Health Inequalities: Towards a Reparative Glossary
Drs Kasia Mika and Shital Pravinchandra (Comparative Literature) have successfully been awarded a grant by QMUL's Championing Interdisciplinary Research Culture (CIRCLE) scheme. The project is entitled "Health Inequalities: Towards a Reparative Glossary" and we will be holding several events over 2026.
While the historical, socio-political and environmental determinants of health inequalities are well documented across postcolonial studies and public health, imagining and realising a reparative vision and politics of healthcare remains a challenge. “Health inequalities: towards a reparative glossary” takes up this challenge. Through a series of workshops and follow-up grant application, the project breaks institutional and disciplinary boundaries to imagine what reparative healthcare could look like (Yates-Doerr 2020). Distinct from fixing, reparative approaches draw on relational (Lewis 2023) and epistemic repair (Bhakuni 2023) and legal reparatory accounts of health inequities (Thomson 2025). Our project extends these insights to rethink healthcare.
Further information can be found in our IHSS Health and Humanities Research Forum.