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. Tracey's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Tracey
I am subject lead for the Sociology of Health and Illness at Plymouth University Peninsula Medical School and an active researcher. In addition to being responsible for the sociology elements of the medical school curriculum I undertake a variety of teaching and management roles including Enquiry Based Learning (EBL), academic tutoring, case unit management, and special study units. I supervise post graduate students at Masters and PhD level and am always interested in taking on more post graduate supervision. I am lead for evaluation and scholarship and co lead our faculty Education and Scholarship group, D.E.S. https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/camera/division-of-education-and-scholarship.
Broad areas of teaching and research:
- Health inequalities/ social determinants of health and illness
- Experiences of chronic illness and disability
- Social research methods
- Health professions education
Teaching
Lectures and workshops (often co taught):
- Models of heath, illness and disease
- Occupation, socioeconomic status, health and illness
- Gender, health and illness
- LGBTQI+ health
- Race, ethnicity health and illness
- Disability and medicine
- Health, illness and the life-course
- The patient - doctor relationship
- Shared decision making
- Stigma, health and illness
- Lived experiences of illness with respect to:
- cardiac disease
- domestic abuse
- substance use
- disordered eating
- obesity
- non - legitimated illnesses
- invisible illness
- Social research methods, with a focus on qualitative methodologies
- Health professions education
- Small group facilitation : problem based learning and special studies units.
- Co lead ‘Medicine in Society’ Special Studies Unit
- PhD supervisor
- Dissertation supervisor Masters in Clinical Education degree programme
- Visiting lecturer University of Cardiff Medical School: Identity health and illness.
- Chair of the Cross Cutting Themes Group (sociology, psychology, medical humanities, ethics and population health)
- Member of the Public and Patient Involvement curriculum working group
- Member of Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Decolonisation subgroup
Contact Tracey
Room 422, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 586813
tracey.collett@plymouth.ac.uk
