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 including hepatitis C, HIV, and Covid-19). In this episode - which also took place as a live seminar - Kari shares three ideas that have shaped her thinking and research:

• Problematisation (Carol Bacchi, Michel Foucault)
• Ontological politics (John Law, Annemarie Mol)
• Coming to science and technology studies (STS) "sideways"

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 and thinking:

1. Canguilhem, Georges. 1991. The Normal and the Pathological. Translated by Carolyn R. Fawcett. New York: Zone Books.
2. Lury, C. and Wakeford on ‘Inventive methods’ – Introduction to Inventive Methods: The happening of the social. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 25–36
3. Donna Haraway, and more recently Jasbir K Puar on ‘Cyborgs and Goddesses. Puar JK. “I Would Rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory. In: Feminist Theory Reader. 5th ed. Routledge; 2020.

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) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire. Seabury Press, 1970 2) Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker. Oxford University Press, 2007 3) Flourishing Spaces website - https://www.creativeenquiry.co.uk/

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 of California Press, 1999 2) High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart. HarperCollins, 2013 3) Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks. Routledge, 1994

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 Women Mattered by Cynthia Enloe. University of California Press, 2013 2) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color, by Kimberle Crenshaw. Stanford Law Review, 1991 3) The Health Disparities Research Industrial Complex by Jerel Ezell. Social Science and Medicine, 2024

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:

1. The notion of acquiring bodies - McDonald, M. 2014. ‘Bodies and cadavers’. In The Routledge Companion to Objects and Materials. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
2. Yates‐Doerr, E. 2020. Reworking the Social Determinants of Health: Responding to Material-Semiotic Indeterminacy in Public Health Interventions. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 34, 378–397
3. Opportunities and ethical issues when using Facebook ethnography

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 project to understand biopolitics in the post-Covid19 era. On this episode of Thinking In Between, she shares three ideas that have influenced her research and thinking:

1) "Death Without Weeping" by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California Press

2) Lacan's concept of extimacy

3) Foucault's concept of biopolitics

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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, teaching, and research:

1) The concept of totality

2) The work of Edward Said, particularly his book Orientalism

3) The tensions between global health and (inter)national security - here, Aida speaks about the paper "Global Health Security: Security for whom? Security from what?" by Simon Rushton (Political Studies, 2011)

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