Professor Jo Edson Ferrie

  • Professor of Sociology (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

telephone: 01413303175
email: Jo.Ferrie@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

R1001, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X

Biography

I am dedicated to the enhancement of learning and teaching principally through improving access to methods and skill training. I am known for my contribution to, and informing and influencing Academic Practice. Specifically, how do we create better learning experiences to help students and colleagues 'do' research and knowledge exchange work. I was appointed Associate Dean of Skill and Method in 2023 and hold the award of Principal Fellow of RET, recognised for Excellence in Teaching.

I publish around better methods teaching and the realisation of human rights through partcipatory methodologies and budgets.

I have worked at Glasgow since 2011, completing my PhD in the Centre for Disability Research in 2008.

Research interests

I contribute two significant bodies of work.

First: I am known for my teaching, and influence on teaching of research methods. I have pioneered in the teaching of research methods at the University of Glasgow as founding Director of Glasgow Q-Step. With major investment from the Nuffield Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council, I have led a team of quantitative educators to create 6 degrees in the School of Social & Political Sciences; embedding of numerate data skills in the MEduc in the School of Education. As Director I pioneered our experiential learning portfolio, delivering more than 30 internships, generating more than 8 years of research investment into the Scottish Economy working with civil and policy partners. 

As Deputy Director for Training, I delivered a significant, national leadership role with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences. I have delivered a training vision that meets student's needs and an evidence base of training needs data shared across the Doctoral Training Partnership of 16 universities. During my secondment I quadrupled the training delivered, set up new interdisciplinary initiatives with DTPs in arts, humanities and computing science and delivered new policies to pay post-graduate and early-career scholars for the outstanding training they facilitate. I have published on the skills graduate students need to be academy-ready and industry-ready. Working with the ESRC and Technopolis I have influenced the future of data-driven skills, re-imagining how research skills should be taught to produce confident students able to demonstrate the rigour of their work. Our 2022 report has impacted underpinning the ESRC's 2022 Post-graduate Training & Development Guidelines and supporting creation of a £2.4million pot to develop methods training across the UK. 

I am interested in how we teach methods better, how we embed research integrity into our training, particularly pertaining to qualitative methods, and how we build confident researchers. I am able to pursue this agenda for Glasgow through my appointment as Associate Dean for Skill and Method. As well as designing core postgraduate training provision, I have launched a university-wide specialist methods and training intitaitve of short courses designed for post-graduate students. As part of the Curricula 4 Life body of work, I am creating new courses for our general degrees that enhance skill development and focus on susatainability and the Sustainable Development Goals to ensure students havbuild on disciplinary kowledges towards interdisciplinary team-working and solution-focused learnings.

Second: I have a sustained track record of working with external organisations to foster knowledge exchange and impact, particularly around human rights and disability rights. I serve on the Research Advisory Group of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and sit on their Human Rights Budgeting Group. I have been invited to Scottish Government roundtables to discuss how to move work in this field forward. I am Chair of the Board of Trustees for Making Rights real, a new charity in Scotland working with community organisations. I have collaborated to secure funding from Corra and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. I have published on how to progress human rights in Scotland. I have worked with Close the Gap, the Health and Social Care ALLIANCE Scotland, with Inclusion Scotland and Just Fair with the Social Rights Alliance England to better understand academic practice in the field of knowledge exchange. With Dr Kiril Sharapov (Napier) and thanks to UKRI/GCRF funding, I have delivered training to disability-led civil organisations, and academics at the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine to help them train researchers in using human rights based approaches to research. This work has been translated into Ukrainian and Ukrainian sign language.

Publications

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2025

Greenwood, S. and Edson Ferrie, J. (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)

Edson Ferrie, J. and Ross, D. (2025) Avoiding a Rhetoric of Resistance and Imposition: Strategies for Successful Implementation of Central Policy. 2025 Eurpean University Association Learning and Teaching Conference, Cork, Ireland, 27-28 February 2025.

Boyle, K., Camps, D. , English, K. K. , Ferrie, J. , Flegg, A. and Mukherjee, G. (2025) Access to Social Justice: Effective Remedies for Social Rights. Series: Bristol studies in law and social justice. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529237917 (Accepted for Publication)

Edson Ferrie, J. and Pearson, P. (2025) Deinstitutionalisation: a human rights-based examination of Scotland’s progress in ending institutions, from Coming Home to universal practice. [Research Reports or Papers]

2024

Ferrie, J. and Forrest, C. (2024) Closing the Gap: Evaluation of the UK’s Strategy to Improve Doctoral Education and Methods Training. Quality in Postgraduate Education, Adelaide, Australia, 14-16 April 2024.

