The Waiting Times project has now ended, but you can visit our living archive of stories of waiting at www.WhatAreYouWaitingFor.org.uk
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We’d love to hear your story of waiting. You can browse other people’s stories and add your own.
It can be a written story, or a recording, or a video, or a picture. Whatever you like.
Hit the big red ticket machine to enter our virtual waiting room to read, tell and share stories of waiting.
Alternatively, you can email Michael (m.flexer@exeter.ac.uk) to share your story with us.
All stories will be anonymised and have identifying details removed.
Before sending us your story, please read our Waiting Times Info Sheet.
THE WAITING TIMES PROJECT
Waiting is one of healthcare’s core experiences. It is there in the time it takes to access services; through the days, weeks, months or years needed for diagnoses; in the time that treatment takes; and in the elongated time-frames of recovery, relapse, remission and dying.
Funded by the Wellcome Trust, our project – which ran from 2017 to 2023 – opened up what it means to wait in and for healthcare by examining lived experiences, representations and histories of delayed and impeded time.
In an era in which time is lived at increasingly different and complex tempos, Waiting Times looked to understand both the difficulties and vital significance of waiting for practices of care.
Our work was divided across four themes. Click on these for more information.
You can find out about all the work we are doing right here, including details of workshops, conferences, academic papers and publications and public engagement events.
