Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Originally trained as a medical doctor in South Africa, Hayley MacGregor pursued further studies in Social Anthropology, completing a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2003. This doctoral research pursued an interest in medical anthropology, in particular mental illness and mental health service provisioning in post conflict and low income settings. A subsequent period at the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa broadened her work to address changes in social security provisioning in the event of illness, and the politics of ‘disability'. Current research interests include the dynamics of poverty and llness/disability, human rights discourses and citizen mobilisation in the context of health provisioning, and the ethnography of biomedical research and health technologies. Her research to date has been situated in Africa. Parallel to these anthropological concerns, she retains an interest in clinical psychiatric practice.

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre
• Aid for AIDS: How do community groups negotiate the new financial architecture?

Thematic Expertise

Health; HIV / AIDS; Anthropology; Science and Society.

Geographic Expertise

Sub Saharan Africa; China.

Selected Publications »»

• Edström, J. and MacGregor, H. (2011) 'Aid for AIDS: How do Community Groups and Other Stakeholders negotiate the New Financial Architecture in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia?', IDS Research Report 66, Brighton: IDS
• Edström, J. and MacGregor, H. (2011) 'Aid for AIDS How do Community Groups and Other Stakeholders Negotiate the New Financial Architecture in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia?', IDS Research Summary of IDS Research Report 66, Brighton: IDS
• MacGregor, H. (2009) ''Mapping the Body: Tracing the Personal and the Political Dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Khayelitsha, South Africa', Anthropology & Medicine 16.1:85-95
• Cross, J. and MacGregor, H (2009) 'Who Are 'informal health providers' and What Do They Do? Perspectives from Medical Anthropology (Research Summary)', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 334, Brighton: IDS
• Cross, J. and MacGregor, H. (2009) 'Who Are 'Informal Health Providers' and What Do They Do? Perspectives from Medical Anthropology', IDS Working Paper 334, Brighton: IDS
• Marshall, F., Waldman, L., MacGregor, H., Mehta, L. and Randhawa, P. (2009) 'On the Edge of Sustainability: Perspectives on Peri-urban Dynamics', STEPS Working Paper 35, Brighton: STEPS Centre
• Bloom, G., Edstrom, J., Leach, M., Lucas, H., MacGregor, H., Standing, H. and Waldman, L. (2007) 'Health in a Dynamic World', STEPS Working Paper 5, Brighton: STEPS Centre
• MacGregor, H. (2006) 'The grant is what I eat: the politics of disability and social security', Journal of Biosocial Science (Anthropology & Public Health special issue) 38:43-55
• Swartz, L and MacGregor, H (2002) 'Integrating Services, marginalising patients: psychiatric patients and primary health care in South Africa', Transcultural Psychiatry 39.2