Sally Macintyre [SEP] occupation
Sally Macintyre
Dame Sally Macintyre DBE FRSE FMedSci (born 1949) is a Scottish medical sociologist. She is a Professor Emeritus (formerly Professor of Social and Public Health Sciences) at the University of Glasgow.
In 1998 she was awarded an OBE for services to Medical Sociology, and in 2006 she was awarded a CBE for services to Social Science. In 2011 she was awarded a DBE for services to Science. In 2013 she was one of 12 women to receive the 2013 Suffrage Science honour.
Background and education
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Sally Jane Macintyre was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her father, the Rev Angus Macintyre, was the then rector of St James's Scottish Episcopal Church, Leith. Her mother, Evelyn Macintyre, had trained as a nurse and midwife in Oxford before the war. When she was 2, the family moved to Trinity College, Glenalmond in Perthshire (now Glenalmond College) where her father was chaplain until 1967.
Macintyre was schooled at home until the age of 10, when she went to Morrison's Academy