Staff profile
| Affiliation | Telephone |
|---|---|
| Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Sociology | |
| Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing | |
| Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities |
Biography
My educational and research background is in the social sciences, with a specific interest in interdisciplinary approaches.
I obtained my BA in social sciences and my MA in sociology at Allameh Tabataba'i University. My master's dissertation was concerned with the problem of gender and the city, focusing on the concept of 'the women-friendly city'. Being interested in gender issues as well as interdisciplinary studies, I completed my PhD at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University of Belfast, UK. My PhD thesis investigated "the problem of motherhood" from a cognitive anthropological, evolutionary, and historical perspective. My first research project at Durham was concerned with immigration and mental health. I investigated migrants' experiences with mental health care in the UK from the 'cultural models' approach. I have recently started a new study on the cultural conceptualisation of cognitive frailty in the UK. I also collaborate with the InSPIRE consortium, which is led by Professor Brian Castellani and works on the impacts of air pollution on dementia.
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