Dr Jennifer Burr BA (Hons), MA (Distinction), PhD, FHEA
Section of Public Health
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Office: Room 2037, 2nd Floor, Regent Court
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0792
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095
Biography
I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology in the Public Health section of ScHARR. I have particular expertise in qualitative research methods and have conducted research in a range of health and social care contexts including ethnicity and racism, sexuality and reproduction and eating disorders. My current interests include how individuals negotiate and navigate everyday ethics.
Research Interests
My current interests are in the normative and pragmatic requirements for the ethical review of research.
Teaching Interests
I co-ordinate and deliver the teaching on HAR6081 'Qualitative data collection' and HAR6010. 'Qualitative data analysis' on the MSc Health and Social Care Research. I provide teaching and advice on research ethics to students at all levels in the Department and provide selective input on medical ethics on the MBChB.
Professional Activities
- Course Director MSc Health and Social Care Research (by distance learning)
- Chair ScHARR Ethics Committee
- Editorial Board Member Sociological Research Online
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Honorary Research Fellow at Edge Hill University
Key Publications
- Cimini N and Burr J (in press) An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through 'Universal Pragmatics' and 'Dialogism' with Reference to Wikipedia. In The Information Society.
- Burr J and Reynolds P. (2010) The wrong paradigm?:social research and the predicates of ethical scrutiny. In Research Ethics Review
- Reid M, Williams S, Burr J. (2010) Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives of Eating Disorders and Service Provision: A Qualitative Study. In European Eating Disorders, Review 18(5) 390-398
- Burr J. (2010) To name or not to name? An overview of the social and ethical issues raised by removing anonymity from sperm donors. In Asian Journal of Andrology. 12:801-806.doi:10.1038; published online 12 July. 2010: http://www.nature.com/aja/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/aja201060a.html
- Burr J. (2009) Fear, fascination and the sperm donor as 'abjection' in interviews with heterosexual recipients of donor insemination. Sociology of Health and Illness. 31(5) 705-718.
- Burr J.(2009) Exploring reflective subjectivity through the construction of the 'ethical other' in interview transcripts. Sociology. 43(2) 323-339
- Reid M, Burr J, Williams S, Hammersley R. (2008) Eating disorders patients' views on their disorders and on an outpatient's service: A qualitative study. Journal of Health Psychology 13 (7) 956-960
- Burr J. and Reynolds P. (2008) Thinking the right to genetic inheritance: Liberal Rights, Communitarianism and the right to privacy for parents of DI children. Journal of Medical Ethics. 34 281-284.