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Dr. K. Neil Jenkings

As a researcher and academic, I undertake studies of social interaction, organization and representation in two main areas; military and society, and the social and technical organization of health care.

I am trained as a sociologist and social researcher with a PhD from Nottingham University in the situated practices legal decision-making and further post-doctoral studies of medical decision-making hospital drug management at the London School of Pharmacy (ULC), UK. Following studies of the social organization of healthcare and decision support technologies and their implementation at Newcastle University I began working with Prof Rachel Woodward on the experience of military life, its organization and its representation in society in all its cultural forms. For over a decade now we have undertaken various studies of the military and militarism while based in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. I have authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, and recent co-authored books include The Value of the University Armed Service Units (2015), The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods (2016) and Bringing War to Book: Writing and Producing the Contemporary Military Memoir  (2018). A number of ESRC research grants have allowed us to study various military phenomena, usually from a critical military studies perspective, and informed by my own previous military service. I have maintained my work on the social organization and interactions of health care whilst additionally publishing studies of collaborative interaction in rock climbing focusing on assistive technologies. I also have the pleasure of being a co-editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis.