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Heather   Young-Leslie

Associate Professor
Office of the Vice-President, Research
University of Alberta (Canada)
Website(s):
[ http://ualberta.academia.edu/HeatherYoungLeslie ]
[ http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heather_Young-Leslie/info ]
[ http://heatheryoungleslie.wordpress.com/blog/ ]
[ http://www.sshrc.ualberta.ca ]

I speak in the following language(s): English, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tok Pisin, French
Specialities
Biomedicine, Development, Gender, Health, Health Workers, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Textiles / Fibre Arts, Body Theory, Mothering, Maternalisms
Discipline(s)
Anthropology
Health and nutrition studies
Geographic administrative areas
Tonga
Papua New Guinea
Hawaii
New Zealand
Fiji
Geographic places
Polynesia
Melanesia
Historical periods
20th century
21st century
The Colonial time
Indigenous languages
Tongan, Tok Pisin
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Experiences
  • PhD Research (1991 to 1993)
    Maternal-Child Health Practices (Tonga) — York University
    Ethnographic research funded by the International Development and Research Centre (Canada) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Resulted in the dissertation: Inventing Health: Textiles and Maternal Obligation in the Kingdom of Tonga (1999).

  • Field Research (2002 to 2007)
    Biomedicine and Modernity (Research Project) — University of Hawaii
    Ethnographic and archival research funded by:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
    Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
    Rockefeller Archives Foundation

  • (2005 to 2005)
    Visiting Scholar — Macmillan Brown Centre

  • Applied Research (2007 to 2008)
    Capacity Building Advisor — Madang Provincial AIDS Committee

  • Applied Research (2008 to 2009)
    HIV Program Manager — World Vision Pacific Development Group
    Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

  • Collaborative Project (2014 to 2019)
    The value of precious objects — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
    A study of calculations, articulations and negotiations of gift exchange in the societies of the kula ring, Papua New Guinea. PI: Susanne Kuehling, University of Regina.

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