2023

Brown, E. and Ferrie, J. (2023) Establishing a human rights-based approach in healthcare: a UK example moving beyond policy and into private spaces. In: Robinson, Sally and Fisher, Karen (eds.) Research Handbook on Disability Policy. Series: Elgar handbooks in social policy and welfare. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: Cheltenham, pp. 565-580. ISBN 9781800373648 (doi: 10.4337/9781800373655.00056)

Ferrie, J. and Greenwood, S. (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)

Ferrie, J. , Forrest, C. and Spreckelsen, T. (2023) Editorial: Teaching research methods better? Or research methods for better teaching? Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), i-vii. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.71)

Ferrie, J. and Spreckelsen, T. (2023) Teaching methods: pedagogical challenges in moving beyond traditionally separate quantitative and qualitative classrooms. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), pp. 16-36. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.64)

Forrest, C. and Ferrie, J. (2023) 'We used to be somebody': a critical consideration of plans to recapture the UK’s reputation as a world-leader in teaching research and innovation. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), pp. 90-110. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.72)

2022

Ferrie, J. , Wain, M., Gallacher, S., Brown, E. , Allinson, R., Kolarz, P., MacInnes, J., Sutinen, L. and Cimatti, R. (2022) Scoping the Skills Needs in the Social Sciences to Support Data-Driven Research. [Research Reports or Papers]

Boyle, K., Camps, D. , English, K. and Ferrie, J. (2022) The Practitioner Perspective on Access to Justice for Social Rights: Addressing the Accountability Gap. [Research Reports or Papers]

2021

Ferrie, J. and Lachapelle, P. (2021) Evaluating and improving policy and practice. In: McConnell, Charlie, Muia, Daniel and Clarke, Anna (eds.) International Community Development Practice. Series: Community development research and practice series. Routledge: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 225-253. ISBN 9780367691240 (doi: 10.4324/9781003140498-9)

Ferrie, J. and Scott, A. (2021) The PhD and missing skills: capacity and capability building for social science engagement with industry. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(3), pp. 22-31. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i3.428)

2020

Wiseman, P. and Ferrie, J. (2020) Reproductive (in)justice and inequality in the lives of women with intellectual disabilities in Scotland. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22(1), pp. 318-329. (doi: 10.16993/sjdr.677)

Ferrie, J. and Scott, A. (2020) Re-Imagining Post-Graduate Training: Partnering with Businesses. QAA Scotland's 5th International Enhancement Conference 2020, Glasgow, UK, 3-5 Nov 2020.

Ferrie, J. and Wiseman, P. (2020) Interrogating the Body: Exploring What It Means to Live With Motor Neurone Disease Using Phenomenology. Series: SAGE research methods cases: medicine and health. SAGE Publications: London. ISBN 9781529716177 (doi: 10.4135/9781529716177)

2019

Ferrie, J. (2019) Independent Evaluation of Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights. [Research Reports or Papers]

Ferrie, J. and Wiseman, P. (2019) Running out of time: exploring the concept of waiting for people with motor neurone disease. Time and Society, 28(2), pp. 521-542. (doi: 10.1177/0961463X16656854)

2018

Wiseman, P. and Ferrie, J. (2018) Our Bodies, Our Rights: Research Report. [Research Reports or Papers]

Ferrie, J. and Rewaj, P. (2018) Finding Your Voice and Coping with a Distressing Diagnosis. International Conference on Neurological Disorders, Stroke and CNS, Athens, Greece, 22-23 Oct 2018. p. 4. (doi: 10.21767/2171-6625-C3-013)

Ferrie, J. (2018) Running Out of Time: the Experience of Living with a Neurological Condition. 13th World Conference on Neurology and Neuromuscular Disorders, Frankfurt, Germany, 01-02 Oct 2018.

Ferrie, J. (2018) Teaching Emotion: Emotion as a Bi-product of Research, Equipping Social Scientists to Manage this Data. 7th Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference (CERE 2018), Glasgow, UK, 04-05 Apr 2018.

Ferrie, J. and Hosie, A. (2018) Methodological challenges in developing an evidence base, and realizing rights. International Journal of Human Rights, 22(1), pp. 5-21. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1390300)

Ferrie, J. , Wallace, R. and Webster, E. (2018) Realising international human rights: Scotland on the global stage. International Journal of Human Rights, 22(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1390297)

2017

Ferrie, J. (2017) Making Meaning: The Trials of Producing Knowledge (and Doctoral Research). Edinburgh Napier University PGR Business School Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 16 May 2017.

