Michelle Sokol is an analyst at RAND Europe. She is a medical anthropologist by training. Her research interests focus on patient experience and using patient stories to improve both health experience and service delivery. She is further interested in multidisciplinary, creative qualitative research. For example, during her M.Phil., Sokol analysed birth narratives using theory from science and technology studies as well as archaeology to illustrate the impact of objects in the birth environment on birthing people's birth narratives. Following her M.Phil. at the University of Oxford, Sokol worked in healthcare regulation at the Nursing and Midwifery Council. As a research officer, she lead a project that aimed to help embed person-centred practice in the Fitness to Practise directorate and explored the impact of the fitness to practise process on patients and families who raised concerns. She has since continued her work in understanding patient and family stories of fitness to practise in her Ph.D. thesis at the Open University.
Education
M.Phil. in medical anthropology, University of Oxford; B.A. in anthropology, University of Pittsburgh