Where external representations meet embodied experiences
Join Carol Rivas for this Professorial Lecture which explores how people are marginalised because of identities and how professional staff should respond when faced with this.
Where external representations meet embodied experiences
08 Mar 2023, 17:45 – 19:45
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In this lecture, Carol Rivas will explore how people who are marginalised because of identities as ethnically/racially different, abused, sick or disabled, navigate the worlds of health and community care and education.
She will consider the communication work they do to express embodied experiences as societally accepted external representations and the structures that exclude them. She will also explore how professional staff should respond, when faced with this, to ensure they give the best care.
Drawing on her different studies, methodologies and theoretical models, she will describe both problems and practical approaches that include diverse voices within research and practice. Future experiences can be improved for both practitioners and those they seek to support if the experiential knowledge that is so often subjugated becomes more visible through such approaches, less marginalised (more centred) and thence more accepted.
This event will be particularly useful for population health academics, students, EDI colleagues, policy makers, researchers.
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Her award-winning research focuses on vulnerability and institutional interactions, with research outputs that support instrumental changes in policy and practice. Her focus is on so-called non-apparent disabilities and their intersection with race, ethnicity and migrant status.
Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Social Research Institute's Social Science Research Unit
She is known for her expertise in perspectives and participation in the synthesis of existing research. She has published extensively on young people’s health and wellbeing, using qualitative and mixed-method systematic review approaches.
She is a public health nutritionist and qualitative researcher. Amanda’s research explores health inequalities, particularly amongst minority ethnicities in the UK.
His research covers many aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism, including language acquisition in childhood, education policy and practice regarding bilingual and multilingual learners of minoritized and transnational backgrounds, and the cognitive benefits of language learning. He is editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and the Applied Linguistics Review. He has won the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize twice, for the Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (with Melissa Moyer) and Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Ofelia Garcia). He is a fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences, UK, and Academia Europaea.