AND NEIL ARMFIELD'S HOLDING THE MAN', METRO, pp. 6 - 13
    Journal articles |
    Kagan D, 'The Late Americans', MEANJIN, 83
  • Reports | 2025
    Bruce C; Carter D; Kagan D; Clifton B; Cogle A, 2025, Migration Information and Support for People Living with HIV in Australia
    Reports | 2024
    Carter D; Jamshidi N; Vogl A; Evans R; Brown J; Robertson H; Kagan D, 2024, The Health Impacts of Law for People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review of Literature, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5016325, https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5016325
    Reports | 2024
    Carter D; Vogl A; Evans R; Brown J; Robertson H; Kagan D, 2024, Hepatitis B and the law in Australia: A Mapping Review of Contemporary Case Law, Elsevier, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4977213, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4977213
    Reports | 2024
    Carter DJ; Vogl A; Evans R; Brown J; Robertson H; Kagan D, 2024, HIV and the Law in Australia: A Mapping Review of Contemporary Case Law, Elsevier, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4995493, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4995493
    Reports | 2023
    Kagan D; Lenton E; Mulcahy S; Seear K; Farrugia A; valentine K; Edwards M; Jeffcote D, 2023, Hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination in a post-cure world: Summary report of project findings and recommendations, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/report/Hepatitis_C-related_stigma_and_discrimination_in_a_post-cure_world_Summary_report_of_project_findings_and_recommendations/23909613