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Dr Alison TierneyVisiting Fellow; at LSE since 2008 a.tierney@lse.ac.uk
Phone Number: 020 7955 6598
| InterestsDr Alison Tierney is a social anthropologist based in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol. She is currently working on the evaluation of smoking prevention initiatives with adolescents. Her research interests also include Asperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia and funding is being sought for a study about these conditions. The title of the proposed research is ‘The overlap between Asperger’s syndrome and schizophrenia: family and service user perspectives, and the politics of mental health and autism’. The aim is to identify recurrent themes in the accounts given by service users and their families when a diagnosis is being reviewed. The implications for policy, service provision and the well-being of service users and their families will be examined in light of recent developments in the service user movement and changes in patient-practitioner interaction.Alison has 17 years’ experience of social and cultural analysis in international and UK health. In 2006-07 she was at the University of Edinburgh leading an NHS funded project about workforce dynamics amongst healthcare professionals during the introduction of new models of care. Previously, Alison worked on a range of research, teaching and consultancy in international development, including temporary cover of social development adviser posts at the Dept for International Development. She completed her PhD in anthropology at LSE in 1997. Her doctoral research was a multi-site ethnography of a development project, and the thesis title was ‘Local concepts of development: women food sellers and fishermen in an Oxfam youth economic group project, Tabora Region, western Tanzania’. Alison has specialised in the practical application of an anthropological approach throughout her career, highlighting the importance of local knowledge and service user perspectives in policy formulation and development planning.
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