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Scott Naysmith

 

  • 2010 Trudeau Scholar

    scott.naysmith@trudeaufoundation.net

    Current Research

    Ph.D. Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
    Interrogating perceptions, priorities and livelihoods: a multi-site ethnography of avian influenza in two communities in Indonesia

    Biography

    Scott Naysmith studied history at the University of Victoria, graduating with a BA in 2004.  In 2007, Scott graduated with an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.  

    Upon completion of his masters, Scott was selected for a one-year visiting fellowship in an inaugural collaboration between the LSE and the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) in Durban, South Africa.  There, he completed research projects on the social and economic impacts of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa and presented findings at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August 2008 and the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa in Dakar, Senegal in December 2008.

    While at HEARD, Scott also collaborated with a photographer to document the experiences of female truck drivers in South Africa. The results of this study were screened in a gallery show during the South African AIDS Conference in Durban in 2009 and inspired the creation of a documentary film about the life of one of the female truck drivers.

    Scott has written for both academic and public mediums, most notably discussing the relationship between famine and HIV/AIDS, the participation of marginalized populations in global disease containment programmes, and the political economy of infectious diseases in Canada and abroad.

    In September 2008 Scott began a PhD in the Department of Social Policy at the LSE.  Scott's PhD research looks at community perceptions of avian influenza in Indonesia.  This multi-site study seeks to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in containing avian influcenza in a vast, politically decentralized archipelago.

    In 2009, Scott co-designed and taught HIV/AIDS: Human Responses and the Politics of Aid at the University of Victoria. 

    Project Description

    Interrogating perceptions, priorities and livelihoods: a multi-site ethnography of avian influenza in two communities in Indonesia

    Scott Naysmith's doctoral research sets out to understand how local populations experience and interact with global and national programmes aimed at containing the spread and impact of avian influenza (AI).  Informed by qualitative methods, this multi-site study is being undertaken in two communities in Indonesia.  Key informants are small-hold poultry farmers and those who work in the poultry trade.  Targeted by containment measures such as widespread culling, some of these informants have suffered economic hardships, food insecurity and social stigma.  As a result, some individuals and communities have disengaged and actively resisted containment measures.  When those who work with poultry no longer partake in interventions to control the spread and impact of AI, a pandemic becomes more likely.  Scott's research identifies what incentives and disincentives exist for target populations to partake in control programmes, and seeks to ensure that efficacious disease control is concomitant to the protection of social and economic livelihoods.

    Trudeau Foundation Themes

    Responsible citizenship   



     

 
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