The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Oonagh's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Oonagh
My main areas of expertise are the Sociology of Health and Illness, and Socio-ethical aspects of Medicine and Health Policy.
Specific topics of interest include; Wellbeing, values in medicine and healthcare, consent, personalized medicine, genetics, clinical drug trials, bioethics, medical education, professionalism and the ‘ emotional work ’ of doctors and healthcare professionals.
Methodology: Ethnographic methods, including observation, qualitative interviews, focus group interviews, visual methods, sensory methods and autoethnography.
Theories: I have a long standing interest in Foucault in particular the work on governmentality as developed by Nicholas Rose and others. More recently I have become interested in the sociology of emotions and am reexamining some classic social theories such as those of Parsons, Goffman, and Simmel.
Supervised Research Degrees
Completed PhDs:
2010 Supervisor for Lili Gao. Title: The development of ‘thinking as a doctor’ in medical students through multi-professional team placements. PhD Medical Education, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter.
2008 Director of Studies for Eric Jensen. Title: The Human Cloning Debate in the US and the UK. PhD, Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge.
2008 Director of Studies for Shirlene Badger. Title: A genetic diagnosis of obesity: social and moral experiences of the body and responsibility in childhood’ PhD Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Teaching
Corrigan, O. P., Letherby, G and Brennan, N (Submitted) ‘Experiences of becoming a doctor: Doing emotional labour’, Health
Corrigan, O. P., (2011) Personalized Medicine in a Consumer Age –Feature article. Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine 9: 168-176
Brice, J., and Corrigan, O. (2010) ‘The changing landscape of medical education in the UK’, Medical Teacher 32: 727–732.
Brenan, N., Corrigan, O.P., Allard, J., Archer, J., Bleakley, A., Barnes, R., Collett, T. and Regan de Bere, S. (2010). ‘From medical student to junior doctor: Today’s experiences of Tomorrow’s Doctors’. Medical Education. 44: 449–458*
Corrigan, O.P., Ellis, K., Bleakley, A. and Brice, J. (2010) Quality in Medical Education. In Swanwick, T. (ed.) Understanding Medical Education. London: Wiley-Blackwell. p.379-391
Corrigan, O.P. and Pinchen, I. (2009) Tomorrow’s Doctors, a Changing Profession: Reformation in the UK Medical Education System. In Brosnan, C. and Turner, B.(eds.) Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education. Oxford: Taylor and Francis. p. 242-260
Corrigan, O.P. andTutton, R. (2009) Biobanks and the challenges of governance, legitimacy and benefit. In Atkinson, P. Glasner, P., and Lock M. (eds) Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era, London: Routledge, p.302-318
Corrigan, O.P., McMillan, J., Liddell , K., Richards, M., & Weijer, C. (eds.) (2009) The Limits of Consent: A Socio-ethical Approach to Human Subject Research in Medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Corrigan, O.P. (2008) Genetics and Social Theory in Turner, B. (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. London: Wiley-Blackwell http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405169001,descCd-tableOfContents.html
Corrigan, O.P., & Petersen, A. (2008) UK Biobank: Bioethics as a technology of governance in Gottweis, H. and Petersen, A. (eds.) Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective. London and New York: Routledge, p.143-158
Corrigan, O. P., McMillan, J., and Weijer, C. (2008) ‘Introduction’ in Oonagh Corrigan, John McMillan, Kathleen Liddell, Martin Richards & Charles Weijer (eds.) (2009) The Limits of Consent: A Socio-ethical Approach to Human Subject Research in Medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, P. 1-9
Corrigan, O.P. (2008) 'Informed consent in operation'. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Corrigan, O.P., & Petersen, A. (2008) UK Biobank: Bioethics as a technology of governance in Gottweis, H. and Petersen, A. (eds.) Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective. London and New York: Routledge, p.143-158
Others; policy reports, dictionary entries and journal commentaries
Archer, J., Regan De Bere, S., Clark, J., Corrigan, O., and Nunn, S. (2012) Revalidation in Policy, A Report for the Health Foundation.
Corrigan, O. and Brennan, N. (2010) Longitudinal Evaluation of South West Peninsula Deanery F1 Doctors. End of Study Report.
Contact Oonagh
oonagh.corrigan@plymouth.ac.uk
