Inaugural Professorial Lecture– Professor Chrystal Jaye

Anthropological imaginations and imagined anthropologies

About Professor Jaye's research
Chrystal Jaye is a medical anthropologist with eclectic research interests that span teaching and learning in clinical settings, primary healthcare, health and wellbeing, spirituality, rural health, and ageing. Her work bridges and connects health and social sciences. Her most recent research has explored the impact of the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak on affected southern farmers, and health and wellbeing in small rural communities. Currently, she is curious about the forms of moral capital circulating within healthcare and the health sector. She has been a member of the Department of General Practice and Rural Health in the Dunedin School of Medicine for over 20 years and has served as the Associate Dean (Postgraduate) for the Division of Health Sciences since 2020.

This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.