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.