Dr Tracey Collett is an Associate Professor in the Sociology of Health and Illness at the University of Plymouth. She is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and founding member and Co-lead of the UK network for Behvaioural and Social Science Teaching in Medical Education (BeSST).

Tracey is an international leader within the field of Medical Education directing research projects on the policy and practice of integrating research based evidence and theory from the Social Sciences and Medical Humanities into undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and learning and the continuing professional education of doctors. She leads strategic partnerships with lay representatives, the third sector, education policy leaders and practitioners for sustained change with evidenced impact. Tracey is lead author on the widely endorsed 'UK Core Curriculum for Sociology in Medical Education'. 

Higher Education Academy

British Sociological Association 

British Sociological Association Auto / Biography Group

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)

Founding Member and Co - Chair - Behavioural and Social Sciences Teaching in Medical Education (BeSST) https://www.besst.info

Co - Convenor - British Sociological Association (BSA) South West Regional Medical Sociology Group

Editorial Committee of Sociological Research Online

Tracey leads on the teaching of the Sociology of Health and Illness and Medical Humanities at Peninsula Medical School contributing to the foundation, undergraduate and post graduate programmes. She is a guest speaker on the undergraduate programme at Cardiff University Medical School and has served as external examiner at the University of Edinburgh Medical School (2015 - 2019).

Specialist areas of teaching and learning include:

Understanding changing definitions of heath, wellness, illness and disease; exploring links between: occupation, socioeconomic status, health and illness, and gender, health and illness; developing awareness of LGBTQI+ health, the link between race, ethnicity health and illness, disability and medicine and health, illness and the life-course; examining the complexity of the patient - doctor relationship including shared decision making, the affect of labelling and stigma; identity and lived experiences of illness. Tracey is an expert in social research methodologies, creative methodologies and health professions education.

Tracey draws on socio-cultural learning theories in her teaching to understand learners' needs. Her modules and teaching sessions employ reflexivity and small group discussion. They are often co-produced by students and a wide range of external providers with lived experience.

Director of Studies on 1 MPhil

Second supervisor on 1 PhD

Supervised to completion: 9 MSc's, 1 PhD

Internal examiner for 1 MRes, 1 PhD and 4 upgrades

External examiner for 3 PhDs