Prof. Robert Dingwall

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University of Nottingham
Institute for Science and Society
DirectorAppointed: 2007
University of Nottingham
Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks & Society
DirectorAppointed: 2001
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Mailing Address

Institute for Science and Society
Law and Social Sciences Building
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2RD
United Kingdom

Contact Information

Phone: 0115 951 5418
Fax: 0115 846 6349
robert.dingwall@nottingham.ac.uk
http://tinyurl.com/29ltbw

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Aberdeen, 1974.
M.A., University of Cambridge, 1971.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Bioethics, Child Abuse Or Neglect, Genetics, Medical Sociology, Nursing Education, Risk Factor Analysis, Social Services Delivery.

Additional Terms:

Bioethics, Civil Litigation, Genetics and Society, Human Service, Medical Negligence, Organization, Process Evaluation, Regulation, Risk Management.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

French: (Functional, Basic, Functional)

Memberships

American Sociological Association
British Sociological Association
Law and Society Association
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Socio-legal Studies Association

Honors and Awards

2002, Academician, (UK) Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, Sociology

Previous Positions

2003-2003, Visiting Fellow, American Bar Foundation (Chicago)
2003-2003, Visiting Fellow, American Bar Foundation (Chicago), American Bar Foundation
2001-2006, Director, University of Nottingham, Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society
1990-1990, Visiting Fellow, American Bar Foundation (Chicago)
1990-2001, Professor, University of Nottingham, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, School of Sociology and Social Policy
1977-1990, University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Research Officer/Senior Research Officer/Research Fellow
1974-1977, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sociology, Research Fellow

Funding Received

  • Leverhulme Trust: Centre for the Study of Biorisks and Society, £1 million, Apr 1, 2000 to March 30 2006.
  • UK Department of Health: The reuse of single use medical devices, £115,000, 2004 to 2005.
  • UK Department of Health: Mainstreaming innovations in genetic medicine services, £750,000, 2004 to 2008.
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): The representation of evolution in TV wildlife documentaries, £25,000, 2001 to 2002.
  • Department of Health: Evaluation of London Intervention Zone Educational Initiative, £300,000, 1997 to 1999.
  • Legal Aid Board: Monitoring of publicly funded divorce mediation pilot, £630,000, 1997 to 1999.
  • Lord Chancellors Department: Rationing and cost-containment in health care and its implications for legal services, £8,000, 1997 to 1997.
  • NHS Executive Health Technology Assessment Programme: Quality in the use of qualitative methods, £49,000, 1996 to 1997.
  • Prison Medical Service: Pilot on sociological issues in prison health care, £8,000, 1996 to 1996.
  • Trent Region NHS: Literature review on physician assistants, £10,000, 1995 to 1995.
  • Economic and Social Research Council: Gender in divorce mediation, £100,900, 1994 to 1996.
  • Trent Region NHS: Literature review on role extension and role expansion in nursing, £10,000, 1994 to 1994.
  • Kings Fund: Legal and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation, £8,000, 1993 to 1993.
  • Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust: Alternative systems of compensation for medical misadventures, £20,000, 1992 to .
  • Kings Fund/Milbank Fund: Governance in hospitals, £18,000, 1991 to .
  • Department of Health: Evaluation of innovations in pharmaceutical services for discharged former long stay mental patients, £140,000, 1991 to 1994.
  • Nuffield Foundation: Effectiveness in divorce mediation, £52,000, 1991 to 1993.
  • Economic and Social Research Council: Complaints against hospitals, £65,000, 1989 to 1992.
  • Oxfordshire District Health Authority and Oxford Regional Health Authority: Experience of Medical Negligence Claims, £8,000, 1988 to .
  • Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust: Ethical Aspects of Resource Allocation Decisions in the NHS, £75,000, 1988 to 1991.
  • Wates Foundation: Pilot research on divorce mediation, £23,000, 1988 to 1990.

