– Eleanor Kashouris –
Senior Research Assistant
Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing Northumbria University
Dr Eleanor Kashouris is a researcher at Northumbria University. Previously, Eleanor was Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Health and Illness at Newcastle University where she worked with Dr Gethin Rees to develop the sociology of diagnosis in women’s health.
Eleanor has previously worked with Professor Catherine Will, Professor Bobbie Farsides, Dr Ulla McKnight and Dr Liz McDonnell at the University of Susssex on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Marginalisation and the Microbe: How to Mobilise on Antimicrobial Resistance without Increasing Health Inequalities.’
Eleanor completed her PhD in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sussex (2023). Her research is committed to equitable and collective mobilisations on AMR with different overlapping groups such as patients, clinicians and policymakers and seeks to develop new approaches in the sociology of diagnosis.
She is a member of the British Sociological Assocation and a member of the Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection, a body which provides scientific advice to the British government.
Further information on Eleanor is available on her institutional profile.

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