Hannah Bradby

Professor at Department of Sociology; Faculty

Telephone:
+46 18 471 51 83
Mobile phone:
+46 72 999 96 97
E-mail:
hannah.bradby@uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:
Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA

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ORCID:
0000-0002-0664-1170

Short presentation

Since the early 1990s, Hannah's research has looked at identity and inequalities around ethnicity, migration status and gender, with a particular focus on health. This work has been widely published in book and article form.

Having published her doctoral research as a novella, she maintains an interest in fiction as a form of evidence and as a research method for understanding health and illness in social context.

More information at http://hannah.bradby.info/

Biography

After taking degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London (scholarships awarded in both cases), Hannah undertook doctoral research with the Medical Research Council Medical Sociology Unit in Glasgow. After a postdoctoral contract in Glasgow, she accepted a lectureship at the University of Warwick in the Department of Sociology, where she worked for a decade. She was visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and a visiting fellow at King's College, London.

Over the years she has undertaken editorial roles with journals published by Taylor and Francis, Blackwells, Elsevier and, most recently, the open access journal Frontiers in Sociology

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology#

Research

Current

In collaboration with colleagues at King's College London, Collective Action for Race Equity in Health and Social Care (CARE-HSC) aims to address and dismantle structural factors that perpetuate racial discrimination and harassment within care systems. The work is funded by a Wellcome Discovery Award.

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/race-equity-in-health

Past funded research projects:

Together with Sarah Hamed, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Beth Maina Ahlberg: 'Understanding racism in healthcare: Developing and implementing anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation’ funded by Vetenskapsrådet.

The research has been discussed at a webinars organised by the Equal opportunities board of Lund Medical Faculty https://www.med.lu.se/intramed/min_anstaellning/vaerdegrund_likabehandling_och_trakasserier/lika_moejligheter_samma_raettigheter and by the Swedish Medical Association https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRyQMuXpA8g and on an edition (Särbehandling i vården – om rasism och minoritetsstress) of the long-running P1 radio program Kropp & Själ https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1582449

A collaboration with the Universities of North Carolina and Jonköping explored teaching caring professions to recognise and undo the harms of racism.

Project publications

Hamed, Sarah, Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, and Beth Maina Ahlberg. 2024. ‘Healthcare Staff’s Racialized Talk: The Perpetuation of Racism in Healthcare’. Social Science & Medicine 355 (August):117085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117085.

Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar Björkert, Sarah Hamed, Beth Maina Ahlberg. 2023. ‘“You Are Still a Guest in This Country!”: Understanding Racism through the Concepts of Hospitality and Hostility in Healthcare Encounters in Sweden’ Sociology.

Sarah Hamed, Beth Maina Ahlberg, Suruchi Thapar Björkert, Hannah Bradby. 2022. 'Racism in healthcare: a scoping review' BMC Public Health. 22: 988.

Beth Maina Ahlberg, Sarah Hamed, Hannah Bradby, Cecilia Moberg, and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert. 2022 ‘“Just Throw It Behind You and Just Keep Going”: Emotional Labor when Ethnic Minority Healthcare Staff Encounter Racism in Healthcare’ Frontiers in Sociology.

Hannah Bradby, Sarah Hamed, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Beth Maina Ahlberg. 2021 ‘Designing an education intervention for Understanding racism in healthcare in Sweden – development and implementation of anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation’ Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

additional case study material available here: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1638696&dswid=6320

Sarah Hamed, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Hannah Bradby and Beth Maina Ahlberg 2020. ‘Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond’ Qualitative Health Research.

Ahlberg, B.M., Hamed, S., Thapar-Björkert, S., Bradby, H. 2019. ‘Invisibility of Racism in the Global Neoliberal Era: Implications for Researching Racism in Healthcare’ Frontiers in Sociology.

Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar Björkert, Sarah Hamed and Beth Maina Ahlberg. 2019 ‘Undoing the unspeakable: researching racism in Swedish healthcare using a participatory process’ BMC Health Research Policy and Systems. 17 (43)n European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond’

Lectures, presentations and media work arising from the project are listed below by year:

2024

Symposium: Normalization of Authoritarian and Illiberal Politics The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities

Paper on racism as hospitality

Lecture on racism in healthcare: Transcultural centrum course on racism in healthcare for psychiatrists

Seminar on racism in healthcare. Karolinska institute. Stockholm Sweden

Paper presented: The silencing of racism in healthcare.

Seminar on racism in healthcare. Skaraborg institute. Skövde. Sweden

Paper presented: The silencing of racism in healthcare.

2023

Gender Academy's conference Gender in research, teaching and outreach. Stockholm University. Sweden.

Papers presented: Obstetric racism; The Afterlives of Migration: Integration, Ordinary Ethics, and Intimate Citizenship

Seminar on racism in healthcare. Swedish midwifery association. Stockholm. Sweden.

Paper presented: Racism in maternal care.

2022

Radboud University, Alexander Von Humboldt lecture

Lecture: ‘What happens to universal healthcare in an age of migration?’

University of Göttingen, Public health and Migration, Centre for Global Migration Studies

Lecture: ‘Rights to health – ideals and practices’

Umeå University, Lávvuo – research and education for Sámi health at Epidemiology and Global Health,

Lecture: ’Resisting racism in healthcare’

Lund University, Equality and equalityopportunities board of the medical faculty

Presentation:‘Olika bakgrund – samma bemötande’ (‘Different background – same treatment’)

Swedish General Medicine Conference. Gävle. Sweden.

Paper presented: Understanding racism in healthcare.

Education on racism in healthcare. Seminar to internal medicine residents. Umeå. Sweden.

Paper presented: Understanding racism in Swedish healthcare.

Education on racism in healthcare. Seminar to psychiatry residents. Stockholm. Sweden.

Paper presented: Understanding racism in Swedish healthcare.

Seminar at the medical faculty. University of Umeå. Sweden.

Paper presented: Understanding racism in Swedish healthcare.

Sociologidagarna (Sociology days). Uppsala University. Sweden.

Paper presented: Cultural categorisation and stereotyping of healthcare users by healthcare staff in Swedish healthcare.

2021

University of Tartu, Equity and equality in education and medicine Winter School

Lecture: ‘Can we provide equality in medicine?’

University of Ghent, Health & Globalisation Summer School,

Lecture: ‘Diversity and discrimination in health care’

International Sociological Association Conference. Brazil (Virtual).

Paper presented: Healthcare professionals’ reasoning around racism in Swedish healthcare.

Seminar at Chap: child and parenting. Medical Faculty. Uppsala University. Sweden.

Paper presented: How racism works in healthcare.

National Conference: Equal Care. Sweden.

Paper presented: Racism in healthcare.

Seminar at the Research is Ongoing day. Uppsala University. Sweden.

Paper presented: Ethnic discrimination in healthcare.

2020

Bielefeld University, ZiF Center for Interdisciplinary Research Symposium Racism in German Healthcare – how to talk about it?

Lecture: ‘Talking about racism in Swedish healthcare’

Karolinska Institute, GlobeLife, Stockholm

Lecture: ‘Decolonizing global health research and education.’

Afroswedish antiracism academy. Sweden.

Paper presented: Understanding Racism in Swedish Healthcare.

Seminar at RFSU (The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education). Stockholm. 2020

Paper presented: Racism in Swedish healthcare.

Seminar at Karolinska University. Invited by STRÄVA student medical association. Stockholm. Sweden.

Paper presented: Understanding racism in Swedish healthcare (Att förstå rasism inom vården).

Seminar at the Red Cross University. Stockholm. Sweden.

Paper presented: Racism in Swedish healthcare. Sarah Hamed and Beth Ahlberg.

2019

European Public Health Conference. France.

Paper presented: Understanding racism in Swedish healthcare. Hamed, S., Ahlberg, B., Bradby, H., Björkret, S.

