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Dr Shadreck Mwale

Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Health and Illness
School of Medicine and Biosciences
Shadreck.mwale@uwl.ac.uk

Shadreck Mwale is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of health and Illness within the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory.

Central to Shadreck’s research programme is the goal of reducing inequalities, with a focus of the examination of institutional cultures and practice within health and social care services, in both UK and global contexts. Currently, his programme of research examines the experiences of ethnic minority older people living with dementia in the UK with a focus on the acute hospital setting and social care services. His goal is to respond to contemporary priorities within public policy and public discourse and use his research to reduce inequalities and improve equity of access and inclusion for diverse populations.

Shadreck is currently a co-applicant on an interdisciplinary grant application exploring the use of restrictive practices in the care of people living with dementia within acute care settings (currently in submission with NIHR HS&DR).

He led and completed a recent Wellcome Trust project (2018-2021), which examined the advances in genomic medicine currently being rolled out within the NHS. The focus was an examination of the ethical and policy implications of these new diagnostic technologies for clinical practice, redefining patient hood, privacy, security, surveillance, the rights of NHS patients, and the potential for these technologies and related policies to contribute to healthcare inequalities. This formed part of a wider interdisciplinary and collaborative research programme “Ethical Preparedness in Genomic Medicine” (EPPIGEN) (Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research Award £1.2 million Grant No 208053/A/17/Z). A collaboration between Brighton and Sussex Medical School and University of Southampton.

Shadreck is currently Co-book Reviewers Editor for the Journal of Sociology of Health and illness.

  • Qualifications

    • MSc Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods University of Sussex
    • Ph.D. Medical Sociology – University of Sussex (ESRC studentship) (2015)

    Teaching Qualifications

    • HEA Accredited fellow 2016
    • HEA Accredited Associate Fellow 2012

  • Memberships

    Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA)
    British Sociological Association (BSA) Medical Sociology committee member

Teaching

Courses taught:

Contributes teaching on the MSc in Dementia Care.

PhD supervision

David Alemna (University of Brighton 2017-2020) Calibrating Coercive Policy Transfer: An Introduction to Policy Compatibility.

I welcome enquiries from potential applicants with a focus on inequalities, technologies in care in later life and for people living with dementia.

 

Research

  • Research and publications

    Publications

    Mwale S and Farsides B (2021) Genomic medicine futures: GPs imaginaries of genomic medicine in Primary Care, Journal of Sociology of Health and Illness (in press)

    Morris, C, Kadiwal, L, Telling, K, Ashall, W, Kirby, J and Mwale S, (forthcoming) Restorying imposter Syndrome in the Early Career stage: reflectings, recognitions and resistance, in Breeze, M and Taylor, Y Imposterism in Higher Education, Palgrave handbook

    Leaney S and Mwale S (2021) Campus closures and the devaluing of emplaced Higher Education: widening participation in neoliberal times, Journal of international education

    Alemna, D., Artaraz, K., Haynes, P., & Mwale, S. (2021). The Complexity and Instability of Policy Conditionality and Transfer: IMF Interventions in the Political Economy of South America. Complexity, Governance & Networks, 6(1), 14-31.

    Mwale S, (2020) Uncertainty and anxiety: the ‘responsible public’ in lockdown, Cost of Living April 4th

    Mwale, S. (2020). ‘Becoming-with’ a repeat healthy volunteer: Managing and negotiating trust among repeat healthy volunteers in commercial clinical drug trials. Social Science & Medicine, 245, 112670.

    Walker, Carl, Kepa Artaraz, Mary Darking, Ceri Davies, Stephanie Fleischer, Rebecca Graber, Shadreck Mwale, Ewen Speed, Jenny Terry, and Anna Zoli. (2018) "Building spaces for controversial public engagement–Exploring and challenging democratic deficits in NHS marketization." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 6, no. 2: 759-775.

    Mwale S (2017) Healthy volunteers in commercial clinical drug trials: when Human Beings become Guinea Pigs, London, Palgrave MacMillan; London,

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