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EMERITA PROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF YORK
EMERITA PROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Professor Joanna Latimer is an internationally recognized sociologist specializing in Science and Technology Studies (STS), gerontology, medical sociology, and more-than-human sociality.
She is Emerita Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Science & Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) at the University of York. Currently, she serves as Visiting Professor at University College Cork’s Dementia Lifeworlds program and as Chair of the Board of Trustees at London Arts and Health, a charity supported by Arts Council England that promotes creativity and wellbeing across diverse communities.
13 books and special issues, 55+ peer-reviewed articles, 13 book chapters
Key themes: ageing, dementia, the politics of care, genomics, interspecies entanglement
Extensive keynote and seminar presentations worldwide, including UK, US, Australia, Northern Europe and Brazil
Supervised over 30 doctoral and post-doctoral scholars.
Secured major research funding
Adept at fostering interdisciplinary collaboration
Career
Career
Originally trained in English Literature, Professor Latimer spent a decade as a nurse before earning her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research, published as The Conduct of Care, was shortlisted for the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. She has since held academic positions at Keele and Cardiff Universities, where she became a Professor of Sociology in 2009. Appointed to University of York as Professor of the Social Study of Science & Technology in 2016, and as Director of SATSU from 2017 until 2020, when she retired from her university roles during the covid 19 pandemic.
Professor Latimer has held visiting professorships at leading institutions worldwide, including the University of Sydney, University of California San Francisco, Utrecht University, and Fiocruz in Brazil. She has also contributed extensively to academic publishing, serving on the editorial board of The Sociological Review and as co-editor of Sociology of Health and Illness.
Research
Research
Funded by major bodies such as the ESRC, The Wellcome Trust and other prestigious bodies Professor Latimer's research is always collaborative, working with different practitioners and connecting diverse disciplines. Drawing an ethnographic approach together with cutting edge social theory her work unpacks the worlds people make together and the politics they are entangled in, to make ordinary processes of inclusion and exclusion visible. Her critique is directed at offering alternatives to those hierarchical relations that underpin social injustice.
Author of many books and paper including The Gene, The Clinic and The Family, winner of the 2014 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness annual book prize, Professor Latimer's work often integrates artistic and literary influences, drawing on figures such as Philip Larkin, Frida Kahlo, Wallace Stevens and sculptor Olivia Musgrave.
Currently, her writing focuses on the new sciences of ageing, dementia, care, and more-than-human world-making, including biographical and poetic experiments. Through her interdisciplinary approach, she continues to shape contemporary debates on health, society, and human experience.
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