Below we highlight some of the projects and initiatives led by members of Health, Mind and Society.
CARE: Diabetes in Ghana
The CARE project aims to generate contextual understanding of Type-2 Diabetes (T2D) in urban Ghana (Accra), with a focus on three communities in Central Accra (Ga Mashie (James Town and Ussher Town) and Abogbloshie. ÌýAll three communities represent lower socioeconomic groups and areas that are densely populated and have a growing double burden of infectious and chronic disease.
Embodied Inequalities of the AnthropoceneÌý
Contact Sahra Gibbon and for more information.
Adolescent Sociality Across Cultures
The social environment around us during our formative teenage years can have life-long implications for health and behaviour - but how this happens may be different between cultures. In this project, we are establishing a cross-cultural collaborative research programme on adolescent sociality, initially focusing on Japan and the UK.Ìý
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Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
The project seeks to critically evaluate the history of what is viewed as an ‘epidemic’ of chronic and non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and provide an historical account of the evolution of chronic and non-communicable diseases in Africa, going beyond a simple account of ‘transition’, and to contribute to wider debates on the nature of epidemiological change.Ìý
Biosocial Lives of Birth CohortsÌý
This project examines birth cohorts as sites of knowledge, practice and participation in the UK, Portugal, Netherlands and Brazil. Taking birth cohorts as objects of ethnographic inquiry it aims to examine and intervene on how birth cohort research and biosocial science is coming into being.Ìý
Contact Sahra Gibbon for more information.
Ageing Playfully
Led byÌýDr Carrie Ryan (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Anthropology) and Professor Paul Higgs (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Psychiatry).
Growing Sensations
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