Jo Ferrie
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Biography
Jo Ferrie is a Sociologist based at the University of Glasgow. She has worked in the Disability Studies field for 15 years, examining the socially constructed barriers that turn impairment into disability, with the aim of removing these barriers. In 2013, she has published the largest global qualitative study of the experience of living with motor neuron disease with Philly Robertson-Reick and Nick Watson. She joined the Euan MacDonald Centre as a PI in 2012 and worked on a number of projects with them, MND Scotland and the Anne Rowling Clinic to further understand the impact of neurological conditions on people and their families. She is also the Director of Glasgow Q-Step (a £3 million centre to create a step change in how social science graduates use and understand quantitative data) and is seconded to the University of Edinburgh as Deputy Director–Training of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences.
Abstract
Abstract : Running out of time: The experience of living with a neurological condition