Dr Bojana Daw Srdanovic

Bojana is an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher situated in the field of disability studies and often working under the broad umbrella 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 in a varity of contexts, including research and drama. 

2024 - PhD Drama, University of Exeter 

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 the healthcare experiences of people with learning disabilities. In doing so the project seeks to document and dissaminate existing positive healthcare practices. 

Bojana’s PhD research was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Conducted across the disciplines of drama, social psychology and education, the thesis explores how professional actors with learning disabilities construct professional identities against a backdrop of stigmatisation and marginalisation from traditional pathways into professionalism.