Julia Keenan

Floor 4
Informatics Collaboratory of the Social Sciences
The University Of Sheffield
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP

Tel: 0114 222 6286

Background:

2002-2006: PhD: `The Governance of Health through Risk: Sickle cell and Thalassaemia in Sheffield´ ESRC CASE Award (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield)
2001-2002: MA: Social and Cultural Geographies (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield)
1997-1998: PGCE: Upper Primary (Sheffield Hallam University)
1994-1997: BSc: Geography (University of Sheffield)

Current Role:

Julia Keenan joined the `Changing Habits? Food, family and transitions to motherhood´ project as Research Associate in Jan 2006. This project extends her theoretical interests into health, embodiment and governance in the transitional context of women´s food/feeding choices for themselves and their infants/young children and families.

Research Interests:

Health, risk and governance/governmentality
Embodiment
New Genetics
Parenting cultures

Experience & Publications:

The following user-friendly summaries from my PhD research are available to view/download, please click on the boxes to the right of this page, for full reports please contact the author directly.
Keenan, J (2007) Sickle cell and thalassaemia in Sheffield – Executive Summary
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Keenan, J (2004) Questionnaire Survey Results (Summary) Sickle cell and thalassaemia in Sheffield
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