Joanne Hunt
Affiliated Researcher at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group
- E-mail:
- joanne.hunt@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-3868-5765
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Short presentation
Joanne Hunt is a disabled researcher with a background in psychological therapies. Her research interests centre on the (bio)politics of ‘contested’ chronic illness and disability, especially at the intersection of disability studies, feminist studies, psychology and ethics.
Particular topics of interest include the politics of knowledge production, intersectionality, oppression and modes of resistance, and disability-affirmative, structurally competent approaches to healthcare.
Keywords
- critical psychology
- disability studies
- feminism
- healthcare ethics
- healthcare politics
- medically unexplained symptoms
Biography
Joanne Hunt (MSc, MBACP, GMBPsS) is a disabled researcher with a background in psychological therapies. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and centre on the biopolitics of medically and societally ‘contested’ (medically unexplained, stigmatised and ‘rare’) chronic illness and related disability. Most of Jo’s work is sited at the intersection of disability studies, psychology, feminist studies and ethics. Particular topics of interest include the politics of knowledge production, intersectionality, oppression and modes of resistance, and disability-affirmative, structurally competent approaches to psychotherapy and wider healthcare.
Research
Full list of publications can be found here
Publications
Recent publications
- Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID (2024)
- Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting conditions (2024)
- Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies (2024)
- The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion (2024)
- On power and truth: The case of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome. (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID (2024)
- Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting conditions (2024)
- Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies (2024)
- The psycho-emotionally disabling impact of academic landscapes of exclusion (2024)
- On power and truth: The case of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome. (2024)
- Epistemic injustice, healthcare disparities and the missing pipeline (2024)
- Re-visiting professional ethics in psychotherapy: reflections on the use of talking therapies as a supportive adjunct for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (2024)
- Exploring the Experience of Healthcare-Related Epistemic Injustice among People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2024)
- Long Covid at the crossroads (2022)