Fran Collyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 265185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fran Collyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fran |
| FAMILY NAME | Collyer |
| SIGNATURE | COLLYER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
An interview with Fran Collyer
Professor Fran Collyer is a revered sociologist currently leading an epic Australian Research Council-funded project about the history of sociology in Australia. The project includes interviews with almost 200 Australian sociologists. For this special section celebrating Journal of Sociology ’s 60th Anniversary, the journal’s co-editor-in-chief, Ashley Barnwell, turned the microphone on Fran Collyer to learn more about the history of our discipli…
Historiography and National Histories of Sociology: Methods and Methodologies
Historiography and National Histories of Sociology: Methods and Methodologies
Sociologies of New Zealand
Book review of: Crothers, Charles. 2018. Sociologies of New Zealand. Sociology Transformed Series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 151 pp.ISBN 978-3-319-73866-6. Price: €53,49
Navigating and making choices about healthcare: The role of place
Re-making the global economy of knowledge: Do new fields of research change the structure of North-South relations
How is global-North predominance in the making of organized knowledge affected by the rise of new domains of research? This question is examined empirically in three interdisciplinary areas - climate change, HIV-AIDS, and gender studies - through interviews with 70 researchers in Southern-tier countries Brazil, South Africa and Australia. The study found that the centrality of the North was reinstituted as these domains came into existence, throu…
Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge
This article examines a group of intellectual workers who occupy a peripheral but not powerless position in the global economy of knowledge. How do they handle relations with the global metropole, especially in new fields of research where established hierarchies are in question? Three new domains of knowledge - climate change, HIV/AIDS and gender studies - are studied through interviews with 70 active researchers in Southern-tier countries Brazi…
Healthcare in the news media: The privileging of private over public
This article reports on a discourse analysis of the representation of healthcare in the print news media, and the way this representation shapes perspectives of healthcare. We analysed news items from six major Australian newspapers over a three-year time period. We show how various framing devices promote ideas about a crisis in the current public healthcare system, the existence of a precarious balance between the public and private health sect…
Envisaging the healthcare sector as a field: Moving from Talcott Parsons to Pierre Bourdieu
Toward a global sociology of knowledge: Post-colonial realities and intellectual practices
This article discusses changing social perspectives on knowledge, from the old sociology of knowledge to current post-colonial debates. The authors propose an approach that sees knowledge not as an abstract social construction but as the product of specific forms of social labour, showing the ontoformativity of social practice that creates reality through historical time. Research in three southern-tier countries examines knowledge workers and th…
Knowledge matters: Producing and Using Knowledge to Navigate Healthcare Systems
In many contemporary healthcare systems, individuals are expected to be rational actors – weighing up available knowledge and making choices about their healthcare needs. In the policy context, this has been most explicitly applied to the financing of healthcare where there is encouragement for the purchase of private health insurance. However, perceptions of public and private healthcare provision, knowledge about healthcare needs, and the types…
The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine
This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female
The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks
As we write in the twenty-first century, the sociology of health and medicine sits as a distinct and growing speciality field of research and university teaching, found on all continents and within many countries, including the United States, eastern and western Europe, Australia, Britain, Japan, China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico
Reflexivity and the Sociology of Science and Technology: The Invention of "Eryc" the Antibiotic
Until recently, the social-technical process of invention has fallen between sociological investigation of the genesis of a new idea (an ideational phenomenon) and the production of a new technology (a material phenomenon). The advent of post-modernism and post-structuralism offered new avenues for theorising invention, accounting for, on the one hand, its material nature, and, on the other, its ideational nature, through the notion of socio-tech…
Sociology, sociologists and core-periphery reflections
This article reports on a citation-context analysis of journal articles from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Examining publications from the sociology of health and medicine, the study draws a number of conclusions about the state of sociology, inter-country relationships between knowledge workers, and national systems of sociological knowledge production. It finds that core-periphery relations define significant f…
Schools of sociology? The structuring of sociological knowledge in the sociology of health and medicine since 1960
The production of sociological knowledge in Australian universities is explored through an empirical study of research papers published in a selection of academic outlets between 1960 and 2011. Drawing on theories concerning scholarly practices, institutional formation and the sociology of knowledge, questions are posed about the factors that shape and structure the production of sociological knowledge about health and medicine. The concept of in…
Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine
This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological qu
The birth of a speciality: The sociology of health and medicine in Australia
