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Mr Tom Witney
Profile summary
- Research Staff
- Post Doctoral Research Associate (RCKE)
- Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
- Research Excellence
- tom.witney
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Professional biography
I am currently undertaking a postdoctoral position to support research communication and knowledge exchange activities across the faculty.
I have recently completed PhD research into the lived experiences of men in same-sex serodiscordant relationships, supervised by Professor Jacqui Gabb and Dr Peter Keogh.
Prior to embarking on this research, I completed masters courses in Health Psychology (City University London) and Science Communication (Imperial College London).
Research interests
My PhD project examined the experiences of gay/bisexual men in serodiscordant relationships (where one partner is HIV positive and the other HIV negative) in an era in which antiretroviral treatments for HIV have been shown to substantially mitigate the risk of sexual HIV transmission. It used qualitative methods to generate data on participants’ experiences of serodiscordancy and the practices they use to sustain their relationship. In adopting this approach, I aim to provide a social scientific account of how a biomedical advance influences – and in turn is influenced by – individual social worlds.
Publications
Journal articles
Relatively normal? Navigating emergent sensitivity in generating and analysing accounts of ‘normality’ (2020)
Witney, Tom and Keogh, Peter
International Journal of Social Research Methodology ((Early access))
Thesis
Doing serodiscordant intimacy in the era of HIV biomedicalisation: A qualitative investigation of the lived experience of gay and bisexual men in serodiscordant relationships in the UK (2020-11-13)
Witney, Tom
PhD thesis The Open University
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