Events

11 September 2022 — On biomedical Affects. Oral paper presented at the panel Un/settling objects of knowledge in the biomedical sciences, part of the AAA Annual Meeting 2022.

17 – 21 June 2022 —  Consensus building workshop. As part of the REPRESENT collaboration, I supported the UCL team in the organisation of this 3-day online workshop bringing together researchers, health professionals, community engagement practitioners and public contributors to discuss recommendations that address inclusion, diversity and trust-building in early cancer detection research.

22 April 2022 — Justice for Whom? Exploring Notions of Justice in the Context of Participant Representation in Cancer Research Early Detection. Oral paper co-presented with Maya Raphael at the British Sociological Association Virtual Annual Conference Building Equality and Justice Now.

28-29 April 2022 — Elusive risks interactive session. Invited session co-organised with Kelly Fagan Robinson for the British Psychosocial Oncology Society virtual conference ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Psychosocial Oncology’.

30 March 2022 — Achieving reassurance: An ethnographic study on the implementation of a cancer screening test. Invited panel speaker at the UK Society of Behavioural 17th Medicine annual scientific meeting. Panel on ‘Using new technologies to speed up progress in early diagnosis of cancer: exploring the role of behavioural science’, chaired by Professor Jo Waller.

18-21 January 2022 — Examining Collaborations in Molecular Research Infrastructures panel, at the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology online conference. Co-organised with Henry Llewellyn (University College London), Libuše Hannah Veprek (LMU Munich) and Rebecca Carlson (Toyo University).

October and November 2021 — Philomathia Social Sciences Seminar Series at the University of Cambridge. I was the chair of the online keynotes by Antonia Walford (Digital Anthropology, UCL) on ethnographic approaches to “data practices”, and Nicole Nelson (History of Medicine, Wisconsin-Madison) on the reproducibility crisis in meta-science. The series is co-organised with Juan del Nido, Kasia Cieslik and Debangana Bose.

27 September to 11 October 2021 — Co-curator of Images of Risk and Care exhibition at the Cambridge Central Library based on the CRUK-funded project “Elusive Risks” and supported by various community organisations.

23 September 2021 — Achieving reassurance: An ethnographic study on the implementation of a cancer screening test. Invited speaker at the Wellcome Connecting Science’s Workshop: Meaning(s) and Values of Early Detection, organised by the Society & Ethics Research team at the Sanger Institute.

11 October 2021 — Conversation with members of Grid Oncology and Cartographies of Malignancy research groups at Kings College London, based on my article Emotion work during colorectal cancer treatments.

16 September 2021 — Co-organiser of CRUK-funded Elusive Risks roundtable, bringing together academics, cancer researchers and community experts at Robinson College, Cambridge UK. Co-organised with Kelly Fagan Robinson.

9 August 2021 — Chair of the panel: Introduction to Health Inequalities. International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection Virtual Summer School.: Precision Early Detection for All. Manchester, UK.

15 July 2021 — From another lens: An anthropological perspective on cancer and care in the UK. CRUK Cambridge Centre Lecture Series in Cancer Biology and Medicine. Cambridge, UK.

May 2021 — Disentangling hype from hope in cancer care: When biomarker discovery and novel forms of patient work meet. Senior seminar, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Read the full paper here.

March 2021 — Aligning temporalities: Navigating the challenges of translating cancer signals into technologies for the early detection of cancer. Chronic Living Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark. Read the full paper here.

March 2021 — Chronic Living panel “Living with cancer: between the promises of innovations and the experience of chronicity”. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Co-organised with Cinzia Greco and Nils Graeber.

June 2019 — Outliers in cancer research: who are the hard-to-reach and for whom? Paper presented with Kelly Fagan Robinson at the ASA conference. Norwich, UK. The book chapter “Meanings at the Margins of Cancer Research”, co-authored with Kelly Fagan Robinson is forthcoming at UCL Press.

April 2019 — Multidisciplinary workshop ‘Ethnographies of disease stratification: Understanding novel clinical practices and their social consequences in contemporary cancer care’, Cambridge, UK. Co-organised with Julia Swallow, Emily Ross, Cinzia Greco, and Henry Llewellyn. Read the final report here.   

September 2018 — Is Pembrolizumab a game-changer in cancer care? Possibility and frailty of world-making projects. Wellcome Trust networking workshop ‘Remaking Cancer’. Manchester, UK.