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Professor in the Department of Geography+44 (0) 191 33 41871
Co-Director in the Institute for Medical Humanities+44 (0) 191 33 48144
Advisory Board Member in the Centre for Death and Life Studies

Research interests

  • Wellbeing and Community Wellbeing
  • Critical Medical Humanities
  • Spaces and practices of care of the body
  • Arts, health and wellbeing

Esteem Indicators

  • 2019: Key-note speaker 19th International Medical Geography Symposium, Queenstown, New Zealand:
  • 2019: Key-note speaker, Conference on Existential Medical Humanities, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Swedish Network for Medical Humanities:
  • 2016: Key-note speaker, ISRF funding workshop on 'Financialisation, Social Investment and Wellbeing' Roskilde, Denmark:
  • 2015: Invited key-note speaker at the International Workshop: Medical humanities: Exploring advantages and disadvantages in an emerging interdisciplinary field, University of Lund, Sweden.:
  • 2014: Key-note speaker: Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Health Research within Social Sciences (NNHSH), Helsinki, Finland:
  • 2014: Invited member: WHO international steering group, the cultural determinants of wellbeing, WHO Copenhagen:
  • 2014: Invited speaker: History, humanities and global health, WHO Geneva.:
  • 2014: Invited speaker: The rise of well-being in public health, WHO Copenhagen.:
  • 2014: Invited speaker, seminar series on Politics of Wellbeing:

Publications

Chapter in book

  • Reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing: commentary on Part 1 approaching wellbeing
    Atkinson, S. (in press). Reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing: commentary on Part 1 approaching wellbeing. In B. Searle, J. Pykett, & M. Alfaro-Simmonds (Eds.), The Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research (pp. 23-28). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Art Spaces
    Atkinson, S. (in press). Art Spaces. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina. (Eds.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies. Springer Verlag.
  • Resilience
    Atkinson, S. (2021). Resilience. In M. Botha & P. Waugh (Eds.), Future theory : a Bloomsbury handbook to critical concepts.. Bloomsbury.
  • GeoHumanities and Health
    Hunt, R., & Atkinson, S. (2020). GeoHumanities and Health. In S. Atkinson & R. Hunt (Eds.), GeoHumanities and Health (pp. 1-19). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_1
  • Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing
    Tan, M., & Atkinson, S. (2019). Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing. In S. Atkinson & R. Hunt (Eds.), Geohumanities and health. (pp. 241-259). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_14
  • Wellbeing and the wild, blue 21st-century ctizen
    Atkinson, S. (2019). Wellbeing and the wild, blue 21st-century ctizen. In R. Foley, R. Kearns, T. Kistemann, & B. Wheeler (Eds.), Blue space, health and wellbeing : hydrophilia unbounded. (pp. 190-204). Taylor and Francis.
  • Mixing and fixing: managing and imagining the body in a global world
    Atkinson, S. (2017). Mixing and fixing: managing and imagining the body in a global world. In C. Herrick & D. Reubi (Eds.), Global health and geographical imaginaries. (pp. 54-71). Routledge.
  • Health and Wellbeing
    Atkinson, S. (2017). Health and Wellbeing. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, L. Weidong, A. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology.. Wiley-Blackwell/AAG. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0770
  • Care, kidneys and clones: the distance of space, time and imagination
    Atkinson, S. (2016). Care, kidneys and clones: the distance of space, time and imagination. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities. (pp. 611-626). Edinburgh University Press.
  • La Mondialisation à la Loupe des Géographes de la Santé.
    Atkinson, S., & Vaguet, A. (2011). La Mondialisation à la Loupe des Géographes de la Santé. In S. Fleuret & A. Hoyez (Eds.), Santé et Géographie: Nouveaux Regards. (pp. 15-37). Economica.
  • Health and Disease
    Atkinson, S. (2007). Health and Disease. In I. Douglas, R. Huggett, & C. Perkins (Eds.), Companion encyclopaedia of geography : from local to global. (pp. 157-168). Routledge.
  • Approaches to studying decentralisation.
    Atkinson, S. (2006). Approaches to studying decentralisation. In R. Saltman, V. Bankauskaite, & K. Vrangbaek (Eds.), Decentralization in health care: strategies and outcomes. OUP.
  • Local management and the quality of urban health services: prenatal care in Northwest Brazil
    Atkinson, S. (2002). Local management and the quality of urban health services: prenatal care in Northwest Brazil. In R. Akhtar (Ed.), Urban Health in the Third World. APH Publishing Corporation.

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