I have developed and led a number of smaller-scale projects and workshops to engage a diverse range of audiences in complex research topics. A selection of current and completed multi-disciplinary activities are given below.

Do you have a research project you would like to discuss? Please do get in contact to talk further.


COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of qualitative evidence as part of an effective response – and it is key to an inclusive recovery too

Tasker, A.J., 2021 COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of qualitative evidence as part of an effective response – and it is key to an inclusive recovery too. International Public Policy Observatory. https://tinyurl.com/86amucvu

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Carers in crisis: Creative navigation of wellbeing on hospital wards during COVID-19

UCL Dean’s Fund 2021-2022 with Prof. Joanna Chataway, Dr Timothy Carroll, Dr James Shraiky, and Rebecca Williams This new collaboration draws together a team of interdisciplinary experts from SHS and other UCL Faculties in health, …

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Social Science Research for policy in a COVID ‘steady-state’: Co-creating future models of policy-academic knowledge exchange

UCL Dean’s Fund 2021-2022 This project explores new ways in which researchers and policymakers have generated and integrated health-related social science research into the UK COVID-19 response, and identify potential new pathways of social science …

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Anthropology communicates with policy

2021, Anthropological communications with policy, Royal Anthropological Institute.

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Emancipatory Spaces: From camps to cities: refugees and the built environment

2021, Emancipatory spaces from camps to cities: refugees and the built environment, Institute of Advanced Studies, and the UCL Migration Research Unit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2021/may/virtual-ias-emancipatory-spaces-camps-cities-refugees-and-built-environment

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Pastoralism and Uncertainty: Livestock disease

PASTRES, 2020. Online Course: Pastoralism and Uncertainty. Livestock Disease. Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins. https://pastres.org/online-course/

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Biosocial Medical Anthropology in the Time of Covid-19. New Challenges and Opportunities

Gibbon, S., Parkhurst, A., Tasker, A.J., Iskander, D., Ryan, C., Daly, L., and Salali, G.D., 2020. Covid-19 and Biosocial Medical Anthropology. UCL Medical Anthropology. https://tinyurl.com/y4utt9g3

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Careers in Biosocial Medical Anthropology

Ryan, C., Emmott, E., Tasker, A.J., and Daly, L., 2020. Careers in Biosocial Medical Anthropology. UCL Medical Anthropology. https://tinyurl.com/y39det5f

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Exploring the contribution of Social Science to veterinary education and practice

VetEd 2021, 7th July 2021, University of Surrey

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Veterinary Mixed-Methods Summer School

Veterinary Mixed-Methods Summer School, UCL, 14th-28th April 2020

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Dis/connected: Using refugee relationship and networks to rethink refugee agency

Tasker, A.J. 2019. Dis/connected: Using refugee relationships and networks to rethink refugee agency. Rethinking Refuge, June 2019.

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