School of Health & Wellbeing

Dr Sharon Greenwood

  • Senior Lecturer (Public Health)
  • Associate (School of Social & Political Sciences)

email: Sharon.Greenwood@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Room 363, Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Public Health whose work sits at the intersection of sociology, public health, and higher education. My interests focus on health inequalities, the social and political determinants of health, substance use, lived experience, and qualitative research methods. Alongside my teaching and scholarship activities, I serve as Programme Director for the Master of Public Health (MPH) programme (on campus) and Deputy Director of Education within the School of Health and Wellbeing.

My academic background is in Sociology and Social Policy, and my interests span the social and political determinants of health, health inequalities, substance use, families and health, and qualitative research methods. I am particularly interested in how lived experience, identity, stigma, and wider social structures shape health and wellbeing. My PhD research explored the experiences of young adults affected by parental substance use, and I continue to maintain an interest in substance use and family-focused public health research.

Alongside my disciplinary interests, I have a strong commitment to teaching, learning, and educational scholarship. My scholarship explores authentic assessment, student wellbeing, critical and feminist pedagogies, emotions in qualitative research, and inclusive approaches to higher education. In 2024, I completed an MEd in Academic Practice, and my dissertation on student conferences as a form of authentic assessment led to a peer-reviewed publication. In 2025, I received the University of Glasgow Teaching Excellence Award for Individual Excellence (College Award).

My teaching focuses on social determinants of health, qualitative methods, substance use, and contemporary public health challenges. I am particularly passionate about creating inclusive learning environments that help students develop confidence, critical thinking skills, and a strong sense of belonging. I supervise postgraduate and doctoral researchers and am involved in a range of collaborative projects focused on educational innovation and enhancement. I also serve as an External Examiner for postgraduate programmes at King's College London (Masters in Public Health) and Glasgow Caledonian University (Masters of Research).

I'm Glaswegian, and from a working-class background. I was the first in my family to go to university, and I'm a proud University of Glasgow graduate, having completed my MA (Hons) in Public Policy and Sociology (first class), MRes in Equality and Human Rights (with distinction), PhD in Sociology, and MEd in Academic Practice (with distinction) at the University.

Research interests

My research interests span public health, sociology, and health inequalities. I am particularly interested in:

  • Social and political determinants of health, health inequalities, and the role of policy in shaping health outcomes;
  • Substance use, including alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs, and illicit drugs, with a particular focus on families, stigma, and lived experience;
  • Gender, intersectionality, and other forms of social inequality as they relate to health and wellbeing;
  • The role of families, communities, and supportive relationships in promoting health and reducing harm;
  • Qualitative research methods, including qualitative secondary data analysis, visual and creative methods, and methodological innovation;
  • Ethical challenges and decision-making in health and social research;
  • Chronic illness, quality of life, and patient experiences of health and healthcare.

I also have a number of pedagogical and scholarship of teaching and learning interests:

  • Authentic and meaningful assessment, particularly approaches that develop transferable skills and graduate confidence;
  • Inclusive, student-centred, and wellbeing-focused approaches to teaching and learning;
  • Feminist, critical, and reflexive pedagogies in higher education;
  • Emotions, positionality, and knowledge production in teaching and research;
  • Trauma-informed approaches to learning and teaching;
  • Equity, diversity, inclusion, and widening participation within postgraduate education;
  • Student belonging, peer support, and community-building in higher education.

Publications

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Number of items: 28.

2026

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Edson Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2026) Ethical knowledge production? Considering university methods teaching as integral to the feminist mission of disability studies. In: Fish, R, Bjornsdottir, K and Wilde, A (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032411262 (In Press)

Ewart, Catriona, Shakhshir, Lama A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5406-7879, Houston, Craig, Canning, Jordan, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Mcclelland, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-5230 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2026) The Peer Support Project: Using Active Learning to Build Community in Postgraduate Education. Improving University Teaching Conference: Connecting Across Cultures: Collaboration, Compassion, and Creativity, Glasgow, UK, 15-17 July 2026.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2026) Surfacing Stigma: Narrative Disruption and Public Health Learning in an Interdisciplinary Substance Use Course. Madrid: A Focus on Pedagogy, Madrid, 24-26 June 2026.

