With the Public in Mind: Ethnographic Investigations of Medical Science and the Media in Kenya is a research project funded by the Wellcome Trust in London (2008-2012 Phase I; 2015-2017 Phase II). It is run by Dr Monica Bonaccorso with the logistical assistance of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.
The project explores knowledge production and dissemination/awareness initiatives of transnational/national research institutes, the media, civil society (NGOs, CBOs, FBOs) with respect to HIV/AIDS and Malaria as well as diverse ‘publics’ perceptions of such initiatives in Kenya. Central is the question of how institutions and organisations access their respective publics and in turn how such publics make sense and consume what is conveyed to them and, as a result of it, generate a successful politics of survival that fits with entrenched cultural practices, including ways of conceiving kinship and gender relations.
Dr Monica Bonaccorso is currently looking to deploy a temporary student research assistant to carry out some in-depth interviews and transcription work depending on research needs. Please send your CV if interested.
Contact:
Dr Monica Bonaccorso
Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK