I am a sociologist of health and illness with specific interests in palliative and end of life care, bereavement, and diagnosis of cancer. I specialise in qualitative research and have used a range of methods including narrative interviews and analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography. My current position is a collaboration with Marie Curie that aims to promote research activities within Marie Curie's services with the aim to improve palliative and end of life care for people with life-limiting illnesses. This involves developing, facilitating and coordinating research projects with local, national and international academic and clinical partners. I am available to supervise doctorate students.
From 2014 to 2018 I was based at the University of Oxford and worked on several projects including a Cancer Research UK NAEDI funded international comparative study of patients' experiences of lung or colorectal cancer diagnosis in England, Denmark and Sweden. Working with Prof Sue Ziebland and Julie Evans we sought to provide a new in-depth contextualisation of patient experiences of diagnosis through cross country comparison. Following this I collaborated with Dr Brian Nicholson investigating GP and patient experiences of "safety netting" in the context of potential cancer diagnosis in primary care. Between 2013 and 2014 I worked on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project titled 'Pathways to and through palliative care: A sociological study of patient, carer and clinician experiences at end of life', with Associate Professor Alex Broom and Dr Emma Kirby at the University of Queensland. This project explored patients', carers' and clinicians' experiences of palliative and end-of-life care. Our aim was to provide new conceptual understandings of end-of-life and palliative care as relationally, culturally and ideologically mediated. My doctoral research at the London School of Economics and Political Science provided a sociological exploration of how people with cancer, who used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), came to understand their use of CAMs as part of a wider experience of healthcare and 'self-health'. A significant goal of my thesis was to develop a conceptual understanding of peoples' experiences of self-health in cancer healthcare. In particular, I explored how the self-health techniques and practices affected users' experiences of diagnosis, on-going illness, and understandings of wellbeing.
- Van Toorn, G., Kirby, Emma R., Hamilton, M., MacArtney, J. I., 2024. What socio-cultural, emotional and relational factors shape older people?s experiences of death and dying in residential aged care? A scoping review. Ageing and Society, pp. 1-24
- Jones, Rachelle, Dale, Jeremy, MacArtney, John I., 2023. Challenges experienced by general practitioners when providing palliative care in the UK : a systematic qualitative literature review. BJGP Open, 7 (2)
- McLoughlin, Bethany, Atherton, Helen, MacArtney, John I., Dale, Jeremy, 2023. Online support groups for carers of people living with dementia : an investigation of videoconferencing support groups in lockdown. Dementia, 22 (3), pp. 561-575
- Borgstrom, Erica, Driessen, Annelieke, Krawczyk, Marian, Kirby, Emma, MacArtney, John I., Almack, Kathryn, 2023. Grieving academic grant rejections : examining funding failure and experiences of loss. The Sociological Review
- Nawaratne, Sashiprabha Dulanjalee, Dale, Jeremy, MacArtney, John I., Mitchell, Sarah, Rimui, Pauline, Hirtenlehner, Katrin, 2023. Compassionate communities and cities in low and middle-income countries : a systematic review protocol to identify transferrable lessons for implementation in the primary care context. International Journal of College of Palliative Medicine of Sri Lanka, 1 (1)
- Bailey, Cara, Guo, Ping, MacArtney, John I., Finucane, Anne, Meade, Richard, Swan, Susan, Wagstaff, Ellie, 2023. "Palliative care is so much more than that? : a qualitative study exploring experiences of hospice staff and bereaved carers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 11
