Emily Tupper

Biography	I have a background in anthropology and completed my doctorate here at Durham in 2022. My thesis explores the intersections between movement and care in “movement volunteering” groups – groups that combine the movement of the body with caring activities such as improving community spaces and helping others to move. During and following my PhD, I worked as a research assistant on a number of different projects that explored people’s experiences of health in different contexts, such as children’s experiences of the school journey, and LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences of health inequalities. More broadly, I am interested in how people move and are moved by each other, and how environments and materials participate in this process. I am experienced in ethnographic and mobile methodologies and I'm currently interested in how babies are moved by others in caring contexts, historically and in the present day. In my research at Durham I will be exploring how the humanities, arts, and social sciences might come together to research the moving body, and I am looking forward to creating new interdisciplinary spaces for researching movement.

Biography

I have a background in anthropology and completed my doctorate here at Durham in 2022. My thesis explores the intersections between movement and care in “movement volunteering” groups – groups that combine the movement of the body with caring activities such as improving community spaces and helping others to move. During and following my PhD, I worked as a research assistant on a number of different projects that explored people’s experiences of health in different contexts, such as children’s experiences of the school journey, and LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences of health inequalities.

More broadly, I am interested in how people move and are moved by each other, and how environments and materials participate in this process. I am experienced in ethnographic and mobile methodologies and I'm currently interested in how babies are moved by others in caring contexts, historically and in the present day.

In my research at Durham I will be exploring how the humanities, arts, and social sciences might come together to research the moving body, and I am looking forward to creating new interdisciplinary spaces for researching movement.