Courtney Buckler
Department: Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Discipline: Sociology and Philosophy
Project Summary
What does it mean to be evidence-based? What gets to count as evidence? My research explores the ongoing legacy of Evidence-Based Medicine, focussing specifically on evidence-based guidance around depression developed by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). My work uses Institutional Ethnography (as developed by Canadian sociologist Dorothy Smith) to explore controversy surrounding the depression guideline, looking at how EBM’s discursive legacies are woven into institutional processes, practices, and ways of speaking.
Supervisory Team
Dr Hannah Farrimond
Dr Angela Cassidy
Wider Research Interests
Feminist epistemologies, sociology of medical knowledge-making, queer theory, mad studies, pharmaceutical cultures, diagnosis, and Institutional Ethnography.
Authored Publications/Reports
Courtney Buckler (26th April 2023) Playing the Game: Reflections on intentional institutional capture and working for mental health justice, British Journal of Social Work