Dr Sharon Greenwood

  • Lecturer in Public Health (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

Import to contacts

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

Biography

I have worked for the university in a range of roles for over ten years. In March 2022, I took over as programme lead for the Masters in Public Health on campus programme. Prior to this, I was a lecturer for the MVLS Graduate School, and held a variety of fixed-term teaching and research roles between September 2013 and August 2019.

I am also the Deputy Director of Education for the School of Health and Wellbeing.

My background is in Sociology and Social Policy. My teaching interests center around inequalities, identity, health, political determinants of health, and lived experience. I am a University of Glasgow graduate, having completed all my tertiary education at this institution:

Research interests

My research interests centre around intersecting inequalities, bodies, and health. I have a keen interest in: 

  • Substance use - illegal drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, and alcohol;
  • Intersectionality and health (specifically gender-based issues);
  • Power, inequality, and health inequalities - particularly the role political ideology takes in the construction of policy;
  • Ethical decision making and ethical dilemmas in research;
  • Chronic health conditions;
  • The role families, friends, and supportive relationships take in promoting health;
  • Alternative forms of gathering and analysing qualitative data.

I also have a number of pedagogical research interests:

  • Emotions in teaching;
  • Feminist approaches to teaching and learning;
  • Trauma, and how this can inform learning;
  • Widening participation in PGT spaces;
  • Trigger warnings / content notes;
  • Knowledge production within learning and teaching spaces.

 

Publications

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Number of items: 22.

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)

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, (doi: 10.1177/27526461251329372) (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)

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)

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2023) ‘To be honest, it’s complicated’: training postgraduate students to work with emotions in qualitative research. Teaching in Higher Education, (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2212609) (Early Online Publication)

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: 22.

Articles

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)

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, (doi: 10.1177/27526461251329372) (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)

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)

Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X and Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 (2023) ‘To be honest, it’s complicated’: training postgraduate students to work with emotions in qualitative research. Teaching in Higher Education, (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2212609) (Early Online Publication)

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 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

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

I currently supervise three PhD students across the School of Health and Wellbeing. I am currently unable to support any more PGR students. 

  • 2024 – present / Rut Riwu, with Dr Fred Ho & Prof Cindy Gray. Identification of Facilitators and Barrier for Family Planning Program in Rural Areas among Sumba Ethnic, Indonesia

  • 2024 – present / Mohammed Fakeeh, with Dr Donald Lyall & Dr Jordan Canning. Modifiable factors susceptible to health promotion (smoking; alcohol; physical activity), biomarkers of health, and lifestyle change

  • 2022 – present / Yuantao Huang, with Dr Evi Germeni. Qualitative Research in Health Technology Assessment: Advancing Methods and Applications

I am PGR reviewer to five students.

  • Huang, Yuantao
    Qualitative research in Health Technology Assessment: Advancing methods and applications

I have supervised several PGT and UG students on a variety of topics to completion - gender and health (including several on menstrual health), sex work, drug and alcohol use, mental health, health policy, health inequalities.

Postgraduate Taught

  • 2019 – present - Masters in Public Health (On Campus and Online) - 35 projects supervised
  • 2020 – 2022 - MSc in Health Services Management: 5 projects supervised
  • 2020 – 2022 - MSc in Global Mental Health (On Campus) – 2 projects supervised
  • 2018 – 2019 - MSc in Public Policy – 2 projects supervised

Undergraduate

  • 2023 – 2024 - BSc Med Sci (hons) in Medical Humanities – 1 project supervised
  • 2020 – 2021 - BSc Med Sci (hons) in Public Health – 1 project supervised
  • 2018 – 2019 - MA Soc Sci (hons) in Social and Public Policy – 2 projects supervised

Teaching

I am the programme lead for the Masters in Public Health programme. In 2025-2025, I will be co-leading a Curriculum for Life course, Substance Use in Scotland - open to undergraduate students across the university.

 

Course Design, Development, and Delivery: Leadership Roles

2024 – present: MED5077 / MED5436 – Qualitative Methods in Public Health (SCQF Level 11; 20CR) – Optional MPH course. Joint co-lead with Dr Hayley Connell – maternity cover.

2022 – present: MED5334P / MED5479P - Masters in Public Health Research Project (SCQF Level 11; 60CR) – Core MPH Course. Dissertation coordinator for On Campus and Online MPH Research Project. Delivery of multiple training sessions throughout the research project for on campus students. Organiser of yearly on campus MPH Student Conference – an initiative co-produced with students.

2021 – 2024: MED5632 - Substance Use in a Contemporary World (SCQF Level 11; 10CR) – Microcredential and part of UofG Upskilling Project and funded by Scottish Funding Council. Joint course lead. Led on design and development of asynchronous content. Collaborative delivery with co-leads.

2019 – present: MED5522 - Social Determinants of Health (SCQF Level 11; 20CR) – Optional course for MPH. Joint course lead. Led on design and development course content. Collaborative delivery with co-lead.

 

Current Guest Lecturing

  • Qualitative Methods (CoSS, PGT)
  • Current Trends and Challenges in Biomedical Research (MVLS, PGT)

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