Dr Bojana Daw Srdanović (she/her)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Associate
- Profile
-
I am a research associate with iHuman and the Peninsula Medical School at the University of Plymouth. I am currently working on Humanising Healthcare, a co-produced project that documents examples of positive healthcare practices enacted in relation with patients with learning disabilities. In documenting such practices, the project seeks to theorise what Humanising Healthcare might mean for patients with learning disabilities.
- Research interests
-
I am an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher, working within the framework of Critical Disability Studies, often under the broad umbrella of Medical Humanities.
With many years’ experience of working with people with learning disabilities in a variety of contexts, including social care, drama and research, my research interests revolve around care, including health and social care, dis/ability and theatre/performance. I am particularly interested in how care is enacted and articulated in a variety of contexts, with a focus on the relationship between the theory and praxis of care.
My PhD research was funded through the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. My thesis explores how actors with learning disabilities construct professional identities against a backdrop of stigmatisation and exclusion from traditional pathways into professionalism. In doing so, it theorises inclusive theatre companies as locations of resistant care, ie spaces where care is enacted in ways that contrast the othering and dehumanising attitudes witnessed in both mainstream theatre and social care.