Science, policy and activism

This project will involve an in-depth exploration of different scientific work, policy and activism on both antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19. It also seeks to bring the techniques of Science and Technology Studies to bear to explore the emergence of antimicrobial resistance and viral pandemic as different kinds of issue and the development and interaction of 'ways of knowing' in microbiology and bacteriology, epidemiology, health economics and public health more broadly. If you have been invited to participate in this aspect of the research, please read our participant information sheet and consent form (below).

Empirical work will compare scientific work and health policies on different bacterial infections over the last 30 years, through close readings of journal science and guidelines in both the UK and US. Additional information will be sought through expert interviews, recruiting through professional organisations and advocacy organisations developing patient-centred knowledge and other information, working with ethnic minorities and migrants. Analysis will map the history and geography of knowledge making and policies on AMR, informing work on the other case studies. We will seek conversations with practitioners in public health at local, national, and international levels, to explore their understanding of inequality in relation to different health issues and join a debate on appropriate messages and themes for communication with different publics.

Information sheets

1. Participant information sheet v6, approved August 2023.
2. Participant information sheet v5, approved September 2022.
3. Participant information sheet v3, approved March 2020.
4. Participant information sheet v1, approved October/November 2019.

Consent forms

1. Participant consent form v6, approved August 2023.
2. Participant consent form v4, approved September 2022.
3. Participant consent form v2, approved March 2020.
4. Participant consent form v1, approved October/November 2019.