Chase Ledin

Dr Chase Ledin (he/him) is a sociologist in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, whose work explores the social and cultural dimensions of sexual health promotion and antimicrobial resistance in the UK and US. He is the Editor in Chief for The Polyphony, a medical humanities journal hosted by the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Chase supervises Master of Public Health (MPH) dissertations and convenes courses for the BMedSci (Hons) in Bioethics, Law and Society intercalated programme.

Chase's research interests include:

• Medical sociology
• Critical health promotion
• Visual cultures of public health and medicine
• Sexuality studies
• Queer science and technology studies

Chase’s notable recent publications include:

• Ledin, Chase, Olujoke Fakoya, and Jaime Garcia-Iglesias. (2022). HIV Activists during COVID-19 in the UK. Report. Edinburgh, UK: The University of Edinburgh.
• Ledin, Chase, and Benjamin Weil. (2022). ‘Healthy Publics’ and the Pedagogy of It’s a Sin. European Journal of Cultural Studies 26(1), pp. 102-109.
• Ledin, Chase. (2021). Retroactivism and Futurity in 120 BPM and Théo et Hugo. Modern and Contemporary France 30(2), pp. 179-191.
• García-Iglesias, Jaime, and Chase Ledin. (2021). ‘Who cares if you’re poz right now?’: Barebackers, HIV and COVID-19. Sociology of Health and Illness 43(9), pp. 1981-1995.
• Ledin, Chase, and Benjamin Weil. (2021). ‘Test Now, Stop HIV’: COVID-19 Pandemic and the ‘End of HIV’. Culture, Health and Sexuality 23(11), pp. 1470-1484.
• Møller, Kristian, and Chase Ledin. (2021). “Viral Hauntology: Specters of AIDS in Infrastructures of Gay Sexual Sociability,” in: Affects, Interfaces, Events. Edited by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, Jette Kofoed & Jonas Fritsch. Vancouver: Imbricate! pp. 147-162.