PhD defence: Socio-cultural influences on exercise and health along the cardiac patient journey

A Bourdieusian perspective

Joanna Blackwell 

PhD thesis

The thesis explores some of the socio-cultural influences on exercise and health in those who have experienced a cardiac event and are navigating the patient journey from symptom recognition, cardiac rehabilitation and through to recovery.

Utilising data from interviews, participant observations and the students reflexive journal, the discussion takes perspectives from the theory of Pierre Bourdieu.

Highlighting the influences from material conditions and personal biography, and other people in particular, the thesis has been able to explore what constrains and what enables patients along their journey.

2021, 388 pages.

Time

18 November 2021, 10.00am UK time.

Place

University of Lincoln, United Kingdom and online.

Assessment committee

Professor Kun Guo, Department of Psychology, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.

Professor Elizabeth Pike, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

Associate Professor Glen Nielsen, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Supervisor

Dr. Hannah Henderson, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.

Co supervisors

Professor Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.

Dr. Adam B. Evans, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.