School of Social and Political Science

Background

My work sits at the intersections of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies. I am interested in questions around the shifting natures of care with the use of emerging technologies in healthcare. In this context, I explore several lines of inquiry relating to the production of clinical knowledge, relations in medicine, materiality and care, inequalities in healthcare, and understandings and cultures around the idea of ‘access to care’.

My doctoral research at Durham University was a multi-sited ethnographic study tracing the use of telehealth (specifically, remote clinical consultations) in the New Mexican (US) mental healthcare system. I have also worked at University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute on projects that investigated the implementation of electronic prescribing technologies in hospital and another that thought through the ways in which antimicrobial stewardship can be supported by health information technologies. Presently, I am a postdoctoral research fellow on the DARE project which explores the ways in which data-driven innovation is changing healthcare. In this role, I lead a work package on the changing data/care relations that are enacted through the use of wearables in home-based clinical trials.