Dr Antje Lindenmeyer MA, PhD

• PhD in Women and Gender Studies, University of Warwick, 2001
• MA in Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies, University of Warwick, 1996
• MA in German Literature, University of Cologne, 1995

Antje has an interdisciplinary background in social science, literature and gender studies. From 2003 onwards, she has been involved in applied health research using mainly qualitative methods while developing an interest in individual and collective narratives of health and illness across the life course.

After joining the University of Birmingham in April 2013, she has first held a lectureship in Qualitative Methods. She has been qualitative lead on mixed methods studies while developing a research interest in transnational and migrant health in collaboration with the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS). She has also taught medical sociology and qualitative methods at undergraduate, intercalated and postgraduate level and supervised doctoral students. In her new role as lead for the Sociology element of the MBChB programme she is involved with curriculum development and liaising with other non-clinical strands of the programme while delivering lecture on a range of sociological topics.

Antje has long standing experience of medical sociology and qualitative methods teaching which is closely linked with her research interests. In her current role, she leads the Sociology strand of the Medicine and Surgery MBChB programme, especially for years 1 and 2. Other activities include:

• Lead for People, Patients and Population component, Medicine and Surgery MBChB
• Qualitative lead for the Public Health and Population Sciences BMedSc - Intercalated Degree  (PoSH)
• Module lead for Qualitative Health Research and Sociology and Social Policy in Healthcare, Public Health MPH
• Supervising research students (PhD, MD) and taught students completing dissertations (MPH, BMedSc)
• Genomic Medicine MSc

Antje is supervising PhD students with qualitative research projects or nested qualitative elements within a mixed methods study. She especially welcomes PhD students planning to work in the following areas:

• Migrant/ transnational health
• Lived experience of illness
• Sociological approaches to health and illness

Current/ Recent projects include:

• Migrant maternal health in the UK and Australia: factors shaping midwives’ delivery of care    funded by the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Birmingham
• Vulnerable migrants and wellbeing (qualitative lead) funded by the Nuffield Foundation
• Meeting the healthcare needs of recently arrived migrants to the UK: perspectives of primary care providers funded by the NIHR (School of Primary Care Research)
• Migrant Health Histories: Health and Wellbeing in an Age of Superdiversity funded by the British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust
• Acute Kidney Outreach to Reduce Deterioration and Death: (Qualitative lead) funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme
• Institute for Research into Superdiversity (co-lead for the Health and Wellbeing research stream)

• Member, British Sociological Association
• Member, Society for Academic Primary Care
• Member, Feminist and Women’s Studies Association