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The 20th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph will critically examine the concept of ‘health behaviours’, which is increasingly widespread in both health research and government policy. Whether already an established focus for interventions as in the UK, or only yet emergent, as in some other international settings, health behaviours are presented as self-evident topics for investigation and action. Derived from psychology, the idea that human behaviour can be divided into discrete, stable and measurable categories, and that such actions are merely the result of individual agency and rational choice, is at odds with most sociological approaches emphasising the relational nature of social life. Further, given the complex and diverse ways in which people make sense of issues relating to their health and body, it is often striking just how few of these perspectives are ever acknowledged or integrated into behavioural accounts.
For further information please click here
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 31st January 2012.
New Editors for SHI
Sociology of Health and Illness was founded in June 1979 and is a highly successful journal, with seven issues per year from 2012, plus a special issue also published as a Monograph. The current editorial team of Clive Seale, Jonathan Gabe, Steven Wainwright, and Clare Williams complete their term of office at the end of September 2012 and the new team will take up their positions on 1st October 2012. The team will serve for a period of three years, renewable for no more than one further term of three years.
The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, the charity that owns the journal, will contract with the institution of the lead Editor to provide up to £95,000 a year to meet the costs of editing the journal.
The editorial team has responsibility for six key areas:
• Having a strategic view of how the journal should be developing • Ensuring papers submitted to the journal are appropriately reviewed and making sound academic judgements about them
• Promoting the journal wherever possible
• Liaising with groups and individuals, including the publishers and review editors and attending meetings of the Editorial Board and Governing Body of the SHI Foundation
• Making sure that the everyday running of the journal proceeds smoothly
• Overseeing the production of a guest-edited special issue (‘Monograph’) annually
Two book review editors, Moira Kelly and Rose Barbour, are already in post.
Applications should be made no later than 1st February 2012 to Liz Ackroyd (email: l.ackroyd@qmul.ac.uk), the present Editorial Administrator of the journal.
Sociology of Health and Illness Editorship – Additional Information
Sociology of Health and Illness is owned by an independent charity, the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (www.shifoundation.org.uk), and currently published by Wiley Blackwell. From 2012 onwards there will be seven issues of the journal per annum, plus the Monograph special issue.
Main Responsibilities
Editing Sociology of Health and Illness is a stimulating and enjoyable activity. The editorial team has responsibility for six key areas:
• Having a strategic view of how the journal should be developing
• Ensuring papers submitted to the journal are appropriately reviewed and making sound academic judgements about them
• Promoting the journal wherever possible
• Liaising with a range of groups and individuals, including the publishers and the review editors, and attending annual meetings of the Governing Body of the SHI Foundation.
• Making sure that the everyday running of the journal proceeds smoothly
• Overseeing the production of a guest-edited special issue (‘Monograph’) annually
The Editorial Team
The current Editorial Team has four members and, given the large number of papers submitted (at present over 350 per annum), the editorial work requires the input of more than one person. We are hoping to identify a new team with complementary interests and expertise covering a range of sociological approaches and methodologies. The involvement of a member of the Editorial Team based outside the UK would be welcomed but is not required. As well as expertise in qualitative methodology and theory, the team will need to have the capacity to attract and evaluate papers using statistical methods and addressing issues of public health and health policy.
One of the team will act as de facto ‘Editor-in-Chief’, allocating papers between the members of the editorial team who then select reviewers, oversee the review process, and make final decisions.
The Editors are accountable to the Editorial Board which meets twice a year: in the Easter Vacation, normally in London; and in September at the BSA Medical Sociology conference. In between, they liaise with the Chair of the Editorial Board who provides support and advice on behalf of the Board.
Selection Criteria
The main criteria in selecting the new editorial team will be:
• Experience and standing in the field, especially in terms of publications
• A strategic view of the development of the journal
• Good judgement
• Good organisational skills
• Good communication skills and ability to get on with others
• A breadth of methodological, theoretical and substantive expertise
• Reasonable knowledge of IT, web and electronic publishing
• Some institutional support for carrying out the work
Support
Editing Sociology of Health and Illness represents a substantial work commitment. The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, the charity that owns the journal, will contract with the institution of the lead Editor to provide up to £95,000 a year to meet the costs of editing the journal. This amount will be provided as a single tranche of funding to be used for any teaching replacement or other costs to release members of the Editorial Team to work on the journal, and for editorial assistance, travel expenses and running costs for the Editorial Team and Editorial Board, honoraria, prizes and any other expenses necessarily incurred in editing the journal. Indirect costs will not be funded. The details of the budget, including any sub-contracts with other institutions (including non-academic institutions), will be agreed between the Editorial Team and the host institution.
