STEPHANIE SODERO

  • about
  • publications
  • vital mobilities
  • navigating disruption
  • pricing carbon
  • creative
  • about
  • publications
  • vital mobilities
  • navigating disruption
  • pricing carbon
  • creative

vital mobilities
adapting medical supply chains to a changing climate
University of Manchester - Humanitarian and Conflict Response Insitute
University of Edinburgh (Banting Postdoc) / ​Lancaster University (SSHRC Postdoc)

In my ongoing research, I look at how medical supply chains are impacted by a changing climate. How do communities, get vital goods
like blood, medical oxygen, and saline IV solution to the point of care?
How do extreme weather events threaten such vital mobilities?
What adaptations will create more resilient and equitable vital mobilities?

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blog posts
blood journey illustration

A research method I used - follow the thing - is now available as a scrollable illustration, visualising my work on the formidable and often invisible journeys of blood supply chains. "The main character is a drop of donated blood. The reader follows the blood drop journey, from testing to processing through to a car crash and the point of transfusion. I knew I wanted to focus on the blood drop, and the illustrator brought the story to life." Read more.
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Image: Jack Brougham
methods for change
guest blog


If your research method were an animal, what would it be? This is a question asked by the Methods for Change research project. I research how global medical supply chains are impacted by a changing climate. I chose the hoopoe, a bright migratory bird, to capture the transnational and difficult-to-trace mobilities entailed in my work. Read more.
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Image: Jack Brougham
syrian (im)mobilities

​Syrians are scattered around the world. The United Nations estimates that 13.5 million people – more than half of Syria’s population – fled the civil war. Nine years later, the conflict is ongoing and President Bashar al-Assad is still in power. The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh held a workshop on ‘Syrian (im)mobilities’ to reflect on questions of movement, settlement and return. Read more.
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Image: EvidenceAid
​beyond 'do no harm'
 
​What do ethical research practices with displaced people entail? This question was the focus of Beyond 'Do No Harm,' a workshop held at the University of Edinburgh. Here I highlight five takeaways that may be of use to the Doctors within Borders network and others working with vulnerable populations. Read more...
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​bloodscape
guest blog

I took part in a fun, blood-themed scavenger hunt yesterday. The event, Bloodscape, was designed to explore changing blood trends as part of the 2018 Being Human Festival. As someone who has a rare blood disease, and who loves geeky learning adventures, I was thrilled to be able to participate! Read more...
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Blogger: Frances Ryan
blood drone-topia
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What might the movement of blood look like in the future? More specifically how might blood and drone mobilities -- both war dividends -- intersect (Sandvik 2014)?  I explore four scenarios based on fieldwork, current events and exposure to sci-fi. They are informed by and loosely correlate with Urry’s (2009) four future-building scenarios on the theme of carbon constraint. Read more...
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Image: Royal College of Art
mobile medical futures 
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How do we move vital goods in times of crisis? How do medical and rescue organizations move blood when and where needed? For three days this summer design students and staff from Aalborg University and Lancaster-based community partners – NHS Blood and Transplant, Northwest Blood Bikes and Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team  – converged to consider Mobile Futures. Read more...
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Image: NW Blood Bikes
taking out the trash
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​Picking Up is about the seemingly mundane and certainly smelly world of garbage collection in New York City. Author Robin Nagle is motivated by the question, “Who cleans up after us?” She works as an anthropologist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) where she drives trucks, collects waste and clears snow. Nagle offers the reader an insider’s perspective on the four seasons of a sanitation worker: spring, maggots, leaves and night plow. Read more...
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Image: Robin Nagle
5 anatomy lessons
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​Anatomy of a Soldier tells the story of a British captain injured in Afghanistan. From this compelling starting point, author Harry Parker adds a twist: forty-five objects narrate the story. Though a bestseller this book wasn’t on my radar until Ole B. Jensen, when speaking at Lancaster University’s Centre for Mobilities Research, made an off-hand but enthusiastic reference to it as an example of materiality. ​Read more...
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Image: The Telegraph
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