Eilidh Clara Anderson
Email: e.anderson.5@research.gla.systa-s.com
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8887-1392
Research title: The Long Haul: A Body Mapping Study Investigating the Legislative Gaps for Carers Living and Working with Long Covid
Research summary
I am an ESRC‑funded doctoral researcher working across medical sociology, disability studies, and global health. My research explores carers’ experiences of living and working with Long Covid, focusing on how fluctuating, post‑viral conditions are understood, recognised, and responded to within healthcare, employment, and policy contexts.
I use qualitative and creative methods, including interviews, workshops, and a co‑produced body mapping approach. Body mapping combines drawing and creative practices to visually represent embodied experiences, everyday lives, and the social worlds participants inhabit. In my research, these methods function both as research tools and as communicative and advocacy practices, offering alternative ways to make visible under‑recognised and poorly understood post‑viral conditions and challenge stigma.
My work is grounded in an ethics of care, with methods adapted collaboratively to the needs, capacities, and preferences of each group I work with. I am committed to centring participants’ voices and supporting their preferred ways of sharing knowledge, with the aim of informing treatment, policy, and practice for people with Long Covid. Across my research, I engage with a wide range of perspectives, including lived experience, policy, practice, third-sector and trade unions.
Publications
Prior publications
Works published at other institutions
Other
Eilidh Anderson (2025) The Human Rights Implications of Long Covid in Social Care Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) Eilidh Anderson.
Eilidh Anderson (2024) Echoes of Illness: What Does Long Covid Reveal about the History of Post-Viral Syndromes as Disabilities? University of Glasgow PGR Research Blog Eilidh Anderson.
Article
Eilidh Anderson, Kate Hunt, Cervantée Wild, Sarah Nettleton, Sue Ziebland, Alice MacLean (2025) Episodic disability and adjustments for work: the ‘rehabilitative work’ of returning to employment with Long Covid Disability & Society Crossref. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2024.2331722)
Alice MacLean et al. (2025) Rethinking ‘Recovery’: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Experiences of Intensive Care With COVID and Long Covid in the United Kingdom Health Expectations Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/hex.70253)
Grants
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD Studentship, awarded via the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science (SGSSS) Doctoral Student‑Led Open Competition (2023–2027). Fully funded studentship covering tuition fees and stipend (3.5 years).
Overseas Institutional Visit (OIV) Funding, Scottish Graduate School for Social Science (SGSSS) (2024). Award supporting a one‑month research visit to Canada and the United States to develop research design and international collaboration.
Conferences
Conference presentations
- Leeds Disability Studies Conference 2026, University of Leeds
- Long COVID Research Symposium 2025, University of Stirling
- Society for Social Medicine & Population Health 67th Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, Newcastle University
Knowledge exchange and policy engagement
- Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) & Scottish Government Knowledge Exchange & Policy Event Series: Population Ageing and Social Care 2025, Edinburgh
- Human Rights Knowledge Exchange Event 2024, Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) and Scottish Human Rights Commission, Edinburgh
Additional information
- Member of Centre for Disability Research (University of Glasgow)
- Member of Social Scientists in Health (University of Glasgow)
