Prof Flis Henwood

FJ Henwood
Professor of Social Informatics

contact:
Applied Social Science
Mayfield House
Falmer
Brighton

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643341

Email: F.Henwood@brighton.ac.uk

Professor Flis Henwood is Head of the Social Informatics Research Unit

Teaching

I teach on postgraduate courses in information studies and information management, where I focus on introducing a social informatics perspective to the study of information and ICTs in contemporary organisations and society. Modules taught include:

  • Information, communication and technology in health care
  • The network society
  • Research methods in information studies

Research

My research is concerned with social aspects of technologies - focusing on the relationship between their design, development and use in a range of work and life settings. Early work focused on gender and technology; more recent work is concerned with developing a social informatics perspective to understanding the development and use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in health care. For more information see the net.weight project website.

Qualifications

  • DPhil, University of Sussex, 1992. Title: Gender and Occupation: Discourses on Gender, Work and Equal Opportunities in a College of Technology
  • MSc (Distinction) Science, Technology and Industrialisation, University of Sussex, 1983
  • BA (Hons) Social Sciences, Bristol Polytechnic (2:1), 1978

Select publications

Health Informatics

  • Brookman, A., Lovell, A., Henwood, F. and Lehmann, J. 2006. What do clinicians want from us? An evaluation of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust clinical librarian service and its implications for developing future working patterns. Health Information and Libraries Journal 23 (Suppl.1), pp10-21.
  • Green, E., Griffiths, F., Henwood, F. and Wyatt, S., 2006. Desperately seeking certainty: bone densitometry, the internet and health care contexts. In: Webster, A. (Ed). New Technologies in Health Care: Challenge, Change and Innovation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Wyatt, S. and Henwood, F., 2006. "The best bones in the graveyard": Risky technologies and risks in knowledge. In: Anderson, J. and Timmerman, C. (Eds). Devices & Designs: Medical Innovation in Historical Perspective. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Henwood, F. and Balka, E. (Eds). 2005. Special Issue of Information, Communication and Society on e-Health. Vol. 7, No. 4.
  • Hart, A., Henwood, F. and Wyatt, S., 2004. ‘The role of the Internet in patient-practitioner relationships: Findings from a qualitative study’ Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol. 6, Issue 3 http://www.jmir.org/2004/3/ .
  • Henwood, F., Wyatt, S., Hart, A. and Smith, J., 2003. ‘”Ignorance is bliss sometimes”: Constraints on the emergence of the “informed patient” in the changing landscapes of health information’ Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 589-607)
  • Henwood, F. and Hart, A., 2003. ‘Articulating gender in the context of ICTs in health care: The case of electronic patient records in the maternity services’, Critical Social Policy, Special issue on ‘New Technologies in Health and Welfare’, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 257-275.
  • Henwood, F., Wyatt, S., Hart, A. and Smith, J., 2002. ‘Turned on or turned off? Accessing health information on the Internet’, The Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 79-90 (ISSN: 0905-0167).

Gender and Technology

  • Henwood, F. and Miller, K. (Eds) (2001) Special Issue of Gender and Education on Science and Technology Education. Summer.
  • Henwood, F., Kennedy, H. and Miller, N. (Eds) (2001) Cyborg Lives: Women’s Technobiographies. York: Raw Nerve Books.
  • Henwood, F. (2001) ‘In/Different Screening: contesting medical knowledge in an ante-natal setting’ in Henwood, F. et al  (Eds) Cyborg Lives: Women’s Technobiographies. York: Raw Nerve Books.
  • Henwood, F., Plumeridge, S. and Stepulevage, L. (2000) ‘A tale of two cultures? Gender and inequality in computer education’ in Wyatt et al (Eds) Technology and  Inequality: questioning the information society, London: Routledge.
  • Wyatt, S. Henwood, F., Miller, N. and Senker, P. (Eds) (2000) Technology and Inequality: Questioning the information society,  London: Routledge.
  • Henwood, F. (2000)  ‘From the woman question in technology to the technology question in feminism: rethinking gender equality in IT education’ The European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 209-227.
  • Henwood, F. (1999) ‘Exceptional women? some tales of gender and technology in UK tertiary education’ in IEEE Technology and Society,  December, pp. 21-27.
  • Henwood, F. (1998) ‘Engineering Difference: discourses on gender, sexuality and work in a college of technology’, Gender and Education, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 35-49.
  • Henwood, F. (1996) ‘WISE Choices? Understanding occupational decision-making in a climate of equal opportunities for women in science and technology', Gender and Education, Vol. 8, No. 2, June, pp. 199-214.