Publications

  • R Dingwall (2006) Is "professional dominance" an obsolete concept?, Knowledge, Work and Society, 4 (2), 77-98
  • R Dingwall (2006) An exercise in fatuity: research governance and the emasculation of HSR, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 11 (4), 193-4
  • R Dingwall, E Cloatre (2006) Vanishing Trials: An English Perspective', Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2006 (1), 51-70
  • S.P. Conroy, A. Luxton, R. Dingwall, R.H. Harwood, J.R.F. Gladman (2006) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in continuing care settings: time for a rethink?, British Medical Journal, 332, 479-82
  • R Dingwall, M. Aldridge (2006) Television wildlife programming as a source of popular scientific information: a case study of evolution, Public Understanding of Science, 15 (2), 131-52
  • R. Dingwall, B. Nerlich, S. Hillyard, Biological Determinism and Symbolic Interaction, Symbolic Interaction, University of California Press, 26(4), 631-44, 2003
  • R. Dingwall, M. Aldridge, Teleology on Television: Implicit Models of Evolution in Broadcast Wildlife and Nature Programmes, European Journal of Communications, 18(4), 435-53, 2003
  • R. Dingwall, K.Kidd, After the Fall...capitulating to the Routine in Professional Work, Penn State Law Review, 108(1), 67-87, 2003
  • R Dingwall, K. Kidd (2003) After the Fall...: capitulating to the routine in professional work, Penn State Law Review, 108 (1), 67-87
  • M. Aldridge, R. Dingwall (2003) Teleology on television: implicit models of evolution in broadcast wildlife and nature programmes', European Journal of Communications, 18 (4), 435-53
  • B. Nerlich, R. Dingwall and D. D. Clarke, The Book of Life: How the Human Genome Project was revealed to the public, Health, 6(4), 445-69, 2002
  • Richards C, Dingwall R, Watson A, Should NHS patients be allowed to contribute extra money to their care?, Bmj : British Medical Journal / British Medical Association, 323(7312), 563-5, 2001 Abstract
  • D. Greatbatch, E. Murphy and R. Dingwall, Evaluating medical information systems: ethnomethodological and interactionist approaches, Health Services Management Research, 14, 1-12, 2001
  • R. Dingwall and D. Allen, The implications of healthcare reforms for the profession of nursing, Nursing Inquiry, 8(2), 64-74, 2001
  • Robert Dingwall, 'Risk Society': The Cult of Theory and the Millenium, Social Policy and Administration, 33(4), 474-491, December 1999
  • D. Greatbatch and R. Dingwall, The marginalization of domestic violence in divorce mediation, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 13(2), 174-89, 1999
  • Murphy E, Dingwall R, Greatbatch D, Parker S, Watson P, Qualitative research methods in health technology assessment: a review of the literature, Health Technology Assessment, 2(16), iii-ix 1-274, 1998 Abstract
  • R. Dingwall, E.M. Murphy, D. Greatbatch, P. Watson, S.Parker, Catching Goldfish: Quality in Qualitative Research, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 3(3), 167-72, 1998
  • R. Dingwall, D. Greatbatch, L. Ruggerone, Gender and interaction in divorce mediation, Mediation Quarterly, 15(4), 277-85, 1998
  • D. Greatbatch and R.Dingwall, Argumentative Talk in Divorce Mediation Sessions, American Sociological Review, 62(1), 151-70, 1997
  • Fenn P, Hermans D, Dingwall R, Estimating the cost of compensating victims of medical negligence, Bmj (clinical Research Ed.), 309(6951), 389-91, August 1994 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Fenn P, Is NHS indemnity working and is there a better way?, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 73(1), 69-77, July 1994 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Primary health care: second opinion. Moving on, Nursing Standard, 5(11), 47, December 1990 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Primary health care: second opinion. Contract out, Nursing Standard, 5(7), 47, November 1990 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Primary health care. Second opinion: American perspective, Nursing Standard, 4(50), 47, September 1990 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Primary health care. Second opinion: subordination and autonomy, Nursing Standard, 4(43), 47, July 1990 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Primary health care. The shape of things to come, Nursing Standard, 4(23), 51, February 1990 Abstract
  • Fenn P, Dingwall R, Ham C, Defence subscriptions for general practitioners, Bmj (clinical Research Ed.), 297(6649), 688, September 1988 Abstract
  • Quam L, Dingwall R, Fenn P, Medical malpractice claims in obstetrics and gynaecology: comparisons between the United States and Britain, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 95(5), 454-61, May 1988 Abstract
  • Quam L, Dingwall R, Fenn P, Medical malpractice in perspective. I--The American experience, British Medical Journal (clinical Research Ed.), 294(6586), 1529-32, June 1987 Abstract
  • Quam L, Fenn P, Dingwall R, Medical malpractice in perspective. II--The implications for Britain, British Medical Journal (clinical Research Ed.), 294(6587), 1597-600, June 1987 Abstract
  • Graham P, Dingwall R, Wolkind S, Research issues in child abuse, Social Science and Medicine, 21(11), 1217-28, 1985 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Aggression management. Two. Who is to blame, anyway?, Nursing Times, 80(15), 42-3, April 1984 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Defining child mistreatment, Health Visitor, 56(7), 249-51, July 1983 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, 2. Child abuse--the real questions, Nursing Times, 79(25), 67-8, June 1983 Abstract
  • Dingwall R, Community nursing and civil liberty, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 7(4), 337-46, July 1982 Abstract
  • Bloor M, Dingwall RW, Horobin G, McIntosh J, Samphier ML, Correspondence: Composition and function of ethical committees, Journal of Medical Ethics, 1(3), 152-3, September 1975 Abstract
  • (with P Fenn), Risk management: financial implications, In: Vincent C ed, Clinical Risk Management, London, BMJ Publications, 1995
  • (with B New, M Solomon and J V McHale), A question of give and take: improving the supply of donor organs for transplantation, London, King's Fund, 1994
  • (with P Fenn), Is NHS indemnity working and is there a better way?, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 73, 1994, 69-77
  • (with P Fenn), Is risk management necessary? Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, 1991, 91-106
  • (with P Fenn), Quality and regulation in health care, London, Routledge, 1992

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