Sarah B. Evans-Jordan
Background and activities
In my doctoral research I employ Clarke's Situational Analysis in my studies of the newborn screening programme in Norway. Newborn screening for serious metabolic conditions is both a medical intervention and a public health initiative in continuous change. Its expansion is driven by many factors, including technological and scientific advancements as well as patient advocacy, and it is regulated by policy development. The aim of this project is to examine and understand the development of this important health initiative.
In the summer of 2020, with help from Marit Solbjør (ISM) and Ottar Ness (PLL), I organised and taught a digital seminar on the qualitative research method Situational Analysis (Clarke, Friese, & Washburn, 2018). We welcomed participants from several countries and enjoyed a guest lecture and question and answer session with Carrie Friese. Following the seminar, I organised a reading group and an interpretation group focussing on learning and using Situational Analysis.
In Spring 2022, together with colleagues from the Universities of Tübingen, Mainz, Munich, and Witten-Herdecke, I am helping to organise the online working conference Social Worlds, Arenas, and Situational Analyses: Theoretical Debates and Empirical Research Experiences. See here for more information on the working conference and this link for the related Call for Papers.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2021) Scientific citizenship's youngest domain: Function creep in Norway's newborn screening project. Science Technology & Society. vol. 26 (1).
- (2015) Å være til stede på en god måte: Tegnspråktolkers refleksjoner rundt å jobbe i Tolk på arbeidsplass-ordningen. FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and practice. vol. 2 (1).
Others
- (2020) Making positional maps in situational analysis. Seminar on Situational Analysis . NTNU Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie; Trondheim. 2020-08-13 - 2020-08-14.
- (2020) Making situational, ordered, and relational maps in situational analysis. Seminar on Situational Analysis . NTNU Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie; Trondheim. 2020-08-13 - 2020-08-14.
- (2020) Making social worlds/arenas maps in situational analysis. Seminar on Situational Analysis . NTNU Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie; Trondheim. 2020-08-13 - 2020-08-14.
- (2020) Memo-writing in situational analysis. Seminar on Situational Analysis . NTNU Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie; Trondheim. 2020-08-13 - 2020-08-14.
- (2020) Reflections on situational mapping and memo-writing in situational analysis. Seminar on Situational Analysis . NTNU Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie; Trondheim. 2020-08-13 - 2020-08-14.
- (2020) Using situational analysis in your research. Seminar on Situational Analysis . NTNU Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie; Trondheim. 2020-08-13 - 2020-08-14.
- (2019) Collaborative Map-making in Situational Analysis: Involving Participants. Fifteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Champaign, Illinois. 2019-05-15 - 2019-05-18.
- (2018) Biological citizenship’s youngest domain: Function creep in Norway’s newborn screening programme. Testing for life? The sociology of diagnosis and screening: Monash University Prato Workshop . Monash University, Arizona State University; Prato. 2018-06-13 - 2018-06-15.
- (2018) “This is not a gene bank of Norway’s population, it’s a spot of blood on a piece of paper”: Shifting discourses in newborn screening politics. MedSoc Conference 2018 . British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Group; Glasgow. 2018-09-10 - 2018-09-14.