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TitleFirst NameLast NameDeptHEISummary of Research InterestsWebpageEmail
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ProfJulieAndersonSchool of HistoryKentThe history of medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is particularly interested in the cultural and social history of physical disabilities and blindness, and is currently completing a monograph on a medical history of blindness 1900-1950. https://www.kent.ac.uk/history/people/382/anderson-juliej.p.anderson@kent.ac.uk
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DrStellaBolakiSchool of EnglishKentIllness narratives and disability studies. Her recent monograph Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture explores the aesthetic, ethical and cultural importance of contemporary representations of illness across different arts and media. https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-stella-bolaki/s.bolaki@kent.ac.uk
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ProfIlariaBoncoriEssex PathwaysEssexThe intersections between identity, race, the body, gender, sexuality and processes of organising, as recently investigated in studies focused on aspects such as transgender and gender non-conforming inclusion in organizations, motherhood and miscarriage in organisations, and ethnic discrimination in entrepreneurial funding.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/bonco04906/ilaria-boncoriiboncori@essex.ac.uk
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JudithBueno De MesquitaSchool of LawEssexHealth and human rights, development and rights, and economic, social and cultural rights. Particular interests in sexual and reproductive health, as well as the work on health and rights of UN institutions.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/bueno81608/judith-bueno-de-mesquitajrbuen@essex.ac.uk
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DrDianaBullen PresciuttiSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexThe visual culture of social problems in Renaissance Italy, focusing on popular piety, civic ideology, urban ritual, and intersections of class, gender, and cultural production. Includes work on charitable institutions (hospitals, confraternities) and medical humanities.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/presc37605/diana-bullen-presciuttidbpres@essex.ac.uk
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DrChristopherBundockDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)Essex18th and 19th century medicine, especially nervous illness and phenomena (eg. hypochondriasis, phantom limb, the vapours); Representations of embodiment and pain in 18th-19th c literature, theatre, and visual art; The early-19th c vitalism controversy and late-19th c vitalist revival (Driesch, Bergson); Thinkers such as John and William Hunter, William Cullen, and Robert Whytt. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/bundo93002/christopher-bundockchristopher.bundock@essex.ac.uk
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DrMatthewBurchSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexFailures of agency (e.g., akrasia and addiction), the phenomenology of risk, and the ideal of objectivity in science and law.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/burch90704/matthew-burchmburch@essex.ac.uk
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DrRuthCainKent Law SchoolKentThe regulation and representation of reproduction and parenting, especially maternity. She is interested in tracking relationships between law, literature, popular culture and the media, and how these shape perceptions of gender, sexuality and embodiment. Other major interests are health care law, including mental health law; the gendering of capitalism, neo-imperialism and post 9/11 trauma.https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-ruth-cain/r.c.m.cain@kent.ac.uk
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ProfJeremyCarretteSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentInterdisciplinary aspects of the study of philosophy, religion and culture.https://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1665/carrette-jeremyj.r.carrette@kent.ac.uk
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DrHarrietCooperSchool of Health SciencesUEACritical medical humanities, disability studies, health sociology, method, disciplines, material conditions of research production, precarityhttps://people.uea.ac.uk/h_cooperh.cooper@uea.ac.uk
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DrDavidCorfieldSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentThe philosophy of science and mathematics. His interests range from probability theory and physics to psychology and medicine,https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-david-corfield/D.Corfield@kent.ac.uk
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DrCatherineCrawfordDept of HistoryEssexThe construction of medical authority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centurieshttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/crawf46403/catherine-crawfordcrawc@essex.ac.uk
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ProfVybarrCregan-ReidSchool of EnglishKentLiterature, the environment, evolution, the Victorians (esp. Hardy & Dickens), biomechanics, sports science, bodies, Babylonian literature.https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/83/cregan-reid-vybarrv.cregan-reid@kent.ac.uk
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DrShinjiniDasSchool of HistoryUEAHistories of colonial medicine in 19th and 20th centuries, with particular focus on histories of public health, alternative medicine, medicine and religion, and modern South Asia.https://people.uea.ac.uk/s_dass.das@uea.ac.uk
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DrDieterDeclercqSchool of ArtsKentA lot of my current research deals with mental health and wellbeing in popular media, and sits at the intersection between media studies, philosophy, health humanities and psychology.https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/academic-staff/declercq.htmldd324@kent.ac.uk
