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Apologies for cross-posting:
We have an opportunity for a PhD Student to join us in Sheffield. This
opportunity involves a collaboration between the Department of
Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield and the School of
Clinical Dentistry.
Please forward to any prospective students you might have.
Everyday practices of oral care through the life course
Project Details:
The everyday practices associated with oral care change throughout the
life course. From the first moments of learning to brush our teeth,
through to the first visits at the dentist and the purchase of
toothbrushes and toothpaste. As we move through the life course we may
not be aware that we accumulate a set of practices that are ingrained,
which combine a particular worldview that is itself already historically
specific and changing, with embodied know-how and a set of physical
objects. The meaning, technologies and knowhow associated with oral
health may change over the life course as experiences accumulate and
bodies change, but might also vary at each stage between different
groups of people. As a consequence groups of people come to occupy
different positions within different time frames and subsequently
develop different sets of practices of oral care. Some groups might
dream of tooth whitening and electric toothbrushes whereas others of
tooth picks and well-fitting dentures.
Later in life we might have accumulated practices that have been
antiquated by social change. This study will enable the student to
contribute to wider debates on the nature of practices over the life
course. It will also be the first study of its kind in oral care.
This project would be suitable for a candidate with a background in
social sciences, particularly sociology.
Further details can be found here:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/medicine-dentistry-health/graduateschool/prospectivepg/opp/gibson-1.422396
Prospective candidates should contact either Barry Gibson
([log in to unmask]) or Kate Weiner ([log in to unmask]).
BW
Barry
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Reader in Medical Sociology,
Head of Unit of Dental Public Health,
School of Clinical Dentistry,
Claremont Crescent,
Sheffield,
United Kingdom,
S10 2TA
Tel. +44 (0) 114 271 7889
Fax. +44 (0) 114 271 7843
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