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Who we are

Members of the Section for Interdisciplinary Studies come from a variety of academic backgrounds, both clinical and non-clinical. We are united in our interest in interdisciplinary understanding. We provide teaching opportunities for students that enhance their appreciation of diverse and multiple perspectives on the core topics of biomedical science and medicine.

Names and roles of Interdisciplinary Studies Team
 Name Role
 Annie Bartlett
 Section Head and Professor of Offender Health Care
 Iain Crinson  Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Health and Health Policy
 Linda Perkins-Porras  Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Medicine
 Deborah Padfield  Reader in Arts and Humanities
 James Erskine  Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Behavioural Medicine
 Cyrus Abbasian  Honorary Senior Lecturer
 Victoria Fernandez Garcia De Las Heras   Undergraduate Lead for Psychiatry (P Year)
 Godfrina McKoy  Lecturer in Problem Based Learning
 Margot Turner  Senior Lecturer in Diversity and Medical Education

 

What we do

You will find members of the section teaching on a range of St George's courses across all years using different teaching formats. We offer specific teaching on our areas of interest as specialist modules in the iBSc, a number of SSC modules in years 2, 4 and 5 of the MBBS and in the new Open Spaces programme. 

Opportunities for students for independent study or collaborative work are available on the following topics covered by members of the section:

  • professional and managerial practice in health care systems
  • biomedical science in contemporary society
  • patients and service user understandings of illness and disease
  • stress, burn out, wellbeing and resilience in healthcare staff and students
  • stigma and mental health problems
  • multimedia representations of illness and disease
  • psychology and psychiatry
  • behavioural medicine
  • fine art and medicine: interdisciplinary theory and practice
  • LGBT experience of healthcare
  • gender issues in the criminal justice system.

 

 

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