Jeremy Booth
Honorary Fellow
Profile
Biography
- PhD (York)
- PGDip (Bristol)
- BA (Essex)
After a sociology degree at Essex I stayed on as a Fellow researching publishing and radio. Given the opportunity to practice social action broadcasting which was the topic of my IBA Fellowship I moved to Hull and into art and design. Following a postgraduate course in the drama department at BristoI, I became the founding head of a new department of media and carried out research into arts and creative industry development and education with among others, the European League of Institutes of the Arts, the European Commission and the City of Hull.
After a faculty role overseeing quality development I joined a new medical school in a similar post, this time dealing with the GMC’s inspection regime which oversaw the school’s first five years, assessing its fitness to be recommended to the Privy Council as suitable for awarding a UK primary medical qualification. I saw the creation of a new medical school as an opportunity to research how doctors are taught to think, and so a year before I left I registered for a PhD at York.
My PhD applied new materialist perspectives to explore the development and processes of regulation, the organization of supervision and assessment, and the embodied nature of practice in undergraduate medical education. It explored Foucault’s ‘implicit labour of language’ in the assembly of practice, treating the senses used in patient consultations as mediators. It showed how patient-centered practice continues to reproduce a traditional individualized medicine and its hierarchy, and how patients in the community of practice serve as exemplars for comparison, learning, and the definition of the field of medicine itself.
I now find myself as a Fellow again with a renewed interest in ethnography to complement my interest in medicine and health and experience of the arts to inform further research.
Research
Overview
I shall use this Fellowship to build on my PhD to examine the assembly of professionalism in medical education, and for further exploration of the significance of the forms of language used in medicine.
I also hope to explore how vocational education balances the development of students’ individual creativity with the increasing need for collaboration in the workplaces that graduates join.
Publications
Selected publications
2009
‘Learning from evaluation: a descriptive, student-informed approach’, Clinical Teacher 6.273-78, with Hammond A. Collins S. and Kalia S.
2008
'Considered evaluation of clinical placements in a new medical school’, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 1.12, lead author with Collins S. and Hammond A.
1999
Strategies for the Future, Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council
1992
‘Weathertexts’, Rebirth of Rhetoric Andrews R. (ed.) Longmans
1989
The Invisible Medium: public, private and community radio, Macmillan, with Lewis P.M.
1981
Books and Publishers D.C. Heath, with Lane M
1980
A Different Animal, I.B.A.
1976
‘Rationalisation and crisis in British Publishing’, in Altbach P. and McVey S. Perspectives on Publishing D.C. Heath
Conference papers
2016
'Tomorrow’s doctors 1993-2009: from liberal manifesto to neoliberal manual?' Paper in the symposium Should medical education be based in universities? AMEE Barcelona, August
2014
‘Tomorrow’s Doctors from manifesto to manual', paper presented at the Association for the Study of Medical Education Annual Conference Brighton 17 July
2013
‘Tomorrow’s Doctors, the curriculum and professional learning on clinical placements in undergraduate medical education’, paper presented at Critical Perspectives on Professional Learning Sixth Annual Conference Leeds 17 June
