Laura Hurd Clarke

		Office:	Auditorium Annex - Room 156C
		Phone:	604-822-4281
		Fax:	604-822-5884
		EMail:	laura.hurd.clarke@ubc.ca
Associate Professor

Background

B.A.H. (Sociology) Queen’s University, 1992
M.S.W. Wilfrid Laurier University, 1996
Ph.D. (Sociology) McMaster University, 2000
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship (UBC), 2000-2003

Courses Taught

HKIN 261 (3) - Health, Policy, and Society (3)

The purpose of this course is to examine health policy and the social context that frames the construction and experience of health and illness. The course will focus on conceptualizations of the body, body image, aging, chronic illness, healthism, inequality, physical activity, alternative and complementary health care, technology, and the social determinants of health.

Research

The overall objective of my research program is to critically examine how social norms concerning gender, health, and later life mediate individuals’ experiences of aging, the body, health, illness, and physical activity. My research program is supported by a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Career Investigator Award.

Current Projects:

Project #1: Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant (2008-2011) entitled “Body Image and Identity: The Experience of Multiple Chronic Conditions in Later Life”. (We are currently looking for volunteer subjects for this study. Click the link above for more information.)

Project #2: Principal Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Catalyst Grant (2009-2010), “The Experience of Multiple Chronic Conditions in Later Life.” 

Project #3:  Co-Investigator, Hampton Fund Research Grant (2008-2009), “Culture, Gender and Medicine: Western Biomedicine and Traditional Chinese Medical”. (Patricia Vertinsky, Principal Investigator)

Publications

Hurd Clarke, L., and Korotchenko, A.  (2009).  Older Women and Suntanning:  The Negotiation of Health and Appearance Risks.  Sociology of Health and Illness, 31 (5), 748-761.
 
Hurd Clarke, L., Griffin, M., and Maliha, K.  (2009).  Bat Wings, Bunions, and Turkey Wattles:  Body Transgressions and Older Women’s Strategic Clothing Choices.  Ageing and Society, 29 (5), 709-726.
 
Hurd Clarke, L., and Bundon, A.  (2009).  From ‘The Thing To Do’ to ‘Defying the Ravages of Age’:  Older Women Reflect on the Use of Lipstick.  Journal of Women and Aging, 21 (3), 198-212. 

Hurd Clarke, L., and Griffin, M. (2008). Body Image and Aging: Older Women and the Embodiment of Trauma. Women’s Studies International Forum, 31 (3), 200-208.

Hurd Clarke, L., Griffin, M., and the PACC Research Team.  (2008).  Failing Bodies:  Body Image and Multiple Chronic Conditions in Later Life.  Qualitative Health Research, 18 (8), 1084-1095.

Hurd Clarke, L. and Griffin, M.  (2008).  Visible and Invisible Aging: Beauty Work as a Response to Ageism.  Ageing and Society, 28 (3), (in press).

Hurd Clarke, L. and Griffin, M. (2007). Becoming and Being Gendered Through the Body: Older Women, Mothers and Body Image. Ageing and Society, 27 (5), 701-718.

Hurd Clarke, L. and Griffin, M. (2007). The Body Natural and the Body Unnatural: Beauty Work and Aging. Journal of Aging Studies, 21 (3), 187-201.

Hurd Clarke, L., Repta, R., and Griffin, M. (2007). Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: Older Women’s Perceptions and Experiences. Journal of Women and Aging, 19 (3/4), 69-87.

Hurd Clarke, L. (2006). Older Women and Sexuality: Experiences in Marital Relationships Across the Life Course. Canadian Journal on Aging, 25 (2), 129-140.

Hurd Clarke, L., Martin-Matthews, A. and Matthews, R. (2006). The Continuity and Discontinuity of the Embodied Self in Infertility. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 43 (1), 95-113.

Hurd Clarke, L., Liu-Ambrose, T., McKay, H., Khan, K. and Zyla, J. (2005). “Being Able to Do the Things that I Want to Do”: Older Women with Osteoporosis Define Health, Quality of Life and Well-being. Activities, Adaptation and Aging, 29 (4), 41-59.

Hurd Clarke, Laura. (2005). Remarriage in Later Life: Older Women’s Negotiation of Power, Resources and Domestic Labour. Journal of Women and Aging, 17 (4), 21-41.

Hurd Clarke, Laura. (2003). Overcoming Ambivalence: The Challenges of Exploring Socially Charged Issues. Qualitative Health Research, 13 (5), 718-735.

Hurd Clarke, Laura. (2002). Older Women's Perceptions of Ideal Body Weights: The Tensions Between Health and Appearance Motivations for Weight Loss. Ageing and Society, 22 (6), 751-773

Hurd Clarke, Laura. (2002). Beauty in Later Life: Older Women’s Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness. Canadian Journal on Aging, 21 (3), 429-442.

Hurd Clarke, Laura. (2001). Older Women’s Bodies and the Self: The Construction of Identity in Later Life. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 38 (4), 441-464.

Hurd, Laura. (2000). Older Women’s Body Image and Embodied Experience: An Exploration. Journal of Women and Aging, 12 (3/4), 77-97.

Hurd, Laura. (1999). ‘We’re not old!’: Older Women’s Negotiation of Aging and Oldness. Journal of Aging Studies, 13 (4), 419-439.