Department Member, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
Research Fellow
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Thesis Title: Pain Incarnate: A narrative exploration of self-injury and embodiment
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Angus Bancroft
Steve Platt |
About
I am a sociologist specialising in mental health (particularly self-harm/suicide), health services research, and qualitative, life-story methods. Theoretically I am interested in the importance of bodies to understanding 'lived experience'; the impact of communication (in the broadest sense) on mental health and family life; the ways in which embodied practices become medicalised; how health related practices are negotiated in medical and other settings.
Currently I am research fellow on a study exploring understandings about parenting capacity among drug users and service providers.
Alongside this, I remain active in disseminating and developing work from my PhD research on self-harm. The research comprised a sociological analysis of self-injury, focusing on embodied aspects of the behaviour.
I contribute to undergraduate teaching in Sociology and Contemporary Feminist Debates. In addition, I co-ordinate the Sociology and Criminology programme for the LEAPS summer school (http://www.leapsonline.org/summer-school.html).
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