Humanities & Social Sciences
Antibiotic resistance is driven by how people prescribe, purchase, farm, regulate and pay. Our humanities and social science researchers study those decisions, and what would change them.
Introduction
Resistance is a biological process shaped almost entirely by human systems. Researchers in this area work on the economics of a broken antibiotic market, the ethics of individual responsibility, how clinicians decide under pressure, how consumers shop, and how resistance is governed across countries and supply chains.
This area brings together economic history, business studies, bioethics, law, linguistics, education and global public health.
What we work on
- Economic models and incentives for antibiotic development
- Antibiotic shortages and pharmaceutical supply chains
- Consumer behaviour and food purchasing
- Ethics, law and responsibility for resistance
- Clinical communication, decision-making and stewardship
- National and global AMR policy and governance
- AMR education and public communication
Members at the UAC Research Community
- Alexandra Waluszewski - what it would cost to remove routine antibiotics from food production
- Anna Lindström - how antibiotic prescribing is negotiated in primary care consultations
- Anna-Carin Nordvall - why consumers don't connect food shopping to resistance
- Bengt Matsson - pharmaceutical industry policy and antibiotic supply
- Enrico Baraldi - why existing antibiotics become hard to obtain, and what policy can fix
- Francesco Ciabuschi - international partnerships as a governance model for antibiotic innovation
- Luong Nguyen Thanh - whether national action plans have reduced resistance development
- Martin Mickelsson - building practical capability, not just awareness, through AMR education
- Mats Målqvist - global health equity and antibiotic access
- Mirko Ancillotti - why people use antibiotics as they do, and who bears responsibility
- Olof Lindahl - whether new economic models for antibiotic R&D actually work
- Peter Søgaard Jørgensen - the upstream drivers of resistance and their link to sustainable development
- Santa Slokenberga - legal frameworks
Members at the UAC Research School
- Carla Sacchi - the partnerships funding antibiotics that the market is not longer supporting
- Isis Lindfeldt - how clinicians weigh stewardship against patient care in emergency wards
- Jasmin Otte - whether local identity changes how people engage with AMR
- Marmar Nekoro - which measures actually reduce veterinary pharmaceutical pollution