Huang, Yuan-Tao, Gregory, Benjamin, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Germeni, Evi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5576-8816 (2026) The value of qualitative research in randomized controlled trials involving drugs and medical devices: a systematic mapping review. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 42(1), e67. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462326103936) (PMID:42411018)

2025

Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Went, Katy Jon, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Wilson, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-8658, Foley, Ailsa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8413-9820 and Melson, Ambrose ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1415-3801 (2025) Reducing stigma and discrimination: a case study of a ‘Human Library' Reading event. Equity in Education and Society, 4(2), pp. 152-172. (doi: 10.1177/27526461251329372)

Canning, Jordan, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Houston, Craig and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2025) Cultivating Inclusive Peer Support for Postgraduate Taught Dissertation Success. Improving University Teaching, London, UK, 16-18 July 2025.

Nicholson, Joyce ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-2045 and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2025) Responding to Student Substance Use in Higher Education: Adapting Research Findings into Practice. Improving University Teaching, London, UK, 16-18 Jul 2025.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Edson Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2025) Making space for positionality stories in higher education: using embodied feminist and critical pedagogies in practice. Teaching in Higher Education, (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2025.2487763) (Early Online Publication)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2025) Using student conferences as a form of authentic assessment to develop and enhance transferable communication skills in quantitative and data-driven disciplines: Evidence from a postgraduate public health program. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 16(1), pp. 18-38. (doi: 10.21153/jtlge2025vol16no1art2100)

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2025) ‘To be honest, it’s complicated’: training postgraduate students to work with emotions in qualitative research. Teaching in Higher Education, 30(1), pp. 19-34. (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2212609)

2024

Canning, Jordan, Houston, Craig, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2024) Academic allies: a peer support project for postgraduate dissertations. [Website]

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2024) Enhancing Graduate Skills and Assessment through an Annual Student Conference: A Case Study from the University of Glasgow's Master of Public Health Programme. 7th Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship Conference (ESLTIS24), St Andrews, UK, 8-9 July 2024.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2024) Enhancing Graduate Skills and Assessment through an Annual Student Conference: A Case Study from the University of Glasgow's Master of Public Health Programme. 17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 09 April 2024.

2023

Richarz, Sabine, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Kingsmore, David B., Thomson, Peter C., Dunlop, Mark, Bouamrane, Matt-Mouley, Meiklem, Ramsey and Stevenson, Karen (2023) Validation of a vascular access specific quality of life measure (VASQoL). Journal of Vascular Access, 24(4), pp. 702-714. (doi: 10.1177/11297298211046746) (PMID:34608832)

2022

Greenwood, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Kingsmore, D., Richarz, S., Thomson, P., Bouamrane, M., Meiklem, R., Dunlop, M. and Stevenson, Karen (2022) ‘It’s about what I’m able to do’: using the capabilities approach to understand the relationship between quality of life and vascular access in patients with end-stage kidney failure. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100187. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100187)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2022) Being a Scottish Early Career Researcher in the Drugs Research Field. Being a Scottish Early Career Researcher in the Drugs Research Field, Online, 30th March 2022.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2022) Book Review: Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy. Sociology of Health and Illness, 44(2), pp. 531-532. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13397)[Book Review]

2021

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2021) The Personal is Pedagogical? Using lived experience and displaying vulnerability in teaching settings. BSA Alcohol Studies Group Virtual Workshop: 'Thinking critically about lived experience of alcohol in social science research and teaching’, Online, 15 Sept 2021.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2021) Navon, D.Mobilizing Mutations: Human genetics in the age of patient advocacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2019. 384 pp. $40 (cloth) $10 ‐ $40 (eBook). ISBN: 9780226638096 (cloth), 9780226638126 (eBook). Sociology of Health and Illness, 43(2), pp. 550-551. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13142)[Book Review]

