Stephen Hibbs

• HARP Doctoral Research Fellow and Haematology Registrar, Queen Mary University of London

I qualified as a doctor in 2012 and began my haematology specialist training in 2017. In November 2022, I started a doctoral fellowship on the Health Advances in Underrepresented Populations (HARP) programme. Through an ethnographic case study across East London, my PhD research aims to understand what constitutes good sickle cell crisis care in hospitals and the avenues to achieve this.

In addition work in sickle cell disease, I try to bring health justice and social science lenses to problems in haematology and medicine. Some core questions I am interested in are:
- When and why do sociodemographic factors affect outcomes in haematology conditions?
- How do healthcare activities contribute to climate change and how can we mitigate these?
- How can one build equitable partnerships with colleagues in low and middle income countries?
- How do language and narrative constrain or foster good care?

I approach these questions through research collaborations, my role as a scientific editor for the Hemasphere journal, hosting the podcast "Thinking In Between", and co-ordinating capacity building work with partners in low and middle income countries.

• –present PhD candidate, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London

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