Associate Professor Fran Collyer is a sociologist at the University of Sydney in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy. She is Senior Editorial Adviser to the Health Sociology Review, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Sociology, a Journal of the British Sociological Association. Her research interests span the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of health and medicine. Research has focused on the history of sociology, the formation of disciplines and institutions, the globalisation of knowledge, the privatisation of healthcare services, the sociology of the healthcare systems and its inequalities. Recent books include Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine (2012), for which she won the Stephen Crook Memorial Award for the best Australian monograph 2012–13, and the Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine (2015). More detail:
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/sociology_social_policy/staff/profiles/fran.collyer.php
