Introduction Many years ago I heard a teenager screaming to her mother "You are a worm that enters the brain of your own child to drive her crazy!" In those days, blaming mothers for the mental health of their offspring...
The Nobel Prize winners David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel demonstrated that kittens deprived of sensory input in one eye at birth remained permanently blind in that eye. The story of a blind kitten certainly tugs at the heart strings, but...
In November 2016 I left Oxford to conduct 12 months of fieldwork in Darndale, in Northside Dublin, Ireland. Since then, many among my new friends and colleagues have been asking me what exactly I am doing here. And when I...
Abstract accepted at the workshop on ‘Critical Medical Anthropology Workshop', Oaxaca, Mexico, 16-20 January 2017 Abstract: Early interventions in child development and maternal health, according to what is considered to be the “gold standard”, should be conducted alongside a Randomized...
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 595, Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries (Sep., 2004), pp. 204-222 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political...
Excerpt from the paper given at the Newton Fund Research Links workshop, held in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia from August 28th to September 2nd 2016, and funded by the British Council. The value of ethnography for early intervention Over the past...
Upon receiving the call for papers for the panel Raising Europe: managing parents and the production of good citizens, I immediately thought it was relevant for our BeGOOD research on mothering and early intervention. The notion that parents can be...
Excerpt from the paper given at the Inter Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Dubrovnik, 4-9 May 2016 "This is the purposeful reflexive combination of 'evidence-based practice' and 'practice-based evidence' (Thase, 2006). The problem is, how...
Abstract accepted at the Rags to Riches 2016 Workshop, "Great Expectations? Childhood and Social Mobility", The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 10 June 2016, Exeter College, Oxford Workshop website Abstract: The recognition that early childhood care has a crucial...
Motivation for inclusion: Shepherd argues that a system that places high value on reliable measures to demonstrate effectiveness of home visiting is not designed to understand outcomes such as personal relationships, but only tangible ones. Hence, studies lacking an ethnographic...
Investigates the conceptualisation and enactment of ‘good practice’ in early intervention in psychosis services, from the perspectives of service users and clinicians
BeGOOD Project Lead
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Young Leader on the Lancet Commission for Global Mental Health
Postdoctoral Researcher Citizens:EIE
Postdoctoral Researcher Mothers:EIE
Investigates the conceptualisation and enactment of ‘good practice’ in early intervention in psychosis services, from the perspectives of service users and clinicians
Postdoctoral Researcher Citizens:EIE
Investigates the political and ethical dimensions of early intervention in maternal and child development
DPhil Student
Research Assistant - Citizens:EIE
Will investigate young people’s moral attitudes to, and judgments about a range of early intervention strategies
Research Assistant Psychosis: EIE
Former DPhil Researcher Mothers:EIE
Research Assistant Citizens:EIE
DPhil Student Citizens:EIE
