Dr Kate Cregan - Researcher Profile

Kate Cregan

Address

Faculty of Arts
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 58779

Email: Kate.Cregan@monash.edu

Postal address:

ARGS, Faculty of Arts
W217, Building 11
Monash University, Vic, 3800
Australia


Biography

Kate Cregan is a Senior Lecturer in the Arts Graduate Research School of Monash University. Since returning to Monash in 2007, she has developed and delivered undergraduate teaching within sociology; for two years (2009-2010) she co-ordinated the teaching of social-contextual ethics to medical students in years 1-4 of the Monash MBBS; and since 2009 she has led the research- and professional-development of HDR candidates across the Faculty of Arts through the Graduate Researchers in Print (GRiP) program.

 

 

All Kate’s research and her teaching has been based in the cultural and social analysis of embodiment, with particular attention to medical interpretations, constructions and representations of the human body. Her doctoral dissertation and subsequent articles are situated in the social, cultural and historical analysis of the body as it has been interpreted and shaped within authoritative, pedagogical institutions and popular or public arena. Following the submission of her PhD she widened her research base to encompass contemporary issues affecting the human body, with particular reference to issues of social ethics, exchange and commodification, focussing on analyses of medical technologies, their globalization, and their impact on embodiment. Since that time she has also conducted fieldwork interviews in Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea, and contributed to the formulation of community development policy in PNG.

Between April 2008 and December 2010 she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Springer - 5(3) to 8(1)). In early 2011 she was invited to be the annual Australian Review essayist for the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Other recent invitations have resulted in presentations on: HDR writing skills at the ANU in Canberra in September 2010; online training for HREC members at the Australasian Ethics Network Conference at the University of Melbourne in November 2010; Teaching Ethics to Medical Students at the Cambridge Quarterly conference in Cambridge, UK in July 2011; and on the intersection of art and anatomical practices, at COFA at UNSW in August 2011.

 

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Research & Supervision Interests

     

    All Kate’s research has been connected with the social, historical and cultural construction of embodiment. She is therefore capable and interested in supervising work on the history and philosophy of medicine, with particular reference to ideas of embodiment across time, space and cultures. Kate has conducted two major research projects on contemporary medical technologies and the body, one centred around embodiment and organ transplantation, and the other on the social and cultural impact of the popular presentation of stem cell technologies. Kate is also an acknowledged expert in the historical construction of gender through the intersection of art and anatomy. 

    Kate is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of the sociology of the body and social theory, with two monographs in print and another in the field in preparation. 

    Kate has also had a long-standing interest in research ethics, specifically in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research contexts, and with a particular interest in the social aspects of ethics in healthcare. From the time of her doctoral research she has been involved in qualitative research with NESB participants, both in Australia and in Sri Lanka and PNG. 

    More recently, Kate has developed a profile in issues around research practice, particularly research and writing pedagogies in higher education. 

     

Keywords

literature and medicine, social ethics, sociology of the body, history of medicine, cultural history, social theory

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2012
ARTS
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1999
ARTS (HONS)
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1992

Publications

Books

Cregan, K.A., 2012, Key Concepts in Body and Society, Sage, London, United Kingdom.

Cregan, K.A., 2009, The Theatre of the Body: Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early-Modern London, Brepols, Turnhout Belgium.

Cregan, K.A., 2006, The Sociology of the Body, Sage, UK.

Book Chapters

Cregan, K.A., 2004, Blood and circuses, in Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to Cyberspace, eds Elizabeth Klaver, The university of Wisconsin press, Wisconsin, London, pp. 39-62.

Cregan, K.A., Cuthbert, D.M., Lowish, S., Pritchard, S.J., Spark, C.H., 2001, Aboriginal identity, art and culture, in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, eds Kate McGowan, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 172-226.

Journal Articles

Cregan, K.A., 2012, Regulating ethics in Australian healthcare research, Cambridge Quarterly Of Healthcare Ethics [P], vol 21, issue 3, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 384-390.

Cregan, K., 2010, Teaching the anatomical body in Seventeenth-Century London, Medicine Studies [P], vol 2, issue 1, June 2010, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 21-36.

Herbert, D., Cregan, K., Street, A., Bankier, A., Komesaroff, P., 2010, The lived experiences of families and individuals affected by haemophilia in relation to the availability of genetic testing services, Current Narratives [E], vol 2, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, pp. 27-43.

Cregan, K.A., 2008, Editorial, Journal of bioethical inquiry. [P], vol 5, issue 4, Springer, Dordrecht, p. 229.

Cregan, K.A., 2008, Edward Ravenscroft's 'The Anatomist' and the 'Tyburn Riots Against the Surgeons', Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 [P], vol 32, issue 1, University of Tennessee, USA, pp. 19-35.

Cregan, K.A., 2007, Early modern anatomy and the queen's body natural: The sovereign subject, Body & Society [P], vol 13, issue 2, Sage publications, UK, pp. 47-66.

Cregan, K.A., 2005, Ethical and social issues of embryonic stem cell technology, Internal Medicine Journal [P], vol 35, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 126-127.

Cregan, K.A., 2005, Reply, Internal Medicine Journal [P], vol 35, issue 8, Blackwell publishing, Oxford, pp. 500-501.

Cregan, K.A., James, P., 2002, Stem-cell alchemy: techno-science and the new philosopher's stone, Arena Journal, vol 19, Arena Printing and Publishing, Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 61-72.

Cregan, K.A., 2001, '[S]he was convicted and condemned', Social Semiotics, vol 11, issue 2, Taylor & Francis Ltd, London UK, pp. 125-137.

Other

Spark, C.H., Cuthbert, D.M., Cregan, K.A., Murphy, K., 2008, Review of selected research literature (1990 to the present), Commonwealth of Australia, Australia, pp. 4-55.

Cregan, K.A., 1999, Microcosmographia: seventeenth century theatres of blood and the construction of the sexed body.

Activities

Advices given to governments

From: 01/07/2005 To: 30/06/2007
Department for Community Development, PNG
Integrated Community Development Policy

From: 01/07/2008 To: 31/12/2008
Federal Attorney General's Department
Review of Selected Research Literature (1990 to the present): Intercountry Adoption

Editorships of academic journals

From: 01/04/2008 To: 31/12/2010
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Editor in Chief

From: 01/07/2011
Cambrdige Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Australian Review Essayist

Invitations to attend an 'invitation only' conferences

From: 19/06/2011 To: 24/06/2011
Cambridge UK
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Retreat
Peel Building, Cambridge, UK

Positions on advisory boards

From: 06/12/0012 To: 31/05/0013
Monash University Clayton
Chair, Advisory Committee
MPA Graduate Destinations Research Project

Professional organisation memberships

From: 01/01/2006
The Australian Sociological Association
Member

Visiting professorships, fellowships, or other appointments

From: 01/01/2013 To: 31/12/2013
RMIT University
Visiting Fellowship
School of Graduate Research

Awards

Academic prizes (national, international)

From: 01/03/2003 To: 28/02/2006
Australian Research Council
APD Postdoctoral Fellowship

From: 01/03/2004 To: 01/09/2004
Australian Research Council
ARC Network Seeding Grant

Team awards

From: 01/01/2011 To: 31/12/2011
Monash University
Faculty of Arts
Dean's Award for Exceptional Performance