DrSupriya Subramani

Current research projects:

1.Ethics of Belonging

In this project, I employ a phenomenological-sociological approach to discuss how racialised migrants’ embodied experiences can capture the experience of being an “other.” As part of this work engagement, along with Michael McDonnell, I work with SSI Creative Compass community leaders Ghasan Saaid and Moones Mansoubi to centre the voices of artists from refugee backgrounds and with lived refugee experience.

2. Humiliation and Violence in Health

Violence against healthcare workers (HCWs) is frequently discussed as a crisis of public trust or resource scarcity. However, such explanations overlook the deeper structural and conceptual dimensions of this violence, particularly its roots in humiliation as a systemic affective and epistemic condition. In this project, I explore how humiliation functions as both a cause and consequence of healthcare violence: patients, subjected to neglect, dismissal, and epistemic injustice, direct their frustration toward the most accessible figures in the system.

3. On Chronic Pain, Women and Well-being (since 2024)

This research/community work explores women's sense of self and dignity, and its significance to their health and well-being in the context of chronic illness in villages in South India. Working closely working with self-help women's groups in the communities where I grew up, to explore how women make sense of their pain, resist, and navigate within their families, relationships, and the broader community social networks to which they belong.