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Dr Jennifer Rogerson
(she/her)
Teams and roles for Jennifer Rogerson
Research Associate
Overview
My PhD and associated interests include the anthropology of the making of care, particularly in medical settings. My PhD explored the constellation of myth, race and care as these materialised in middle-class women’s birthing choices.
Alongside anthropological fieldwork, I have completed two hospital based research studies on palliative care and advance care planning, and have recently worked with HFEA’s data sets to develop thinking and themes centred on women’s choices around fertility, fertility changes, practises and trajectories. I have used these skills over 10 years to teach anthropology undergraduates and graduates as well as mentor junior researchers in fieldwork practises and challenges, engaging theory and the place of anthropology in contemporary debate. I have completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at King’s College London and am currently lecturing at Plymouth University. I am research associate in the Marie Curie Research Centre, exploring death literacy.
Publication
2025
- Rogerson, J. and Borgstrom, E. 2025. Home death as a conditional ideal: ethnographic insights from an English hospital. Mortality (10.1080/13576275.2025.2522685)
2019
- Rogerson, J. J. M. 2019. Privileges of birth: constellations of care, myth and race in South Africa. Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives. New York, NY: Berghahn. (10.3167/9781789204353)
2015
- Rogerson, J. J. 2015. Being heard: Thinking through different versions of rationality, epistemological policing and dissonances in marine conservation. Marine Policy 60, pp. 325-330. (10.1016/j.marpol.2014.09.014)
2014
- Hara, M. M., Rogerson, J., de Goede, J. and Raakjær, J. 2014. Fragmented participation in management of the fishery for small pelagic fish in South Africa – inclusion of small-rights holders is a complex matter. African Journal of Marine Science 36(2), pp. 185-196. (10.2989/1814232X.2014.930708)
Articles
- Rogerson, J. and Borgstrom, E. 2025. Home death as a conditional ideal: ethnographic insights from an English hospital. Mortality (10.1080/13576275.2025.2522685)
- Rogerson, J. J. 2015. Being heard: Thinking through different versions of rationality, epistemological policing and dissonances in marine conservation. Marine Policy 60, pp. 325-330. (10.1016/j.marpol.2014.09.014)
- Hara, M. M., Rogerson, J., de Goede, J. and Raakjær, J. 2014. Fragmented participation in management of the fishery for small pelagic fish in South Africa – inclusion of small-rights holders is a complex matter. African Journal of Marine Science 36(2), pp. 185-196. (10.2989/1814232X.2014.930708)
Books
- Rogerson, J. J. M. 2019. Privileges of birth: constellations of care, myth and race in South Africa. Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives. New York, NY: Berghahn. (10.3167/9781789204353)
Biography
My PhD and associated interests include the anthropology of the making of care, particularly in medical settings. My PhD explored the constellation of myth, race and care as these materialised in middle-class women’s birthing choices.
Alongside anthropological fieldwork, I have completed two hospital based research studies on advance care plans and palliative care, and have worked with HFEA’s data sets to develop thinking and themes centred on women’s choices around fertility, fertility changes, practises and trajectories. I have used these skills over 10 years to teach anthropology undergraduates and graduates as well as mentor junior researchers in fieldwork practises and challenges, engaging theory and the place of anthropology in contemporary debate. I have completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at King’s College London and am currently lecturing at Plymouth University. I am research associate in the Marie Curie Research Centre, exploring death literacy.