Publications from the document repository

Flowers, Steve and Henwood, Flis (2008) Editorial: Special issue on user innovation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 12 (3). v-x. ISSN 1363-9196

Brookman, A., Lovell, A., Henwood, F. and Lehmann, J. (2006) What do clinicians want from us? An evaluation of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust clinical librarian service and its implications for developing future working patterns. Health information and libraries journal, 23 (s1). pp. 10-21. ISSN 1471-1834 (print) 1740-3324 (online)

Wyatt, S. and Henwood, F. (2006) "The best bones in the graveyard": Risky technologies and risks in knowledge. In: Anderson, J. and Timmerman, C., ed. Devices and designs: medical innovation in historical perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 1403986444

Green, E., Griffiths, F., Henwood, F. and Wyatt, S. (2006) Desperately seeking certainty: bone densitometry, the internet and health care contexts. In: Webster, S., ed. New technologies in health care: challenge, change and innovation. Health technology and society. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 1403991308

Wyatt, S, Henwood, F, Hart, A and Platzer, H (2006) Transforming health? the internet and everyday life. In: Golding, P and Murdock, G, ed. Unpacking digital dynamics: participation, control and exclusion. Hampton Press, London, pp. 85-120.

Jones, A., Henwood, F. and Hart, A. (2005) Factors facilitating effective use of electronic patient record systems for clinical audit and research in the UK maternity services. Clinical governance: an international journal, Vol.10 (no.2). pp. 199-218. ISSN 1477-7274

Jones, A., Henwood, F. and Hart, A. (2005) Factors facilitating effective use of electronic patient record systems for clinical audit and research in the UK maternity services. British journal of clinical governance, 10 (2). pp. 126-138. ISSN 1477-7274

Wyatt, S., Henwood, F., Hart, A. and Smith, J. (2005) The digital divide: health information and everyday life. New media and society, 7 (2). pp. 199-218. ISSN 1461-4448

Jones, A., Henwood, F. and Hart, A. (2004) Can midwives afford to ignore the development of electronic patient records in NHS trusts? RCM midwives journal, 7 (8). pp. 336-339. ISSN 1462-138X

Hart, A., Henwood, F. and Wyatt, S. (2004) The role of the internet in patient-practitioner relationships: findings from a qualitative research study. Journal of medical internet research, 6 (3). ISSN 1438-8871

Hart, A., Henwood, F. and Wyatt, S. (2004) Information at your fingertips. Public service review: health. pp. 32-33.

Wyatt, S, Henwood, F, Hart, A and Platzer, H (2004) L'extension des territoires du patient: internet et sante au quotidien (extending the patient's world: the internet, health information and everyday life). Science sociales et sante (Social science and medicine). pp. 45-68.

Henwood, F, Wyatt, S and Hart, A (2004) The internet, health information and everyday life. In: Kuipers, G, Kloet, J de and Kuik, S, ed. Digitaal Contact: het net van de begrendse mogelijkheden. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 254-273. ISBN 908061453X

Hart, A., Henwood, F. and Shiers, C. (2003) Use of client held records in the maternity services. British journal of midwifery, 11 (11). pp. 668-674. ISSN 0969-4900

Henwood, F., Wyatt, S., Hart, A. and Smith, J. (2003) 'Ignorance is bliss sometimes': constraints on the emergence of the 'informed patient' in the changing landscapes of health information. Sociology of health and illness, 25 (6). pp. 589-607. ISSN 1467-9566

Hart, A., Hall, V. and Henwood, F. (2003) Helping health and social care professionals to develop an 'inequalities imagination': a model for use in education and practice. Journal of advanced nursing, 41 (5). pp. 480-489. ISSN 1365-2648

Hart, A., Henwood, F. and Jones, A. (2003) Views of heads of midwifery on electronic patient records. British journal of midwifery, 11 (1). pp. 53-57. ISSN 0969-4900

Henwood, F. and Hart, A. (2003) Articulating gender in the context of ICTs in health care: The case of electronic patient records in the maternity services. Critical social policy, 23 (2). pp. 249-267. ISSN 1461-703X

Wyatt, S, Henwood, F, Hart, A and Smith, J (2003) De digitale tweedeling: Internet, gezondheidsinformatie en het dagelikjs leven (re-examining the digital divide: the internet, health information and everyday life). In: Digitaal contact. Het net van de begrensde mogeljkheden. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, Amsterdam, pp. 254-273. ISBN 90 806145 3 x

Hart, A., Henwood, F. and Jones, A. (2003) Views of heads of midwifery on electronic patient records. British journal of midwifery, 11 (1). pp. 53-57.

Jones, A., Henwood, F. and Hart, A. (2002) Electronic patient records: the view from maternity. British journal of midwifery, 10 (10). pp. 635-639. ISSN 0969-4900

Henwood, F., Wyatt, S., Hart, A. and Smith, J. (2002) Turned on or turned off? Accessing health information on the internet. The Scandinavian journal of information systems, 14 (2). pp. 79-90. ISSN 0905-0167

Hart, A., Henwood, F., Pankhurst, F., Hall, V. and Sommerville, F. (2001) Addressing inequalities in health: new directions in midwifery education and practice. English national Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, London UK. ISBN 1901697703

Henwood, F., Kennedy, H. and Miller, N. (2001) Cyborg lives: women's technobiographies. Raw Nerve Books, York, UK. ISBN 095365851X

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