2015

Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2015) The psycho-social impact of impairment: the case of motor neurone disease. In: Shakespeare, Tom (ed.) Disability Research Today. Routledge: Oxon, pp. 43-59. ISBN 9780415748445

2013

Ferrie, J. , Wiseman, P. and Watson, N. (2013) Living with MND: An Evaluation of Care Pathways Available to Adults with, and the Families or Carers of Adults with Motor Neurone Disease in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2013) Constructing Models of Care: Barriers that enable and disable. In: Nordic Network on Disability Research 12th Biannual Conference, Turku, Finland, 30-31 May, (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2013) Family Support and Motor Neurone Disease. In: European Sociological Association 11th Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change, Turin, Italy, 28-31 August 2013, (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. , Robertson-Rieck, P. and Watson, N. (2013) Care Pathways for Adults in Scotland with Motor Neurone Disease. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)

2012

Ferrie, J. (2012) The Body, Corporeality and Disability. In: Disability Studies Conference 2012: Disability, Poverty and Neo-Liberalism, Lancaster, 11-13 September 2012, (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. (2012) What has human rights got to say about care and dignity? In: Hynes, Patricia, Lamb, Michele, Short, Damien and Waites, Matthew (eds.) Sociology of Human Rights: New Engagements. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415617970

2011

Ferrie, J. , Robertson-Rieck, P. and Watson, N. (2011) How am I going to put flowers on my Dad’s grave? Care Home Resident’s use of the Mobility Element of the Disability Living Allowance. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. (2011) Sociology and human rights: what have they got to say about care and dignity. In: Hynes, Patricia, Michele, Lamb, Short, Damian and Waites, Matthew (eds.) Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements. Routledge: London, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9780415617970

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K. and Ferrie, J. (2011) Don’t get involved: an examination of how public sector organisations in England are involving disabled people in the Disability Equality Duty. Disability and Society, 26(3), pp. 255-268. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2011.560370)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J. and Paterson, K. (2011) Mainstreaming the disability equality duty and the impact on public authorities' working practices. Social Policy and Society, 10(2), pp. 239-250. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746410000588)

2010

Ferrie, J. (2010) Sociology and human rights: what have they got to say about care and dignity? International Journal of Human Rights, 14(6), pp. 865-879. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2010.512129)

Clark, J., Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2010) Third Sector Approaches to Bridging the Distance from the Employment Market for People with Multiple and Complex Needs: An Evidence Review. [Research Reports or Papers]

2008

Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K., Pearson, C. , Stalker, K. and Watson, N. (2008) An In-Depth Examination of the Implementation of the Disability Equality Duty in England: Report for the Office for Disability Issues. [Research Reports or Papers]

2006

Ferrie, J. and Hansen, K. (2006) Disabled People in Inverclyde: Empathy not Sympathy. 2: A Report into the Needs of Residents Living with a Disability or Long-Term Illness. Inverclyde Council on Disability Limited: Greenock, UK. ISBN 9780955272806

Ferrie, J. and Riddell, S. (2006) Gender balance in the teaching workforce: official statistics. In: Riddell, S. and Tett, L. (eds.) Gender and Teaching: Where Have All the Men Gone? Series: Policy and practice in education (17). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 13-27. ISBN 9781903765579

Ferrie, J., Riddell, S. and Stafford, A. (2006) Undergraduates' views of teaching as a career. In: Riddell, S. and Tett, L. (eds.) Gender and Teaching: Where Have All the Men Gone? Series: Policy and practice in education (17). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 28-40. ISBN 9781903765579

Riddell, S., Tett, L., Ducklin, A., Stafford, A., Winterton, M., Burns, C. and Ferrie, J. (2006) The gender balance of the teaching workforce in Scotland: What's the problem? Scottish Educational Review, 38(1), pp. 73-92.

