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Dr Maggie Mort

Sociology: Reader, Doctoral Director

Degree: PhD (Science Studies) Lancaster

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Disability Research CeDR, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Science Studies, Health and Place, Science, Technology and Medicine

Current Teaching

This year I am teaching Disasters: why do things go wrong? Part II Sociology. I also teach on the Health, Life & Bodies course with Celia Roberts in which we have pioneered problem based learning methods in Sociology. I contribute to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Qualitative Methods (Ethnography in Practice) and Analysing Qualitative Data research training courses.

I am a Problem Based Learning tutor on the Lancaster based medical degree and Director of Special Study Modules for Lancaster and Liverpool medical students.

I am currently supervising five doctoral students in the areas of technological change, expertise, patient safety and situated learning, living with severe mental illness and disaster survival and recovery.

A former journalist and health correspondent on local/regional newspapers, I came to Lancaster 13 years ago from Leeds University where my first post-doctoral research job was in health policy and politics.

Research Interests

Research Interests:

Sociology of science, technology and medicine: technological change, telemedicine and telecare, innovation in health science and technology, health policy and politics, disaster and recovery studies. I work largely with ethnographic and participative methodologies.

Current and recent projects include:

• 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)
• Understanding Expertise in Anaesthesia (NHS R&D Fund)
• The Social Construction of Evaluation in Telemedicine and Telehealthcare (Department of Health)
• Telemedicine, Telehealthcare & the Future Patient (ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme)

Former director of the Centre for Science Studies http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css; 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

Potential Doctoral Proposals

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 - in particular governance and ethics of new care technologies
• evidence in action studies - in particular lay ethnographies of technoscience
• disaster and recovery studies

Additional Information

Associate Editor, Social Science & Medicine

Selected Publications

Milligan C, Roberts C & Mort M, (2010) Telecare and Older People: Who Cares Where?, Social Science & Medicine online first at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.08.014

Goodwin D & Mort M, (2010), in Johnson E & Berner B (eds) Technology and Medical Practice: Blood Guts and Machines, Farnham, Ashgate.

Milligan C, Mort M & Roberts C, (2010) Cracks in the Door? Technology and the Shifting Topology of Care, in Schillmeier M & Domenech M (eds) New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care, Farnham, Ashgate.

Smith AF, Pope C, Goodwin D, Mort M. (2009) Teams, talk and transitions in anaesthetic practice. In: Flin R, Mitchell L (eds): Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre. Farnham: Ashgate, 241-57

Mort M & Smith A, (2009), Beyond Information: intimate relations in sociotechnical practice, Sociology,43 (2) 215-31.

Roberts C & Mort M (2009) Reshaping what counts as care: older people, work and new technologies, ALTER: European Journal of Disability Research, Vol 3, No2, 138-58

Mort M, Roberts C & Milligan C, (2009) Editorial: Ageing, Technology & the Home -a critical project, ALTER: European Journal of Disability Research, Vol 3, No 2, 85-89.

Sims R, Medd W, Mort M & Twigger Ross C, (2009) When a Home Becomes a House: care and caring in the flood recovery process, Space & Culture. Vol 12, 3, 303-16

Mort M, Finch T & May C (2009) Making and Unmaking Telepatients: identity and governance in new care technologies, Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol 34, (1) 9-33.

Convery I, Bailey C, Mort M & Baxter J, (2009), Life Changes: altered lifescapes, in Doring M & Nerlich B (eds), The social and cultural impact of foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2001, Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Convery I, Mort M, Baxter J & C. Bailey, (2008) Animal Disease and Human Trauma: Emotional Geographies of Disaster, Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/title.aspx?PID=277176

Mort M, Convery I, Baxter J & Bailey C (2008) Animal Disease and Human Trauma: the Psychosocial Implications of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Disease Disaster, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Vol 11, 2, 133-148.

Pope, C, Mort, M, Goodwin, D and Smith, A (2007) 'Anaesthetic talk in surgical encounters', In Iedema, R (Ed) Discourses of Hospital Communication and Organization. Palgrave Macmillan.

Convery I., Mort M., Bailey C., & Baxter J, (2007) Role Stress in Front Line Workers during the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic: the value of therapeutic spaces. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies.

M. Mort, I. Convery, J. Baxter & C. Bailey (2005) 'Psychosocial effects of the 2001 UK foot and mouth disease epidemic in a rural population: qualitative diary based study', British Medical Journal, doi:10.1136/bmj.38603.375856.68 (published 7 October 2005).

M. Mort, D. Goodwin, A. F. Smith & C. Pope, (2005) 'Safe Asleep? Human machine relations in medical practice', Social Science & Medicine, Vol 61, 9, 2027-2037.

M. Mort & T Finch, (2005) Principles for Telemedicine and Telecare: a citizens' panel perspective, Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare, Vol 11, Sup 11, 66-68.

E Kashefi & M Mort, (2004) Grounded Citizens Juries: a tool for health activism? Health Expectations, 7, 290-302.

M. Mort, C May, T Williams & F Mair, (2004) 'Telemedicine and Clinical Governance: Controlling Technology, Containing Knowledge' in Governing Medicine: Theory and Practice, A Gray & S Harrison (Eds), Open Univ Press.

A Smith, M. Mort, D Goodwin & C Pope, (2003) Making Monitoring 'Work': human-machine interaction and patient safety in anaesthesia, Anaesthesia, 58, 1070-1078.

Mort M, May C & Williams T. (2003) 'Remote Doctors and Absent Patients: acting at a distance in telemedicine', Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol 28, No 2, 274-295.

May C, Mort M, Williams T, Mair F & Gask L (2003) 'Health Technology Assessment in its local contexts: studies of telemedicine', Social Science & Medicine, Vol 37, Issue 4, 697-710.

Mort M (2002) Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrolment of People, Knowledge and Machines, Camb Mass., MIT Press, Inside Technology Series. (PaperbackMarch 2008)

Memberships

Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

Member of Scientists for Global Responsibility

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Associated Keywords: Action research, Ageing, Citizenship, Disasters, Ethnography, Foot and mouth disease, Governance, Health, ICT, Informal care, Information systems, Knowledge, Participatory research, Science and technology studies, Sociology, Zoonoses

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