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Biography

Suzanne studied Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews (MA (First Class Honours) (1999); PhD (2006)) and Public Health Research at the University of Edinburgh (MSc 2009-10). Her doctoral degree was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentship and an Emslie Horniman/Sutasoma Trust Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Based on ethnographic fieldwork amongst the Nivaclé indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco region of lowland South America from 2001-03, her PhD examined the impact of Mennonite settler colonisation on Nivaclé wellbeing. She has subsequently held research posts at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow on the impact of financial incentives on UK general practice organisation and culture, before being appointed as Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at the University of Dundee in 2013.

Research Interest

Medical anthropology; anthropology of healthcare safety and quality; wellbeing; dignity; professional, patient and family perspectives on patient safety and quality of care; socio-technical systems; qualitative methods; ethnography; video reflexive ethnography (VRE); meta-ethnography.