Thinking In Between

In this episode of Thinking In Between, we welcome four experienced ethnographers working in health and social care research: Professor Catherine Pope (University of Oxford), Professor Nicola Mackintosh (University of Leicester), Dr Shadreck Mwale (University of West London), and Dr Fawn Harrad-Hyde (University of Leicester), to discuss: - The particular value of ethnography as a research approach...

This episode of Thinking In Between hears from Dr Sara Paparini, a medical anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Equity at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London. Sara's research began in HIV but has expanded to applying critical public health and anti-racist lenses to many other areas. Sara shares three big ideas with us in this episode: Know...

Our guest today is Dr Sam Miles, Reader in Social Science at Barts and the London Medical School, Queen Mary University of London. He leads social science teaching across the medical school. Today, he talks about what it's like to work in that role, and shares three ideas who have most influenced his work and thinking: 1) Helen Bamber: a remarkable leader and human rights advocate 2) Legacies: par...

In this episode, we're joined by Professor Claire Cameron and Dr Deniz Arzuk from the Social Research Institute in University College London. They bring three ideas that have shaped their work and thinking: 1) Social Pedagogy is a discipline common in much of continental Europe that reframes professional "care" provided to children, focusing on ethics, justice, meaningful activities, and...

In this episode, we speak to Professor Kari Lancaster from the University of Bath. Kari speaks about her career journey so far, coming from performance studies to policy studies and then into science and technology studies (STS) "sideways". Kari is recognised for contributing empirical social science research in her specific fields of focus (drugs and addiction, and infectious disease in...

Thinking In Between is back! On this episode, we welcome Dr Natassia Brenman, who is a senior qualitative researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Nat's research focuses on the challenges around improving access to healthcare and how technologies influence health practices. Today, she discusses three big ideas that have influenced her research an...

This month, Professor Louise Younie from the Institute of Health Sciences Education at QMUL shares three ideas that have shaped her journey as an academic, a general practitioner, a person living through cancer diagnosis and treatment, and a creative teacher. Louise's work focuses on using creative enquiry to explore professional identity formation, human flourishing, and humanising medicine. 1) P...

Episode Notes In this episode, our guest is Jen Randall, Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health at Queen Mary University of London. Jen believes in the transformative potential of teaching, and we hear stories of this through the episode. She shares three ideas which have changed her thinking and pedagogical approach: 1) Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer. University o...

In this episode, we welcome Iona Hindes from the Centre for Public Health and Policy at Queen Mary University of London. Iona is an anthropologist studying the unequal impacts of Covid-19 policies on maternity healthcare experiences. She introduces three ideas, how they have challenged her, and what they have allowed her to see differently: 1) Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Wome...

In this episode of Thinking In Between, we welcome Elspeth Davies. Elspeth is an anthropologist finishing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on social and ethical dimensions surrounding efforts to diagnose risk and prevent cancer. On this episode, she shares three ideas that have shaped her work and thinking: The notion of acquiring bodies - McDonald, M. 2014. ‘Bodies and...

Death Without Weeping, Extimacy, and Biopolitics (Esca van Blarikom) On this episode of Thinking In Between, we welcome Esca van Blarikom, who is a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University in New York State. Esca is an anthropologist who recently completed her PhD exploring the experiences of working-age adults with physical and mental co-existing health conditions. She is now working on a pr...

Totality, Edward Said, and Tensions in Global Health (Aida Hassan) On this episode of Thinking In Between, we welcome Aida Hassan, who is a PhD student at the Centre for Public Health and Policy, Queen Mary University of London. Aida's research on global health draws on insights from international relations and political sociology. Today, she shares how three ideas have shaped her thinking, teachi...

Community Up Research Values, Online Interviewing, and Advocacy (Cervantée Wild) On this episode of Thinking In Between, we are joined by Cervantée Wild who is a research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Cervantée is from New Zealand and her research journey began within a research group that paid close attention to health equity as a m...

Critical Theory, Multiplicity, and Deleuze and Guattari (Jackie Walumbe) Welcome back to the podcast! Our guests now come from beyond our research group and university, so we have a new name to reflect this - "Thinking In Between". Our format and focus remain the same: exploring big ideas shaping researchers at the borderlands of social science and health. Jackie Walumbe is a clinical ac...

Systems Theory, Dialectical Critical Realism, and Boundary Spanning (Sophie Spitters) Sophie Spitters is a Research Associate in the APOLLO Social Science team at Queen Mary University London, and will soon be taking up a new role within an interdisciplinary team at the University of Birmingham. She speaks about her journey from physics to psychology to the social sciences, and explains three idea...

Designing Interactions, The Body Multiple, and Living a Feminist Life (Alison Thomson) Alison Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in Patient Public Involvement and Public Engagement in Science in the Wolfson Institute of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London. Alison has a background in design and a brilliant example of her work bringing a design perspective to medicine can be seen at www.d...

Episode Notes Natalia Concha works as a research fellow working in the ActEarly programme at the Centre for Primary Care at Queen Mary University of London. Natalia is from Colombia and has a research background in sociocultural psychology. Both of these elements of her background have influenced her approach to health research, and she brings three big ideas to the podcast: What can be said? Iden...

Narrative Medicine, Righteous Dopefiend, and Co-production in Research (Stephen Hibbs) Stephen Hibbs is a haematologist by background and recently commenced a PhD in the APOLLO Social Science group, aiming to understand what constitutes good hospital care for people experiencing a sickle cell crisis. In this episode, Stephen is interviewed by Lucie Hogger about three ideas that have developed his...

Evidence-based medicine, the Mystery of General Practice and Bakhtin In our second episode of the APOLLO Social Science podcast, we hear from Professor Deborah Swinglehurst who is Professor of Primary Care and the leader of the APOLLO group. How to read a paper - Trisha Greenhalgh (Wiley Blackwell, first published 1997) The Mystery of General Practice - Iona Heath (Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Tr...

Practice theory, trust and artificial intelligence The social sciences give us tools to understand the human and moral dimensions of health care. This podcast explores the borderlands of social theory and health by inviting researchers to share the ideas that have inspired and shaped their own thinking and practice. In this first episode, we hear from Duncan Reynolds, a postdoctoral researcher in...