The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global 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. Â
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.                                                                                           Â
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: 168-176Â
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.Â
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