Simon Kitto
Biographic Data
| ID | 312879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Kitto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitto |
| SIGNATURE | KITTO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3223-8123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Endless justification: A scoping review of team‐based learning research in medical education
Setting up and operationalizing a health professions education research (HPER) unit: Amee Guide No.170
In the same way as clinical medicine, health professions education should be evidence-based rather than based on tradition and convenience. Health professions education research (HPER), an academic area that first emerged in the 1950s, is essential for identifying new and better ways to educate health professionals. Again, just as with clinical research, setting up sustainable HPER units is critical to coordinate research efforts and facilitate t…
Barriers and facilitators to the cultivation of communities of practice for faculty development in medical education: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Communities of practice (CoPs) have been promoted as a strategy to foster the professional development of faculty. In recent years, there have been a rising number of publications in the field of medical education that report on the impact of CoPs in faculty development (FD), as well as the factors that influence their cultivation. The objective of this scoping review was to comprehensively map the reported barriers and facilitators t…
Exploring the interplay of discourses, jurisdictions and restratification in medicine and the implications for intraprofessional collaboration
This study builds on calls to explore the tensions and dynamics of intraprofessional collaboration and boundary work. It reaches beyond the literature describing the micro-level strategies deployed by physician subgroups to establish legitimacy and defend jurisdictions in the face of health care re-organization. Specifically, it offers a view of how macrosocial imperatives shape intraprofessional boundaries, relations, and the possibilities for c…
Family Member Experiences in Intensive Care Units Care: Insights From a Family Involvement Tool Implementation Trial
Family involvement is widely considered an important part of patient care in the intensive care unit. From professional health care organizations, government, and hospital associations, there has been a cultural shift toward family presence as part of a wider commitment to patient-centered care. At the same time, the meaning and impact of family involvement in the intensive care unit setting remain opaque and under-studied. This study employed an…
Morbidity and mortality rounds in the medical literature: A text based analysis of shifting knowledge regimes
In this study, we explore knowledge regimes shaping the ongoing transformation of medical identities. We accomplish this through a text-based analysis of published studies reporting on interventions into the membership, content, or process of morbidity and mortality rounds. Historically a site for physicians to discuss medical error, these rounds still feature strongly in efforts to improve patient safety. In this way, changes to morbidity and mo…
Barriers and enablers to conducting cluster randomized control trials in hospitals: A theory-informed scoping review
A Beme systematic review of the effects of interprofessional education: Beme Guide No. 39
Patient and family involvement in adult critical and intensive care settings: A scoping review
Ethnography in qualitative educational research: Amee Guide No. 80
Ethnography is a type of qualitative research that gathers observations, interviews and documentary data to produce detailed and comprehensive accounts of different social phenomena. The use of ethnographic research in medical education has produced a number of insightful accounts into its role, functions and difficulties in the preparation of medical students for clinical practice. This AMEE Guide offers an introduction to ethnography - its hist…
A Comparison of Health Access Between Permanent Residents, Undocumented Immigrants and Refugee Claimants in Toronto, Canada
Working around ERPs in Technological Universities
This article explores the work-arounds through which an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system is implemented within an Australian University. We argue that while resistance is significant, the process of working around a technology can have ambiguous effects in terms of how users-in this case academics-are governed and govern themselves. Drawing upon Andrew Barry's Foucauldian-inspired work on ''technological zones,'' we show how att…
The production of ‘proper cheating’ in online examinations within technological universities
This paper uses poststructuralist theories of governmentality, agency, consumption and Barry’s (2001) concept of Technological Societies, as a heuristic framework to trace the role of online education technologies in the instantiation of subjectification processes within contemporary Australian universities. This case study of the unintended effects of the adoption and usage of an online educational technology (WebFreedom) for online examinations…
Struggling to care: Nurses' perceptions of caring for obese patients in an Australian bariatric ward