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DrLarryDuffySchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentThe interplay between literary, scientific, and medical discourses in nineteenth-century France.https://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1792/duffy-larryw.l.duffy@kent.ac.uk
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ProfFabianFreyenhagenSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexSocial pathology (can society be ill or make us ill?), with a particular focus on mental distress and its social conditions; reason and language in the early Frankfurt School; acting irrespective or without hope; and ethics after Auschwitz. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/freye91801/fabian-freyenhagenffrey@essex.ac.uk
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DrDeclanGilmore-KavanaghSchool of EnglishKentsexuality and masculinities in eighteenth-century literature and culture.https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/89/gilmore-kavanagh-decland.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk
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DrNikhilGokaiEssex Law SchoolEssexHis research explores how we can tackle the risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases (particularly unhealthy diets, excessive alcohol consumption and air pollution) and the associated health inequalities through legal mechanisms. Nikhil leads the medical humanities group at Essex. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/gokan09708/nikhil-gokaninikhil.gokani@essex.ac.uk
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DrMarieGuillotSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexPhilosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of psychologyhttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/guill51902/marie-guillotmarie.guillot@essex.ac.uk
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CorinnaHackmannNorwich Medical SchoolUEAWorking with WHO to redraft how diseases are classified to better reflect lived experience.https://people.uea.ac.uk/c_hackmannc.hackmann@uea.ac.uk
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ProfBeatriceHan-PileSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexMeaning and appropriateness of the strict division between agents and patients, the nature of medio-passive agency as well as the possible roles of the theological virtues for ethical guidance in situations of powerlessness.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/hanbe65302/beatrice-han-pilebeatrice@essex.ac.uk
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DrJackHartnellSchool of Art, Media and American StudiesUEAThe visual culture of late medieval and early renaissance medicine, cartography, and mathematics.https://people.uea.ac.uk/j_hartnellj.hartnell@uea.ac.uk
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DrKatjaHausteinSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentModern French and German autobiographical writing in relation to visual culture; memory and identity; literature and emotions; literature and ethics; and art and medicine. https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-katja-haustein/K.M.Haustein@kent.ac.uk
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DrJoyHawkinsInterdisciplinary Institute for the HumanitiesUEAThe body, health and diseases in the past, particularly during the late Middle Ages. She also explores the changing understandings of ailments, injuries and bodily fluids over time, considering how patients' and practitioners' experiences have been recorded throughout history. https://people.uea.ac.uk/j_hawkinsj.hawkins@uea.ac.uk
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ShonaIllingworthSchool of Music and Fine ArtKentan artist who works across sound, film, video, photography, drawing and painting. Major works using moving image and/or sound, take the form of gallery based and site specific installation. Her work combines interdisciplinary research (particularly with emerging neuropsychological models of memory and critical approaches to memory studies) with publicly engaged practice.https://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/staff/staff-profiles/fineart/3Illingworth.htmlS.Illingworth@kent.ac.uk
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DrClaireJonesSchool of HistoryKentThe cultural, economic and social history of medicine and health in modern Britain, with particular emphasis on the relationship between medicine and commerce, and ways in which this relationship affects professional social structures, ethics, and technologies.https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-claire-jones/c.l.jones-26@kent.ac.uk
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Dorothy LehaneSchool of EnglishKentCreative writer, currently engaging in a study exploring questions surrounding the social, ethical and perceptual implications of communicating the aberrant body in poetic practice. Her most recent publication Bettbehandlung [Bedrest] engages with the cultural, social, and historical treatment and abuses of the mentally ill,https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/97/lehane-dorothyd.lehane@kent.ac.uk
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ProfTraceyLoughranDept of HistoryEssexThe interaction of ideas and experiences of body, mind and self; currently holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Humanities and Social Sciences for the project Body, Self and Family: Womens Psychological, Emotional and Bodily Health in Britain, c. 1960-1990.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/lough89901/tracey-loughrant.loughran@essex.ac.uk
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DrSaraLyonsSchool of EnglishKentHow late 19th- and early 20th century novelists conceptualised and represented human intelligence, particularly in the context of the bildungsroman and in relation to modern efforts to render intelligence measureable in the interests of a meritocratic ideal.https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/99/lyons-saras.n.lyons@kent.ac.uk
