Richard Boulton

Research Student BA/MA

tel:+44 (0)20 7919 7707

email:so203rb@gold.ac.uk

Presentations and Exhibitions

Paediatric HIV, Disclosure and Everyday Ethics, Everyday Ethics and Primary Healthcare, Wednesday 6th April 2011, 4.00pm-8/8.30pm, The Gordon Museum, King's College London

Ethics in Practice: Researching Children with HIV, Locating the Social: 1st international HIV social sciences and humanities conference, 11-13 June 2011 ICC Durban

Grants & Awards

2010-Whitehead Studentship, Awarded by the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths

Research interests

My PhD thesis titled 'Practices of Care in Paediatric HIV' sets out to research childhood and HIV using concepts developed in Science and Technology Studies (STS). The research is being conducted at North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH) and focuses upon children between the ages of 8 to 17. An ethnomethodological approach will provide data on the interactions between childen and professionals to show how the concepts of medicine, HIV and childhood are enacted in the space of the clinic.

Previously I conducted research on Batten's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood. Empirical data from this study informed my MA Social Research.