Dr Maggie Mort

Reader in the Sociology of Science, Technology & Medicine

Doctoral Supervision

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

Current doctoral supervision

• Lisa Ashmore - Innovation in radiotherapy: an historical sociology
• Tracy Dryden - Sources of legitimacy in knowledge about mental health
• Lucy Easthope - Community recovery from summer 2007 floods in South Yorkshire
• Anthony Page - Living with schizophrenia
• Irene Swarbrick - Situated learning in medical work, case studies in patient safety