Professor Judith Green
Professor - Wellcome Centre
Sociology
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 at SPHERE. Exeter's hub of the School for Public Health Research. 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.
