Dr KAROLINA KAZIMIERCZAK
Research Fellow
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+44 (0)1224 438052
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+44 (0)1224 438132
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k.a.kazimierczak@abdn.ac.uk
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2nd floor, Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
Research Fellow
MA, PhD
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Biography
After completing my MA degree in Sociology in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, in my home country of Poland, I have moved to UK in 2005 to work under the supervision of Professor Lucy Suchman and Dr Yoke-Sum Wong in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, on a doctoral project exploring language and culture of Klingon (Star Trek) and Tolkien fan communities. Having completed my PhD thesis, in September 2009 I have taken a researcher's position in Academic Urology Unit at the University of Aberdeen.
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Research Interests
Combining different theoretical and disciplinary traditions (sociology, cultural studies, literary theory, communication studies, and recently health studies) my research interests centre on the issues of popular knowledge-making and the interconnections between lay and expert knowledge, and between academic (scientific) and popular discourse. I am particularly interested in the ways in which academic discourse/knowledge is represented, translated or taken over by the popular/lay discourse/knowledge.
As a cultural sociologist and qualitative researcher I work with broadly construed ethnographic methods linking traditional participant observation and interviewing with online research and textual analyses. I am also interested in the notion of interdisciplinary research, and of theoretical and methodological heterogeneity.
I have explored these theoretical and methodological issues in my previous work on sci-fi (Star Trek and Tolkien) fan communities and the concept of fan/scholarship. I now look to apply some of those concepts in health services research.
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Current Research
As a part of the UCAN (Urological Cancer charity) research team, I work on Plain English Guides project developing theoretical framework and practical recommendations for the design and provision of information for patients diagnosed with urological cancers.
Exploring the interconnections between information (science, technology) and practice in which it is enacted, this project looks for the ways of bringing together specialist medical knowledge and lay expertise and translating 'evidence-based' clinical data into everyday terms accessible to patients.
On a practical level, it aims at creating 8 Plain English Guides - comprehensive information packages based on the best research evidence and presented in everyday language accessible to non-specialist audience - for specific urological cancers.
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Teaching Responsibilities
I contribute to the qualitative component of the MSc in Health Services and Public Health Research teaching module.
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Membership in Professional Bodies
I am a member of the British Sociological Association.
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Kazimierczak, KA., Skea, ZC., Dixon-Woods, M., Entwistle, VA., Feldman-Stewart, D., N'dow, JMO. & Maclennan, SJ. (in press). 'Provision of cancer information as a "support for navigating the knowledge landscape": Findings from a critical interpretive literature synthesis'. European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society.
[Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2012.10.002 - Kazimierczak, KA., Skea, ZC., MacLennan, S. & N'Dow, JMO. (2011). 'Concepts of information provision in cancer care: a critical interpretive synthesis of literature'. Medical Encounter, vol 25, no. 3, pp. 63.
- Kazimierczak, KA. (2010). 'From Cult Texts to Authored Languages: Fan Discourse and The Performances of Authorship'. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, no. 17.
- Kazimierczak, KA. (2010). 'Adapting Shakespeare for Star Trek and Star Trek for Shakespeare: The Klingon Hamlet and The Spaces of Translation'. Studies in Popular Culture, vol 32, no. 2, pp. 35-55.
- Kazimierczak, KA. (2010). 'Linguistic Fandom: Performing Liminal Identities in The Spaces of Transgression'. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, vol 6, no. 2.
- Kazimierczak, KA. (2007). 'Art-languages and Recovered Myths'. International Journal of the Arts in Society, vol 1, no. 2, pp. 101-108.
- Kazimierczak, KA. (2005). 'Zabawa w rycerstwo'. Kultura Popularna, vol 2, no. 12, pp. 89-97.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Conference Proceedings
- Kazimierczak, KA. (2009). 'Unfolding Tolkien’s Linguistic Symphony: Relations between Music and Language in the Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien and in Compositions Inspired by Them'. in: Arda Philology. vol. 2, pp. 56-79.
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