- Hancox, Jennifer A., McKiernan, Clare F., Martin, Alice L., Tomas, Jon, MacArtney, John I., 2023. The emotional effects on professional interpreters of interpreting palliative care conversations for adult patients : a rapid review. Palliative Medicine, 37 (7), pp. 931-946
- 'Weetman, Katharine, 'Dale, Jeremy, 'Mitchell, Sarah J., 'Ferguson, Claire, 'Finucane, Anne M., 'Buckle, Peter, 'Arnold, Elizabeth, 'Clarke, Gemma, 'Karakitsiou, Despoina-Elvira, 'McConnell, Tracey, 'Sanyal, Nikhil, 'Schuberth, Anna, 'Tindle, Georgia, 'Perry, Rachel, 'Grewal, Bhajneek, 'Patynowska, Katarzyna A., 'MacArtney, John I., 2022. 'Communication of palliative care needs in discharge letters from hospice providers to primary care : a multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study. BMC Palliative Care, 21 (1)
- Schichtel, Markus, Wee, Bee, MacArtney, John I., Collins, Sarah, 2022. Clinician barriers and facilitators to heart failure advance care plans : a systematic literature review and qualitative evidence synthesis. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 12
- MacArtney, John I., Eccles, Abi, Fleming, Joanna, Grimley, Catherine, Dale, Jeremy, Almack, Kathryn, Mayland, Catriona, Mitchell, Sarah, Driscoll, Ruth, Hammond, Rebecca, Tatnell, Lynn, Roberts, Lesley, 2021. What do we know about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hospices? A collaborative multi-stakeholder knowledge synthesis. AMRC Open Research, 3
- 'Kirby, Emma R., 'Broom, Alex, 'MacArtney, John I., 'Lewis, Sophie, 'Good, Phillip, 2021. 'Hopeful dying? The meanings and practice of hope in palliative care family meetings. Social Science & Medicine, 291
- Schichtel, Markus, MacArtney, John I., Wee, Bee, Boylan, Anne-Marie, 2021. Implementing advance care planning in heart failure : a qualitative study of primary healthcare professionals. British Journal of General Practice
- Finucane, Anne, Swenson, Connie, MacArtney, John I., Perry, Rachel, Lamberton, Hazel, Hetherington, Lucy, Graham-Wisener, Lisa, Murray, Scott, Carduff, Emma, 2021. What makes palliative care needs ?complex?? A multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study of patients referred for specialist palliative care. BMC Palliative Care, 20
- Parsons, Joanne, Dale, Jeremy, MacArtney, John I., Nanton, Veronica, 2021. Caring for each other : a rapid review of how mutual dependency is challenged by advanced illness. International Journal of Care and Caring, 5 (3), pp. 509-527
- Andersen, R. S., MacArtney, John I., Rasmussen, B. M., Bernhardson, B. M., Hajdarevic, S., Malmström, M., Ziebland, S., 2020. Caring as sharing : negotiating the moral boundaries of receiving care. Critical Public Health, 30 (5), pp. 567-576
- MacArtney, John I., Andersen, R. S., Malmström, M., Rasmussen, B., Ziebland, S., 2020. The convivial and the pastoral in patient-doctor relationships : a multi-country study of patient stories of care, choice and medical authority in cancer diagnostic processes. Sociology of Health and Illness, 42 (4), pp. 844-861
- Ziebland, Sue, Rasmussen, Birgit, MacArtney, John I., Hajdarevic, Senada, Sand Andersen, Rikke, 2019. How wide is the Goldilocks Zone in your health system?. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 24 (1), pp. 52-56
- Evans, Julie, MacArtney, John I., Bankhead, Clare, Albury, Charlotte, Jones, Daniel, Ziebland, Sue, Nicholson, Brian D., 2019. How do GPs and patients share the responsibility for cancer safety netting follow-up actions? A qualitative interview study of GPs and patients in Oxfordshire, UK. BMJ Open, 9 (9)
- Evans, Julie, Ziebland, Sue, MacArtney, John I., Bankhead, Clare R., Rose, Peter W., Nicholson, Brian D., 2018. GPs' understanding and practice of safety netting for potential cancer presentations : a qualitative study in primary care. British Journal of General Practice
- Malmström, M., Rasmussen, B. H., Bernhardson, B. M., Hajdarevic, S., Eriksson, L. E., Sand Andersen, R., MacArtney, J. I., 2018. "It is important that the process goes quickly, isn't it?? A qualitative multi-country study of colorectal or lung cancer patients' narratives of the timeliness of diagnosis and quality of care. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 34, pp. 82-88
