Progress on the project continued to be be excellent and the study has now been completed. In sum, the research team was assembled, our ethnographic fieldwork has completed on time, with no set-backs and with very positive engagements with those in our fieldsites and our historical work conducted across all sites, with no language barriers or impediments to our goals.
In terms of publications, we have been highly productive, with 4 books to date (with the synthesis book Learning Materials, almost completed and ready to send to the publishers (Duke University Press) in autumn 2023), 15 peer-reviewed articles, many in leading journals in our field especially in medical anthropology, science and technology studies and medical history, as well as 17 book chapters, 12 other articles, 5 films, numerous keynote invitations and further articles currently under revision or review.
In terms of workshop deliverables, we successfully held our first project workshop for humanities and social sciences scholars, which was a great success, and in May 2023 held our second project workshop for medical educators. The formats were highly innovative, involving hands-on events, engagement with the public as well as writing workshops organized by PhDs for PhDs. An outcome of our first project workshop was a blog series in the field of the social study of medicine, which is now in its third series, called Writing Life (on Somatosphere). Our team has contributed 5 articles in the series. Another outcome of the second workshop is a Fringe Editions network we have built amongst creatives and doctors, for further projects.
Due to the qualitative nature of this project, incorporating long term ethnographic fieldwork, oral histories and archival research, significant work was put in the early stages of this project into strengthening connections with our researched communities in order to make the research possible. This was a great achievement, the smooth, timely running of fieldwork and the excellent rapport established with those in the field, which has enabled us to share and co-create the final outputs of the project together with those in the field.
