Gráinne Kearney has been invited to deliver workshops and speak internationally on Institutional Ethnography in the field of Health Professions Education. She is involved in the SHIE network (Studying Healthcare using Institutional Ethnography) with Dr Caroline Cupit and they are co-organizing a panel session on Institutional Ethnography (IE) in Healthcare and Healthcare Education at the International Sociological Association Conference in Melbourne (2023).

Dr Gráinne Kearney

Medical Education, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast

Institutional Ethnography Related Publications

  • Towards accountability-centred practices: governance in OSCEs subordinating patient and practitioner clinical experience

    Kearney, G. P., Corman, M. K., Johnston, J. L., Hart, N. D. & Gormley, G. J., 18 May 2023, (Early online date) In: Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice. 21 p

  • Essential workers? An institutional ethnographic lens on pandemic GP placements

    Kearney, G. P., Reid, H. & Hart, N. D., 08 Mar 2023, (Early online date) In: Education for Primary Care. 7 p.

  • Consulting properly rather than acting: advocating for real patient involvement in summative OSCEs.

    Kearney, G. P., Johnston, J. L., Hart, N. D., Cullen, K. M. & Gormley, G. J., 06 Jun 2022, In: Advances in Simulation. 7, 16.

  • Why institutional ethnography? Why now? Institutional ethnography in health professions education

    Kearney, G.,Corman, M. K.,Hart, N.,Johnston, J.&Gormley, G. J.,11 Feb 2019,In:Perspectives on medical education.8,p. 17-248 p.

  • Institutional ethnography: a sociology of discovery—in conversation with Dorothy Smith

    Kearney, G. P.,Corman, M. K.,Gormley, G. J.,Hart, N. D.,Johnston, J. L.&Smith, D. E.,Aug 2018,In:Social Theory & Health.16,3,p. 292–306

  • Protocol : Exploring the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) using Institutional Ethnography

    Kearney, G.,Johnston, J.,Hart, N.,Corman, M.&Gormley, G.,02 Feb 2018,In:International Journal of Educational Research.