Publications
Main, Susanne (2021) ‘Exhibiting pain: the role of online exhibitions in sharing creative expressions of chronic physical pain’ in D. Padfield & J. M. Zakrzewska (eds.) Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking. London: UCL Press. Available from: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/108203
Main, Susanne (2020) Exhibiting Pain: Creative Representations of Life with Chronic Pain. PhD thesis The Open University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00011737
Conference Presentations:
Medical Sociology conference, Lancaster, Sept. 2022
Conflict and the pursuit of recognition in the public-private experience of persistent physical pain
British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 21-23 April 2020
(Cancelled due to COVID-19) Creatively re-imagining the body with chronic pain
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies Student Conference, The Open University, 5 June 2017
‘It’s all good data’ – untangling the experience of web-based fieldwork
British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 4-6 April 2017
‘Do you see what I feel?’ Exhibiting creative works of persistent pain
PG Medical Humanities Conference 2016 (University of Exeter, 28-29 July 2016)
Exhibiting Pain: Interpretations of creative representations of persistent physical pain
Encountering Pain: hearing, speaking, seeing (UCL, 1-2 July 2016)
Exhibiting Pain: The role of online exhibitions in sharing creative representations of persistent physical pain
The Open University, Faculty of Health & Social Care Research Student Conference (9 May 2016)
Exhibiting Pain: The role of online exhibitions in sharing creative representations of persistent physical pain
New Zealand Pain Society ASM: Surfing the Pain Wave (April 2016)
Exhibiting pain: creatively surfing the pain wave
The Open University Health & Social Care Associate Lecturer Regional staff development day (Invited speaker, June 2015)
Picturing Pain – using creativity to represent long-term pain
Poster presentations (please click on black poster title for image):
New Zealand Pain Society ASM (19-21 March 2020) (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
Exhibiting Pain: Using creativity to express chronic pain
British Pain Society ASM (Brighton, 1-2 May 2018)
Exhibiting Pain: Using creativity to express chronic pain
Prizes: Committee Choice and People’s Choice Award
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