Dr Jennifer Rogerson

(she/her)

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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.