DATE / TIME:

2017•11•03    10:30 - 12:00

Location:

Kuala Lumpur

Gender Health and Place

Drawing from fieldwork in ‘National Parks’ in the UK and New Zealand, this presentation focuses on the multiple ways in which health assemblages are enacted through physical activity in those spaces. In the presentation, particular attention is given to the ways in which Place and Gender matter in the shaping of health experiences.

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Dr. Sara MacBride-Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. She teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in health, medicine, gender and the environment.
She completed her doctorate at Waikato University (New Zealand) in 2001. Sara has a professional practice postgraduate qualification in Community Psychology and had previously taught in Gender Studies at Canterbury University.

She is a feminist interdisciplinary researcher who studies subjects as diverse as patient experiences, professional practice, medical ontologies, nature-cultures, mobilities, and the social aspects of human embodiment.

Her most recent work considers the role of National Parks in health and ‘green care’, where she is working on a range of projects including a geocaching project in Brecon Beacons National Park and an off-road women’s only marathon event.

Her publications include work on North-South Interconnectedness (Simon-Kumar et al, 2017; MacBride-Stewart et al 2017), Gender, Environment and Health (MacBride-Stewart et al 2016a) and Equality (Johns et al, 2013; MacBride-Stewart et al, 2016b).