Prof Ellen Annandale

Profile

Biography

After completing my BSc in Sociology at the University of Leicester, I studied for my MA and PhD in Sociology at Brown University in the USA. In 2012 I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from Umeå University in Sweden.

My first academic position was at the MRC Medical Sociology Unit (now MRC Social and Public Health Science Unit) at the University of Glasgow, where I worked as a researcher on the West of Scotland 2007 Study of health in the community. Thereafter I joined Warwick University as a lecturer and subsequently the University of Leicester as Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Sociology, before coming to York as Professor and Head of Department in 2013.

Between 2004 and 2012, I was Editor-in-chief of the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Between 2013 and 2015 I was a Vice President of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and Chaired ESA's Postgraduate Committee. 

With Maria Carmella Agodi I am co-editor of the ESA Book Series Studies in European Sociology, published by Routledge.

With Xiaodong Lin, I am co-editor of the Book Series Global Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health, published by Palgrave.

Departmental roles

I was Head of Department between 2013 and 2017.

Research

Overview

My main research interests lie in the sociology of health and illness and the sociology of gender, and especially the connections these two fields, This is reflected, for example, in my most recent single authored books,  Women's Health and Social Change (Routledge, 2009) which was shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize and the 2nd edition of The Sociology of Health and Medicine (Polity, 2014) which was Highly Commened in the 2015 BMA Book Awards.

I am currently working on the following funded research projects: the ESRC-funded project Buildings in the Making (PI Sarah Nettleton), NIHR-funded project Interactional Practices of Decision-making during childbirth in Maternity Units (PI Ellen Annandale), and Swedish Research Council funded project researching How are Sex, Gender and Health Interwoven? (PI Anne Hammarström, University of Uppsala).

I was recently engaged with colleagues at Leicester and Loughborough Universities in a project on managerial identities in the English NHS (funded by NIHR) and with Ming Lim (University of Leicester) and Carlo Ruzza (Trento University) on a AHRC ‘Connected Communities’ study of the changing role of the third sector in health care.

Publications

Selected publications

Books and Special Issues

Ettorre, Elizabeth; Annandale, Ellen; Hildebrand, V., Porroche-Escudero, A., Rothman, B. K. (2017) Health, Culture and Society (London: Palgrave).http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319607856

Giarelli, Guido, Annandale, Ellen and Ruzza, Carlo (eds) (2014) The Role of Civil Society in Healthcare Systems Reform. Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine, Vol 123 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536/123

Annandale, Ellen (2014) The Sociology of Health and Medicine, 2nd edn. Polity Press. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745634613.html

Kuhlmann, Ellen and Annandale, Ellen (eds.) (2012) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare, second edition (London: Palgrave). [Click on this link for more information from the publisher]…..

Hunt, Kate and Annandale, Ellen (eds.) (2011) Gender and Health, Major Themes Series, 4 volumes (London: Routledge) (lead editor, Volume 1 ‘Theoretical and Methodological Developments’ and Volume 3 ‘Gender and Healthcare’). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415569767/

Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale (eds.) (2012) Transforming Health Services and Policy: New International Experiences. Current Sociology, 60(4) http://csi.sagepub.com/content/60/4.toc

Kuhlmann, Ellen and Annandale, Ellen (eds.) (2010) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare (London: Palgrave).

Annandale, Ellen (2009) Women's Health and Social Change (London: Routledge). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415190879/

Ellen Annandale and Elianne Riska (eds.) (2009) New Connections: Towards a Gender Inclusive Approach to Women's and Men's Health. Current Sociology, 57(2)

Annandale, Ellen, Elston, Mary Ann and Prior, Lindsay (eds.) (2004) Medical Work, Medical Knowledge and Health Care (Oxford: Blackwell).

Annandale, Ellen and Hunt, Kate (eds.) (2000) Gender Inequalities in Health (Buckingham: Open University Press.

Backett-Milburn, Kathryn and McKee, K. (eds.) with Annandale, Ellen and Kerr, A. (2001) Gender and the Reproductive Body (London: Macmillan)

Hunt, Kate and Annandale, Ellen (eds.) (1999) Gender and Health (London: Pergamon).

Ellen Annandale (1998) The Sociology of Health and Medicine (Cambridge: Polity).

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