Welcome to Thinking In Between. We explore how social theory and qualitative methods can illuminate the messy world of health and healthcare. In each episode, we invite a researcher working at the borderlands of social science and health to choose three “big ideas” that have influenced their research journey and the way they think.
Public Health Critical Race Methodology, Bounded Justice, and Extractive Abandonment (Melissa Creary)
Thinking In Between is back! On this episode, we welcome Dr Melissa Creary who is Associate Professor in Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health at the University of Michigan. Melissa discusses these three ideas:
1) The public health critical race methodology: praxis for antiracism research, and this paper in particular:
Ford CL, Airhihenbuwa CO. The public health critical race methodology: praxis for antiracism research. Soc Sci Med. 2010 Oct;71(8):1390-8. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.030. Epub 2010 Aug 11. PMID: 20822840.
2) Bounded Justice, originally described in this paper:
Creary MS. Bounded Justice and the Limits of Health Equity. J Law Med Ethics. 2021;49(2):241-256. doi: 10.1017/jme.2021.34. PMID: 34924041; PMCID: PMC8245211.
3) Extractive Abandonment, originally described in:
Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Health Communism. New York: Verso Books, 2022
Throughout, Melissa reflects on insights from being a scholar living with sickle cell disease, and on what it is like to work in a health equity space during this particular historical moment .We finish on the practice of dreaming justice.
25 Nov 2025
Ethics and Ethnography (Catherine Pope, Nicola Mackintosh, Shadreck Mwale, and Fawn Harrad-Hyde)
In this episode of Thinking In Between, we welcome four experienced ethnographers working in health and social care research: Professor Catherine Pope (University of Oxford), Professor Nicola Mackintosh (University of Leicester), Dr Shadreck Mwale (University of West London), and Dr Fawn Harrad-Hyde (University of Leicester), to discuss:
- The particular value of ethnography as a research approach
- Issues encountered when ethnographic research plans are reviewed during research governance processes
- Learning from the "Ethics and Ethnography" symposium, held at the University of Oxford in March 2025
- What can ethnographers do now when navigating research governance?
- Where is change possible moving forward?
1 Sept 2025
Knowledge is Power, Ian Hacking, and Racialisation
This episode of Thinking In Between hears from Dr Sara Paparini, a medical anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Equity at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London. Sara's research began in HIV but has expanded to applying critical public health and anti-racist lenses to many other areas. Sara shares three big ideas with us in this episode:
Knowledge is Power - "Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism" by Catherine Hall (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Differences in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" by Rana Hogarth (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), 156-157
Ian Hacking on "Making People Up". The particular lecture that Sara discusses is Kinds of People: Moving Targets (https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2043/pba151p285.pdf), which he presented at the British Academy in 2007. Another key text is "The Taming of Chance" by Ian Hacking (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Racialisation - a particular malevonent form of "making people up", which Sara uses Hacking's work to understand. Sara shares from "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" by Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Verso, 2022)
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