Sally Macintyre Explained

Honorific Prefix:Dame
Sally Macintyre
Birth Name:Sarah Jane Macintyre
Birth Place:Edinburgh, UK
Thesis Title:Decision-Making Processes Following Pre-Marital Conception
Thesis Year:1976
Discipline:Sociology
Sub Discipline:Medical sociology

Dame Sarah Jane Macintyre (born 1949), known as Sally Macintyre, is a British medical sociologist. She is a professor emerita (formerly professor of social and public health sciences) at the University of Glasgow.

In 1998 she was awarded an OBE for services to medical sociology,[1] and in 2006 she was awarded a CBE for services to social science. In 2011 she was awarded a DBE for services to science.[2] In 2013 she was one of 12 women to receive the inaugural 'Engineering and Physical Sciences' Suffrage Science award.[3]

Background and education

Sarah Jane Macintyre was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her father, Angus Macintyre, was the then rector of St James's Scottish Episcopal Church, Leith.[4] Her mother, Evelyn Macintyre, had trained as a nurse and midwife in Oxford before the war. When she was 2, the family moved to Trinity College, Glenalmond in Perthshire (now Glenalmond College) where her father was chaplain until 1967.

Macintyre was schooled at home until the age of 10, when she went to Morrison's Academy, Crieff, for two years. From the ages of 12–16 she went to the Nesta Brooking School of Ballet in London, where she undertook classical ballet training. Having not reached the required height to join a classical ballet company, she went to Chichester College of Further Education to obtain university entrance qualifications.

Macintyre read social theory and administration at the University of Durham, as a member of St Aidan's College, graduating in 1970. She then did an MSc in sociology as applied to medicine at Bedford College, London, and was awarded a distinction in this degree in 1971. She undertook a part-time PhD while working as a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, on the topic of decision-making processes following premarital conception, the degree being awarded in 1976.[5]

Career

In 1971 Macintyre went to a research post at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Aberdeen. From 1975 she was employed at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Medical Sociology Unit in Aberdeen. She was appointed director of the MRC Medical Sociology Unit in 1983,[6] and moved it to the University of Glasgow in 1984. In 1998 she took on the directorship of the Chief Scientist Office-funded Public Health Research Unit, which merged with the MRC Medical Sociology Unit to become the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.[7] She retired from the directorship in 2013, and was succeeded by Laurence Moore.[8]

From 2011 until 2014, Macintyre was also director of the Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow.[9] She was a member of the council of the UK Medical Research Council from 2008 to 2016.[10] [9] In 2014, she chaired the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s working group on the social science agenda for combatting anti-microbial resistance.[11] Between 2014 and 2016, she co-chaired the expert advisory group advising the Chief Medical Officers of the UK about revised alcohol consumption guidelines.[12]

She was the inaugural chair of the scientific advisory board of the UK Prevention Research Partnership, from 2016-2019.[13] In this period, she was also a member of the Human Tissue Authority and of the UK Biobank's Ethics and Governance Council.[14] [15] She was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics governing board in 2017.[16]

Research interests and contributions

Macintyre's research was initially in the area of sociological aspects of reproduction and of maternity care. She demonstrated that many of what were thought to be natural aspects of motherhood were actually highly socially constructed and culturally variable.[17] [18] [19] In the 1980s she took a role in the evaluation of a trial of a new pattern of antenatal care in Aberdeen (involving more delegation to midwives and general practitioners, and fewer scheduled antenatal visits. Involvement in that evaluation, which was a non-randomised trial, triggered her continued interest in evidence-based health care and health and social policy, and how to evaluate effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.[20]

Her research interests then moved into the broad field of inequalities in health. Her major contribution has been to further the understanding of socioeconomic, spatial and gender inequalities in health across time and over the life course, using data from individuals, households and areas to improve understanding of the significance of the social and physical environment for health.[21] [22] [23]

Macintyre has also applied her sociological understandings to a range of emerging contemporary issues, such as HIV and AIDS,[24] [25] the development of 'the new genetics',[26] [27] [28] and food choices, scares and representations of health risks in the media.[29]

She is an advocate for robust approaches and methods for evaluating public health policies and interventions,[30] [31] and in doing so has contributed to guidelines for the evaluation of public health policies.[32] [33] [34]

Fellowships and awards

Macintyre was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998,[35] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the same year.[36] In 2003, she was made an honorary fellow of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[37]

