Dr Nickolas Surawy Stepney (He/Him)

Nick joined the university of Exeter as Wellcome Trust research fellow in 2025. A medical anthropolgist, his current research project ('Drug Addiction and De-addiction in India: Genalogies, Politics and Practices') utilsises ethnographic and archival methods to examine how ‘addiction’ is imagined and intervened upon in medical settings in north India. Prior this, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London, on the project ‘Grid oncology: remaking cancer care in India’. He completed his PhD in anthropology at King’s in September 2022, with a project analysing the material and symbolic circulations of morphine in Indian cancer care. His work has been published in journals such as Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Medicine Anthropology Theory, and the Lancet Global Health.