Newcastle University

Introduction

This has been a year of new opportunities for me - I have moved from PEALS Research Centre to take up a post as Social Anthropology Teaching Fellow in GPS Sociology. This new role has allowed me to continue to develop my teaching experience alongside an active reasearch role. Areas of research interest, which continue to hold an enduring fascination for me, include: paediatic health care; narratives of kinship and self; and notions of consumer culture related to health care settings and wider societal concerns.

Roles and Responsibilities

Module Leader:

SOC1027 Comparing Cultures 2012-13 

SOC3087 Consuming Lives 

Combined Honours representative for Sociology

Qualifications

Ph.D. Newcastle University, December 2004
‘Singled Out? An Ethnographic Study of Lone Parents’ Consumer Strategies in East End Newcastle.’ Lead supervisor: Prof Peter Phillimore. ESRC Funded.

BA (hons) Social Studies, University of Newcastle 1997 (1st Class)

Memberships

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

British Sociological Association (BSA) 

Research Interests

Understandings of new medicine and technology in everyday worlds;

Experiences and perspectives of medically othered children and their families;

Critical engagements with professional cultures (health and social care);

Processes of social and cultural marginalisation;

Ethnographic and ethical research practices.

Other Expertise

I have over 6 years experience working in sensitive areas of health-related research exploring socio-cultural understandings of health and wellbeing.

My research skills include in-depth ethnographic interviewing, obervational work in formal settings such as medical consultations and informal settings such as home and community, and working with children and young adults.

Involved in organising dissemination outputs which engage with a range of audiences.

Recent Research

Kinship & Genetic Journeys: A Study of Families Who Are Referred to Paediatric Genetics (PI Professor Janice McLaughlin. ESRC Funded)

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/research/project/2745

Postgraduate Supervision

Co-supervisor, along with Dr Janice McLaughlin (lead), Dr Tracy Finch, and Prof Sir John Burn:
Lorraine Cowley, 'Living with Hereditary non Polyposis Colon Cancer.' Funded by Cancer Research UK. -Doctorate Awarded  2012

Projects

• Kinship and Genetic Journeys: A study of the experiences of children and their families referred to paediatric genetics
  Project Leader(s): Dr Janice McLaughlin

GPS Sociology Module Leader 2012-13:

SOC1027 Comparing Cultures Stage 1 (20 Credits)

SOC3087 Consuming Lives Stage 3 (20 Credits) 

Medical School IHS 2011-2013:

HSC8047 Health & Society MSc in Public Health & Health Services Research  - 'Genetics and Risk'

• Clavering EK, McLaughlin J. Children's participation in health research: from objects to agents?. Child: Care, Health and Development 2010, 36(5), 603-611.
• Clavering EK. Betwixt and Between: Managing Marginalised, Classed Identities. In: Taylor, Y, ed. Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010, pp.117-136.
• McLaughlin J, Goodley D, Clavering EK, Fisher P. Families Raising Disabled Children: Enabling Care and Social Justice. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008.
• Clavering EK. Enabling carers to care: Processes of exclusion and support for parents of young disabled children. Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 2007, 15(1), 33-44.
• Clavering EK, McLaughlin J. Crossing multidisciplinary divides: Exploring professional hierarchies and boundaries in focus groups. Qualitative Health Research 2007, 17(3), 400-410.
• McLaughlin J, Clavering EK. Visualising difference, similarity and belonging in paediatric genetics. Sociology of Health and Illness 2012, 34(3), 459-474.
• McLaughlin J, Clavering EK. Questions of kinship and inheritance in pediatric genetics: substance and responsibility. New Genetics and Society 2011, 30(4), 399-413.