Dr Kate Weiner
Research Fellow
- Email: kate.weiner-2@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 2578
School of Psychological Sciences
Coupland 1 Building
Coupland Street
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9LP
Role
Research Fellow in Qualitative Methods
Adviser for the NIHR North West Research Design Service (http://www.rds-nw.nihr.ac.uk/)
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Study Group Committee Member
British Sociological Association
The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Society for the Social Study of Science (4S)
Research
I am a sociologist with an interest in medical sociology and science and technology studies. My work focuses on the themes of lay and professional knowledge, lay-expert relations, user-technology relations, and health identities and responsibilities. My substantive focus has been in the areas of genetics, heart disease and patients’ organisations.
Recent and current research
- 'Pharmaceutical dissent in comparative perspective' FSHI research initiiation grant 2010-2011.
- ‘DIY heart health: accounting for the ‘use’ of over-the-counter statins’ - ESRC small grant with Catherine Will, University of Sussex, 2009-2011 project page: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lps/research/currentandrecentresearchprojects/diyhearthealthoverthecounterstatins
- ‘Phytosterols: public expectations and user practices’ - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2008-2010 project page: http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/projectdetails/index.aspx?ID=2771
- ‘Lipids, genetics and coronary heart disease, the construction of a field’ - ESCR/MRC post-doctoral fellowship 2006-2008
Qualifications
BSc Genetics, University of Leeds, 1988.
MA Applied Policy Research, University of Newcastle, 1996.
PhD, Sociology Patient and Professional Constructions of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia and Heart Disease: Testing the Limits of the Geneticisation Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006.
Publications
2012
- Kate Weiner. (2012). Genetic Expectations in the Field of Heart Disease: Questioning the Geneticisation Thesis. In Martin Döring, Regine Kollek (Ed.), Emerging Diseases. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. eScholarID:140468
2011
- Weiner K. (2011). Exploring genetic responsibility for self, family and kin in the case of hereditary raised cholesterol. Social Science and Medicine, 72(11), 1760-1767. eScholarID:89757 | DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.03.053
- Weiner, K. (2011). The Subject of Functional Foods: Accounts of Using Foods Containing Phytosterols. Sociological Research online, 16(2), eScholarID:124451 | DOI:10.5153/sro.2343
2010
- Weiner K. (2010). Configuring users of cholesterol lowering foods. Social Science and Medicine, 71(9), 1541-1547. eScholarID:89756 | DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.048
2009
- Weiner K. (2009). Lay involvement and legitimacy: the construction of expertise and participation within H.E.A.R.T. UK. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 38(2), 254-273. eScholarID:89759 | DOI:10.1177/0891241608316996
- Weiner K. (2009). The tenacity of the coronary candidate: How people with familial hypercholesterolaemia construct raised cholesterol and coronary heart disease. Health, 13(4), 405-425. eScholarID:89758 | DOI:10.1177/1363459309103915.
2008
- Weiner, K. and Durrington P. (2008). Patients’ Understandings and Experiences of Familial Hypercholesterolemia. Community Genetics, 11(5,), 273-282. eScholarID:89760 | DOI:10.1159/000121398
- Weiner, K. and Martin, P. (2008). A genetic future for coronary heart disease?. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(3), 380-395. eScholarID:89761 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01058.x
2006
- Weiner, Kate. (2006). Patient and Professional Constructions of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia and Heart Disease: Testing the Limits of the Geneticisation Thesis. University of Nottingham. eScholarID:89767
2005
- Levitt, L., Weiner, K. and Goodacre G. (2005). Gene Week: a novel way of consulting the public. Public Understanding of Science, 14(1), 67-79. eScholarID:89762 | DOI:10.1177/0963662505047824
2000
- Haimes, E. and Weiner, K. (2000). ‘Everybody’s got a dad..’. Issues for lesbian families in the management of donor insemination. Sociology of Health & Illness, 22(4), 477-499. eScholarID:89763 | DOI:10.1111/1467-9566.00215