Nickolas Surawy Stepney

Nickolas Surawy Stepney is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Wellcome funded project ‘Grid oncology: remaking cancer care in India’ at King's College London, led by Professor Carlo Caduff. He completed his PhD in anthropology at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s in September 2022. Using ethnographic methodologies, his research examines the material and symbolic circulations of morphine in northwest India. 

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Political Stakes of Cancer Podcast Series – Episode 1: Pain without Painkillers: the politics of morphine in northern India

Political Stakes of Cancer Podcast Series – Episode 1: Pain without Painkillers: the politics of morphine in northern India


Podcast with Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Research Associate, King’s College London, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. This episode takes us to northern India to unpack the complex politics of morphine care for cancer patients. Nickolas shares with us stories from his doctoral work in India in hospitals where morphine stocking […]