Topics I would be interested in supervising include:
science, technology and medicine studies - in particular studies of clinical practice, learning and evidence telecare and domestic space; governance and ethics of new care technologies; evidence in action studies; lay ethnographies of technoscience; disaster and recovery studies; disease containment strategy - in particular zoonoses

• One of my latest publications draws on a longstanding interest in citizen engagement in science and technology: Biosensing: how citizens’ views illuminate emerging health and social risks . Working in the field of Science and Technology Studies I have focused on technological change in healthcare such as the development of telemedicine and telecare, and what counts as innovation in health science and technology. I work largely with ethnographic and participative methodologies with which I have explored how policy can be influenced by the experience of those it affects, most recently in relation to disaster and emergency management. To this end, I am currently the Coordinator of the EC Horizon 2020 project, CUIDAR: Cultures of Disaster Resilience among children and young people.

  Current and recent projects include:

  • CUIDAR: Cultures of Disaster Resilience Amongst Children and Young People EC H2020 Coordinator (UK, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy, with Save the Children).

  • Children, young people and disasters: recovery and resilience (ESRC Urgency Project)

  • Living Data: Biosensors in Everyday Life (with Celia Roberts & Adrian Mackenzie)

  • Lost in Translation: Complexity, Risk and Resilience in Animal Disease Strategies - an inter-disciplinary evaluation of the natural and societal effectiveness of containment strategies for animal diseases (ESRC/NERC Rural Economy & Land Use Programme RELU). http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/cswm/LiT/po.php

  • EFORTT: Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for Older People at Home, (EC FP7 Science in Society) Co-ordinator of collaborative research project http://www.lancs.ac.uk/efortt/index.html

  • Flood, vulnerability and resilience: a real-time study of local recovery following the floods of June 2007 in Hull (Environment Agency/ESRC) http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/cswm/Hull%20Floods%20Project/HFP_home.php

  • The Health & Social Consequences of the 2001 UK Foot & Mouth Disease Epidemic (Department of Health) http://www.footandmouthstudy.org.uk/

  • Understanding Expertise in Anaesthesia (NHS R&D Fund)

    Contractor for the EC FP5 Thematic Network, 'Identifying Trends in European Medical Space' (ITEMS) and the FP6 Specific Support Action, Governance, Health & Medicine: opening dialogue between social scientists and users (MEDUSE), see: http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/WebCSI/ITEMS/index.php

    Development of a 'living' archive of the 2001 FMD epidemic, Cumbria County Council community project see: http://www.footandmouthstudy.org.uk/

    Health & Social Consequences of the 2001 FMD epidemic dataset acquired and archived by the ESRC Economic & Social Data Service (Qualidata) as a 'classic study' http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/introduction.asp

     

I teach on Health, Life & Bodies (Socl 306) with Celia Roberts where we have pioneered problem based learning methods in Sociology. I convene Disasters: why do things go wrong?  and contribute to Skills for Researching Social Life in Part II Sociology.

I am currently supervising seven doctoral students: five in Sociology and two in Lancaster Medical School where I also supervise two NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows. The doctoral studies relate to biosensors, co-production of care services, telecare, patient safety, situated learning and Bovine TB policy.