Post-Doc, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Research Fellow
About
I am currently an ESRC Co-Investigator and Research Fellow in the Public Health Sciences Section of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh. My current work, carried out with Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley (PI; University of Edinburgh) and Dr Paul Martin (Co-I; University of Nottingham) forms part of a research grant entitled ‘Constituting Neurologic Subjects: Neuroscience, Identity and Society after the ‘Decade of the Brain’’. Broadly, this empirical project concerns the ethical and social dimensions of neuroscience.
To date, my research has focussed on the history and sociology of the human and biomedical sciences. Situated within science and technology studies (STS), my doctoral thesis, titled 'Ordering Disorderly Personalities: Co-Producing Antisocial Personality Disorder through Science, Policy and Standards', presented a socio-historical analysis of ASPD from 1950 to 2007. In it, I showed how - in spite of profound ontological uncertainty - this category came to be regarded as treatable and a stable object of governance. In so doing, I cast fresh light on the reciprocal constitution of psychiatry, science and law.
These analytic foci are being developed further in my current work. I also have active research interests in sociological approaches to biomedical ethics. Theoretically, my research intersects with the sociologies of enhancement, translation and uncertainty.
I have been an ESRC-sponsored Visiting Scholar on the Science, Technology and Society Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and John J. Pisano Grantee and Guest Researcher at the Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health (USA). My doctoral studies were completed at the University of Nottingham, and I remain an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health (a collaborative venture between the University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust) and part of a think-tank on Law, Policy and Ethics, established under the aegis of the Personality Disorder Institute. I am also an Associate of the ESRC Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh/Open University.
Contact Information
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/people/staff_role.php?id=MjA1&page_var=personal
Public Health Sciences Section
Division of Community Health Sciences
The University of Edinburgh
Medical School, Teviot Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9AG
0131 650 3033