Regular tasks
The journal uses electronic submission and processing via ScholarOne. Editors undertake the following tasks on a regular basis:
• Receiving papers from the Editorial Administrator, deciding whether they are suitable for the journal and then allocating them to referees
• Reading papers and referees' reports in order to determine whether to publish them
• Writing to authors explaining the editors' decision
• Dealing with authors' queries, where the Editorial Administrator is unable to resolve them
• Liaising with the journals' Editorial Administrator about the above and about when papers are ready to be sent out to the copy editor
• Deciding on the order of accepted papers for each journal issue
• Liaising with the book review editors
• Liaising with the Chair of the Editorial Board
• Writing a twice yearly report for the Editorial Board of the journal
• Attending the twice yearly Editorial Board meetings
• Overseeing the production of minutes of each Editorial Board meeting
• Liaising with the editorial staff of the publisher
• Liaising with the publisher on promotion strategy
• Initiating and maintaining input into Virtual Special Issues, podcasts and other activities to enhance the journal’s profile and reputation
• Attending relevant conferences, such as the BSA Medical Sociology conference, the ASA Annual conference and ISA conference, to publicise the journal
• Attending meetings of the Governing Body of the SHI Foundation and attending its AGM
• Presenting an annual report on the journal to the BSA Medical Sociology Conference AGM
• Co-ordinating the SHI New Writer's Prize (i.e.: identifying new authors from amongst those published by the journal over the previous year and making these available to the Board committee that selects the winner)
Term of Office
The editorship lasts for three years, renewable for one further term of three years. The term of office will commence on 1st October 2012.
Book Review Editors
The journal currently has two book review editors: Moira Kelly at Queen Mary, University of London and Rose Barbour at the Open University. Their term of office ends in September 2013.
Informal Queries
You may like to speak informally to Joan Busfield, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, who is chairing the Search Committee. She can be contacted by email at: busfj@essex.ac.uk or by phone on 01206 873399. NB. To guide applicants in drawing up a budget, Joan Busfield can supply information about the current SHI budget.
Applications
Applications should be submitted no later than 1st February 2012 to Liz Ackroyd, Editorial Adminstrator of the journal (email: l.ackroyd@qmul.ac.uk ). The application should include: a statement of no more than 8 pages covering the strengths of the proposed Editorial Team, proposals for the direction of the journal and editorial policy, the planned organisational arrangements and a draft budget. A short CV of no more than 3 pages for each member of the proposed team should also be included.
Sociology of Health and Illness Editorship – Additional Information
Main Responsibilities
Editing Sociology of Health and Illness is a stimulating and enjoyable activity. The editorial team has responsibility for six key areas:
• Having a strategic view of how the journal should be developing
• Promoting the journal wherever possible
• Liaising with a range of groups and individuals, including the publishers and the review editors, and attending annual meetings of the Governing Body of the SHI Foundation.
• Making sure that the everyday running of the journal proceeds smoothly
• Overseeing the production of a guest-edited special issue (‘Monograph’) annually
The current Editorial Team has four members and, given the large number of papers submitted (at present over 350 per annum), the editorial work requires the input of more than one person. We are hoping to identify a new team with complementary interests and expertise covering a range of sociological approaches and methodologies. The involvement of a member of the Editorial Team based outside the UK would be welcomed but is not required. As well as expertise in qualitative methodology and theory, the team will need to have the capacity to attract and evaluate papers using statistical methods and addressing issues of public health and health policy.
One of the team will act as de facto ‘Editor-in-Chief’, allocating papers between the members of the editorial team who then select reviewers, oversee the review process, and make final decisions.
The Editors are accountable to the Editorial Board which meets twice a year: in the Easter Vacation, normally in London; and in September at the BSA Medical Sociology conference. In between, they liaise with the Chair of the Editorial Board who provides support and advice on behalf of the Board.
Selection Criteria
The main criteria in selecting the new editorial team will be:
• Experience and standing in the field, especially in terms of publications
• A strategic view of the development of the journal
• Good judgement
• Good organisational skills
• Good communication skills and ability to get on with others
• A breadth of methodological, theoretical and substantive expertise
• Reasonable knowledge of IT, web and electronic publishing
• Some institutional support for carrying out the work
Support
Editing Sociology of Health and Illness represents a substantial work commitment. The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, the charity that owns the journal, will contract with the institution of the lead Editor to provide up to £95,000 a year to meet the costs of editing the journal. This amount will be provided as a single tranche of funding to be used for any teaching replacement or other costs to release members of the Editorial Team to work on the journal, and for editorial assistance, travel expenses and running costs for the Editorial Team and Editorial Board, honoraria, prizes and any other expenses necessarily incurred in editing the journal. Indirect costs will not be funded. The details of the budget, including any sub-contracts with other institutions (including non-academic institutions), will be agreed between the Editorial Team and the host institution.
