Dr Antje Lindenmeyer MA, PhD

Dr Antje Lindenmeyer

School of Nursing and Midwifery
Lecturer in Medical Sociology

Contact details

Address
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Antje is a social scientist focusing on sociology as applied to health, medicine and the experience of illness. In particular, she is interested in applying a sociological approach to health related encounters including consultations with professionals or conversations between friends of family members. This interest has fed into both research and teaching activities.

Antje’s research interests focuses on 1) migrant and transnational health and 2) experiences of illness, particularly chronic illness. Both these interests are linked by a focus on the way in which health related experiences and understandings change over time. This may happen through migration and potentially having to adapt to very different health cultures and systems, or through changes the trajectory of a particular health condition. Understanding these dynamics is crucial to be able to engage with the lived experiences of a diverse patient population.

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. 

Qualifications

  • 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

Biography

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 麻豆精选 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.

Teaching

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

Postgraduate supervision

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

Research

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 麻豆精选
  • 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)

Other activities

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

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Lange, D, Lindenmeyer, A, Warren, K, Haroon, S & Nagakumar, P 2024, '', BJGP Open.

Patel, V, Lindenmeyer, A, Gao, F & Yeung, J 2023, '', PLoS ONE, vol. 18, no. 5, e0285980.

PCOS SEva Working Group, Elghobashy, M, Lau, GM, Davitadze, M, Gillett, C, O'reilly, M, Arlt, W, Lindenmeyer, A & Kempegowda, P 2023, '', Frontiers in Endocrinology, vol. 14, 1175548.

PCOS SEva Working Group 2022, '', Frontiers in Endocrinology, vol. 13, 1064937.

Al-Arkee, S, Mason, J, Lindenmeyer, A & Jalal, Z 2022, '', Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, vol. 15, no. 1, 98.

Ghweeba, M, Lindenmeyer, A, Shishi, S, Waheed, A, Kofi, M & Amer, S 2022, '', JMIR Formative Research, vol. 6, no. 2, e30108.

Fu, L, Lindenmeyer, A, Phillimore, J & Lessard-Phillips, L 2022, '', Public Health, vol. 203, pp. 36-42.

Khanna, D, de Wildt, G, de Souza Duarte Filho, LAM, Bajaj, M, Lai, JF, Gardiner, E, de Ara煤jo Fonseca, AMF, Lindenmeyer, A & Rosa, PS 2021, '', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 21, no. 1, 282.

Bradby, H, Lindenmeyer, A, Phillimore, J, Padilla, B & Brand, T 2020, '', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 739-757.

Kokab, F, Greenfield, S, Lindenmeyer, A, Sidhu, M, Tait, L & Gill, P 2020, '', BMC Public Health, vol. 20, no. 1, 1432.

Sanders, C, Lindenmeyer, A & Marriott, J 2019, '', Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 75, no. 12, pp. 3286-3298.

Sihre, HK, Gill, P, Lindenmeyer, A, McGuiness, M, Berrisford, G, Jankovic, J, Patel, M, Lewin, J & Fazil, Q 2019, '', BMJ open, vol. 9, no. 8, e025928.

Other contribution

Besana, M, Lessard-Phillips, L, Fu, L, Lindenmeyer, A & Phillimore, J 2021, . London School of Economics and Political Science. <>

Other report

Lessard-Phillips, L, Lindenmeyer, A, Phillimore, J, Fu, L & Jones, L 2022, . Nuffield Foundation. <>

Lessard-Phillips, L, Fu, L, Lindenmeyer, A, Phillimore, J & Dayoub, R 2021, . Doctors of the World UK, London. <>