Oonagh Corrigan

Oonagh Corrigan is an Adjunct Professor and External Examiner at the University of Plymouth's Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business. Her research focuses on the sociology of health and illness, socio-ethical aspects of medicine, and medical education. She employs ethnographic methodologies including observation, qualitative interviews, and sensory methods. Her theoretical interests span Foucault's governmentality, sociology of emotions, and classic theorists like Parsons and Goffman.

Corrigan has supervised three completed PhDs focusing on medical education dynamics, human cloning debates, and genetic obesity research. Her publications address personalized medicine, UK medical education reforms, and bioethical governance of biobanks. She has contributed to policy reports on doctor revalidation and longitudinal studies of junior medical practitioners.

Her work intersects with Sustainable Development Goals related to health and well-being (SDG 3). She has collaborated on major projects like the Limits of Consent anthology examining ethical challenges in human subject research.