Ellen Annandale
Professor Emeritus

Profile

Biography

After completing my BSc Sociology at the University of Leicester, I received by MA and PhD in Sociology from Brown University, USA. I have an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from Umeå University, Sweden.

My first academic position was at the MRC Medical Sociology Unit, the University of Glasgow, where I was 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, then Reader and Professor of Sociology, before coming to York University as Professor in 2013, where I was Head of Department between 2013-2017.

My research focuses on the sociology of health and illness with a particular interest in gender, feminism and health; health inequalities; childbirth; and the professions and organisation of health care.

Between 2004 and 2012, I was Editor-in-chief of the journal Social Science and Medicine (2004-2012), I was a Vice President of the European Sociological Association (ESA) (2013-2015) and Chaired ESA's Postgraduate Committee. I am Chair of Trustees for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (2019-2025). I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Publications

Selected publications

• E. Annandale (2014) The Sociology of Health and Medicine, 2nd edition. Polity Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-3462-3 (pb). “Highly Commended”, British Medical Association (BMA) Book Awards.
• E. Annandale (2009) Women’s Health and Social Change, London: Routledge. Pp. 181 Shortlisted for Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness Book Prize.
• E. Ettorre, E. Annandale, V. Hildebrand and A. Porroche-Escudero (2017) Health, Culture & Society: Conceptual legacies and contemporary applications. Palgrave.
• E. Kuhlmann and E. Annandale (eds.), 2nd edn (2012) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare, Palgrave.
• E. Annandale, S. Nettleton, D. Martin, C. Buse and S. Beynon-Jones (2024) ‘The constellations of design: architects at the junction of working with embodied individuals and virtual collectives in later life facilities in the UK’, Journal of Professions and Organisation 11(3):293-309.
• E. Annandale, H. Baston, S. Beynon-Jones, L. Brierley-Jones, A. Brodrick, P. Chappell, J. Green, C. Jackson, V. Land, T. Stacey (2022) Shared decision-making during childbirth in maternity units: the VIP mixed-methods study. (2022) Health Soc Care Deliv Res 2022;10(36).
• E. Annandale, M. Wiklund and A. Hammarström (2019) ‘Theorising Women’s Health and health inequalities: shaping processes of the “gender-biology nexus”’ Global Health Action, 11 (3): 87- 96.
• E. Annandale and A. Hammarström (2015) ‘Gender equality in the couple relationship and leisure-based physical exercise’. PLos One, 10 (7).
• O. Williams and E. Annandale (2018) ‘Obesity, stigma and reflexive embodiment: feeling the “weight” of expectation’. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 24(4):421-441.