Dr. Katie Featherstone

Katie is Professor of Sociology and Medicine and Director of the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory, at The University of West London. Katie’s publicly funded programme of research examines institutional cultures of care, drawing on traditions in ethnography and medical sociology. Her goal is to improve the quality and humanity of care people living with dementia receive during a hospital admission. This work is currently informing public policy, training, and improvement strategies within NHS Health Boards and Trusts.

Katie’s latest monograph Wandering the Wards (with Andy Northcott) was shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI) Book Prize 2021 (https://tinyurl.com/342rsfvr).