Dr Jieun Kim is a socio-cultural anthropologist fascinated by the ways personal narratives reflect and shape social identity and belonging. Her research in Japan and South Korea focuses on how people navigate social boundaries, with a special interest in the multiple meanings of blood and blood donation. As the Project Leader of “Hematopolitics,” she is excited to listen to people’s stories and explore creative and engaging ways to share them with wider publics.
Dr Claire Turner (2024-) is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Society for Renaissance Studies. She is currently researching the sensory history of cancer in early modern England. She recently worked as a Research Assistant for the Wellcome-funded LivingBodiesObjects project, where she designed exhibition materials for Thackray Museum of Medicine. Claire is interested in how we convey the senses through digital media, a question she hopes to answer as Digital Engagement Fellow.
Beth Lavery was the Project Support Assistant (2021 – 2022) on the Hematopolitics project, supporting research activities and events. Her personal research interests focused on gentrification, including the urban impact of the marketisation of higher education, as well as the different meanings of food in urban space, its commodification, role within neoliberal discourses of health, and its role as a driver of poverty.