2020

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2020) The Value of SoTL: Reflections on ‘Becoming’ an Early Career (Teaching) Academic. [Website]

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2020) “You’re Standing Too Close to the Fire”: Autoethnography’s Potential for the ‘Transformation’ of Positionality. 7th International Conference of Autoethnography, Online, 19-21 July 2020. (Unpublished)

2019

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) Book Review: Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life. Sociological Research Online, 24(4), pp. 731-732. (doi: 10.1177/1360780418819009)[Book Review]

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) New for who?: Novelty and continuity in drug-related practices of people who use new psychoactive substances. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46(4), pp. 323-344. (doi: 10.1177/0091450919885664)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) “You don’t really know what a good life is until you’ve not got one”: Reflecting on disciplinary boundaries within multidisciplinary research tool. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2019, Glasgow, UK, 24-26 Apr 2019. (Unpublished)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) Speed bumps, stop signs and diversions: Emotions in research. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2019, Glasgow, UK, 24-26 Apr 2019. (Unpublished)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) What’s the problem? Making sense of public issues and private troubles. Sociology Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 10th April 2019. (Unpublished)

Bouamrane, Matt-Mouley, Meiklem, Ramsay, Dunlop, Mark, Kingsmore, David, Thomson, Peter, Stevenson, Karen and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) Haemodialysis Electronic Patient Portal: A Design Requirements Analysis and Feasibility Study with Domain Experts. In: 2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Cordoba, Spain, 05-07 Jun 2019, pp. 212-216. ISBN 9781728122861 (doi: 10.1109/CBMS.2019.00051)

2016

McLeod, Katy, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Gannon, Maria, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Liddell, Dave, Smith, Austin, Johnstone, Lauren and Burton, George (2016) Understanding the patterns of use, motives, and harms of New Psychoactive Substances in Scotland. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

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Number of items: 28.

Articles

Huang, Yuan-Tao, Gregory, Benjamin, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Germeni, Evi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5576-8816 (2026) The value of qualitative research in randomized controlled trials involving drugs and medical devices: a systematic mapping review. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 42(1), e67. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462326103936) (PMID:42411018)

Langan Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464, Went, Katy Jon, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Sharp, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-6141, Wilson, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-8658, Foley, Ailsa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8413-9820 and Melson, Ambrose ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1415-3801 (2025) Reducing stigma and discrimination: a case study of a ‘Human Library' Reading event. Equity in Education and Society, 4(2), pp. 152-172. (doi: 10.1177/27526461251329372)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Edson Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2025) Making space for positionality stories in higher education: using embodied feminist and critical pedagogies in practice. Teaching in Higher Education, (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2025.2487763) (Early Online Publication)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2025) Using student conferences as a form of authentic assessment to develop and enhance transferable communication skills in quantitative and data-driven disciplines: Evidence from a postgraduate public health program. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 16(1), pp. 18-38. (doi: 10.21153/jtlge2025vol16no1art2100)

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2025) ‘To be honest, it’s complicated’: training postgraduate students to work with emotions in qualitative research. Teaching in Higher Education, 30(1), pp. 19-34. (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2212609)

Richarz, Sabine, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Kingsmore, David B., Thomson, Peter C., Dunlop, Mark, Bouamrane, Matt-Mouley, Meiklem, Ramsey and Stevenson, Karen (2023) Validation of a vascular access specific quality of life measure (VASQoL). Journal of Vascular Access, 24(4), pp. 702-714. (doi: 10.1177/11297298211046746) (PMID:34608832)

Greenwood, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Kingsmore, D., Richarz, S., Thomson, P., Bouamrane, M., Meiklem, R., Dunlop, M. and Stevenson, Karen (2022) ‘It’s about what I’m able to do’: using the capabilities approach to understand the relationship between quality of life and vascular access in patients with end-stage kidney failure. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100187. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100187)

Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059 and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) New for who?: Novelty and continuity in drug-related practices of people who use new psychoactive substances. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46(4), pp. 323-344. (doi: 10.1177/0091450919885664)

Book Sections

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Edson Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2026) Ethical knowledge production? Considering university methods teaching as integral to the feminist mission of disability studies. In: Fish, R, Bjornsdottir, K and Wilde, A (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032411262 (In Press)

Book Reviews

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2022) Book Review: Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy. Sociology of Health and Illness, 44(2), pp. 531-532. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13397)[Book Review]

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2021) Navon, D.Mobilizing Mutations: Human genetics in the age of patient advocacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2019. 384 pp. $40 (cloth) $10 ‐ $40 (eBook). ISBN: 9780226638096 (cloth), 9780226638126 (eBook). Sociology of Health and Illness, 43(2), pp. 550-551. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13142)[Book Review]

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) Book Review: Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life. Sociological Research Online, 24(4), pp. 731-732. (doi: 10.1177/1360780418819009)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

McLeod, Katy, Pickering, Lucy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-4059, Gannon, Maria, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Liddell, Dave, Smith, Austin, Johnstone, Lauren and Burton, George (2016) Understanding the patterns of use, motives, and harms of New Psychoactive Substances in Scotland. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Conference or Workshop Item

Ewart, Catriona, Shakhshir, Lama A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5406-7879, Houston, Craig, Canning, Jordan, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Mcclelland, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-5230 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2026) The Peer Support Project: Using Active Learning to Build Community in Postgraduate Education. Improving University Teaching Conference: Connecting Across Cultures: Collaboration, Compassion, and Creativity, Glasgow, UK, 15-17 July 2026.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2026) Surfacing Stigma: Narrative Disruption and Public Health Learning in an Interdisciplinary Substance Use Course. Madrid: A Focus on Pedagogy, Madrid, 24-26 June 2026.

Canning, Jordan, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430, Houston, Craig and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2025) Cultivating Inclusive Peer Support for Postgraduate Taught Dissertation Success. Improving University Teaching, London, UK, 16-18 July 2025.

Nicholson, Joyce ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-2045 and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2025) Responding to Student Substance Use in Higher Education: Adapting Research Findings into Practice. Improving University Teaching, London, UK, 16-18 Jul 2025.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2024) Enhancing Graduate Skills and Assessment through an Annual Student Conference: A Case Study from the University of Glasgow's Master of Public Health Programme. 7th Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship Conference (ESLTIS24), St Andrews, UK, 8-9 July 2024.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2024) Enhancing Graduate Skills and Assessment through an Annual Student Conference: A Case Study from the University of Glasgow's Master of Public Health Programme. 17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 09 April 2024.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2022) Being a Scottish Early Career Researcher in the Drugs Research Field. Being a Scottish Early Career Researcher in the Drugs Research Field, Online, 30th March 2022.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2021) The Personal is Pedagogical? Using lived experience and displaying vulnerability in teaching settings. BSA Alcohol Studies Group Virtual Workshop: 'Thinking critically about lived experience of alcohol in social science research and teaching’, Online, 15 Sept 2021.

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2020) “You’re Standing Too Close to the Fire”: Autoethnography’s Potential for the ‘Transformation’ of Positionality. 7th International Conference of Autoethnography, Online, 19-21 July 2020. (Unpublished)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) “You don’t really know what a good life is until you’ve not got one”: Reflecting on disciplinary boundaries within multidisciplinary research tool. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2019, Glasgow, UK, 24-26 Apr 2019. (Unpublished)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) Speed bumps, stop signs and diversions: Emotions in research. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2019, Glasgow, UK, 24-26 Apr 2019. (Unpublished)

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) What’s the problem? Making sense of public issues and private troubles. Sociology Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 10th April 2019. (Unpublished)