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ProfRobinMackenzieKent Law SchoolKentForensic, ethical and medical aspects of neuroscience, regulation of health and bioscience technologies, robotics, neurodiversity and constructions of disability, decision-making capacity, body alteration, neurorehabilitation, end of life decision-making, psychoactive substance use, enhancement, ethical and legal relations between species, critical/cultural theory and feminist perspectives applied to all the above.https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/professor-robin-mackenzie/R.Mackenzie@kent.ac.uk
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ProfWayneMartinSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexDirector of The Essex Autonomy Project, a research and public policy initiative which aims to clarify the ideal of self-determination, with particular attention to the vocations of care (healthcare, eldercare, psychiatric care, etc.). He currently leads a workstream associated with the Wellcome-funded Mental Health and Justice research project. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/marti82306/wayne-martinwmartin@essex.ac.uk
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ProfIreneMcMullinSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexExistentialism, Phenomenology, Ethics (especially virtue ethics and Kantian ethics), Moral Psychology, Social/Political, Aesthetics, and in particular questions of personhood and self-becoming - espeically the role that other people play in those things.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/mcmul34502/irene-mcmullini.mcmullin@essex.ac.uk
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ProfSusanMcPhersonSchool of Health and Social CareEssexTherapy outcomes and effectiveness, Social care, fostering and adoption, Chronic depression (long term psychotherapy, management in primary care, informal caring), Psychiatric labelling, Social history and history of health and carehttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/mcphe54701/susan-mcphersonsmcpher@essex.ac.uk
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DrRoannaMitchellSchool of ArtsKentHer work bridges theory and practice, specialising in psychophysical performer training in acting and dance, and the existing and potential relationship between performer training and social/political/health contexts.https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/2150/www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/2150/mitchell-roannar.e.mitchell@kent.ac.uk
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DrJamieMurdochSchool of Health SciencesUEAUsing linguistic ethnography to evaluate the implementation of complex healthcare interventions: analysing context, texts and disruptionshttps://people.uea.ac.uk/jamie_murdochjamie.murdoch@uea.ac.uk
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DrPatriciaNovillo-CorvalánSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentComparative and World literature, Medical Humanities, Translation Studies, Modernism, and Latin American Studies. I am interested in how literary artefacts travel across temporal, geographical, and cultural frontiers, particularly in the wake of Walter Benjamin’s notion of the ‘afterlife’ of a text, which may be read as a larger metaphor for the circulation, survival, and resurrection of texts through the centuries.https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-patricia-novillo-corvalan/P.Novillo-Corvalan@kent.ac.uk
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DrGabrinaPoundsSchool of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication StudiesUEAThe expression of attitude, subjectivity and emotion in news and advertising discourse and the communication of empathy and person-centeredness in medical consultations, police interviews and other professional contexts, both online and face-to-face.https://people.uea.ac.uk/g_poundsg.pounds@uea.ac.uk
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ProfCaroleRawcliffeSchool of HistoryUEAThe theory and practice of medicine in medieval England, with particular emphasis upon hospitals, the interconnection between healing and religion, and urban health.https://people.uea.ac.uk/c_rawcliffec.rawcliffe@uea.ac.uk
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ProfMichaelRoperDepartment of SociologyEssexTrauma and inter-generational transmission; the memory and commemoration of war; subjectivity, emotion and gender; interviewing and psycho-social methods; families and inter-generational relationships; the history of psychoanalysis, and the application of psychoanalytic ideas ‘outside the clinic’.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/roper59903/michael-ropermrop@essex.ac.uk
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DrNatashaRuiz-GomezSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexArt and science/medicine, Rodin's oeuvre, Nineteenth-century French sculpture, Architecture and urban planning in nineteenth-century Paris, Rodin and science, Jean-Martin Charcot and art, Objectivity and medical imagery, Medical portraiture, Nineteenth-century medical photography, Theories of degeneration and geniushttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/ruizg89008/natasha-ruiz-gomeznatashar@essex.ac.uk
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ProfAnna KatharinaSchaffnerSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentMedical humanities, cultural history, the histories of sexuality, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and mind-body theory. https://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1613/schaffner-anna-katharinaa.k.schaffner@kent.ac.uk
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DrAlviseSforza TarabochiaSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentHistory and philosophy of psychiatry, Italian theory, biopolitics and Lacanian psychoanalysis.https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-alvise-sforza-tarabochia/A.Sforza-Tarabochia@kent.ac.uk
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ProfNicolaShaughnessySchool of ArtsKentworks with psychologists and neuroscientists through projects using drama, media and participatory research practices to explore autism, dementia and mental health.https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/538/shaughnessy-nicolan.shaughnessy@kent.ac.uk