This paper offers a study of the specialist field of the sociology of health and medicine, and examines its institutional development in Australia. A thesis is developed about the relationship between the field and the parent discipline of sociology. The formation of the discipline and the specialist field are proposed to have occurred in stages: the formative years, a period of inter-disciplinarity and collaboration, a stage of intensification a…
Sociología de la medicina y de la salud en Australia
This paper offers an analysis of the development and institutionalisation of the sociology of health and medicine in Australia. As a former British colony, sociology was primarily brought into the country with its British and European migrants, and developed in a series of six discrete stages: the formative years of the Colonial period and early decades after Federation; the period of inter-disciplinarity and collaboration in the 1950s and early …
The privatisation of Medicare and the National Health Service, and the global marketisation of healthcare systems
Over recent decades, the healthcare sectors of many countries, both developed and developing, have been fundamentally restructured by two events: the re-direction of government policy toward the privatisation of publicly-funded institutions, and a new interest in strategic investment from the corporate sector in health services and products. Some might regard this radical change as bringing forth the possibility of greater effi ciency and increas…
Constructing health consumers: Private health insurance discourses in Australia and the United Kingdom
Significant transformations of the health care services sector over the past three decades have seen an increasing reliance on the private provision of health care services mediated through private health insurance. In countries such as Australia and the UK, private health insurance is promoted as providing a greater choice for individuals and easing the burden on the public system. While these claims, the policy contexts and the decision-making …
Origins and canons: Medicine and the history of sociology
Differing accounts are conventionally given of the origins of medical sociology and its parent discipline sociology. These distinct "histories" are justified on the basis that the sociological founders were uninterested in medicine, mortality and disease. This article challenges these "constructions" of the past, proposing the theorization of health not as a "late development of sociology" but an integral part of its formation. Drawing on a selec…
A sociological approach to workforce shortages: Findings of a qualitative study in Australian hospitals
Many countries, including Australia, are currently experiencing severe shortages of professional, para-professional, and semi-professional workers in their health care systems. This is generally conceived as a problem stemming from rising demand in health care services or the production of inadequate numbers of healthrelated graduates. A qualitative study of health care workers in the Australian context challenges the adequacy of this supply-dema…
The Social Construction of Illness: Illness and Medical Knowledge in Past and Present (Book)
Toward a global sociology of knowledge: Post-colonial realities and intellectual practices
This article discusses changing social perspectives on knowledge, from the old sociology of knowledge to current post-colonial debates. The authors propose an approach that sees knowledge not as an abstract social construction but as the product of specific forms of social labour, showing the ontoformativity of social practice that creates reality through historical time. Research in three southern-tier countries examines knowledge workers and th…
Re-making the global economy of knowledge: Do new fields of research change the structure of North-South relations
How is global-North predominance in the making of organized knowledge affected by the rise of new domains of research? This question is examined empirically in three interdisciplinary areas - climate change, HIV-AIDS, and gender studies - through interviews with 70 researchers in Southern-tier countries Brazil, South Africa and Australia. The study found that the centrality of the North was reinstituted as these domains came into existence, throu…
Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge
This article examines a group of intellectual workers who occupy a peripheral but not powerless position in the global economy of knowledge. How do they handle relations with the global metropole, especially in new fields of research where established hierarchies are in question? Three new domains of knowledge - climate change, HIV/AIDS and gender studies - are studied through interviews with 70 active researchers in Southern-tier countries Brazi…
Knowledge matters: Producing and Using Knowledge to Navigate Healthcare Systems
In many contemporary healthcare systems, individuals are expected to be rational actors – weighing up available knowledge and making choices about their healthcare needs. In the policy context, this has been most explicitly applied to the financing of healthcare where there is encouragement for the purchase of private health insurance. However, perceptions of public and private healthcare provision, knowledge about healthcare needs, and the types…
Constructing health consumers: Private health insurance discourses in Australia and the United Kingdom
Significant transformations of the health care services sector over the past three decades have seen an increasing reliance on the private provision of health care services mediated through private health insurance. In countries such as Australia and the UK, private health insurance is promoted as providing a greater choice for individuals and easing the burden on the public system. While these claims, the policy contexts and the decision-making …
Envisaging the healthcare sector as a field: Moving from Talcott Parsons to Pierre Bourdieu
Origins and canons: Medicine and the history of sociology
Differing accounts are conventionally given of the origins of medical sociology and its parent discipline sociology. These distinct "histories" are justified on the basis that the sociological founders were uninterested in medicine, mortality and disease. This article challenges these "constructions" of the past, proposing the theorization of health not as a "late development of sociology" but an integral part of its formation. Drawing on a selec…
Sociology, sociologists and core-periphery reflections
