Julie Bønnelycke defends her PhD thesis
The 30th of August, Julie Bønnelycke defended her PhD thesis at the University of Copenhagen. In her PhD thesis, titled "Have fun living healthily! An etnological study of museums promoting health", Julie provides a qualitative study of the recent phenomenon of museums promoting health. It focuses on the dilemmas and challenges of fostering participation, addressing complex everyday health practices and reaching disadvantaged groups in a science centre setting.
Julie describes the development process of a health promoting exhibition based, discussing how the project’s projectness with its predefined goals and embedded values clashed with the practical enactments of health and everyday lives. In the dissertation, Julie conceptualizes health as a collective matter and describes the everyday struggles of the participating families to balance practices of health and family life.
The defence was both well attended by colleagues, friends and family, and well received by the assessment committee consisting of:
- Associate Professor Marie Riegels Melchior, chair (University of Copenhagen)
- Professor Simon Cohn (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
- Associate Professor Michael Haldrup (Roskilde University)
Moderator of defends was Vice Head of Institute David Bloch (University of Copenhagen).
Read more about the dissertation here. Copies of the thesis will be available for consultation at the following three places:
- At the Information Desk of the Library of the Faculty of Humanities
- In Reading Room East of the Royal Library (the Black Diamond)
- At The Saxo Institute, Karen Blixens Plads 8.
