Caring Futures Institute - Better Communities

Senior Lecturer, Health Sciences, College of Nursing & Health Sciences

Dr Jessie Shipman is a health sociologist from the UK. She completed undergraduate and Masters degrees in Sociology in the north of England. Her PhD in Gender Studies at The University of Adelaide looked at medicalisation and agency in relation to use of the contraceptive pill to suppress menstruation. Jessie was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK, which she undertook in the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, at the University of Edinburgh. She then worked as a Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide before taking up the post of Lecturer at Flinders University in 2013. Jessie is a Member of the Caring Futures Institute in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. 

Jessie is especially interested in:

• Gender and sexual health
• LGBTQIA+ and young people’s access to care
• Care transitions
• Qualitative and multi/mixed methods