Conferences

A selection of conferences the team have recently presented their work at:

Using ethnography to explore and address inequity in primary care.

Elton, L, and Fudge, N | Society of Academic Primary Care South East Conference | January 2026

Democratising research through PPIE and ECR collaboration in an AI-in-Healthcare research project

Mountain S, Thompson A, Reynolds N, Reynolds DJ, Barnes MR | Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium | Paris 2025.

Ethnography for exnovation: interdisciplinary practices in the creation of ‘AI-in-health’ technologies

Swinglehurst, D, Reynolds, DJ, and Clinch, M | STS Hub: Diffracting the Critical | Berlin, 2025.

Using arts-based methods to include the perspectives of underrepresented groups in the development of artificial intelligence tools in healthcare research.

Remfry E, Morgado De Queiroz S, Mathur R, Barnes MR, Thomson A, Reynolds DJ | Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium | Paris 2025.

Explaining the unexplainable: The Paradox of Explainability in the Development of Artificial intelligence

Reynolds, DJ | Alan Turing, AIM RSF Seminar | February 2025.

How an AI-in-healthcare project shifted from reactive to proactive PPI by engaging everyday decision makers in research

Reynolds DJ | Health Science for Health Equity | November 2025

Troubling the model of “blocked flow” in sickle cell crises and their care.

Hibbs SP |British Sociological Association Medical Sociology, University of Northumbria, Newcastle | 2025

Navigating research processes as a novice clinician ethnographer

Hibbs SP | Ethics and ethnographic research in NHS settings “Better ethics – Better research” Symposium |University of Oxford, 2025

Non-teleological ethics of care: a case for open-ended methods in researching illness experiences

Esca van Blarikom | May 2024 | Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA

How digital innovation in primary care disrupts the clinical consultation
Sophie Spitters | February 2024 | UCL Qualitative Research Network

Treating guinea pigs as people to aid medical innovation: An ethnographic study of trusting in medical practice

Duncan Reynolds | July 2023| EGOS, Cagliari

Decisions at a distance: Digital triage and the mediation of access in care
Sophie Spitters | April 2023 | Nordic STS Conference

Living on’ with long-term health conditions: the potential to flourish in situations of chronic crisis.
Esca van Blarikom | 2023 | British Sociological Association Annual Conference

The politics of problematic polypharmacy: Whose knowledge counts?
Deborah Swinglehurst and Nina Fudge | September 2022 | BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, Lancaster

Chronic Crisis: “living on” in the context of long-term health conditions.
Esca van Blarikom | August 2022 | Medical Anthropology Young Scholar (MAYS) Annual meeting, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Exploring narrative experimenations with people with multiple, long-term health conditions.
Esca van Blarikom | July 2022 | European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, Belfast, UK

The technological reshaping of general practice: hype and reality [Keynote]
Deborah Swinglehurst | June 2022 | Nordic Congress of General Practice, Stavanger, Norway

Resisting immobility: the quest for change and hope in the narratives of working-age people living with complex multimorbidity
Esca van Blarikom | 2022 | Ethnographies in the NHS workshop

Exploring narrative experimentation with people with multiple, long-term health conditions
Esca van Blarikom | 2022 | European Association Social Anthropology Conference

Rules of engagement: talk in medication reviews & GP registrars’ identity negotiation: a narrative study [posters]
Sarah Pocknell | May 2022 | QMUL NIHR Integrated Academic Training Research Day

Researching medicines management at home: combining ethnographic and participatory methods with people with dementia
Lucie Hogger | Jan 2022 | RAI Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology

A study protocol for researching working-age adults’ navigations through complex systems of care
Esca van Blarikom | Jan 2022 | RAI Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology

Opportunities and challenges for research on multiple long term conditions [Keynote]
Deborah Swinglehurst & Chris Salisbury | Nov 2021 | NIHR Academy Members’ Conference

Tackling Polypharmacy in Practice: too little evidence or too much emotion?
Deborah Swinglehurst & Nina Fudge | Jul 2021 | SAPC Annual Conference

Family, faith and health: How do older Pakistanis living in East London self-manage multimorbidity? [Poster]
Najia Sultan | Jul 2021 | SAPC Annual Conference

GP registrars’ experiences of participating in a GP surgery ‘community of practice’ during COVID-19: A narrative study of their learning through identity formation
Sarah Pocknell | Jul 2021 | SAPC Annual Conference2023

Gathering Insights from Co-Production and Patient Involvement in Sickle Cell Disease Research

Hibbs SP | Annual Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Conference (ASCAT) | London, 2024

“Fit to sit”? Surfacing hidden consequences of Emergency Department overcrowding on sickle cell crisis care

Hibbs SP, Shaniqua M, Telfer P, Paparini S, Swinglehurst D | ASCAT | London, 2025

Suffering beyond pain and the lens of accompaniment in acute painful crisis care

Hibbs SP, Gaspar A, Hendricks Y, Shaniqua M, Telfer P, Paparini S, Swinglehurst D | Annual Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Conference (ASCAT) | London, 2024

Epistemic boundaries in conversations about the body between people living with dementia and family carers

Hogger, L | 23rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2025) 25-27 | June 2025

Seeking Agreement in Remote Psychiatric Consultations: A Conversation Analytic Perspective

Jittavisutthikul N, Healey P, Bourdin S, McNamee P | In: 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Bielefeld, Germany: | University of Bielefeld; 2025

Negotiating Explainability in the Development of Sociotechnical Intelligence: An ethnographic study of the creation of AI for healthcare

Reynolds, D (2024) | European Association for the Study of Science and Technology | June 2024

Awaking from the “moral anaesthetic” of quantification: An ethnographic study of the creation of Artificial Intelligence for general practice.

Reynolds, D, Clinch, M and Swinglehurst, D | Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference, Oxford | 2024

The imaginary body in contemporary medical practice

Esca van Blarikom | May 2024 | Idesça Conference: Identity and

identification with and beyond Lacan’s ninth seminary. Keynote

Navigating the Future: Innovations in Primary Care Organisations
Sophie Spitters | April 2024 | Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare

Medicines and the self: Identity and relationships in households with dementia‘
Lucie Hogger | February 2024 | International In Sickness and In Health Conference, Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

“Living on” with multimorbidity: image-based workshops as flourishing practices.
Esva van Blarikom | 2023 | Royal Anthropological Institute: Film Festival and Conference

Making decisions about consultation modality in general practice

Sophie Spitters | September 2023 | SPRC Showcase

Beyond the digital front door: Choreographing triage across primary care spaces
Sophie Spitters | 2023 | MedSoc

Living on with multiple health conditions: how people make lives in conditions of chronic crises
Esca van Blarikom | 2022 | Medical Anthropology Young Scholars 2022

Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology. A study protocol for researching working-age adults’ navigations through complex systems of care

Esca van Blarikom | 2022 | Royal Anthropological Institute: Medicine Conference

Polypharmacy: an expression of epistemic injustice Deborah Swinglehurst | Jun 2021 | The Social Lives of Polypharmacy, University of Copenhagen

Polypharmacy: entangled emotions
Nina Fudge | Jun 2021 | The Social Lives of Polypharmacy, University of Copenhagen

GP registrars’ experiences of participating in a GP surgery ‘community of practice’ during COVID-19: A narrative study of their learning t