Dr Annalise Weckesser

Annalise is currently conducting an NIHR-HTA funded qualitative research project in conjunction with PREPS (Vaginal Preparation at caesarean section to Reduce Endometriosis and Prevent Sepsis) to examine women’s post caesarean section recovery experiences. 

She is currently disseminating findings from a pilot study on teens’ support and education needs around ‘sexting’ which employed co-creation methods (publication forthcoming).  Annalise recently concluded two additional NIHR-HTA qualitative studies which she undertook with Professor Emeritus Elaine Denny. The first explored women’s experiences of pregnancy whilst living with epilepsy. This qualitative study ran alongside the EMPiRE (Anti-Epileptic drug Monitoring in PREgnancy) Trial, a UK multi-centre, randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing proactive and reactive strategies for anti-epileptic drug (AED) regimes during pregnancy (more information. The second study examined women’s experiences of medical treatments for endometriosis, a pilot study which ran alongside thePRE-EMPT (Preventing Recurrence of Endometriosis by Means of long acting Progestogen Therapy) Trial.

• Qualitative research methods (qualitative research design, ethics and analysis)
• Gender, sexual and reproductive health, and chronic illness (such as endometriosis and epilepsy)
• Anthropology of childhood(s) and youth studies

• (2012) PhD, Medical Anthropology, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick
• (2006) MA, Social Anthropology, York University, Canada
• (2002) BA Honours in International Development and Social/ Cultural Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada

• Postgraduate Certificate in Research – Qualitative Research Methods
• Facilitate a variety of Advanced Qualitative Research Design seminars for HELS staff and postgraduates
• Guest lecture in the following areas: Anthropology/Sociology of Childhoods; Feminist Theory; Gender and Health; Research Techniques with Children and Young People; Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid & Philanthropy; Global Childhood(s).

• Gender, sexual/reproductive health and wellbeing, and chronic illness (including endometriosis and epilepsy)

Director of supervision for:

• Amie Randhawa: Teen Girls’ and Young Women’s Experiences of Endometriosis
• Andrea Anastassoui: Teens’ Experiences of Sexting: A comparative study of co-ed and single sex high schools  

Thangaratinam, Marlin, Newton, Weckesser, et al. (forthcoming) Antiepileptic Drug Management in Pregnancy: A Double Blind Randomised Trial on Effectiveness and Acceptability of Monitoring Strategies (EMPIRE study). NIHR-HTA Final Report.

Weckesser and Denny (2017) Reworking Biographies: Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy Whilst Living with Epilepsy, Social Science and Medicine, 185, July: 110-117.

Middleton, Daniels, Weckesser, and Bhattacharya (2017) Preventing Recurrence of Endometriosis by Means of Long-Acting Progestogen Therapy (PRE-EMPT): Report of an Internal Pilot, Multi-Arm, Randomised Controlled Trial Incorporating Flexible Entry Design and Adaption of design Based on Feasibility of Recruitment, Trials, 18 (21).

Weckesser and Denny (2013) Women Living with Epilepsy, Experiences of Pregnancy and Reproductive Health: A Review of the Literature, Seizure, 22(2): 91-8.

Weckesser-Muthalali A. (2010) Review of Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship, C.R. Hale (ed.)  Anthropology in Action, 17 (2 & 3): 114–21

• ‘Endometriosis: Millions of women suffering due to chronic lack of research’ in the Independent, March 2017
• ‘Endometriosis Treatment: More research needed to offer better care for women’ in the Express, March 2017

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