Suzanne read Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews (MA (First Class Honours) (1999); PhD (2006)), followed by Public Health Research at the University of Edinburgh (MSc 2009-10). Her doctorate was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentship and an Emslie Horniman/Sutasoma Trust Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Based on ethnographic fieldwork amongst the Nivaclé indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco region of lowland South America from 2001-03, her PhD examined the impact of the Mennonite colonisation process and international development projects on Nivaclé kinship, sociality and cosmology. She has subsequently held research posts at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow on the impact of financial incentives on UK general practice organisation and culture, before being appointed as Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at the University of Dundee in 2013.

Medical anthropology; organisational anthropology; public management; sociology of healthcare safety and quality; socio-technical systems; sociology of the professions; qualitative methods; ethnography; meta-ethnography

Fioratou E, Chatzimichailidou M, Grant S, Glavin R, Flin R, Trotter C. (2015) Beyond monitors: distributed situated awareness in the anaesthetic management of Major Obstetric Haemorrhage. (In press, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science). Grant S, Mesman J, Guthrie, B. (2015) Spatio-temporal elements of articulation work in the achievement of repeat prescribing safety in UK general practice, Sociology of Health and Illness. Online Early: DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12308. Bowie P, Forrest E, Price J, Verstappen W, Cunningham D, Halley L, Grant S, Kelly M, McKay J. (2015) Good practice statements on safe laboratory testing: a mixed methods approach by the Linneaus Collaboration on patient safety in primary care. European Journal of General Practice, 21, pp. 19-25. Grant, S., Ring, A., McLean, G., Guthrie, B., Gabbay, M., Mair, F., Watt, G., Heaney, D., O’Donnell, C.A. Soft governance, restratification and the 2004 general medical services contract: the case of UK primary care organisations and general practice teams. Sociology of Health and Illness, 37 (1). pp. 30-51. ISSN 0141-9889 (doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12175). Grant, S., Guthrie, B., Entwistle, V.A., Williams, B. (2014) A meta-ethnography of organisational culture in primary care medical practice, Journal of Health Organization and Management, 28(1), 28-40. DOI: 10.1108/JHOM-07-2012-0125. Grant, S. (2012) Fences, pathways, and a peripatetic sense of community: kinship and residence amongst the Nivacle of the Paraguayan Chaco. In J. Vergunst, A. árnason, N. Ellison and A. Whitehouse (eds.) Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives. New York: Berghahn. European Association of Social Anthropologists Series (19). ISBN: 978-0857456717. Huby, G., Harries, J., Grant, S. (2011) Contributions of ethnography to the study of public services management: Past and present realities, Public Management Review, 13, 2, 209-226. Grant, S., Huby, G., Watkins, F., Checkland, K., McDonald, R., Davies, H., Guthrie, B. (2009) The impact of pay-for-performance on professional boundaries in UK general practice: An ethnographic study, Sociology of Health and Illness, 31, 2, 229-245. ISSN: 0141-9889. Checkland, K.; Harrison, S.; McDonald, R.; Grant, S.; Campbell, S.; Guthrie, B. (2008) Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice: Responses to the 2004 General Practitioner contract, Sociology of Health and Illness, 30, 5, 788-803. ISSN: 0141-9889. 0141–9889. Huby, G.; Guthrie, B.; Grant, S.; Watkins, F.; McDonald, R.; Checkland, K.; Davies, H. (2008) Whither British general practice after the 2004 GMS contract? Stories and realities of change in four UK general practices, Journal of Health, Organization and Management, 22, 1, 63-78.