Professor Judith Green

Judith Green is a sociologist of health and medicine in SPSPA, based in the Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health. She is the lead for the  SPHR Health Inequalities Programme (HIP) at SPHERE, Exeter's hub of the School for Public Health Research, and national co-lead for the School for Public Health Research HIP.  Before joining the University of Exeter in 2020, Judith held posts in King's College London (1998-91; 2016-20), the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1996 -2016), and London South Bank University (1993-96).

She is a Trustee of the Foundation for Sociology of Health & Illness, co-editor of the diamond open access Journal of Critical Public Heatlh,  and co-authors the text book Qualitative Methods for Health Research (Sage). 

Recent publications include:

Green, J., Michael, M., Steinbach, R., & Edwards, P. (2025). Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 01622439241309978.

Hanckel, B., Garnett, E., & Green, J. (2024). Risk ambassadors and saviours: Children and futuring public health interventions. Sociology of Health & Illness.

Green, J., & Montenegro, C. (2023). Sociologies of public health and health promotion. In Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine (pp. 308-323). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Guell, C., Ogilvie, D., & Green, J. (2023). Changing mobility practices. Can meta-ethnography inform transferable and policy-relevant theory?. Social Science & Medicine, 337, 116253.

Lynch, R., Hanckel, B., & Green, J. (2022). The (failed) promise of multimorbidity: chronicity, biomedical categories, and public health. Critical Public Health, 32(4), 450-461.

Milton, S., Gilworth, G., Roposch, A., & Green, J. (2022). Feeling the clunk: Managing and attributing uncertainty in screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in infancy. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 100040.

Hanckel B, Milton S & Green J. (2020) Unruly bodies: resistance, (in)action and hysteresis in a public health intervention Social Theory & Health https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00143-z

Polak L & Green J. (2020) Rethinking decision-making in the context of preventive medication: how taking statins becomes "the right thing to do". Social Science & Medicine 247 doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112797

Research supervision:

Judith has supervised 16 doctoral students to completion, and has contributed to thesis advisory groups for over 25 students.