Dr. Phil. MĀRA GRĪNFELDE is a Senior Researcher at the University of Latvia Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and an Assistant Professor at the Rīga Stradiņš University Department of Humanities. She is a Latvian Science Council expert in philosophy. She has participated in a number of research projects in connection to phenomenological philosophy and has published scientific articles and a monograph in phenomenology and phenomenology of medicine. Currently, she is finishing her work on a Postdoctoral research project “Healing at a distance: phenomenological analysis of patient experience of clinical encounter in telemedicine,” integrating phenomenological philosophy with qualitative research. She has trained in qualitative research methodology at the Bristol University Medical School (UK), as well as participating in training courses organized by Social Research Association (UK). Her main research competencies lie within contemporary phenomenology, the phenomenology of the body, phenomenology of medicine and applied phenomenology.
Dr. Phil. ULDIS VĒGNERS is a Senior Researcher at the University of Latvia Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities of Rīga Stradiņš University. He has participated in a number of research projects in connection to phenomenology. He has published scientific articles and two monographs in phenomenology. His main research competencies lie within phenomenology of time, phenomenology of medicine and phenomenology of psychopathology. Currently, he is leading a research project “Hesitant bodies: phenomenological analysis of the embodied experience of vaccine hesitancy,” integrating phenomenological philosophy with qualitative research. He has trained in qualitative research methodology in training courses organized by Social Research Association (UK).
Dr. Phil. ANDREJS BALODIS is a Researcher at the University of Latvia Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and an Assistant Professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture. He is an author of the monograph on Henry Bergson’s philosophy of time and memory and several scientific articles. His main research interests are philosophy of time, theories of memory, studies of normality in medicine, sociology and humanities. He has participated in projects related to phenomenology. Currently, he is is participating in a research project “Hesitant bodies: phenomenological analysis of the embodied experience of vaccine hesitancy,” integrating phenomenological philosophy with qualitative research. He has also studied sociology and has experience in sociological fieldwork both in quantitative and qualitative research.