Carys Banks

I am an anthropologist with an interest in health and care settings in developed countries. I am particularly fascinated by the kinds of social relations that are fostered in these environments and what this might indicate about what it means to be human more generally. As an anthropologist, I work ethnographically and this allows me to spend long periods of time with people, to focus on the minutiae of their everyday lives and social relations with a view to understanding how these often seemingly mundane encounters reveal something more fundamental about our lived experiences of the world.