Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
MSc (Warwick Univ.), MPhil (Univ. of Cambridge)
Year of entry
2008
Research topic
Policies of representation in hybrid space: the case of patient and public involvement
Supervisors
Dr Matthew Jones and Professor Michael Barrett
Biography
Aris holds a BSc in Economics (Hons), an MSc in Information Systems and an MPhil in Organisation Studies. Prior to joining Cambridge he worked as a social science researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs. His research looks at alternative ontological and epistemological perspectives in public policy and organisational analysis; it draws on anthropology, human geography and the visual arts in order to explore the 'strange spaces' of lay involvement in policy change and in the emergence of new organisational realities. He is particularly interested in the ways in which lay actors perform and appropriate practices that both legitimate and undermine dominant discourses. His work uses combined ethnographic and interpretive methods to study the impact of patient involvement on changing healthcare policy and practice. Aris' current research follows the trajectories of a group of cancer patients and carers that are involved in the Department of Health's Cancer Reform Strategy, and attempts to unveil the complex ways in which they engage in the policy debate whilst drawing on their embodied 'lived experience'.
Aris' research has appeared in the online news bulletin of the Spanish Ministry of Health, which included his working paper (see below) in a list of five recommended readings (September 2010 Newsletter).
His PhD research has been funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research, through the CLAHRC research grant held at Cambridge Judge Business School, and the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust.
Research interests
The anthropology of public policy and organizations; affect and subjectivity; embodied knowledge practices; space and the politics of emergence; non-representational theory; visual arts.
Publications and papers
Download Aris's list of publications and papers (pdf, 37KB)
Contact details
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Cambridge Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1AG
UK
Email ak553@cam.ac.uk