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Dalia Iskander is a Medical Anthropologist with regional expertise in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Currently, she is leading a project titled ‘Crafting Small, Grasping Big’, which explores miniature craft practices in the UK, focusing on how people create dollhouses and miniatures to understand the social, political, economic, and technological relationships that shape craft and impact lives in a wider societal context. Her research culminated in an exhibition that showcased artists’ works related to her research themes. Iskander's work widely addresses the structural factors affecting health, particularly land use and climate change, such as malaria and nutritional diseases. She is interested in the politics of bodily practice and the implications for policy interventions concerning ‘behavior change’. Her research emphasizes ethics in engagement and participation through participatory-action-research and the use of craft and visual methods, including photovoice, photography, and film. She employs sensory ethnography in her work and is dedicated to exploring concepts related to creativity, craft, art, play, and health.
University College London • London
Teaching Medical Anthropology.