The Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań together with the City of Poznań cordially invite you to an open lecture by Prof. Alison Pilnick entitled "Understanding the "failure' of patient-centred care." The lecture will take place on June 25 at 5:00 PM in Room A of the Congress and Teaching Center of the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, located at ul. Przybyszewskiego 37a in Poznań.
Professor Alison Pilnick is widely recognized as a global authority in the sociology of health and illness, with a particular focus on research into communication between health and social care professionals and their patients or clients. She worked with a wide range of health professionals in a wide range of care settings both in the UK and overseas. In her academic work, she uses authentic audio and video recordings of interactions in medical contexts, and she shares this knowledge through training healthcare staff in communication skills aimed at improving healthcare policy and practice.
Professor Pilnick holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy and a PhD in sociology. She has held professorial positions at the University of Nottingham (Language, Medicine and Society) and at Manchester Metropolitan University (Language, Health and Society). In the past, she served as editor of the prestigious academic journal Sociology of Health and Illness. She is currently an advisory editor (in the field of Medical Sociology) for the journal Social Science and Medicine and a member of the editorial board of Communication & Medicine.
Professor Pilnick serves on both the Medical Sociology Group Committee of the British Sociological Association and the Committee of the American Sociological Association (Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis), and in 2021, she was appointed to the Strategic Advisory Network of the Economic and Social Research Council, a body that advises on strategies, schemes, investments, and interventions. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her research in the field of healthcare.
In 2020-21, she participated in the FLIER (Future Leaders in Innovation, Enterprise and Research) program of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, becoming the first sociologist to take part. The program enables researchers to create collaborations across academia, industry, the NHS, and government to enhance innovation. From 2020 to 2022, she held a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship, working on a project titled "Between Autonomy and Abandonment: Rethinking Patient-Centred Care," which is currently in its dissemination phase. The monograph of the same title, developed as part of this project, was awarded the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize in 2023 as a work making the most significant contribution to medical sociology.