This article reports on a citation-context analysis of journal articles from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Examining publications from the sociology of health and medicine, the study draws a number of conclusions about the state of sociology, inter-country relationships between knowledge workers, and national systems of sociological knowledge production. It finds that core-periphery relations define significant f…
Navigating and making choices about healthcare: The role of place
The birth of a speciality: The sociology of health and medicine in Australia
This paper offers a study of the specialist field of the sociology of health and medicine, and examines its institutional development in Australia. A thesis is developed about the relationship between the field and the parent discipline of sociology. The formation of the discipline and the specialist field are proposed to have occurred in stages: the formative years, a period of inter-disciplinarity and collaboration, a stage of intensification a…
Healthcare in the news media: The privileging of private over public
This article reports on a discourse analysis of the representation of healthcare in the print news media, and the way this representation shapes perspectives of healthcare. We analysed news items from six major Australian newspapers over a three-year time period. We show how various framing devices promote ideas about a crisis in the current public healthcare system, the existence of a precarious balance between the public and private health sect…
Schools of sociology? The structuring of sociological knowledge in the sociology of health and medicine since 1960
The production of sociological knowledge in Australian universities is explored through an empirical study of research papers published in a selection of academic outlets between 1960 and 2011. Drawing on theories concerning scholarly practices, institutional formation and the sociology of knowledge, questions are posed about the factors that shape and structure the production of sociological knowledge about health and medicine. The concept of in…
The privatisation of Medicare and the National Health Service, and the global marketisation of healthcare systems
Over recent decades, the healthcare sectors of many countries, both developed and developing, have been fundamentally restructured by two events: the re-direction of government policy toward the privatisation of publicly-funded institutions, and a new interest in strategic investment from the corporate sector in health services and products. Some might regard this radical change as bringing forth the possibility of greater effi ciency and increas…
A sociological approach to workforce shortages: Findings of a qualitative study in Australian hospitals
Many countries, including Australia, are currently experiencing severe shortages of professional, para-professional, and semi-professional workers in their health care systems. This is generally conceived as a problem stemming from rising demand in health care services or the production of inadequate numbers of healthrelated graduates. A qualitative study of health care workers in the Australian context challenges the adequacy of this supply-dema…
The Social Construction of Illness: Illness and Medical Knowledge in Past and Present (Book)
A sociological approach to workforce shortages: Findings of a qualitative study in Australian hospitals
Many countries, including Australia, are currently experiencing severe shortages of professional, para-professional, and semi-professional workers in their health care systems. This is generally conceived as a problem stemming from rising demand in health care services or the production of inadequate numbers of healthrelated graduates. A qualitative study of health care workers in the Australian context challenges the adequacy of this supply-dema…
Origins and canons: Medicine and the history of sociology
Differing accounts are conventionally given of the origins of medical sociology and its parent discipline sociology. These distinct "histories" are justified on the basis that the sociological founders were uninterested in medicine, mortality and disease. This article challenges these "constructions" of the past, proposing the theorization of health not as a "late development of sociology" but an integral part of its formation. Drawing on a selec…
Sociología de la medicina y de la salud en Australia
This paper offers an analysis of the development and institutionalisation of the sociology of health and medicine in Australia. As a former British colony, sociology was primarily brought into the country with its British and European migrants, and developed in a series of six discrete stages: the formative years of the Colonial period and early decades after Federation; the period of inter-disciplinarity and collaboration in the 1950s and early …
The privatisation of Medicare and the National Health Service, and the global marketisation of healthcare systems
Over recent decades, the healthcare sectors of many countries, both developed and developing, have been fundamentally restructured by two events: the re-direction of government policy toward the privatisation of publicly-funded institutions, and a new interest in strategic investment from the corporate sector in health services and products. Some might regard this radical change as bringing forth the possibility of greater effi ciency and increas…
Constructing health consumers: Private health insurance discourses in Australia and the United Kingdom
Significant transformations of the health care services sector over the past three decades have seen an increasing reliance on the private provision of health care services mediated through private health insurance. In countries such as Australia and the UK, private health insurance is promoted as providing a greater choice for individuals and easing the burden on the public system. While these claims, the policy contexts and the decision-making …
Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine
This book studies the sociology of health and medicine across three different countries, the USA, UK and Australia, examining the nature of disciplines and their specialties and posing sociological qu
The birth of a speciality: The sociology of health and medicine in Australia
