Caragh Brosnan is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
She completed her PhD in the sociology of medical education at the University of Cambridge in 2008 and held research and teaching posts at Keele University, King’s College London, and Brunel University before joining the University of Newcastle, where she was an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow from 2014-2017.

Associate Professor Brosnan’s research draws on the sociology of health and illness, and science and technology studies (STS), to examine the health professions. In particular, her work analyses the underlying ethical values and power relations that shape health professional practice, identity, and knowledge production. Through understanding these upstream issues, Associate Professor Brosnan’s research is ultimately concerned with addressing inequities in health care outcomes. Her empirical projects have examined professional identity formation, debates over curricula, patient-practitioner interactions, ethical issues, contested evidence, global knowledge flows, and professionalisation processes in areas including medicine, medical education, midwifery, nursing, neuroscience, and complementary and alternative medicine.