Brian Crosbie MA Sociology, MA Research Methods
School of Health and Related Research
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Sheffield S1 4DA
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email : b.crosbie@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
After completing my undergraduate masters in sociology at the University of Edinburgh, I secured an ESRC studentship to do a postgraduate masters in research at Nottingham University. After graduating I worked as a research associate for 5 years at the School of |Nursing at Nottingham University. In that time I worked on a number of research projects which include: palliative care, public use of health technology, and Arts and Health. At this time I am completing my ESRC funded PhD study at ScHARR. The topic of my PhD study is `nurses´ gendered understanding of technology in critical care setting.
Research Interests
My research interests concern the social and philosophical studies of technology and science. In particularly I am interested in the intersection of identity, gender and the social shaping of technology. Along with technology I have an interest in Social theory and qualitative methodology issues.
Current projects
- Nurses’ understanding of technology in the ICU
Key Publications
- Timmons, S., Crosbie, B., Harrison- Paul, R. 2010 Displacement of death in public space by lay people using the automated external defibrillator in Health & Place Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 365-370
- Edgley, A., Timmons, S., Crosbie, B. 2009 Desperately seeking sociology: Nursing student perceptions of sociology on nursing courses, in Nursing Education Today, Volume 29, Issue 1,16-23
- Timmons, S., Harrison-Paul, R., Crosbie, B. 2008. How do lay people come to trust the Automatic External Defibrillator? in Health, Risk & Society, Volume 10, Number 3, 207-220