With a virtual epidemic of obesity worldwide, the number of obese patients receiving acute care and other services is expected to increase sharply. This study explores nurses’ perceptions and experiences of caring for obese patients in the context of an acute general surgical ward. This ward, within a major metropolitan private hospital in Australia, specialises in bariatric surgery. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted and thematic anal…
Mapping the Dynamics of New Forms of Technological Governance in Agriculture: Methodological Considerations
This paper reflects on the conceptual issues involved in developing a methodology to study the role of computer-based technologies, and particularly farm planning and management software, in governing the practices of farmers. It represents the first stage of a larger project that explores how farm planning and management practices are governed through, and reconfigured by, such technology. In recent years, computer software has been encouraged b…
Strategies for teaching the sociological imagination to medical students: The Role of Embodiment
The teaching and practice of medicine has traditionally been founded upon a monistic, modernist and positivistic knowledge base that is diametrically opposed to the epistemological pluralism that characterises contemporary health and medical sociology. As such, the benefits of incorporating a sociological approach to research and teaching into medical faculties within Australian Universities has, in the past, been treated with some scepticism. Th…
Translating an Eletronic Panopticon Educational technology and the re-articulation of lecturer-student relations in online learning
Around the world universities are currently in the midst of an online learning revolution. Australia is no exception, with new online learning software packages being used throughout the country at various levels of implementation. This paper reports on research conducted at a regional campus in Australia, which is trialing an online educational software package. Using Foucault's writing on disciplinary techniques and the panopticon as a diagram …
Online University Education: Liberating the Student
Throughout the world, universities are in the process of mixing ‘virtual’ and ‘traditional’ forms of course delivery in order to facilitate their move toward total ‘virtual’ learning environments. In the context of Australia, which provides the focus of this article, the move to online education is presented as inevitable in the face of increasing technological advances in information-communication technologies (ICTs) and the forces of globalizat…
Sailing into the Wind: New disciplines in Australian higher education
Much is made of the potential of lifelong learning for individuals and organisations. In this article we tend to make much less of it, certainly with respect to its use in universities to discipline academics. Nevertheless, we argue that academics now need to re-learn the positions they occupy and the stances they take in response to the marketisation of Australian universities. In particular, we suggest that the position of (pure) critique no lo…
Beyond the Farm Gate: Production-Consumption Networks and Agri-Food Research
The term agri-food research has become a convenient shorthand term to describe anexpansion of sociological interest over the last 20 or so years in the relationships between agricultural production and: increasingly industrialized networks of food production, processing, distribution and retailing; the development of transnationalized modes of regulation and governance; environmental discourse, policy and social movements; and competing understan…
Beyond the Farm Gate: Production-Consumption Networks and Agri-Food Research
The term agri-food research has become a convenient shorthand term to describe anexpansion of sociological interest over the last 20 or so years in the relationships between agricultural production and: increasingly industrialized networks of food production, processing, distribution and retailing; the development of transnationalized modes of regulation and governance; environmental discourse, policy and social movements; and competing understan…
Online University Education: Liberating the Student
Throughout the world, universities are in the process of mixing ‘virtual’ and ‘traditional’ forms of course delivery in order to facilitate their move toward total ‘virtual’ learning environments. In the context of Australia, which provides the focus of this article, the move to online education is presented as inevitable in the face of increasing technological advances in information-communication technologies (ICTs) and the forces of globalizat…
Struggling to care: Nurses' perceptions of caring for obese patients in an Australian bariatric ward
With a virtual epidemic of obesity worldwide, the number of obese patients receiving acute care and other services is expected to increase sharply. This study explores nurses’ perceptions and experiences of caring for obese patients in the context of an acute general surgical ward. This ward, within a major metropolitan private hospital in Australia, specialises in bariatric surgery. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted and thematic anal…
Strategies for teaching the sociological imagination to medical students: The Role of Embodiment
The teaching and practice of medicine has traditionally been founded upon a monistic, modernist and positivistic knowledge base that is diametrically opposed to the epistemological pluralism that characterises contemporary health and medical sociology. As such, the benefits of incorporating a sociological approach to research and teaching into medical faculties within Australian Universities has, in the past, been treated with some scepticism. Th…
