Lecturer
Institute of Education
Telephone: 84382
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Room 3,
TWW,
Hokowhitu
Ph: +64 6 356 9099 x8618
I am a Fat Studies researcher. Fat Studies is an interdisciplinary field that confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of fatness and the fat body. Fat studies researchers explore fat bodies as they are embodied and are shaped by/remake the world. Fat Studies creates paradigms for the development of fat acceptance and celebration within mass culture.
My current research interests include the development, maintenance, and revision of fat identity and the education of service workers on the myths associated with obesity.
During my doctoral work, I studied under Dr. Gwendolyn T. Sorell on the Adult Identity Development Project. The AIDP collects data on adult identity development, maintenance, and revision - ranging from parental identity, work identity, sibling identity, friendship identity, spiritual identity, weight identity, and body identity. My dissertation explored weight identity in fat women.
Pause, C. (2012). Live to tell: Coming out as fat. Somatechnics. 2(1), 42-56Retreived from http://www.euppublishing.com/toc/soma/2/1?href=%2Ftoc%2Fsoma%2F2%2F1&title=Somatechnics+%282012%29&x=12&y=11
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Pause, C. (2012). We say what we are and we do what we say: Feminisms in education practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Feminist Review. (102), 79-96Retreived from http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v102/n1/full/fr201150a.html
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Pause, C. (2012). Big belly laughs: Why it is okay to laugh at fat people?. : The Conversation Media Group
Pause, C. (2012). Moving beyond weight: Why the focus on size is bad for health. : The Conversation Media Group
Pause, C. (2012). Media attention suggests fat may be the new sexy. : The Conversation Media Group
Pause, C.Letters from my Fatosphere. [Exhibition] Included in 'Bodies Abound', Aurora Gallery, Sydney, Australia (10 Sep)
Pause, C. (2008). Invisible women: Exploring weight identity in morbidly obese women. (Doctoral Thesis, Texas Tech University, TX, United States)
Pause, C. (2013, March). Being productive and maintaining your sanity as an early career academic at a land grant university. Presented at 38th Annual Association for Women in Psychology [AWP] Conference: Global Concerns, Local and Individual Perspectives: Voices of Indigenous, Immigrant, and International Women. Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
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Pause, C. (2012, March). The academic job market: Crating your curriculum vitae. Presented at 37th Annual Association for Women in Psychology [AWP] Conference. Palm Springs, CA, United States.
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Pause, C. (2012, March). Live to tell: The experience of early career feminists. Presented at 37th Annual Association for Women in Psychology [AWP] Conference. Palm Springs, CA, United States.
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Pause, C. (2012). Social scholarship: The use of social media in disseminating and collaborating in the 21st century. Poster session presented at the meeting of Vice-Chancellor's Symposium 2012: How are we defining ourselves as 21st century scholars?. Wellington, New Zealand
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Pause, C. (2012, July). You got your intersectionality in my fatness: You got your fatness in my intersectionality.... Presented at 1st Fat Studies Conference: Reflective Intersections. Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Pausé, C., & Carryer, J. (2011, August). The science of fatness: Unpacking the obesity myths. In Science Café, Te Manawa, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Pausé, C. (2010, June). Unpacking the obesity myth. In Women@Massey Lunchbox Series 2010, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Pausé, C. (2008, September). To identity and beyond: The adult identity development project.. In Massey University College of Education Research Forum, Palmerston North New Zealand.
Pausé, C., Andrew, L, ., & Venkateswar, S, .Here and now: ‘Foreign’ women living and working in Aotearoa New Zealand. Presented at Women@Massey Lunchbox Series 2010.
Pause, C.Unpacking the obesity myths. In Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery,and Health, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.