Regular tasks
The journal uses electronic submission and processing via ScholarOne. Editors undertake the following tasks on a regular basis:
• Reading papers and referees' reports in order to determine whether to publish them
• Writing to authors explaining the editors' decision
• Dealing with authors' queries, where the Editorial Administrator is unable to resolve them
• Liaising with the journals' Editorial Administrator about the above and about when papers are ready to be sent out to the copy editor
• Deciding on the order of accepted papers for each journal issue
• Liaising with the book review editors
• Liaising with the Chair of the Editorial Board
• Writing a twice yearly report for the Editorial Board of the journal
• Attending the twice yearly Editorial Board meetings
• Overseeing the production of minutes of each Editorial Board meeting
• Liaising with the editorial staff of the publisher
• Liaising with the publisher on promotion strategy
• Initiating and maintaining input into Virtual Special Issues, podcasts and other activities to enhance the journal’s profile and reputation
• Attending relevant conferences, such as the BSA Medical Sociology conference, the ASA Annual conference and ISA conference, to publicise the journal
• Attending meetings of the Governing Body of the SHI Foundation and attending its AGM
• Presenting an annual report on the journal to the BSA Medical Sociology Conference AGM
• Co-ordinating the SHI New Writer's Prize (i.e.: identifying new authors from amongst those published by the journal over the previous year and making these available to the Board committee that selects the winner)
Term of Office
The editorship lasts for three years, renewable for one further term of three years. The term of office will commence on 1st October 2012.
Book Review Editors
The journal currently has two book review editors: Moira Kelly at Queen Mary, University of London and Rose Barbour at the Open University. Their term of office ends in September 2013.
Informal Queries
You may like to speak informally to Joan Busfield, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, who is chairing the Search Committee. She can be contacted by email at: busfj@essex.ac.uk or by phone on 01206 873399. NB. To guide applicants in drawing up a budget, Joan Busfield can supply information about the current SHI budget.
Applications
Applications should be submitted no later than 1st February 2012 to Liz Ackroyd, Editorial Adminstrator of the journal (email: l.ackroyd@qmul.ac.uk ). The application should include: a statement of no more than 8 pages covering the strengths of the proposed Editorial Team, proposals for the direction of the journal and editorial policy, the planned organisational arrangements and a draft budget. A short CV of no more than 3 pages for each member of the proposed team should also be included.
SHI authors on Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed
Call for proposals, 20th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph
SHI author on Laurie Taylor's 'Thinking Allowed'
http://www.uab.edu/sociology-social-work/sociology-graduate-program/graduate-faculty/774-patricia-drentea-phd
Call for abstracts for the 19th SHI Monograph
We seek submissions broadest possible range of sociologists, considering pandemics and society, and welcome abstracts covering a range of conditions and contexts (including different countries), and from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
For further information please click here.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 1 January 2011.
Mildred Blaxter 1925-2010
New podcast series – Key thinkers and debates
In the first two podcasts of the series Professor Renée Fox reflects on the development of medical sociology and discusses the current and future challenges faced by the discipline. Click here to see the podcasts and to learn more about the series.
Call for abstracts for the 18th SHI Monograph
Correspondence site
Now you can respond to articles and reviews appearing in the journal and discuss ideas with other readers and authors. The SHI correspondence site can be accessed by clicking on the 'correspondence' button on the home page.
New! Top cited and top downloaded articles now available!
A list is now available which contains the top cited and top downloaded articles of the journal as of August 2009. The list will be updated regularly so keep an eye on what's popular and watch out for your article here
2009 impact factor news
Our 2009 two-year impact factor increased from 1.845 to 2.041, placing us 5/114 in the Sociology category (having been 7/100 in 2008). SHI is the most highly cited UK-based sociology journal.
New! Virtual Special Issue on HIV/AIDS
Clive Seale has assembled a collection of articles on this theme published in the journal. To read his editorial and access the articles click here and look out for more virtual special issues coming soon.
Do you want to write a review article for the journal?
New! Virtual Special Issue on Genetics, Genomics and ‘Post-Genomics’
Richard Tutton and Nina Hallowell have assembled a collection of articles on this theme published in the journal. To read their editorial and access the articles click here and look out for more virtual special issues coming soon.
BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference Sep 2009: call for papers
British Sociological Association
MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY GROUP
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2009
Thursday 3rd – Saturday 5th September 2009
University of Manchester
We look forward to welcoming you at our 41st Annual Conference.
1. Cancer
2. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
3. Ethics
4. Ethnicity
5. Experiences of Health and Illness
6. Gender
7. Genetics
8. Health service delivery and organization
9. Health policy
10. Health technologies
11. Inequalities
12. Lay/professional interface
13. Lifecourse
14. Mental Health
15. Methods
16. Primary care
17. Risk
18. Reproductive and Sexual health
19. Teaching health professionals
20. Theory
21. Open stream
22. International
Further details and abstract submission form available from: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/medsoc and bsamedsoc@britsoc.org.uk
The abstract submission deadline is April 24th 2009.
Abstracts received after this date will not be considered.
Call for Proposals for the 17th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph
Body Work in Health and Social Care: Critical Themes, Future Agendas
Edited by: Julia Twigg (University of Kent), Carol Wolkowitz (University of Warwick), Rachel Cohen (University of Warwick) and Sarah Nettleton (University of York)
Proposals for papers are invited for contributions to the seventeenth monograph in the series to be published by Sociology of Health and Illness in conjunction with Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. We seek submissions that put body work at the centre of the labour processes of health and social care. Body work is understood here as work that focuses directly on the bodies of patients, clients and customers, especially where this involves touch or close proximity to bodies and body fluids. We are particularly interested in submissions that contribute theoretical and empirical depth to our understanding of: (1) the conceptualisation of body work, especially in relation to the nature of work and the meaning of the somatic; (2) the contexts in which body work takes place, including the knowledge systems practitioners draw on and the status hierarchies in which they are embedded; and (3) structural changes in the organisational context of body work and labour market conditions that may affect the content, meaning and experience of such work. Papers explorating similarities and contrasts between the work relations of body work in health and social care and other sectors are welcomed.
Possible themes include:
- Transforming and disciplining the body through health, care and death work
- Regulating practitioners’ bodies and their interactions
- Intersubjectivity and power, for example touch, emotion and reflexivity; ‘dirty work’ and abjection; sexualisation
- The recruitment and training of people undertaking body work in health and social care, for instance the role of migration.
The monograph will appear both as a regular issue of the journal and in book form. Potential contributors should send an abstract of up to 800 words by 30 Jan 2009 to Ann Ryan (ann.ryan@warwick.ac.uk), who will distribute it to the editors. Informal email enquiries prior to submission can also be sent to Ann Ryan. We welcome studies from a range of countries and contexts. Name and institutional affiliation of author(s) should also be supplied, including full contact details of the main author.Proposals will be reviewed by the editors and authors will be notified by 31 March 2009. Authors whose outlines are short-listed will be invited to submit an article of 6,000 to 7,000 words by 31 July 2009. All such submissions will be refereed in the usual way for Sociology of Health and Illness submissions and should follow the journal’s style guidelines (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shil_enhanced/submit.asp). The planned publication date is February 2011.
Editorial Nominations Open
Nominations are now open for candidates to fill vacancies on the SHI Editorial Board. The successful candidates will be confirmed by election at the BSA Medical Sociology Group’s AGM on Friday 5th September. If you would like to nominate someone for a place on the Editorial Board, please complete and return the form linked below before Friday 22nd August. Please note the early deadline for nominations, as this differs from previous years.
Please find nomination form here.
Sociology of Health & Illness Book of the Year Prize
The journal awards an annual prize in association with the British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group. Further details about the current competition can be obtained from the BSA homepage
Call for Review Papers for Sociology of Health & Illness
Do you want to write a Review Paper for SHI?
Review Papers are a new and exciting feature of the journal. Review Papers will provide a state-of-the-art overview of the literature and we anticipate these papers will provide valuable summaries for both teaching and research purposes. The Editors of Sociology of Health & Illness are therefore seeking short (one-page) proposals from authors who would like to write reviews of either established or emerging areas in the field of the Sociology of Health & Illness.
Sociology of Health and Illness New Writer's Prize
The Editorial Board of Sociology of Health and Illness offers an annual prize of £300 for the best article published by a novice writer. The Editorial Board would like to offer their congratulations to Brian Fair of Brandeis University who is the winner of the prize for 2009 for his article "Morgellons: contested illness, diagnostic compromise and medicalisation" 32(4):597-612
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