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Profiles
Dr Tracey Collett
Associate Professor
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
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
Qualifications
B.Ed(Hons), MSc (Social Research), Phd (Sociology)
Professional membership
- Member - Behavioural and Social Sciences in Medicine (BeSST), Social Sciences group
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member - British Sociological Association
- Member - British Sociological Association Auto / Biography Group
- Member - International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)
Roles on external bodies
- Co - Chair - Behavioural and Social Sciences Teaching in Medical Education (BeSST)
https://www.besst.info
- Co - Convenor - British Sociological Association South West Regional Medical Sociology Group
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
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
Staff serving as external examiners
- External examiner - Edinburgh University 2015 - 2019
Research
Research
Research interests
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Collett, T. (2022) Mind the gap! Discipline, inter/multidisciplinary issues in Twinley, R and Letherby, G. The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: stories from the field. Routledge. London and New York.
Collett, T. (2019) Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease in van Teijlingen, E. and Humphris, G. (eds) Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine, 4th ed. Elsevier. Edinburgh.
Collett, T. and Gristy, C. (2021) Introducing race, ethnicity and medicine through Cultural Circles. BeSST Blog, July, 2021 https://www.besst.info/blog
Kendall, K. Collett, T. Forrest, S. Harden, J. and Kelly, M. (2021) It was the worst of times it was the BeSST of times. Featured article on Cost of Living Blog, January 13. https://www.cost-ofliving.net/features/