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
- Edwards, M., Holland-Hart, D., Harrop, E., Rogerson, J., Graham-Wisener, L. and Sallnow, L. 2025. Selected abstracts from the 4th international research seminar of the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health & Palliative Care, June 17-19, 2025. Palliative Care & Social Practice 19 (10.1177/26323524251366788)
- 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
- Duggan, G. L., Rogerson, J. J. M., Green, L. J. F. and Jarre, A. 2014. Opening dialogue and fostering collaboration: Different ways of knowing in fisheries research. South African Journal of Science 110(7/8), article number: 9. (10.1590/sajs.2014/20130128)
- 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)
2013
- Duggan, G., Rogerson, J., Green, L. and Jarre, A. 2013. Enactments, disconcertments and dialogues: Regarding marine social-ecological systems through the lens of relational ontologies. Presented at: 4th Linefish Symposium, Geelbek, South Africa, 16-20 April 2012A Decade After the Emergency: The Proceedings of the 4th Linefish Symposium. Geelbek: WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature pp. 160-172.
- Anderson, T. et al. 2013. Conservation conversations: Improving the dialogue between ishers and isheries science along the Benguela Coast. In: Green, L. ed. Contested ecologies: dialogues in the South on nature and knowledge. HSRC Press, pp. 187-201.
Articles
- Edwards, M., Holland-Hart, D., Harrop, E., Rogerson, J., Graham-Wisener, L. and Sallnow, L. 2025. Selected abstracts from the 4th international research seminar of the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health & Palliative Care, June 17-19, 2025. Palliative Care & Social Practice 19 (10.1177/26323524251366788)
- 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)
- Duggan, G. L., Rogerson, J. J. M., Green, L. J. F. and Jarre, A. 2014. Opening dialogue and fostering collaboration: Different ways of knowing in fisheries research. South African Journal of Science 110(7/8), article number: 9. (10.1590/sajs.2014/20130128)
- 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)
Book sections
- Anderson, T. et al. 2013. Conservation conversations: Improving the dialogue between ishers and isheries science along the Benguela Coast. In: Green, L. ed. Contested ecologies: dialogues in the South on nature and knowledge. HSRC Press, pp. 187-201.
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)
Conferences
- Duggan, G., Rogerson, J., Green, L. and Jarre, A. 2013. Enactments, disconcertments and dialogues: Regarding marine social-ecological systems through the lens of relational ontologies. Presented at: 4th Linefish Symposium, Geelbek, South Africa, 16-20 April 2012A Decade After the Emergency: The Proceedings of the 4th Linefish Symposium. Geelbek: WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature pp. 160-172.
Biography
Education
· PhD social anthropology 2014-2016
· M.soc.sci. social anthropology 2010-2012
· B.soc.sci. (Hons) anthropology, art history and religious studies 2006-2009
Career overview
· 2023 – present: Research Associate, Cardiff University
· 2021- 2024: Associate Lecturer, Plymouth University
· 2020 – 2021 Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College London
· 2019 Research Manager, Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority
· 2018 - 2019Senior Research Associate, Healthwatch Essex
· 2011 – 2013 Research assistant, University of the Western Cape
Courses taught and tutored
· Supervision of undergraduates and Masters students 2020 – present
· Societies in transition 2016: I designed a course for graduate students that would enable them to learn the history of anthropology and critically engage with and examine key debates on contemporary anthropology. The course drew upon past ethnographic scholarship, works of contemporary African fiction and current anthropological debates in southern Africa in order to further unsettle a robust, yet contested scholastic terrain: Anthropology in southern Africa and its conversations with global scholarship. The course was designed around weekly themes which are both historically significant and alive in contemporaneous debates. I co-taught this course, facilitating weekly seminar style lectures to graduate students. I met regularly with students on a one-to-one basis guiding them in writing and crafting arguments. I marked and offered extensive feedback on essays. Able to work well with other lecturers as the course was co-taught.
· Research methods 2014, 2015, 2016: I mentored graduate students for 3 years and marked their work, offering extensive commentary and feedback in research methods exercises and essays.
· Medical anthropology 2010, 2011, 2014: 15-20 undergraduate students (including pre-medical students) for 3 semesters, exploring the ways anthropologists examine and develop understandings of the ways people engage in health seeking practices. Tutored weekly discussions and met with students individually to discuss essays, personal development and comments on essay feedback.
· Words, bones, deeds and things 2009: Tutored 15 students for 2 semesters in a course run by anthropology and archaeology as an introduction to the two subjects. Developed experience tutoring students from non-social science disciplines who took the course as an elective.
· Introduction to the anthropology of development and difference 2009: Tutored first year course for 1 semester, showing students how to create arguments, conduct literature searches and develop writing skills.
· Belief and symbolism: tutored 15-20 undergraduate students for 3 semesters, developing students writing styles and argumentation in seminar style weekly tutorials.
· Anthropology through ethnography 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016: tutored over 4 semesters to final year undergraduate students. The course used literature on research methods and analytical debate to develop research projects that students conducted in groups. I guided and facilitated students through the project design and developed the research and theoretical discussions in weekly discussions that enabled them to design and carry out research.