Tell us a little about your current work and study, especially how you think and practice critically I’m currently working as a researcher in politics at Tampere University, Finland. The premise of the research project I’m involved with is critical. It studies the claim that capitalism is in crisis. The project seeks to respond to the calls to reconceptualise and retheorise capitalism in International Relations, International Political Economy, and Social Sciences more broadly. The subproject I’m a part of analyses “demented subjectivity” critically, both as a challenge to the idea of the neoliberal self-choosing subjectivity of political science, and to the understanding of the … [Read more...] about Anna Rajala – 30 DoS – Day 30

I grew up in Nigeria.  Sports has always been an important part of my life. In my neighbourhood growing up, I watched the excitement in young boys during football matches every day, and their disappointment missing out following injury. Now, I'm flying high at two things: design and construction of healthcare and sporting facilities, and sports injury rehabilitation. I have served in sustainability, medical doping, healthy athletes, and fun fitness capacities during the FIFA World Cup, the African cup of Nations, an IAAF Road race, the Paralympics, the Special Olympics, and Universaide and Youth games. My most recent work: Can global running gait and psychological status affect … [Read more...] about Lucy Inyang Edet – 30 DoS – Day 28

Tell us a little about your current work and study, especially how you think and practice critically. Being an indigenous practitioner means that my critical thinking and practice is set firmly in how we reduce health access barriers and inequities not only for our indigenous population, but for all at-risk marginalised populations, e.g., LGBQT+ In 2021 Accident Compensation Corporation, our national accident insurance provider, recognised the importance of Rongoa in Maori Health approaches, and we are for the first time able to refer our clients to Rongoa practitioners. Rongoa is the restoration of Mauri — the balance of our wairua (spiritual), hinengaro (mental), whanau (family … [Read more...] about Sandra Kettle – 30 DoS – Day 27

Tell us a little about your current work and study, especially how you think and practice critically I am an Associate Professor in physiotherapy at St George's University of London and teach pre-registration physiotherapy and other allied healthcare programmes. My teaching interests relate to communication, self-management approaches, social justice, reflective practice and professionalism/interprofessional working. My research also reflects this, and particularly exploring where inequalities in education and student experience might exist and working out strategies to address these. So, I suppose with this focus on social justice embedded in my teaching and research, I always have a … [Read more...] about John Hammond – 30 DoS – Day 26

Over the past three years, I’ve been working on my PhD-thesis and thus striving to develop research skills, particularly in the field of critical health research. The thesis deals with patient-centeredness in physiotherapy practice, which is a topic I’ve been engaged in for some time, theoretically as well as in practice. I’ve been a physiotherapist for almost 30 years and have experienced the profession from many perspectives, both as a clinician where I trained as a musculoskeletal therapist and later as a lecturer at the physiotherapy programme. In terms of thinking critically, it was my transdisciplinary master’s in ‘Health Promotion and Educational Science’ which opened my mind to a … [Read more...] about Louise Søgaard Hansen – 30 DoS – Day 25