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
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
- feminism
- healthcare ethics
- disability studies
- healthcare politics
- medically unexplained symptoms
- critical psychology
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
Part of Feminism and Psychology, p. 187-205, 2025
- DOI for Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies
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Part of BMJ Open, 2025
- DOI for Prevalence and types of errors in the electronic health record: protocol for a mixed systematic review
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Part of Disability & Society, p. 1-7, 2025
Part of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, p. 22-32, 2025
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 1-7, 2024
- DOI for Epistemic injustice, healthcare disparities and the missing pipeline: reflections on the exclusion of disabled scholars from health research
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Feminism and Psychology, p. 187-205, 2025
- DOI for Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies
- Download full text (pdf) of Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies
Part of BMJ Open, 2025
- DOI for Prevalence and types of errors in the electronic health record: protocol for a mixed systematic review
- Download full text (pdf) of Prevalence and types of errors in the electronic health record: protocol for a mixed systematic review
Part of Disability & Society, p. 1-7, 2025
Part of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, p. 22-32, 2025
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 1-7, 2024
- DOI for Epistemic injustice, healthcare disparities and the missing pipeline: reflections on the exclusion of disabled scholars from health research
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Part of Medical Humanities, p. 728-739, 2024
- DOI for Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting conditions
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On power and truth: The case of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome.
Part of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, p. 7-18, 2024
Part of Critical Social Policy, p. 535-547, 2024
- DOI for Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID
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Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, 2024
Part of Disability & Society, p. 1618-1623, 2024
Part of Qualitative Report, 2024
- DOI for Exploring the Experience of Healthcare-Related Epistemic Injustice among People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Part of Journal of Health Psychology, p. 3106-3120, 2022