Conference Proceedings

Bouamrane, Matt-Mouley, Meiklem, Ramsay, Dunlop, Mark, Kingsmore, David, Thomson, Peter, Stevenson, Karen and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2019) Haemodialysis Electronic Patient Portal: A Design Requirements Analysis and Feasibility Study with Domain Experts. In: 2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Cordoba, Spain, 05-07 Jun 2019, pp. 212-216. ISBN 9781728122861 (doi: 10.1109/CBMS.2019.00051)

Website

Canning, Jordan, Houston, Craig, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Langan-Martin, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0589-3464 (2024) Academic allies: a peer support project for postgraduate dissertations. [Website]

Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2020) The Value of SoTL: Reflections on ‘Becoming’ an Early Career (Teaching) Academic. [Website]

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Working Mindfully with Data: Addressing EDI challenges in quantitative, statistical, and epidemiological public health research
    MVLS College Equality Diversity and Inclusion (CEDI) Fund
    2024 - 2025
     
  • Cultivating Inclusive Peer Support for Postgraduate Taught (PGT) Dissertation Success
    Learning and Teaching Development Fund
    2024 - 2025
     

Supervision

** Please note: I am currently unable to support any more PGR students **

I currently supervise doctoral researchers across Public Health, Sociology, Health Technology Assessment and Creative Writing. My students' research spans health inequalities, substance use, workplace wellbeing, family planning, health technology assessment, weight stigma, and lived experience.

Current PhD / Doctoral Supervision

  • Emma Louise Crowell (2026-present), PhD Sociology
    • The weight of motherhood: understanding lived experience of weight stigma in Assisted Reproductive Technology and the impact of GLP-1s (with Dr Karen Cuthbert-Evans and Dr Kristina Saunders).
  • Fiona Moon (2025-present), DFA Creative Writing
    • The limitations of established story structures in embodying complex childhood trauma in females, and the role of experimental autoethnographic literature in furthering our collective understanding (with Dr Elizabeth Reeder).
  • James Roughan (2025-present), PhD Public Health
    • Understanding the impact upon workplace wellbeing of employees from disadvantaged backgrounds (with Dr Lia Demou and Dr Gemma Ryde).
  • Victoria Yates (2025-present), PhD Public Health
    • Local Authority powers of protection to reduce the harm from alcohol (with Dr David Walsh and Dr Amy McEwan).
  • Rut Riwu (2024-present), PhD Public Health
    • Identification of facilitators and barriers for family planning programmes in rural areas among the Sumba ethnic population, Indonesia (with Prof Fred Ho and Prof Cindy Gray).
  • Mohammed Fakeeh (2024-present), PhD Public Health
    • Modifiable factors susceptible to health promotion (smoking, alcohol, physical activity), biomarkers of health, and lifestyle change (with Dr Donald Lyall and Dr Jordan Canning).
  • Yuantao Huang (2022-present), PhD Health Technology Assessment
    • Qualitative Research in Health Technology Assessment: Advancing Methods and Applications (with Dr Evi Germeni).

I have supervised over 45 PGT and over 10 UG students on a variety of topics to completion – substance use, gender and health, mental health, health policy, and health inequalities.

Teaching

My teaching draws on my background in sociology and public health and focuses on helping students understand and respond to complex health challenges. I am particularly interested in creating inclusive, engaging learning environments that encourage critical thinking, reflexivity, and the development of transferable skills. My teaching is informed by interests in health inequalities, lived experience, qualitative research, and social justice, alongside a commitment to supporting student wellbeing and belonging.

I currently teach on the following courses:

  • Master of Public Health Research Project: coordinating dissertation projects and research training for MPH students, and leading the annual MPH Student Conference;
  • Substance Use in Scotland [MED1020]: an interdisciplinary Curriculum for Life course open to undergraduate students from across the University.

I also contribute guest teaching and research training across the University, including sessions on qualitative methods, qualitative secondary data analysis, political determinants of health, and public health. Beyond my work at UofG, I have facilitated advanced qualitative methods workshops through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science and the University of Oxford. I also run sessions for IntoUniversity and Scottish Families.


Sharon Greenwood

Dr Sharon Greenwood on Bluesky