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= Catherine Pope =

Catherine Jane Pope PhD FAcSS is a Professor of Medical Sociology in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Her work has focused on applying qualitative research methods, often as part of multi-disciplinary teams, to understand the impact of organisational change and technological innovation in health services.

Education and career summary
Pope has a BA (Hons) in Sociology with professional studies from the University of East London and a PhD in Sociology as applied to medicine from the University of London. She then held research positions at the London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine before being appointed as a lecturer in Medical Sociology at the University of Leicester (1994-1999). After a period as a lecturer at the Univeristy of Bristol (1999-2003), she joined the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southampton, where she was promoted to Reader in 2005 and then to Professor of Medical Sociology in 2009. She joined the University of Oxford in 2019.

Research contributions
Pope is perhaps most widely known for her writing on qualitative research methods for applied health research, with her papers in the BMJ on this topic eliciting thousands of citations. The book "Qualitative Research in Health Care" that she edited with Professor Nicholas Mays (Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is in its 4th edition and has been translated from English into Japanese and Portuguese.

Editorships
From 2006 to 2008 Pope served as joint Editor of Sociology, the international journal of the British Sociological Association. She is currently Chair the Editorial Board of Sociology of Health & Illness and serves on the Boards of Digital Health and Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.

Awards and recognition
Pope was the inaugural winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness New Writer Prize in 1991. Other awards include the 2014 SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence (Sociology). . In 2016, she was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.