In this episode, we speak to Professor Kari Lancaster from the University of Bath. Kari speaks about her career journey so far, coming from performance studies to policy studies and then into science and technology studies (STS) "sideways". Kari is recognised for contributing empirical social science research in her specific fields of focus (drugs and addiction, and infectious disease including hepatitis C, HIV, and Covid-19). In this episode - which also took place as a live seminar - Kari shares three ideas that have shaped her thinking and research:

• Problematisation (Carol Bacchi, Michel Foucault)
• Ontological politics (John Law, Annemarie Mol)
• Coming to science and technology studies (STS) "sideways"

Thinking In Between is back! On this episode, we welcome Dr Natassia Brenman, who is a senior qualitative researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Nat's research focuses on the challenges around improving access to healthcare and how technologies influence health practices. Today, she discusses three big ideas that have influenced her research and thinking:

1. Canguilhem, Georges. 1991. The Normal and the Pathological. Translated by Carolyn R. Fawcett. New York: Zone Books.
2. Lury, C. and Wakeford on ‘Inventive methods’ – Introduction to Inventive Methods: The happening of the social. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 25–36
3. Donna Haraway, and more recently Jasbir K Puar on ‘Cyborgs and Goddesses. Puar JK. “I Would Rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory. In: Feminist Theory Reader. 5th ed. Routledge; 2020.

This month, Professor Louise Younie from the Institute of Health Sciences Education at QMUL shares three ideas that have shaped her journey as an academic, a general practitioner, a person living through cancer diagnosis and treatment, and a creative teacher. Louise's work focuses on using creative enquiry to explore professional identity formation, human flourishing, and humanising medicine.

1) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire. Seabury Press, 1970 2) Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker. Oxford University Press, 2007 3) Flourishing Spaces website - https://www.creativeenquiry.co.uk/