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Articles

Greenwood, S. and Edson Ferrie, J. (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)

Ferrie, J. and Greenwood, S. (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)

Ferrie, J. , Forrest, C. and Spreckelsen, T. (2023) Editorial: Teaching research methods better? Or research methods for better teaching? Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), i-vii. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.71)

Ferrie, J. and Spreckelsen, T. (2023) Teaching methods: pedagogical challenges in moving beyond traditionally separate quantitative and qualitative classrooms. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), pp. 16-36. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.64)

Forrest, C. and Ferrie, J. (2023) 'We used to be somebody': a critical consideration of plans to recapture the UK’s reputation as a world-leader in teaching research and innovation. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), pp. 90-110. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.72)

Ferrie, J. and Scott, A. (2021) The PhD and missing skills: capacity and capability building for social science engagement with industry. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(3), pp. 22-31. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i3.428)

Wiseman, P. and Ferrie, J. (2020) Reproductive (in)justice and inequality in the lives of women with intellectual disabilities in Scotland. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22(1), pp. 318-329. (doi: 10.16993/sjdr.677)

Ferrie, J. and Wiseman, P. (2019) Running out of time: exploring the concept of waiting for people with motor neurone disease. Time and Society, 28(2), pp. 521-542. (doi: 10.1177/0961463X16656854)

Ferrie, J. and Hosie, A. (2018) Methodological challenges in developing an evidence base, and realizing rights. International Journal of Human Rights, 22(1), pp. 5-21. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1390300)

Ferrie, J. , Wallace, R. and Webster, E. (2018) Realising international human rights: Scotland on the global stage. International Journal of Human Rights, 22(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1390297)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K. and Ferrie, J. (2011) Don’t get involved: an examination of how public sector organisations in England are involving disabled people in the Disability Equality Duty. Disability and Society, 26(3), pp. 255-268. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2011.560370)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J. and Paterson, K. (2011) Mainstreaming the disability equality duty and the impact on public authorities' working practices. Social Policy and Society, 10(2), pp. 239-250. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746410000588)

Ferrie, J. (2010) Sociology and human rights: what have they got to say about care and dignity? International Journal of Human Rights, 14(6), pp. 865-879. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2010.512129)

Riddell, S., Tett, L., Ducklin, A., Stafford, A., Winterton, M., Burns, C. and Ferrie, J. (2006) The gender balance of the teaching workforce in Scotland: What's the problem? Scottish Educational Review, 38(1), pp. 73-92.

Books

Boyle, K., Camps, D. , English, K. K. , Ferrie, J. , Flegg, A. and Mukherjee, G. (2025) Access to Social Justice: Effective Remedies for Social Rights. Series: Bristol studies in law and social justice. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529237917 (Accepted for Publication)

Ferrie, J. and Wiseman, P. (2020) Interrogating the Body: Exploring What It Means to Live With Motor Neurone Disease Using Phenomenology. Series: SAGE research methods cases: medicine and health. SAGE Publications: London. ISBN 9781529716177 (doi: 10.4135/9781529716177)

Ferrie, J. and Hansen, K. (2006) Disabled People in Inverclyde: Empathy not Sympathy. 2: A Report into the Needs of Residents Living with a Disability or Long-Term Illness. Inverclyde Council on Disability Limited: Greenock, UK. ISBN 9780955272806

Book Sections

Brown, E. and Ferrie, J. (2023) Establishing a human rights-based approach in healthcare: a UK example moving beyond policy and into private spaces. In: Robinson, Sally and Fisher, Karen (eds.) Research Handbook on Disability Policy. Series: Elgar handbooks in social policy and welfare. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: Cheltenham, pp. 565-580. ISBN 9781800373648 (doi: 10.4337/9781800373655.00056)

Ferrie, J. and Lachapelle, P. (2021) Evaluating and improving policy and practice. In: McConnell, Charlie, Muia, Daniel and Clarke, Anna (eds.) International Community Development Practice. Series: Community development research and practice series. Routledge: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 225-253. ISBN 9780367691240 (doi: 10.4324/9781003140498-9)

Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2015) The psycho-social impact of impairment: the case of motor neurone disease. In: Shakespeare, Tom (ed.) Disability Research Today. Routledge: Oxon, pp. 43-59. ISBN 9780415748445

Ferrie, J. (2012) What has human rights got to say about care and dignity? In: Hynes, Patricia, Lamb, Michele, Short, Damien and Waites, Matthew (eds.) Sociology of Human Rights: New Engagements. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415617970

Ferrie, J. (2011) Sociology and human rights: what have they got to say about care and dignity. In: Hynes, Patricia, Michele, Lamb, Short, Damian and Waites, Matthew (eds.) Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements. Routledge: London, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9780415617970

Ferrie, J. and Riddell, S. (2006) Gender balance in the teaching workforce: official statistics. In: Riddell, S. and Tett, L. (eds.) Gender and Teaching: Where Have All the Men Gone? Series: Policy and practice in education (17). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 13-27. ISBN 9781903765579

