1. Sally Macintyre is a professor emerita at the University of Glasgow.
19 Facts About Sally Macintyre
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Sally Macintyre read social theory and administration at the University of Durham, as a member of St Aidan's College, graduating in 1970.
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Sally Macintyre then did an MSc in sociology as applied to medicine at Bedford College, London, and was awarded a distinction in this degree in 1971.
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Sally Macintyre undertook a part-time PhD while working as a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, on the topic of decision-making processes following premarital conception, the degree being awarded in 1976.
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In 1971 Sally Macintyre went to a research post at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Aberdeen.
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Sally Macintyre was appointed director of the MRC Medical Sociology Unit in 1983, and moved it to the University of Glasgow in 1984.
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Sally Macintyre retired from the directorship in 2013, and was succeeded by Laurence Moore.
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From 2011 until 2014, Sally Macintyre was director of the Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow.
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Sally Macintyre was a member of the council of the UK Medical Research Council from 2008 to 2016.
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Sally Macintyre was the inaugural chair of the scientific advisory board of the UK Prevention Research Partnership, from 2016 to 2019.
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Sally Macintyre was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics governing board in 2017.
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Sally Macintyre's research was initially in the area of sociological aspects of reproduction and of maternity care.
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Sally Macintyre demonstrated that many of what were thought to be natural aspects of motherhood were actually highly socially constructed and culturally variable.
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Sally Macintyre is an advocate for robust approaches and methods for evaluating public health policies and interventions, and in doing so has contributed to guidelines for the evaluation of public health policies.
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Sally Macintyre was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the same year.
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Sally Macintyre has honorary Doctorates of Science from the University of Aberdeen, University College London and Lancaster University.
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Sally Macintyre was chair of the Society for Social Medicine in 2005.
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Sally Macintyre was inaugural chair of the MRC's Population Health Sciences Research Network from 2005 to 2009.
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Sally Macintyre joined the Ladies Scottish Climbing Club in 2023.