She has honorary Doctorates of Science from the University of Aberdeen (2006), University College London (2012) and Lancaster University (2012). From 1995 to 2004 she was editor-in-chief of the international journal Social Science & Medicine.[38]

In 1994 she was president of the Sociology and Social Policy Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2001 was president of its Medical Sciences Section. She was chair of the Society for Social Medicine in 2005. She was inaugural chair of the MRC's Population Health Sciences Research Network from 2005 to 2009.[39]

Personal life

Macintyre is a hill walker, climber, mountaineer and skier. In 1978 she was moderator (president) of the Aberdeen Mountaineering Club, and in 1986 she became a member of the Pinnacle Club, a rock climbing club for women. She joined the Ladies Scottish Climbing Club in 2023. She completed her Munros (the 282 peaks over 3,000-foot high in Scotland) in 2002.[40] She has participated in several expeditions in the Karakoram range in Pakistan, including one all-woman expedition which completed two first ascents of 6000 m peaks.[41] [42]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Supplement to the London Gazette 31st December 1997. The London Gazette. 11 December 2013. cited as: "Professor Sarah Jane MACINTYRE, Director, MRC Sociology Unit, Glasgow. For services to Medical Sociology."
  2. Web site: The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2011. 2021-03-05. GOV.UK. en.
  3. Web site: Suffrage Science 2013. MRC Clinical Sciences Centre. 11 December 2013. dead. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140102205744/http%3A//www.csc.mrc.ac.uk/PublicScience/FabricsOfLife/SuffrageScience2013/. 2 January 2014.
  4. News: Steven. Alasdair. Rev Angus Macintyre. https://web.archive.org/web/20140610220524/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18771375.html. dead. 2014-06-10. HighBeam Research. Cengage Learning. 23 December 2013. 2001-01-22.
  5. Book: Who's Who. 2012. A&C Black Publishers. 978-1-408-15491-5. 1461.
  6. Web site: Our research. Medical Research Council. 23 December 2013.
  7. Web site: Research Units. Chief Scientist Office – NHS Scotland. Chief Scientist Office. 23 December 2013.
  8. Web site: Leading social scientist to direct MRC Unit at Glasgow University. News & publications. Medical Research Council. 23 December 2013.
  9. Web site: Institute of Health and Wellbeing. University of Glasgow, research units. University of Glasgow. 23 December 2013.
  10. Web site: MRC Annual Report and Accounts 08/09. publishing.service.gov.uk. 11 November 2009.
  11. Web site: Anti-Microbial Resistance: Setting the Social Science Agenda.
  12. Web site: Alcohol Guidelines Review – Report from the Guidelines development group to the UK Chief Medical Officers.
  13. Web site: Medical Research Council. M. R. C.. 2018-07-11. UKPRP expert review group panel members. 2021-05-28. mrc.ukri.org. en.
  14. Web site: The HTA welcomes five new Authority members Human Tissue Authority. 2021-03-05. www.hta.gov.uk.
  15. Web site: 2017-02-02. Professor Dame Sally Macintyre appointed first Chair of the Governing Board of The Nuffield Council of Bioethics. 2021-05-28. Nuffield Foundation. en-GB.
  16. Web site: 2017-02-02. Professor Dame Sally Macintyre appointed first Chair of the Governing Board of The Nuffield Council of Bioethics. 2021-03-05. Nuffield Foundation. en-GB.
  17. Book: Macintyre, Sally. Single and Pregnant. 1977. Croom Helm. London. 978-0856644023.
  18. Book: Macintyre, Sally. Sally Macintyre

    . Sexual Divisions in Society: Process and Change. 1976. Tavistock Publications. London. 978-0422748308. Sally Macintyre. Barker, D.L. . Allen, S.. Who Wants Babies? The Social Construction of Instincts.

