This week we were invited to talk about body mapping and Long Covid research with graduate students of Medical Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. The students were curious to know about the concrete application of body mapping in public health settings, the ways body mapping may be usedContinue reading “Discussing Long Covid research and body mapping with Medical Anthropology students”
Author Archives: maaretj
Our research team at the Royal Geographical Society’s Annual Meeting in London, August 2024
We presented the Body mapping toolkit for Long Covid patients at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society in London. The session, titled ‘Body mapping in geographical research: Embodied and collaborative ways of mapping bodies, communities, and environments’ was organised by Thembi Luckett (University of Newcastle) and Maaret Jokela-Pansini (University of Oxford) and includedContinue reading “Our research team at the Royal Geographical Society’s Annual Meeting in London, August 2024”
Oonagh Cousins on BBC Breakfast
Oonagh Cousins interview in The Times
‘Long Covid and ME have devastating impacts on individuals, families and society more widely. NHS figures — which are massively outdated — indicate that ME affects at least 250,000 people across the UK. However, it is estimated that upwards of 1.3 million people are living with ME or ME-like symptoms following a Covid-19 infection’. ToContinue reading “Oonagh Cousins interview in The Times”
