Dr Maggie Mort

PhD Supervision Interests

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

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

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.

• Living Data: Making sense of health biosensors

  01/05/2011 →
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• Lost in Translation: Cross - disciplinary analysis of knowledge exchange and effectiveness in animal disease management

  01/07/2008 → 30/11/2011
  Objectives The aim of this project is to develop more integrated strategies of containment for animal disease through a cross-disciplinary research team bringing together expertise in public health, ... Read more»

• FP7: EFFORT

  01/03/2008 →
  Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for Older People at Home ... Read more»

• Flood vulnerability and resilience

  01/10/2007 → 31/12/2009
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• Healthcare at home? New technologies and responsibilities across diverse EU systems and cultures

  01/02/2006 → 30/09/2009
  To draw together social science studies and findings about technological and spatial shifts which project the home as a site of healthcare provision for older people To collate what is known about ho ... Read more»

• ITEMS

  01/06/2003 → 30/09/2006
  ITEMS - Identifying Trends in European Medical Space The Lancaster workpackage involved investigating the training needs of PhDs and post-doctoral fellows in humanities and social studies of health a ... Read more»

• Health and social consequences of the 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic: an action research project

  01/11/2001 → 01/03/2003
  The 2001 foot and mouth disease outbreak had enormous effects on the economic, social and political life of rural areas in the UK. This research project, which was funded by the Department of Health, ... Read more»

• Problem of Expertise in Anaesthesia

  01/04/2000 → 01/03/2002
  Funded by the NHS Executive (North West), this ethnographic study combined observation of anaesthetic work and interviews with the anaesthetic team in an English hospital. Our principal aim was to und ... Read more»

• The Trouble with Telecare: intrerview with Maggie Mort

  14/03/2013
  Based on our EU research project Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for older people at home, Maggie Mort gave an interview to the Ageing Horizons Bulletin  http://aginghorizons.com/2013/0 ... Read more»

• Maggie Mort on The Wireless (AGEUK radio station)

  27/02/2013
   Hear this radio debate about ageing and technology (telecare) in the UK: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/agenda-on-wireless-14th-november/id541099875?i=125432886 ... Read more»

• Guest Blog AGEUK Will the Sensors Look After Us?

  21/10/2012
  Please visit this blog and have your say! http://ageukblog.org.uk/2012/10/21/will-the-sensors-look-after-us/   ... Read more»

• Special Issue of European Disability Journal

  08/04/2009
  'Ageing, Technology & the Home: Researching New Care Configurations' is a special issue of the journal ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research, which has been edited by Maggie Mort & C ... Read more»

• Lancaster Experts Advise Government on Flooding

  25/04/2008
  Researchers at Lancaster University have made several recommendations to a Government review into the flooding emergency last year. They argue that swift settlement of insurance claims and better co-o ... Read more»