- MacArtney, John I., Malmström, Marlene, Overgaard Nielsen, Trine, Evans, Julie, Bernhardson, Britt-Marie, Hajdarevic, Senada, Chapple, Alison, Eriksson, Lars E., Locock, Louise, Rasmussen, Birgit, Vedsted, Peter, Tishelman, Carol, Andersen, Rikke Sand, Ziebland, Sue, 2017. Patients' initial steps to cancer diagnosis in Denmark, England and Sweden : what can a qualitative, cross-country comparison of narrative interviews tell us about potentially modifiable factors?. BMJ Open, 7 (11)
- MacArtney, John I., Broom, Alex, Kirby, Emma, Good, Phillip, Wootton, Julia, 2017. The liminal and the parallax. Qualitative Health Research, 27 (5), pp. 623-633
- Kirby, Emma, Kenny, Katherine, Broom, Alex, MacArtney, John I., Good, Phillip, 2017. The meaning and experience of bereavement support : a qualitative interview study of bereaved family caregivers. Palliative and Supportive Care, pp. 1-10
- MacArtney, John I., Broom, Alex, Kirby, Emma, Good, Phillip, Wootton, Julia, Adams, Jon, 2016. Locating care at the end of life : burden, vulnerability, and the practical accomplishment of dying. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38 (3), pp. 479-492
- Broom, Alex, Kirby, Emma, Kenny, Katherine, MacArtney, John I., Good, Phillip, 2016. Moral ambivalence and informal care for the dying. The Sociological Review, 64 (4), pp. 987-1004
- MacArtney, John I., 2016. Balancing exercises : subjectivised narratives of balance in cancer self-health. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 20 (4), pp. 329-345
- MacArtney, John I., Wahlberg, Ayo, 2014. The problem of complementary and alternative medicine use today. Qualitative Health Research, 24 (1), pp. 114-123
- Cox, W. M., Rosenberg, H., Hodgins, H., MacArtney, John I., Maurer, K. A., 2004. United Kingdom And United States healthcare providers' recommendations of abstinence versus controlled drinking. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 39 (2), pp. 130-134
- MacArtney, John I., 2015. At the will of our stories. Tansley, L.; Maftei, M. (eds.), Writing creative non-fiction : determining the form., Canterbury, UK., Gylphi
- 'Mayland, C., 'Mitchell, S., 'Flemming, K., 'Tatnell, L., 'Roberts, L., 'MacArtney, John I., 2022. 'Editorial : Inequitable access to hospice care - action is needed now. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, BMJ Group
- MacArtney, John I., 2013. Review of : DES daughters : embodied knowledge and the transformation of women's health politics by Bell, S. E.. Medical Sociology Online, BSA Publications Ltd
Title | Funder | Award start | Award end |
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Exploring how understanding contexts, people or needs as 'complex'is creating inequities in practices and experiences of a good death in palliative car (Warwick Industrial Fellowship) | Marie Curie Cancer Care | 09 Jan 2023 | 08 Jul 2026 |
Marie Curie Cancer Care Senior Research Fellowship extension linked to 66103 and 55740 | Marie Curie Cancer Care | 01 Mar 2023 | 28 Feb 2026 |
Improving patients, carers, and primary care healthcare professionals' experiences of discharge communication from specialist palliative care to community settings: a qualitative interview study Recost 75381 | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR DoH) | 01 Jan 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
Palliative and End of Life Care Research Partnerships Grant ? Building a Research Hub for Palliative Care Quality in the West Midlands | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR DoH) | 03 Jan 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 |
Marie Curie Cancer Care Senior Research Fellowship extension - link to 55740 | Marie Curie Cancer Care | 01 Mar 2021 | 28 Feb 2023 |
Secondary analysis of bereavement commission evidence | Marie Curie Cancer Care | 01 Dec 2021 | 31 Oct 2022 |
The impact and implications of Covid-19 on the relational, social, and healthcare experiences of hospice care in the West Midlands | UK Research and Innovation | 24 Mar 2021 | 31 May 2022 |
Impact of Covid on Hospices study related to 69522 and funded under 70838 | National Lottery | 01 Sep 2021 | 28 Feb 2022 |
Communication of palliative needs in discharge letters from specialist to primary palliative care: A multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study | Marie Curie Cancer Care | 01 Apr 2021 | 31 Dec 2021 |