Staff profile

Dr Jordan Mullard (she/her) is an interdisciplinary social scientist specialising in the qualitative study of intersectionality, identity, race, caste, and the social determinants of health and health inequality. She has been heavily involved in the decolonising of anthropology, has written on the subject for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and has offered consultancy on decolonising and anti-racism to a range of stakeholders.

Her current research explores the intersections of inequality and marginality highlighted in the recent pandemic and its relationship to our understanding and treatment of Long Covid. Currently, half of Jordan's time is spent working on the NIHR LOCOMOTION project into Long Covid at Leeds Institute for Health Sciences and Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development. She is also engaged in work that explores the concept of love, the family, and the intersections of identity (race & mixed race, class, gender, and sexuality), allyship, and impact of identity labour on health.

In addition to her academic research and teaching experience, Jordan has had an applied consultancy career in anti-racism, race equality, and Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) learning, development and policy where she co-designed and led large scale race equality, cross-cultural knowledge, and EDI consultancy projects across private, public and not-for-profit sectors both nationally and internationally. She has also worked as a consultant for Black-Led community development initiatives and health and social care research at the local and national level.

Citizenship

University and Department

• Challenge Academy Lead (race, culture and inequality) Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
• Health and Social Theory Research Group
• Anthropology of Health Research Group
• Concerns, Bullying and Harassment Advisor

Current Teaching

• Co-Convenor Level 2 Sociology of Health and Medicine
• Level 2 Research Methods in Action

Past Teaching in Anthropology

• Module Convenor for Level Three Decolonising Anthropology
• Module Convenor for Level Three and PGT Health Inequalities
• Module Designer for Anthropological Research Methods in Action: The Captain Cook’s Birthplace museum field trip.
• Lecturer Global Health and Disease

Chapter in book

• Mullard, J. (2014). Low Caste Elites and Re-Traditionalised Responses: Identity, Status, and Reciprocity in an Economically Uncertain Time. In C. Still (Ed.), Mobility or Marginalisation: Dalits in Neo-Liberal India. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315661940

Journal Article

• Mullard, J., Mir, G., Herbert, C., & Evans, S. (online). ‘You’re just a Guinea pig’: Exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long COVID‐19: A view from the undiagnosed. Sociology of Health & Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13795
• Kwon, J., Milne, R., Rayner, C., Rocha Lawrence, R., Mullard, J., Mir, G., Delaney, B., Sivan, M., & Petrou, S. (online). Impact of Long COVID on productivity and informal caregiving. European Journal of Health Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-023-01653-z
• Mullard, J. C. R. (2024). Authenticity and recognition: Theorising antiracist becomings and allyship in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Anthropological Theory, 24(2), 111-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231193608
• Mullard, J., Kawalek, J., Parkin, A., Rayner, C., Mir, G., Sivan, M., & Greenhalgh, T. (2023). Towards evidence-based and inclusive models of peer support for long Covid: A hermeneutic systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 320, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115669
• Mullard, J. (2021). Race, Racism and Anthropology: Decolonising Health Inequality in a Time of Covid-19. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.8.1.5112
• Russell, A., Johnson, L., Tupper, E., Keegan, A.-A., Atkher, H., & Mullard, J. (2021). ‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course. Teaching Anthropology, 10(3), Article 38-45. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i3.604

Other (Print)

• Mullard, J. (2017). The effective use of evidence: Using data to drive improvement in the delivery of care provider services. For the National Care Forum, on behalf of Research in Practice
• Mullard, J. (2016). Employment support for disabled adults: An evidence scope. For Scope, on behalf of Research in Practice
• Mullard, J. (2016). Best practice in transforming the customer journey: Supported self-assessments
• https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/publications/2016/october/enabling-social-care-to-thrive-in-an-integrated-environment-leaders-briefing-2016/
• Mullard, J. (2015). Supporting successful integration - improving outcomes in social care and health (CHART): Frontline Briefing. RiPfA https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/publications/2015/march/supporting-successful-integration-improving-outcomes-in-social-care-and-health-chart-frontline-briefing-2015/
• Mullard, J. (2014). Exploring the relationship between safeguarding and domestic abuse: A review of policy and legislation. For Local Government Association, on behalf of RiPfA
• Mullard, J. (2011). Improving the lives of Black and Ethnic Minority communities in Bristol: An evaluation of the reaching communities. Big Lottery programme, on behalf of Signpost
• Mullard, J. (2010). Empowerment & participation in community planning and social enterprise development: An impact evaluation of the CLG Empowerment Fund on disadvantaged groups in the South West (delivery of the white paper Communities in Control: real people, real power), on behalf of the Black Development Agency