Ferrie, J., Riddell, S. and Stafford, A. (2006) Undergraduates' views of teaching as a career. In: Riddell, S. and Tett, L. (eds.) Gender and Teaching: Where Have All the Men Gone? Series: Policy and practice in education (17). Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 28-40. ISBN 9781903765579

Research Reports or Papers

Edson Ferrie, J. and Pearson, P. (2025) Deinstitutionalisation: a human rights-based examination of Scotland’s progress in ending institutions, from Coming Home to universal practice. [Research Reports or Papers]

Ferrie, J. , Wain, M., Gallacher, S., Brown, E. , Allinson, R., Kolarz, P., MacInnes, J., Sutinen, L. and Cimatti, R. (2022) Scoping the Skills Needs in the Social Sciences to Support Data-Driven Research. [Research Reports or Papers]

Boyle, K., Camps, D. , English, K. and Ferrie, J. (2022) The Practitioner Perspective on Access to Justice for Social Rights: Addressing the Accountability Gap. [Research Reports or Papers]

Ferrie, J. (2019) Independent Evaluation of Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights. [Research Reports or Papers]

Wiseman, P. and Ferrie, J. (2018) Our Bodies, Our Rights: Research Report. [Research Reports or Papers]

Ferrie, J. , Wiseman, P. and Watson, N. (2013) Living with MND: An Evaluation of Care Pathways Available to Adults with, and the Families or Carers of Adults with Motor Neurone Disease in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. , Robertson-Rieck, P. and Watson, N. (2013) Care Pathways for Adults in Scotland with Motor Neurone Disease. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. , Robertson-Rieck, P. and Watson, N. (2011) How am I going to put flowers on my Dad’s grave? Care Home Resident’s use of the Mobility Element of the Disability Living Allowance. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)

Clark, J., Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2010) Third Sector Approaches to Bridging the Distance from the Employment Market for People with Multiple and Complex Needs: An Evidence Review. [Research Reports or Papers]

Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K., Pearson, C. , Stalker, K. and Watson, N. (2008) An In-Depth Examination of the Implementation of the Disability Equality Duty in England: Report for the Office for Disability Issues. [Research Reports or Papers]

Conference or Workshop Item

Edson Ferrie, J. and Ross, D. (2025) Avoiding a Rhetoric of Resistance and Imposition: Strategies for Successful Implementation of Central Policy. 2025 Eurpean University Association Learning and Teaching Conference, Cork, Ireland, 27-28 February 2025.

Ferrie, J. and Forrest, C. (2024) Closing the Gap: Evaluation of the UK’s Strategy to Improve Doctoral Education and Methods Training. Quality in Postgraduate Education, Adelaide, Australia, 14-16 April 2024.

Ferrie, J. and Scott, A. (2020) Re-Imagining Post-Graduate Training: Partnering with Businesses. QAA Scotland's 5th International Enhancement Conference 2020, Glasgow, UK, 3-5 Nov 2020.

Ferrie, J. and Rewaj, P. (2018) Finding Your Voice and Coping with a Distressing Diagnosis. International Conference on Neurological Disorders, Stroke and CNS, Athens, Greece, 22-23 Oct 2018. p. 4. (doi: 10.21767/2171-6625-C3-013)

Ferrie, J. (2018) Running Out of Time: the Experience of Living with a Neurological Condition. 13th World Conference on Neurology and Neuromuscular Disorders, Frankfurt, Germany, 01-02 Oct 2018.

Ferrie, J. (2018) Teaching Emotion: Emotion as a Bi-product of Research, Equipping Social Scientists to Manage this Data. 7th Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference (CERE 2018), Glasgow, UK, 04-05 Apr 2018.

Ferrie, J. (2017) Making Meaning: The Trials of Producing Knowledge (and Doctoral Research). Edinburgh Napier University PGR Business School Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 16 May 2017.