Sailing into the Wind: New disciplines in Australian higher education
Much is made of the potential of lifelong learning for individuals and organisations. In this article we tend to make much less of it, certainly with respect to its use in universities to discipline academics. Nevertheless, we argue that academics now need to re-learn the positions they occupy and the stances they take in response to the marketisation of Australian universities. In particular, we suggest that the position of (pure) critique no lo…
Working around ERPs in Technological Universities
This article explores the work-arounds through which an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system is implemented within an Australian University. We argue that while resistance is significant, the process of working around a technology can have ambiguous effects in terms of how users-in this case academics-are governed and govern themselves. Drawing upon Andrew Barry's Foucauldian-inspired work on ''technological zones,'' we show how att…
The production of ‘proper cheating’ in online examinations within technological universities
This paper uses poststructuralist theories of governmentality, agency, consumption and Barry’s (2001) concept of Technological Societies, as a heuristic framework to trace the role of online education technologies in the instantiation of subjectification processes within contemporary Australian universities. This case study of the unintended effects of the adoption and usage of an online educational technology (WebFreedom) for online examinations…
Mapping the Dynamics of New Forms of Technological Governance in Agriculture: Methodological Considerations
This paper reflects on the conceptual issues involved in developing a methodology to study the role of computer-based technologies, and particularly farm planning and management software, in governing the practices of farmers. It represents the first stage of a larger project that explores how farm planning and management practices are governed through, and reconfigured by, such technology. In recent years, computer software has been encouraged b…
Beyond the Farm Gate: Production-Consumption Networks and Agri-Food Research
The term agri-food research has become a convenient shorthand term to describe anexpansion of sociological interest over the last 20 or so years in the relationships between agricultural production and: increasingly industrialized networks of food production, processing, distribution and retailing; the development of transnationalized modes of regulation and governance; environmental discourse, policy and social movements; and competing understan…
Translating an Eletronic Panopticon Educational technology and the re-articulation of lecturer-student relations in online learning
Around the world universities are currently in the midst of an online learning revolution. Australia is no exception, with new online learning software packages being used throughout the country at various levels of implementation. This paper reports on research conducted at a regional campus in Australia, which is trialing an online educational software package. Using Foucault's writing on disciplinary techniques and the panopticon as a diagram …
Online University Education: Liberating the Student
Throughout the world, universities are in the process of mixing ‘virtual’ and ‘traditional’ forms of course delivery in order to facilitate their move toward total ‘virtual’ learning environments. In the context of Australia, which provides the focus of this article, the move to online education is presented as inevitable in the face of increasing technological advances in information-communication technologies (ICTs) and the forces of globalizat…
Sailing into the Wind: New disciplines in Australian higher education
Much is made of the potential of lifelong learning for individuals and organisations. In this article we tend to make much less of it, certainly with respect to its use in universities to discipline academics. Nevertheless, we argue that academics now need to re-learn the positions they occupy and the stances they take in response to the marketisation of Australian universities. In particular, we suggest that the position of (pure) critique no lo…
Mapping the Dynamics of New Forms of Technological Governance in Agriculture: Methodological Considerations
This paper reflects on the conceptual issues involved in developing a methodology to study the role of computer-based technologies, and particularly farm planning and management software, in governing the practices of farmers. It represents the first stage of a larger project that explores how farm planning and management practices are governed through, and reconfigured by, such technology. In recent years, computer software has been encouraged b…
Strategies for teaching the sociological imagination to medical students: The Role of Embodiment
The teaching and practice of medicine has traditionally been founded upon a monistic, modernist and positivistic knowledge base that is diametrically opposed to the epistemological pluralism that characterises contemporary health and medical sociology. As such, the benefits of incorporating a sociological approach to research and teaching into medical faculties within Australian Universities has, in the past, been treated with some scepticism. Th…
