Waiting Times (360G-Wellcome-205400_A_16_Z)

£636,821

This project brings together an interdisciplinary team to investigate waiting as a cultural and psychosocial concept, and an embodied and historical experience, in order to understand the temporalities of healthcare. It represents a fundamental rethinking of the relation between time and care through a critical analysis of waiting in the modern period. Working across Medical Humanities and Psychosocial Studies, we will uncover the history, cultural representation, and psychosocial organisation of delayed and impeded time, from 1860 to the present. This work will underpin focused investigations of ‘watchful waiting’ in current general practice, psychotherapy, and end of life care. We ask which models of time operate within healthcare practices and develop new models of durational temporality to conceptualise how waiting can operate as a form of careful attention, historically and in the present. Contextualising these healthcare practices within broader social organisations of time, we open up the meanings, potentialities, and difficulties of waiting in current times. Through academic publications and extensive public engagement, we will reframe debates about waiting in and for healthcare, moving beyond the urgent need to reduce waiting times in the NHS, towards a more comprehensive understanding of the relation between waiting, care, and changing experiences of time.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 636821
Applicant Surname Baraitser
Approval Committee Humanities and Social Science Selection Panel
Award Date 2017-02-01T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2016/17
Grant Programme: Title Collaborative Award in H&SS
Internal ID 205400/A/16/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Lisa Baraitser
Partnership Value 636821
Planned Dates: End Date 2023-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London