  19. Book: Macintyre, Sally. The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy. 1993. Yale University Press. Yale. 978-0300065480. Teenage Pregnancy as a Social Problem: A perspective from the UK. Cunningham-Burley, S.. Sarah Cunningham-Burley. Lawson, A.. Rhodes, D.L.. registration.
  20. Book: Antenatal Care Assessed. 1985. Aberdeen University Press. Aberdeen. 978-0080324272. Hall M. Macintyre, S. . Porter M. .
  21. Macintyre. Sally. MacIver S. . Sooman A. . Area, Class and Health: Should we be focusing on places or people?. Journal of Social Policy. April 1993. 22. 2. 213–234. 23 December 2013. 10.1017/s0047279400019310. 145760764 .
  22. Macintyre. Sally. The Patterning of Health by Social Position in Contemporary Britain: Directions for Sociological Research. Social Science and Medicine. 1986. 23. 4. 393–415. 10.1016/0277-9536(86)90082-1. 3529428.
  23. Macintyre. Sally. Hunt K. . Sweeting H. . Gender differences in health: are things as simple as they seem?. Social Science & Medicine. 1996. 42. 4. 617–624. 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00335-5. 8643986.
  24. West. P.. Wight D.. Macintyre, S.. Heterosexual behaviour of eighteen year olds in the Glasgow Area. Journal of Adolescence. 1993. 16. 4. 4. 367–396. 10.1006/jado.1993.1031. 8138606.
  25. Carter. S.. Horn, K.. Hart, G.. Dunbar, M.. Scoular, A.. Macintyre S.. amp. The sexual behaviour of international travellers at two Glasgow GUM clinics. International Journal of STD & AIDS. May 1997. 8. 5. 336–338. 10.1258/0956462971920055. 9175658. 32880539.
  26. Macintyre. Sally. Social and psychological issues associated with the new genetics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 1997. 352. 1357. Series B (Biological Sciences). 1095–1101. 10.1098/rstb.1997.0090. 9304676. 1691988. 1997RSPTB.352.1095M.
  27. Macintyre. Sally. The public understanding of science or the scientific understanding of the public? A review of the social context of 'the new genetics'. Public Understanding of Science. July 1995. 4. 3. 223–232. 10.1088/0963-6625/4/3/001. 143042792.
  28. Davison. C.. Macintyre. S. Davey Smith. G.. George Davey Smith. The potential social impact of predictive genetic testing for susceptibility to common chronic disorders: a review and proposed research agenda. Sociology of Health & Illness. 1994. 16. 3. 340–371. 10.1111/1467-9566.ep11348762. 11660089. free.
  29. Book: Macintyre, Sally. The Nation's Diet: The Social Science of Food Choice. 1998. Longmans. London. 978-0582302853. 228–249. Reilly J.. Miller D.. Eldridge J.. amp. Murcott, A.. Food choice, food scares, and health: the role of the media.
  30. Macintyre. Sally. Good intentions and perceived wisdom are not good enough: the need for controlled trials in public health. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. July 2011. 65. 7. 564–567. 10.1136/jech.2010.124198. 21148137. free.
  31. Macintyre. Sally. Chalmers I . Horton R . Smith R . Using evidence to inform health policy: a case study. BMJ. 27 January 2001. 322. 7280. 222–225. 10.1136/bmj.322.7280.222. 11159625. 1119477.
  32. Craig. P.. Cooper C. Gunnell D. Haw S. Lawson K. Macintyre S. Ogilvie D. Petticrew M. Reeves B. Sutton M. Thompson S.. Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions: new Medical Research Council guidance. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. December 2012. 66. 12. 1182–1186. 10.1136/jech-2011-200375. 22577181. 3796763.
  33. Ogilvie. D.. Craig P . Griffin S . Macintyre S . Wareham NJ . A translational framework for public health research. BMC Public Health. 2009. 9. 116. 116. 10.1186/1471-2458-9-116. 19400941. 2681470 . free .
  34. Craig. P.. Dieppe P . Macintyre S . Michie S . Nazareth I . Petticrew M. . Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance. British Medical Journal. 29 September 2008. 337:a1655. a1655. 10.1136/bmj.a1655. 18824488. 2769032.
  35. Web site: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Current RSE Fellows. RSE Fellows as at 20/12/2013. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 24 December 2013. 30.
  36. Web site: Academy of Medical Science. Fellows. Ordinary Fellows. Academy of Medical Science. 3 January 2014.
  37. Web site: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. University of London. Annual Report 2002-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20140821201752/http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/introducing/annualreport/annual_report_2002_03.pdf. dead. 21 August 2014. Review of the Year. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 3 January 2014. 3. 2003.
  38. 2018-04-01. Editorial Board. Social Science & Medicine. en. 202. ii. 10.1016/S0277-9536(18)30145-X. 0277-9536.
  39. Web site: - PHRC. 2021-05-28. www.phrc.online.
  40. Web site: Scottish Mountaineering Club. 2021-05-28. www.smc.org.uk.
  41. Web site: 1987. The Alpine Journal. 26 August 2014. 220. 92.
  42. Web site: The Alpine Journal. 21 August 2014. 103. 299. 1998.

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