Ms Bojana Daw Srdanovic

Bojana is an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher situated in the field of medical humanities. With a professional background at the intersection of social care and the arts, Bojana has extensive experience of working with people with learning disabilities, including in research and drama. 

2018 - MA Theatre Practice, University of Exeter

2015 - BA Humanities with Philosophy and Creative Writing, Open University

Bojana's research interests revolve around care, including health and social care, community and social participation, and applied theatre.

Since 2023, Bojana has been working as a research associate on ‘Humanising Healthcare’, an ESRC funded project that deploys co-production, ethnographic methods and narrative interviews to explore and document humanising healthcare for people with learning disabilities.  

Bojana’s PhD thesis, which is currently under examination, explores how professional actors with learning disabilities construct professional identities against a backdrop of stigmatisation and marginalisation from traditional pathways into professionalism.