London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Post-Doc, Department of Social and Environmental Health Research

Research Fellow

About

Since November 2009 I have been based as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am currently lead researcher with Prof Tim Rhodes on two qualitative research projects: 'Staying Safe: A sociology of how people who inject drugs avoid hepatitis C in the long term' and ‘HCVtx: barriers and facilitators to hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs.” My doctoral thesis ('Negotiating the pull of the normal: Embodied narratives of living with hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia) utilised phenomenological and governmentality approaches to explore the embodied and intersubjective experiences of 40 people living with hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia as well as the social structures which informed these experiences. My research interests include: issues affecting people who inject drugs, hepatitis C, chronic illness experiences, stigma, harm reduction, phenomenology, embodiment, auto-ethnographic and narrative methodologies. If you have any feedback or questions relating to any of my papers, talks or issues to do with hepatitis C in general, feel free to contact me on magdalena.harris@lshtm.ac.uk