Dr. Janice McLaughlin

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy

School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Claremont Bridge
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7511
Fax: +44 (0) 191 222 7497
Email: Janice.Mclaughlin@ncl.ac.uk
Staff Webpage: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/staff/profile/janice.mclaughlin

Research Interests:

My main areas of research interest lie in understanding various aspects of organisational life and relations. In more detail this encompasses a concern with information technology and change, gender identities and power relations, and professionalism. I have carried out research looking at these issues in particular sectors. Most recently in the NHS and in the retail sector. Currently this work is being continued via research on obstetric technologies (for example ultrasound) and the changing professional identity of midwifery. Other areas of research interest and experience lie within contemporary feminist theory, in particular feminist engagements with citizenship debates, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and queer theory.

Publications Include:

McLaughlin, J. Feminist Social and Political Theory: Contemporary Debates and Dialogues, (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003)

McLaughlin, J. 'Screening networks: Shared Agendas in Feminist and Disability Movement Challenges to Antenatal Screening and Abortion', Disability and Society 18:3 (2003).

McLaughlin, J. 'EBM and Risk: Discursive resources in healthcare,' Journal of Management in Medicine (2001).

McLaughlin, J. 'Gendering Occupational Identities and IT in the Retail Sector,' New Technology, Work and Employment 14:2 (1999), 143-156.

McLaughlin, J., Rosen, P., Skinner, D. and Webster, A. Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture and Change, (London: Routledge, 1999)

McLaughlin, J. 'Feminist Relations with Postmodernism: Reflections on the Positive Aspects of Involvement,' Journal of Gender Studies, 6:1 (1997), 5-15.