As the cost-of-living, health and social care crises in Britain intensify, members of the public are increasingly sharing through public channels stories of caring for themselves and their loved ones. What are the value and significance, if any, of listening to ordinary people’s stories of self-care in the current crises? Does listening to these stories offer opportunities to the public to understand the connection between personal struggles and the political and structural aspects of the current crises? This project will address these questions by attending to the lived experience of self-care of people living in London across lines of age, gender, social class, race and ethnicity, and location, and by examining the value of radio shows where listeners call in to share these experiences.
Professor Shani Orgad (PI)
Shani Orgad is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.
Professor Orgad’s research interests include gender, feminism, and media; representations, inequality and contemporary culture, representations of suffering and migration, new media, narrative and media, media and everyday life, media and globalisation, and ethnographic research methods.
Dr Divya Srivastava (Co-I)
Divya Srivastava is a guest teacher in the Department of Health Policy at LSE.
Divya’s background is in health financing, health economics, pharmaceutical policy, and digital health technologies. Recent work includes inclusion of key populations vulnerable to HIV and AIDS in health insurance schemes for Universal Health Coverage in the Asia Pacific, and regulation of digital health technologies. Her work as been published in various journals including Social Science and Medicine, BMC Public Health and Applied Economics. She was previously an Associate Editor for Globalization and Health.
This project is funded by the LSE Research and Impact Support Fund which aims to fund world-class research and knowledge exchange activities by LSE academic, research and policy staff.