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Rosie Jones McVey

Rosie Jones McVey is a social anthropologist with key interests in research relating to minds, mental health, behaviour, ethics and morality. Perhaps surprisingly, Rosie’s background is in horse training. Rosie’s first career involved retraining ‘problem’ horses, including in live demonstrations around the world, working closely with renowned ‘horse whisperer’ Kelly Marks. This led to travels […]

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Grace Redhead

Biography I am a historian of medicine and the modern British welfare state, with particular interests in oral history, chronic illness and health inequality in the National Health Service. My PhD dissertation explored contact between the UK health service and people living with the genetic illness sickle cell disease (SCD), which primarily affects people of […]

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Alexandra Hillman

Alex is a medical sociologist. Her research has focused on the care of older people in emergency and acute care, and, more recently, engages with the social and ethical aspects of dementia diagnosis and what it means to live well with dementia. The themes in her research reflect broader sociological concerns, including the sociology of […]

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Rebecca Lynch

Dr. Rebecca Lynch is an anthropologist of the body and of (bio)medicine and is Lecturer in Medical Anthropology based in WCCEH. She completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at University College London (UCL).  Rebecca is interested in the dynamic, changing, fluid body and its boundaries, moral aspects of health and medicine, and (bio)medical categorisations (including […]

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Conny Guell

Biography I am a medical anthropologist and my research focuses on healthy living practices and policies and how these are shaped across the lifecycle, population groups, and socio-cultural, historical, political and economic contexts. After completing a first degree in sociology and social anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and graduate training in medical anthropology at […]

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Jan Ewing

Biography I was a family law solicitor in private practice, including at partnership level in a career spanning 20 years. Having acted for countless clients whose relationship fell apart through neglect, I became interested in how to keep relationships vibrant and thriving. I undertook an MJur at the University of Durham (2005) examining legislation aimed, […]

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Lora Fleming

Biography I graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Hispanic Studies in 1978, followed by a MSc in the History of Science at Imperial College, London University in 1979. I studied Occupational and Environmental Health in the context of a post graduate MD MPH at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Public Health School graduating […]

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Felicity Thomas

Biography I graduated from University College London with a BA (Hons) in Anthropology and Geography, and then spent several years working in the international NGO sector, focusing on educational provision and development in post-conflict states within sub-Saharan Africa. I returned to academia to undertake a PhD on the impacts of HIV and AIDS on rural […]

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Dora Vargha

Biography I completed my PhD in Modern European History and Women and Gender history in 2013, at Rutgers University in the United States. Before joining Exeter, I was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and a postdoctoral fellow at The Reluctant Internationalists research group at Birkbeck, University […]

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Laura Salisbury

I am Professor in Modern Literature and Medical Humanities. My room is 119 in the Queen’s Building. I have research and teaching interests in modernist, postmodernist and contemporary fiction; medical humanities; modernity and the contemporary; post-structuralism; philosophies of temporality, ethics and affect; psychoanalysis; neuroscience and language. I have published widely on the work of Samuel […]

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Robin Durie

Biography I wrote my PhD at Edinburgh University on the phenomenology of time and of our consciousness of time. My first post was at Staffordshire University, where, in addition to teaching philosophy, I was also fortunate enough to set up interdisciplinary post-graduate programmes for artists and designers who wanted to conduct research in philosophy alongside […]

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Luna Dolezal

Biography I am a Professor in Philosophy and Medical Humanities. My research is primarily in the areas of applied phenomenology, philosophy of embodiment, philosophy of medicine and medical humanities. My work is driven by an interest in understanding lived experience and embodiment, and how these intersect with, are co-determined by, the socio-political and technological frameworks […]

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Manuela Barreto

Biography I graduated in Psychology at the University of Porto, Portugal, and obtained a PhD in Social Psychology at the Free University, Amsterdam, funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship. I then worked at Leiden University, the Centre for Social Research and Intervention (Lisbon), and came to the University of Exeter, in 2011, as a Professor […]

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Anne Barlow

Biography I graduated from Sussex University with a BA (Hons) in Law with French and European Studies. I also studied at the University of Strasbourg, France and the College of Law, London, before qualifying and practising as a solicitor in London for 10 years, specialising in Family and Housing Law. I began my academic career […]

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Katrina Wyatt

Biography I joined the Medical School in Exeter in 2000 as Lecturer in Research Methods with the Research and Development Support Unit (RDSU), now Research Design Service. As part of the RDSU I became the lead for Folk.us, a Department of Health funded research programme which sought to create a culture of meaningful service user, […]

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Steve Hinchliffe

Biography I studied Geography at Durham and undertook an MPhil and PhD at the University of Bristol. The PhD was concerned with public engagement in environmental issues and involved work in the UK and Denmark with a stint at the European Parliament. After this I lectured at Cambridge, Keele and then the Open Universities. At […]

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Mark Jackson

Biography I graduated initially in Immunology (BSc, 1982) and then in medicine (MB BS, 1985) from St. Thomas’ Hospital, University of London. Following a brief period in clinical practice, I completed doctoral studies, funded by the British Academy, at the University of Leeds on the history of infanticide in eighteenth-century England. Having taught undergraduate history […]

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Rebecca Flemming

I am the inaugural A.G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought. My research focuses on ancient medicine in its social and cultural context, with special attention to gender, sexuality, and reproduction. I take an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, using literary texts and material objects as well as modern scientific evidence to […]

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Judith Green

Judith Green joined the Centre in March 2020 as Professor of Sociology, after posts at King’s College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  With a background in anthropology and medical sociology, her research has bridged public health and the social sciences, most recently focusing on issues of mobility, environments systems and […]

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