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Supervisors:听Professor Anne White and Dr Daniel Brett
Email:听 jack.dean.21@ucl.ac.uk
Present status:听MPhil Candidate
Working title of thesis:听Medical Populism in Modern Romania
Research:听Analysing Lasco and Curato's 2019 concept of medical populism in relation to Romania in the years post-Colectiv (2015 - ). This will focus on how political actors have exploited public fear and discontent about healthcare in order to advance political goals, including through the use of conspiracies such as in the example of the COVID-19 Pandemic. This will use aspects of political science, sociology and medical anthropology in order to reach a conclusion,
Research interests:听Medical Sociology; Medical Anthropology; Central European politics; Crisis Response; Populism; European foreign policy
Research Centre Affiliation:听Study of Central Europe Seminar Series