Ritti Soncco

- Name
- Ritti Soncco
- Title
- Organisation
- Social Anthropology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- Ritti.Soncco@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Medical Anthropology, Veterinary Anthropology, Zoonoses, zoonotic disease control, Environmental anthropology, Science and technology, visual anthropology, anthropology of landscape, art, advocacy, patient rights, patient advocacy, Lyme disease, Scotland, coronavirus
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/social_anthropology/ritti_soncco
PhD Title
Geographies of Tolerance: On the Visibility and Invisibility of Lyme Disease in Scotland (working title)
Funding:
The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Education:
2018 - present: PhD in Social Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
Supervisors: Professor Ian Harper, Dr Rebecca Marsland
2017 - 2018: Master of Science in Medical Anthropology (Distinction)
University of Edinburgh
Supervisor: Professor Ian Harper
2013 - 2017: Master of Arts in Anthropology (1st Class)
University of Aberdeen
Supervisor: Dr Arnar Arnason
Publications
- Soncco, R. (2020) "What can we learn from those self-isolating due to coronavirus?" in The National.
- Soncco, R. (2020) "Lessons for self-isolation from chronically ill patients" in Somatosphere and Consciously Quarantined, Medical Anthropology University College London.
- Soncco, R. (2019) "Canine, et al. Coauthoring research with my companion animal" in Medicine Anthropology Theory.
- Soncco, R. (2017) "Rethinking Health and Species Borders in the Zika Virus" in The International Academic Journal
- Soncco, R. (2016) "The Politics of Plant Magic: A Discussion of Knowledge Production and Knowledge Ownership in Peruvian Ayahuasca Tourism" in The Elphinstone Review Journal, University of Aberdeen
Network Participation
- COVID 19 Perspectives university blog curator and writer for CAHSS (College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) (2020)
- SoMa Representative (Students of Medical Anthropology) within Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (2018-2019)
- Conference Convenor. 'Worlds Beyond Us' Annual SoMA Symposium. University of Edinburgh (2018)
- Student Reporter for Tropentag 2018 (University of Ghent). Hired and trained in journalism and conference reporting by ATSAF e.V. (Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Researc) (2018)
Conference Papers
- Soncco, R. (2019) "Geographies of Tolerance: The Invisibility of the Lyme Disease Epidemic in Scotland". 3 Minute Thesis & Poster Presentation, Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium 2019.
- Soncco, R. (2019) "A Geography of Tolerance: The Un-Making of the Lyme Disease Epidemic in the Scottish Highlands". Advanced Workshop for Anthropological Research on Health, Medicine and Well-Being. Durham University.
- Soncco, R. (2019) "A Geography of Tolerance: The Making or Un-Making of the Lyme Disease Epidemic in the Scottish Highlands". Worlds Beyond Us Symposium, Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA). University of Edinburgh
- Soncco, R. (2018) "This Is Not A Pipe: What Surrealist Art Can Teach Medical Anthropology". Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) 9th Annual Meeting. Freie Universitat Berlin.
- Soncco, R. (2018) "It was Good Form To Die Before the Age of 30: How the Arts Constructed Moral Boundaries in the Plague and Tuberculosis". The State and Morality 1864-1964, ECA and PGR Interdisciplinary Symposium. University of Newcastle.
Teaching Experience
- Tutor: Social Anthropology 1B Anthropology Matters (2018), Dr John Harries and Dr Lucy Lowe
- Guest Lecturer: 'Art and Contagion' in Contagion (2018), Professor Ian Harper
Other Projects and Experience
- Aerial silks and partner acrobalance instructor at various studios in United Kingdom (ongoing)
- Founder and Director of "Inverted: Circus and Pole Fitness Ltd", Aberdeen (2015 onwards)
- Young Innovators Challenge Award with Scottish Institute for Enterprise (2015)
- Circus pedagogue degree, JOJO Zentrum fur Artistik und Theater, Germany
- Media designer for picture and sound with Sudwestrundfunk and Film- und Fernsehproduktion Osswald, Germany (2006-2010)