This paper offers a study of the specialist field of the sociology of health and medicine, and examines its institutional development in Australia. A thesis is developed about the relationship between the field and the parent discipline of sociology. The formation of the discipline and the specialist field are proposed to have occurred in stages: the formative years, a period of inter-disciplinarity and collaboration, a stage of intensification a…
Schools of sociology? The structuring of sociological knowledge in the sociology of health and medicine since 1960
The production of sociological knowledge in Australian universities is explored through an empirical study of research papers published in a selection of academic outlets between 1960 and 2011. Drawing on theories concerning scholarly practices, institutional formation and the sociology of knowledge, questions are posed about the factors that shape and structure the production of sociological knowledge about health and medicine. The concept of in…
Reflexivity and the Sociology of Science and Technology: The Invention of "Eryc" the Antibiotic
Until recently, the social-technical process of invention has fallen between sociological investigation of the genesis of a new idea (an ideational phenomenon) and the production of a new technology (a material phenomenon). The advent of post-modernism and post-structuralism offered new avenues for theorising invention, accounting for, on the one hand, its material nature, and, on the other, its ideational nature, through the notion of socio-tech…
Sociology, sociologists and core-periphery reflections
This article reports on a citation-context analysis of journal articles from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Examining publications from the sociology of health and medicine, the study draws a number of conclusions about the state of sociology, inter-country relationships between knowledge workers, and national systems of sociological knowledge production. It finds that core-periphery relations define significant f…
The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine
This wide-reaching handbook offers a new perspective on the sociology of health, illness and medicine by stressing the importance of social theory. Examining a range of classic and contemporary female
The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks
As we write in the twenty-first century, the sociology of health and medicine sits as a distinct and growing speciality field of research and university teaching, found on all continents and within many countries, including the United States, eastern and western Europe, Australia, Britain, Japan, China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico
Knowledge matters: Producing and Using Knowledge to Navigate Healthcare Systems
In many contemporary healthcare systems, individuals are expected to be rational actors – weighing up available knowledge and making choices about their healthcare needs. In the policy context, this has been most explicitly applied to the financing of healthcare where there is encouragement for the purchase of private health insurance. However, perceptions of public and private healthcare provision, knowledge about healthcare needs, and the types…
Envisaging the healthcare sector as a field: Moving from Talcott Parsons to Pierre Bourdieu
Toward a global sociology of knowledge: Post-colonial realities and intellectual practices
This article discusses changing social perspectives on knowledge, from the old sociology of knowledge to current post-colonial debates. The authors propose an approach that sees knowledge not as an abstract social construction but as the product of specific forms of social labour, showing the ontoformativity of social practice that creates reality through historical time. Research in three southern-tier countries examines knowledge workers and th…
Navigating and making choices about healthcare: The role of place
Re-making the global economy of knowledge: Do new fields of research change the structure of North-South relations
How is global-North predominance in the making of organized knowledge affected by the rise of new domains of research? This question is examined empirically in three interdisciplinary areas - climate change, HIV-AIDS, and gender studies - through interviews with 70 researchers in Southern-tier countries Brazil, South Africa and Australia. The study found that the centrality of the North was reinstituted as these domains came into existence, throu…
Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge
This article examines a group of intellectual workers who occupy a peripheral but not powerless position in the global economy of knowledge. How do they handle relations with the global metropole, especially in new fields of research where established hierarchies are in question? Three new domains of knowledge - climate change, HIV/AIDS and gender studies - are studied through interviews with 70 active researchers in Southern-tier countries Brazi…
Healthcare in the news media: The privileging of private over public
This article reports on a discourse analysis of the representation of healthcare in the print news media, and the way this representation shapes perspectives of healthcare. We analysed news items from six major Australian newspapers over a three-year time period. We show how various framing devices promote ideas about a crisis in the current public healthcare system, the existence of a precarious balance between the public and private health sect…
Sociologies of New Zealand
Book review of: Crothers, Charles. 2018. Sociologies of New Zealand. Sociology Transformed Series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 151 pp.ISBN 978-3-319-73866-6. Price: €53,49
Historiography and National Histories of Sociology: Methods and Methodologies
Historiography and National Histories of Sociology: Methods and Methodologies
An interview with Fran Collyer
Professor Fran Collyer is a revered sociologist currently leading an epic Australian Research Council-funded project about the history of sociology in Australia. The project includes interviews with almost 200 Australian sociologists. For this special section celebrating Journal of Sociology ’s 60th Anniversary, the journal’s co-editor-in-chief, Ashley Barnwell, turned the microphone on Fran Collyer to learn more about the history of our discipli…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Social science (14 works) · Health care (12 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 works)