Bodies, Wellbeing and the Lifecourse
Research undertaken within this theme confronts modes of power, violence, oppression, marginalisation, and exclusion through the lens of their effects on human bodies and wellbeing at various stages of the lifecourse.
Focal points of our research include effects on the strength, potentials, pleasures, suffering, health, and functions of human bodies during childhood, youth, the reproductive years, the processes of ageing, and dying.
Those associated with this theme develop critical understandings of, and provocative responses to, such phenomena. They seek to deconstruct the ideologies that obfuscate, and to promote resistance to the dominant discourses that legitimate, violent, oppressive, marginalising, and exclusionary relations and processes.
Through developing new ways of knowing and engaging with these relations and processes, theme members contribute to current debates on ongoing challenges and emerging crises and to endeavours to conceptualise the social and political conditions that underlie them.
Activities of the research theme:
- Offer opportunities for colleagues with similar research interests but different approaches to share their experiences of how they go about doing their research.
- Provide a space for colleagues to share their successful stories of grant applications and/ or their experience in assessing grants.
- Actively engage PhD students in the research theme, for example by offering practice pre-viva talks.
- Foster collaborations across the research themes for joint collaborations for research and funding applications, including White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Studentships.
For more information on our work in Wellbeing and Health Across the Life Course, please contact Dr Matthias Benzer at m.benzer@sheffield.ac.uk or Dr Lois Orton at l.orton@sheffield.ac.uk.