Struggling to care: Nurses' perceptions of caring for obese patients in an Australian bariatric ward
With a virtual epidemic of obesity worldwide, the number of obese patients receiving acute care and other services is expected to increase sharply. This study explores nurses’ perceptions and experiences of caring for obese patients in the context of an acute general surgical ward. This ward, within a major metropolitan private hospital in Australia, specialises in bariatric surgery. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted and thematic anal…
The production of ‘proper cheating’ in online examinations within technological universities
This paper uses poststructuralist theories of governmentality, agency, consumption and Barry’s (2001) concept of Technological Societies, as a heuristic framework to trace the role of online education technologies in the instantiation of subjectification processes within contemporary Australian universities. This case study of the unintended effects of the adoption and usage of an online educational technology (WebFreedom) for online examinations…
Working around ERPs in Technological Universities
This article explores the work-arounds through which an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system is implemented within an Australian University. We argue that while resistance is significant, the process of working around a technology can have ambiguous effects in terms of how users-in this case academics-are governed and govern themselves. Drawing upon Andrew Barry's Foucauldian-inspired work on ''technological zones,'' we show how att…
A Comparison of Health Access Between Permanent Residents, Undocumented Immigrants and Refugee Claimants in Toronto, Canada
Ethnography in qualitative educational research: Amee Guide No. 80
Ethnography is a type of qualitative research that gathers observations, interviews and documentary data to produce detailed and comprehensive accounts of different social phenomena. The use of ethnographic research in medical education has produced a number of insightful accounts into its role, functions and difficulties in the preparation of medical students for clinical practice. This AMEE Guide offers an introduction to ethnography - its hist…
A Beme systematic review of the effects of interprofessional education: Beme Guide No. 39
Patient and family involvement in adult critical and intensive care settings: A scoping review
Barriers and enablers to conducting cluster randomized control trials in hospitals: A theory-informed scoping review
Morbidity and mortality rounds in the medical literature: A text based analysis of shifting knowledge regimes
In this study, we explore knowledge regimes shaping the ongoing transformation of medical identities. We accomplish this through a text-based analysis of published studies reporting on interventions into the membership, content, or process of morbidity and mortality rounds. Historically a site for physicians to discuss medical error, these rounds still feature strongly in efforts to improve patient safety. In this way, changes to morbidity and mo…
Exploring the interplay of discourses, jurisdictions and restratification in medicine and the implications for intraprofessional collaboration
This study builds on calls to explore the tensions and dynamics of intraprofessional collaboration and boundary work. It reaches beyond the literature describing the micro-level strategies deployed by physician subgroups to establish legitimacy and defend jurisdictions in the face of health care re-organization. Specifically, it offers a view of how macrosocial imperatives shape intraprofessional boundaries, relations, and the possibilities for c…
Family Member Experiences in Intensive Care Units Care: Insights From a Family Involvement Tool Implementation Trial
Family involvement is widely considered an important part of patient care in the intensive care unit. From professional health care organizations, government, and hospital associations, there has been a cultural shift toward family presence as part of a wider commitment to patient-centered care. At the same time, the meaning and impact of family involvement in the intensive care unit setting remain opaque and under-studied. This study employed an…
Setting up and operationalizing a health professions education research (HPER) unit: Amee Guide No.170
In the same way as clinical medicine, health professions education should be evidence-based rather than based on tradition and convenience. Health professions education research (HPER), an academic area that first emerged in the 1950s, is essential for identifying new and better ways to educate health professionals. Again, just as with clinical research, setting up sustainable HPER units is critical to coordinate research efforts and facilitate t…
Barriers and facilitators to the cultivation of communities of practice for faculty development in medical education: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Communities of practice (CoPs) have been promoted as a strategy to foster the professional development of faculty. In recent years, there have been a rising number of publications in the field of medical education that report on the impact of CoPs in faculty development (FD), as well as the factors that influence their cultivation. The objective of this scoping review was to comprehensively map the reported barriers and facilitators t…
Endless justification: A scoping review of team‐based learning research in medical education
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