2018

Sociologidagarna (Sociology days). Lund University. Sweden.

Paper presented: Understanding racial discrimination in healthcare. Hamed, S., Bradby, H., Björkret, S., Ahlberg, B.

Forum for Medical Humanities seminar. Uppsala University. Sweden.

Paper presented with Hannah Bradby: Challenges of studying racism in healthcare.

2017

WSF Thematic Workshop on Migration, Diversity and Welfare: Knowledges, Gaps and Synergies. University of Birmingham. United Kingdom.

Paper presented: Racism in Swedish healthcare

The historical studies multidisciplinary seminar. Södertorn University. Sweden.

Paper presented: Racism in Swedish healthcare: the perspectives of healthcare users.

Racism and welfare (rasism och välfärd). CEMFOR. Uppsala University. Sweden.

Roundtable discussion: Structural racism in healthcare.

WSF Thematic Workshop and Masterclass on Welfare and Migration: The Interrelation Between Welfare Arrangements and Migration. The Hague. The Netherlands. Participant.

UCL Qualitative Health Research Symposium. London. United Kingdom.

Paper presented: Researching health and welfare in superdiverse neighbourhoods:

Reflections on using a community research model in Uppsala, Sweden.

Linköping University, REMESO Day, Norrköping

Panel discussion: ‘Challenges and cooperation – Swedish migration and ethnic associations’

2016

Challenges with antiracism research conference. CEMFOR. Uppsala University. Sweden.

Paper presented in the racism and racialisation in health and welfare research:

Racism in the Swedish healthcare system: Findings from the UPWEB project

Uppsala Health Summit. Uppsala, Sweden.

Participated and co-organised the migration and the food environment workshop. Co-authored the post-conference report.

Participated in the initiate, manage and evaluate multi-stakeholder interventions: ECHO-zones workshop.

The NORFACE workshop on health politics, health policy, long-term care and inequalities. Mannheim, Germany.

Paper presented: Navigating health care systems - comparison of experiences across eight superdiverse neighbourhoods in four European cities with different welfare systems.

Nordic African Institute days. Uppsala, Sweden.

Paper presented in the gender and health panel: Powerlessness, Normalisation and Resistance: Discourses of the lived experiences among women with obstetric fistula in eastern Sudan.

The Stockholm focus day. Swedish Dental Paediatric Association. Stockholm, Sweden.

Paper presented: The healthcare needs of asylum-seeker children in Sweden.

Skaraborg institute, Skövde, Sweden. Oral health and migration.

Paper presented: The healthcare needs of asylum seekers in Sweden.

2015

Migrants in the city. Sheffield. United Kingdom.

Paper presented: Media portrayal of two neighbourhoods in Uppsala.

MEDIA PARTICIPATION

2023/01. Care in Focus (Vårdfokus). Sarah makes visible racism in the coffee room. Sarah synar rasismen i fikarummet

2022/01. Dental Magazine Sweden (tandläkartidning). She has investigated racism in healthcare. (Hon har kartlagt rasismen i tandvården)

2021/08. Swedish radio: Physicians are not chosen because of their ethnicity (läkare väljs bort på grund av etnicitet).

2021/06. Swedish TV: Gävleborg: That is why racism is not reported – researcher: ”They are afraid to be labelled as trouble makers”. Därför anmäls inte rasism – forskaren: “Rädda att bli stämplade som problemskapare”.

2021/03. Svenska Yle. Amanda Atarah experienced racism when seeking help for her mental health issues: ”The physician did not take me seriously” Amanda Atarah sökte hjälp för sin psykiska ohälsa men möttes av rasism: “Läkaren tog mig inte på allvar”.

2020/08. Aftonbladet. Racism is a sensitive issue (Känsligt att prata om rasism inom vården).

2020/07. Swedish radio. Racism in healthcare is not investigated (Rasism i vården kartläggs inte).

Past funders of research: the Economic and Social Research Council, The Welfare State Futures Norface programme and National Institute for Health Research.

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