Conference Proceedings

Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2013) Constructing Models of Care: Barriers that enable and disable. In: Nordic Network on Disability Research 12th Biannual Conference, Turku, Finland, 30-31 May, (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. and Watson, N. (2013) Family Support and Motor Neurone Disease. In: European Sociological Association 11th Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change, Turin, Italy, 28-31 August 2013, (Unpublished)

Ferrie, J. (2012) The Body, Corporeality and Disability. In: Disability Studies Conference 2012: Disability, Poverty and Neo-Liberalism, Lancaster, 11-13 September 2012, (Unpublished)

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Grants

'The impact of Covid-19 on Persons with Disabilities in Ukraine with a Particular Focus on Internally Displaced Persons with Disabilities. AHRC/GCRF PI Dr Kiril Sharapov Napier. I am Co-I (Dates 01.02.2021-30.12.21)

'Scoping the skills needs in the social sciences to support data-driven research’ funded by ESRC & UKRI. With Technopolis Group, JF is Senior Expert Lead on Work Package 3: Examination of Doctoral Interventions. (Dates 01.09.2020-30.06.2021 Value £98,475 percentage 8.5% = £8,400

Glasgow QStep Centre Transitional Funding 2019-21 by Nuffield Foundation and ESRC PI Jo Ferrie (Dates 01/102019-30/09/2021 Value £123,939.86 percentage 80% = £99,151.89)

Glasgow QStep Centre by Nuffield Foundation, ESRC & HEFCE PI: Jo Ferrie (Dates: 01/10/2013-30/09/2019 Value: £1,440,683.80 percentage 60% =£864,410.28)

2 ESRC Collaborative Studentships as first supervisor (2016/17; 2018/19 = £179,408)

1 ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods as first supervisor (2019/20 = £89,704)

Exploring the Impact of the Pandemic on Internally Displaced People with Disabilities in Ukraine GCRF/UKRI with AHRC PI: Kiril Sharapov University of Napier, Edinburgh (Dates 01.02.21-01.08.21 value £91,861)

Building a Future for MND by MND Scotland PI: Suvankar Pal, University of Edinburgh (Dates: 01/10/15 – 30/12/18 value £300,000 percentage 7% = £20,000)

Speak Unique by Chief Scientist Office PI: Phillipa Rewaj, University of Edinburgh  (Dates 01/04/16 – 31/03/18 value £100,000 percentage 15% = £15,000)

Evaluation of Scotland’s National Action Plan by Scottish Human Rights Commission. PI: Jo Ferrie (Dates 01.10.17-31.10.18 value £30,000 percentage 100%).

Living with Motor Neurone Disease by MND Scotland PI: Nick Watson (Dates: 01/10/2010-30/04/2013 Value: £110,926 Percentage: 50.0% = £55,463)

Applied Quantitative Methods Network: Phase II (AQMeN 2) by ESRC (Dates: 01/01/2013-31/12/2016 Value: £603,250 Percentage: 0.0%)

3rd Sector Approaches to Bridging the Distance from Employment Market for People with Multiple and Complex needs. (Dates: 01/08/2010-30/06/2011 Value: £7,978 Percentage: 0.0%)

Attrition, Retention and Access: An Examination of the University of Glasgow’s Access Programme for Non-Traditional Students and Factors that Enhance Retention. Learning and Teaching Development Fund. PI: Ferrie, J. (Dates 01/02/2010-31/07/2010) Value: £27, 773 Percentage 100%

 

Supervision

I am currently working with a range of talented scholars engaged in research around equality and human rights. 

Kirstie English, Michelle Jamieson,  Karim Mitha, Paul Pearons, Arran Edwards, Riya Bisht. 

 

  • Bisht, Riya Pramod
    Complex mental health at work: a critical phenomenology of disclosure

Delighted to see Alejandro Rubio Arnal, Sam Lawton, Coling Young, Karen Young, Simona Simona, YuanYuan Qu and Fatimah Alansar graduate with their PhDs and enter first-choice career paths. 

Teaching

Teaching past/present: 

Undergraduate

  • Quantiative Methods 2012- 2018
  • Contribution to Sociology Level 1 - Methods 101
  • From 2021 Contribution to Sociology Level 2 - Social Data
  • Contribution to Honours Qualitative Research Methods

Graduate School

  • Contribution to Research Design PGT
  • Contribution to Qualitative Methods PGT and PGR
  • Advanced Qualitative Methods
  • Masters: Social Research Methods 2009-13 - Masters level
  • Social Theory for Researchers - Postgraduate
  • Social Science Statistics 1 - Postgraduate
  • Contribution to Introduction to Social Research Methods for Researchers

Plus Contribution to MEd Academic Practice

 

Additional information

Other roles

  • Founding Director Q-Step University of Glasgow
  • Former Deputy Director - Training: Scottish Graduate School of Social Science 
  • Co-Convenor Equalities and Diversity Cluster, Glasgow Human Rights Network
  • Senior Advisor of Studies College of Social Science

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