Updates

Since November 2021, the Mix & Match project has been effectively paused for me to undertake a six-month secondment with Anthony Nolan, the UK stem cell registry. I’m fortunate enough to be learning lots about the challenges and opportunities confronting the global stem cell infrastructure through this placement. The placement has been funded by the … Continue reading Secondment and project break

I was invited to speak to the Durham University Health & Social Theory group this month about Mix & Match. My presentation, chaired by Professor Tiago Moreira, was an overview of the recent peer-reviewed publication “It’s harder for the likes of us”: racially minoritised stem cell donation as ethico-racial imperative (click for an Open Access … Continue reading Presentation to Durham University’s Health & Social Theory group

The first peer-reviewed academic journal article from Mix & Match has now been published. The article is entitled “It’s harder for the likes of us”: racially minoritised stem cell donation as ethico-racial imperative. Because this research is funded by the Wellcome Trust, this article is entirely Open Access. This means that you should be able … Continue reading First paper from project: racially minoritised stem cell donation as ethico-racial imperative

On Friday, I presented the developing ideas around patients’ appeal work that I’ve been writing about and that will soon be submitted for peer review. The title for the paper was Whose Load To Bear?: Racially Minoritised Stem Cell Campaigners And The Individuated Fight For Equity. It formed part of one of the 4S panels … Continue reading 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) Annual Meeting

At this year’s British Sociological Association ‘MedSoc’ or Medical Sociology conference, my colleague Prof Anne Pollock (KCL, Global Health & Medicine) and I put together a virtual roundtable to discuss the broad intersection of social scientific work on race and health. We had an exciting roster of speakers include Dr Brett St Louis (Goldsmiths), Dr … Continue reading BSA MedSoc 2021 – Race in the Round

I had the pleasure of delivering a talk from Mix & Match to the Black Health and the Humanities network today. The network, comprising a group of PhD and early-career scholars working within the humanities and in adjacent disciplinary fields, acts as a training programme of workshops. It is led by PI Dr Josie Gill … Continue reading Presentation to the Black Health and the Humanities network

I presented an ongoing paper I’m developing from the project at this year’s European Sociological Association (ESA) conference, which was supposed to be held in Barcelona but which instead took place online! The substance of the paper was similar to the BSA presentation I gave in the Spring which you can watch here, and the … Continue reading European Sociological Association conference 2021

This week, I was invited to present to the wider donor experience team at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) on my research by their Head of Organ Donation Marketing. In the presentation, I shared some of the ideas emerging from Mix & Match, particularly around the interconnection between ethics, emotion and ethnicity in the way racialised communities … Continue reading Presentation at “Lunch and Learn” @ NHS Blood and Transplant

I was recently invited to speak at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Enviroments of Health. At the event, a symposium on health and nationalism, I spoke alongside Lara Choksey, the event organiser, and colleagues John Narayan (King’s College London), Des Fitzgerald (Exeter), and Alexandre White (Johns Hopkins).  The event was inspired by my paper with Des, John … Continue reading Centring the global context of stem cell transplant: “a treatment not yet accessible to all”

The recent All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Stem Cell Transplantation inquiry into barriers to accessing treatment and care has launched its report, No Patient Left Behind (click to download). At the launch of the APPG report, Henny Braund, Chief Executive of the UK stem cell registry Anthony Nolan, spoke about the key findings and recommendations … Continue reading Project findings cited in parliamentary report