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ProfSallySheldonKent Law SchoolKentHealth care law and ethics, and the legal regulation of gender. She has published widely in the area of medical ethics and law.https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/professor-sally-sheldon/S.Sheldon@kent.ac.uk
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DrLisaSmithDept of HistoryEssexGender, health, the household, and the body--particularly, pain, illness experience, reproduction/infertility and domestic medicine. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/smith62403/lisa-smithlisa.smith@essex.ac.uk
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DrRadlucaSoreanuPsychoanalytic StudiesEssextheories of recognition, and theories of collective trauma and collective creativity.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/sorea81205/raluca-soreanuraluca.soreanu@essex.ac.uk
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SianStephensonSchool of ArtsKentInterest in ageing, dementia and disabilities married with the possibilities of movement-based techniques such as Feldenkrais and Alexander, sign language, dance and physical theatre to facilitate the telling of individual stories and experiences in a performance context.https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/539/www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/539/stevenson-sians.stevenson@kent.ac.uk
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DrAndreaStocklNorwich Medical SchoolUEAHow society, culture and history shape our understanding of how body and mind are related and how this in turn shapes our knowledge of health, illness and disease. I also have an interest in how our knowledge and practices of the management of health and illness are genderedhttps://people.uea.ac.uk/a_stockla.stockl@uea.ac.uk
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DrStevenTaylorSchool of HistoryKentIdeas and constructions of mental difference; the historical process of diagnosis; ability and disability considered through a lens of perfection/imperfection; institutional care across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the psychological impact of forced migration on children. https://www.kent.ac.uk/history/people/3408/www.kent.ac.uk/history/people/3408/taylor-stevens.taylor-642@kent.ac.uk
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MelissaTriminghamSchool of Arts KentPuppetry, masks, costume, objects and scenography; the theatre of the Bauhaus and Modernism; autism and theatre; and cognition. https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/melissa-trimingham/M.F.Trimingham@kent.ac.uk
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ProfFreyaVassSchool of ArtsKentSocial dancing as serious leisure among the "oldest old" in the Kent region, including issues of community maintenance, wellbeing/"successful aging", self-esteem, mobility, and cultural heritage. Also head of Kent Embodied Research Collective (https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/kerc/)https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/2144/vass-rhee-freyaf.vass@kent.ac.uk
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DrGeorginaWalker ChurchmanInterdisciplinary Institute for the HumanitiesUEAhttps://people.uea.ac.uk/g_walker-churchmang.walker-churchman@uea.ac.uk
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ProfChristieWatsonFaculty of Arts and HumanitiesUEARemit is to "work closely with both the Faculties of Arts and Humanities, and Medicine and Health Sciences, to ensure an integrated development of medical and health humanities in terms of creative research, public engagement, teaching and curriculum development".https://people.uea.ac.uk/christie_watsonchristie.watson@uea.ac.uk
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DrDanielWattsSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexKierkegaard, Wittgenstein, The theory of judgement, Medical Humanities, Existentialism and phenomenology, Moral and political philosophy and Philosophy of religionhttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/watts20616/daniel-wattsdpwatts@essex.ac.uk
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DrMichaelWildeSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentEpistemology and the philosophy of science. His recent research develops a theory of evidence to help understand how causal claims are established in medicinehttps://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1679/wilde-michaelm.e.wilde@kent.ac.uk
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DrNoniaWilliamsSchool of Literature, Drama and Creative WritingUEATwentieth-Century Literature; Modernism; Critical Theory; experimental aesthetics and forms; feminism, gender and sexuality; literature and madness; representations of ageing; issues of archival and recovery research; Ann Quin; Doris Lessing; Muriel Spark.https://people.uea.ac.uk/nonia_williamsnonia.williams@uea.ac.uk
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ProfJonWilliamsonSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentthe philosophy of causality, the foundations of probability, formal epistemology, inductive logic, and the use of causality, probability and inference methods in science and medicine.https://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1678/williamson-jonj.williamson@kent.ac.uk
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DrClareWrightSchool of EnglishKentMedieval drama and performance culture, focusing especially on questions of space, place, embodiment, medieval performance paradigms and practices. Includes the body and the senses; bodily experience; embodied cognition; distributed cognition; kinaesthetic empathy https://www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-early-modern-studies/people/122/wright-clarec.wright-468@kent.ac.uk
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DrXunZhouDepartment of HistoryEssexFood systems, diet and health; Touch and wellbeing; Discourse of disabilities in Asia; Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia; Risk perception and communication. Health Intervention and Delivery in the PRC.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/zhoux11804/xun-zhouxzhoug@essex.ac.uk
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