Conferences

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

Conferences
 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
 
 
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 through identity formation 
Sarah Pocknell | Jun 2021 | NIHR National Academic GP Training Conference
Innovation and Education in the Covid-19 Era’: Primary Care & Covid-19: a GP registrar’s perspective [Keynote]
Sarah Pocknell | Mar 2021 | Manchester Medical Society’s COVID 19 symposium
The potential of linguistic ethnography for exploring polypharmacy in the context of dementia
Lucie Hogger | Mar 2021 | Chronic Living Conference, Copenhagen
“I am just medicine”: Polypharmacy narratives from the Pakistani community in East London
Najia Sultan & Deborah Swinglehurst | Mar 2021 | Chronic Living Conference, Copenhagen
Behind Closed Doors: the private life of polypharmacy
Deborah Swinglehurst & Nina Fudge | Mar 2021 | Chronic Living Conference, Copenhagen
The emotional ties that bind polypharmacy: a video-reflexive ethnography of professional practices of polypharmacy.
Nina Fudge, Lucie Hogger & Deborah Swinglehurst | Mar 2021 | Chronic Living Conference, Copenhagen
‘Doing safety’ in community pharmacy: an ethnographic study [Poster]
Nina Fudge & Deborah Swinglehurst | Jan 2020 | PRIMM
Generalism: an international perspective [Keynote]
Deborah Swinglehurst | Nov 2019 | Think tank on Generalism, University of Calgary
Organising polypharmacy: unpacking medicines, unpacking meanings [Invited Distinguished Paper]
Deborah Swinglehurst & Nina Fudge | Nov 2019 | NAPCRG, Toronto