With Nehal El-Hadi (University of Toronto Scarborough), FLOURISH Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research in health humanities is informed by various academic disciplines, artistic practices, and health-care settings. Drawing from geographical thought, Black studies, journalistic practice, urban planning theory, and craft and design, this talk explores relational methodologies for increasing narrative complexity in health humanities research. Here, narrative complexity refers to the intentional and deliberate inclusion of the environments, histories, and relations that are at play when considering conditions, diagnoses, treatments, patients, and experiences.
Nehal El-Hadi is a journalist, editor and producer whose work investigates the relationships between the body (racialised, gendered), place (urban, virtual), and technology (internet, health). She completed a Ph.D. in Planning at the University of Toronto, where her research examined the relationships between user-generated content and everyday public urban life. As a scholar, her hybrid digital/material research methods are informed by her training and experience as a science and environmental journalist.
Nehal advocates for the responsible, accountable, and ethical treatment of user-generated content in the fields of journalism, planning, and healthcare. Her writing has appeared in academic journals, general scholarship publications, literary magazines, and several anthologies and edited collections.
Nehal is the Science+Technology Editor at The Conversation Canada, an academic news site, and Editor-in-Chief of Studio Magazine, a biannual print publication dedicated to contemporary Canadian craft and design. She currently holds a residency at Toronto’s Theatre Centre, where she is developing a live arts event that explores surveillance, privacy, and consent.