BSc, MA, PhD
Director of Research, Health and Human Sciences

Gill Green is a Medical Sociologist based in the School of Health and Human Sciences. She has been researching social aspects of long-term illness since the early 1990s conducting research with people living with a range of long term conditions. She has published extensively on the pyshcosocial impact of HIV and the impact it has on identity and more recently upon people with other chronic illnesses. Her most recent book 'The End of Stigma? Changes in the Social Experience of Long-Term Illness' was published by Routledge in 2009. Gill has also conducted a number of research projects related to other socially excluded groups. Her PhD focused on the housing careers of residents living in low-income settlements in Bolivia and more recently she has researched the lived experiences of offenders with mental health problems.

Gill is Director of the National Institute of Health Research Research Design Service for the East of England . In this capacity , she liaises with health researchers throughout the East of England to develop applied health research based upon the ideas and experience of clinicians and service users supported with methodological academic rigour. She also works closely with with national and regional bodies promoting patient and public involvement in research.