Dr Eleanor Kashouris

Eleanor is senior research assistant at Northumbria, working with Dr Jason Scott on SAMueL-3, an NIHR funded project working to improve acute stroke care. 

Before coming to Northumbria, Eleanor was Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Health and Illness at Newcastle University where she worked with Dr Gethin Rees to develop theorisation in the sociology of diagnosis in women's health. 

Eleanor has previously worked with Professor Catherine Will, Professor Bobbie Farsides, Dr Ulla McKnight and Dr Liz McDonnell at the University of Susssex on the Wellcome Trust funded project entitled Marginalisation and the Microbe: How to Mobilise on Antimicrobial Resistance without Increasing Health Inequalities.' 

Eleanor completed her PhD in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the Univeristy of Sussex (2023). Her research is committed to equitable and collective mobilisations on AMR with different overlapping groups such as patients, clinicians and policymakers and seeks to develop new approaches in the sociology of diagnosis. 

She has experience teaching on the Sociology of Health and Illness and Sociological theory within Sociology Departments and Medical Schools. 

Eleanor is a member of the British Sociological Association, and APRHAI, the Advisory Commmittee on Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections. 

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• ‘When all you have is a hammer, everything has to be a nail’: Diagnostic Uncertainty in Urinary Tract Infection, Kashouris, E. 16 May 2024
• Nitrofurantoin: what is the evidence for current guidance, Kashouris, E., Joseph, A., Lewis, T. 1 Nov 2023, In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
• ALTAR trial of antibiotic alternative in recurrent urinary infection is a step towards a more collective conversation, Kashouris, E. 12 Apr 2022, In: The BMJ
• Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, Alison, Emerald. 2022. 168pp. £65 (hbck). ISBN: 9781800717442, Kashouris, E. 20 Jul 2023, In: Sociology of Health and Illness

PhD March 31 2023