Current Teaching

As Director of Postgraduate Research Studies for the Institute, I recruit doctoral students, liaise with supervisors, chair reviews, upgrade panels and vivas and stay involved with research training developments and funding sources.

I teach on the Institute's Masters programmes, convening the modules Citizenship in Healthcare and Medical Knowledge, Technologies and Practices. On the department's MRes by distance learning scheme I convene a mini-module on Ethnography and I also contribute a session to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Qualitative Methods research training course (Ethnography in Practice).

I am increasingly involved with the education of students undertaking the medical degree at Lancaster, acting as a Problem Based Learning tutor and conveningSpecial Study Modules for Lancaster and Liverpool Medical Students.

I am currently supervising five doctoral studentsin the areas of technological change, expertise, patient safety and situated learning, living with severe mental illness and disaster survival..

Research Interests

Current and recent projects include:

• The Health & Social Consequences of the 2001 UK Foot & Mouth Disease Epidemic (Department of Health);
• Understanding Expertise in Anaesthesia (NHS R&D Fund);
• The Social Construction of Evaluation in Telemedicine and Telehealthcare (Department of Health);
• Telemedicine, Telehealthcare and the Future Patient (ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme)
• Complexity, Risk and Resilience in Animal Disease Strategies - an inter-disciplinary evaluation of the natural and societal effectiveness of containment strategies for animal diseases (ESRC/NERC Rural Economy & Land Use Programme RELU).
• Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for Older Peopleat Home, EFORTT. (EC FP7 Science in Society) Co-ordinator of collaborative research project.
• Flood, vulnerability and resilience: a real-time study of local recovery following the floods of June 2007 in Hull (Envirnment Agency/ESRC)
• Co-Director with Lucy Suchman of the Lancaster Centre for Science Studies;
• Contractor for the EC FP5 Thematic Network, 'Identifying Trends in European Medical Space' (ITEMS) and the FP6 Specific Support Action, Governance, Health & Medicine: opening dialogue between social scientists and users (MEDUSE), see: www.csi.ensmp.fr/items/index.htm.
• Development of a 'living' archive of the 2001 FMD epidemic, Cumbria County Council community project http://www.footandmouthstudy.org/
• Health & Social Consequences of the 2001 FMD epidemic dataset acquired and archived by the ESRC Economic & Social Data Service (Qualidata) as a 'classic study' http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/introduction.asp

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Topics I would be interested in supervising include:

science, technology and medicine studies - in particular studies of clinical practice, learning and evidence;
telecare and domestic space - in particular governance and ethics of new technologies;
evidence in action studies - in particular lay ethnographies.

Selected Publications
Pope, C, Mort, M, Goodwin, D and Smith, A (2007) Anaesthetic talk in surgical encounters, In Iedema, R (Ed) Discourses of Hospital Communication and Organization. Palgrave Macmillan.

Convery I., Mort M., Bailey C., & Baxter J, (2007) Role Stress in Front Line Workers during the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic: the value of therapeutic spaces. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies.

M. Mort, I. Convery, J. Baxter & C. Bailey (2005) 'Psychosocial effects of the 2001 UK foot and mouth disease epidemic in a rural population: qualitative diary based study', British Medical Journal, doi:10.1136/bmj.38603.375856.68 (published 7 October 2005).

M. Mort, D. Goodwin, A. F. Smith & C. Pope, (2005) 'Safe Asleep? Human machine relations in medical practice', Social Science & Medicine, Vol 61, 9, 2027-2037.

M. Mort & T Finch, (2005) Principles for Telemedicine and Telecare: a citizens' panel perspective, Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare, Vol 11, Sup 11, 66-68.

E Kashefi & M Mort, (2004) Grounded Citizens Juries: a tool for health activism? Health Expectations, 7, 290-302.

M. Mort, C May, T Williams & F Mair, (2004) 'Telemedicine and Clinical Governance: Controlling Technology, Containing Knowledge' in Governing Medicine: Theory and Practice, A Gray & S Harrison (Eds), Open Univ Press.

A Smith, M. Mort, D Goodwin & C Pope, (2003) Making Monitoring 'Work': human-machine interaction and patient safety in anaesthesia, Anaesthesia, 58, 1070-1078.

Mort M, May C & Williams T. (2003) 'Remote Doctors and Absent Patients: acting at a distance in telemedicine', Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol 28, No 2, 274-295.

May C, Mort M, Williams T, Mair F & Gask L (2003) 'Health Technology Assessment in its local contexts: studies of telemedicine', Social Science & Medicine, Vol 37, Issue 4, 697-710.

Goodwin, D, Pope, C, Mort, M and Smith A (2003) 'Ethics and ethnography: an experiential account', Qualitative Health Research, Vol 13 (4) 567-577.

Mort M (2002) Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrolment of People, Knowledge and Machines, Camb Mass., MIT Press, Inside Technology Series. (Paperback edition due March 2008)

May C, Mort M, Mair FS, Williams TL. (2001) 'Factors affecting the adoption of telehealthcare in the United Kingdom: the policy context and the problem of evidence', Health Informatics Journal (2001) 7, 131-134.

Memberships

Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

Member of Scientists for Global Responsibility