My current research interests are in qualitative approaches to structural violence, social suffering, homelessness, and mental health in urban contexts. I’m also interested in critical approaches to the neoliberal restructuring of workfare/welfare programs in both Canada and Iceland, and their effect on marginalized populations. As a medical anthropologist, I’m keenly interested in ethnographic theory, method and writing, as well other approaches to qualitative research such as narrative analysis, social phenomenology, discourse analysis, etc. In addition to the aforementioned areas, I also have interests in critical approaches to biomedicine, particularly psychiatry as well as the interface between informal, community-based models of care and care-giving and biomedical approaches thereto.
