In 2019 I was awarded the Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship with the Ethox Centre at Oxford University. This was a very exciting opportunity for me, a recent post-doctoral student who had been working with the Humanitarian Health Ethics (HHE) research group after having completed my PhD in Media Studies. The scholarship was to go towards spending 4 weeks with this unit of bioethicists interested in all manner of global health-related topics. My plan was to work on developing a ethics framework exploring the ethical and practical dimensions of incorporating a unique type of community health workers to support palliative care in refugee camp settings. Particularly, the workers would be refugees themselves. The proposed work was building off R2HC funded research with the HHE exploring these same dimensions of palliative care in different humanitarian crisis settings. As I was just beginning a new job at McMaster University as an Academic Program Advisor with the Global Health graduate program, it was not possible for me to take up the scholarship in 2019. Luckily, I could postpone it to 2020. This plan was however thwarted due to the lockdowns that came with the COVID-19 pandemic. By 2021, the pandemic was still raging, further postponing the scholarship. Finally, in June 2022, I was able to take up the post for 3 weeks as my job would not support me being away for a full month.
In the intervening time, of course my interests shifted somewhat, though to a great extent, the initial proposed topic was still relevant, possibly even more so with the global changes that the COVID pandemic amplified or led to. My personal interests, however, had shifted more towards wanting to focus on arts-based methods, visual theories and ethics of representing suffering, people in vulnerable states or who are often depicted as 'lesser than'. To read about my experience and what I trained my lens on, see this blog post shared on the Ethox site.
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