Research
Centre for Social Science and Global Health
The Centre for Social Science and Global health (SSGH) is a platform that brings together social scientists and humanities scholars working on global health. We build on a broad conception of the field of global health, be this in terms of substantive foci, geographical scale and location. The ‘global’ in global health pertains particularly to globalised dimensions of health and inequity. The study of ‘global health’ is not limited to particular sites, but concerns connections, flows and entanglements, whether between technologies, institutions, policies, actors, phenomena, health narratives or ways of ‘doing’ health.’
Key Themes
SSGH members engage with a variety of key themes, including planetary health and ecology; sexual and reproductive health and rights; disability, mental health and wellbeing; and rights and governance. Our members work on topics varying from respectful maternity care to vaccine hesitancy, from cognitive disabilities to the politics of birth registration, from sexuality education to mobility and conceptualizations of the ‘good’ life.
Members have specialist methodological expertise in a wide range of approaches including advanced survey methods, (hospital) ethnography, participatory (evaluation) methods, discourse and conversation analysis and historical, archival research.