Dr Catherine Montgomery
Job Title
Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow
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Telephone
+44 (0)131 6502842
LinkedIn username
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-montgomery-a48b7423/
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2.92Building (Address)
Old Surgeons' HallResearch interests
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Background
Catherine Montgomery is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the juncture between scientific knowledge production and clinical care, which she has explored ethnographically across multiple settings. Her work to date has focused on the ways in which the design and implementation of clinical research produces particular configurations of knowledge, sociality and change. She leads a team of researchers exploring the mutual re-configuration of data practices, care and learning in data driven healthcare.
Catherine is a guest lecturer in ethnography at the University of Oxford, chairs the editorial collective of the Journal of Critical Public Health and is Co-Chair of the Wellcome Trust’s interview panel for Career Development Awards.
Current Research
Catherine is Principal Investigator of a European Research Council Consolidator Grant, funded by UKRI, entitled ‘Data and Healthcare Revolution?’ (DARE).
As well as leading this project, Catherine is conducting an ethnography of data practices, care and learning in critical care.
Catherine is Co-Investigator of a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award, entitled 'Medicine Without Doctors: Reimaging Care and Voice through Play'.
She leads the methodological workstream, developing playful methods for rethinking interdisciplinarity.
Previous Research
Catherine previously held fellowships at the University of Oxford (Institute for Science, Innovation & Society/Nuffield Department of Primary Care), the University of Amsterdam (Department of Sociology & Anthropology), the University of York (Science & Technology Studies Unit) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has conducted research into how methods travel in global health research, the rise of adaptive design clinical trials, the mobilisation of patient experience data in the NHS, and staff experiences of critical care during COVID-19.
Publications
For a full list of projects and publications see: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/catherine-montgomery
Works within
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Castro D, Basra S, Just L, Tynan O'Mahony F, Montgomery C. Playful Research Playkit v1.2 2026. doi: 10.7488/era/7224 |
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Castro D, Montgomery C, Basra S. Rebelebration!. 2026. Counterplay, Kolding, Denmark. |
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Montgomery CM, Basra S, McCulloch C, Docherty AB. Otherwising or attaching? Play, care, and critique in interdisciplinary public engagement. Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV). 2026 Apr 8;1-31. Epub 2026 Apr 8. doi: 10.1177/01622439261428766 |
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Montgomery CM. Data. In Harris A, editor, The Matter of Hospitals: An Alphabetical Investigation. Maastricht: Maastricht University Press. 2025. p. 99-106 doi: 10.26481/mup.2503 |
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Montgomery CM, Docherty AB, Humphreys S, McCulloch C, Pattison N, Sturdy S. Remaking critical care: Place, body work and the materialities of care in the COVID intensive care unit. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2024 Mar;46(3):361-380. Epub 2023 Sept 13. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13708 |
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Montgomery CM. Science and Technology Studies. In Dew K, Donovan S, editors, Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2023. p. 281-285. (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences ). doi: 10.4337/9781800885691.ch51 |
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Cresswell KM, Anderson S, Montgomery C, Weir CJ, Atter M, Williams R. Evaluation of digitalisation in healthcare and the quantification of the “unmeasurable”. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2023 Sept 15. Epub 2023 Sept 15. doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08405-y |
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Wheater K, Montgomery CM, Clark R, Nimmo GR. Self care and wellbeing in the face of COVID-19: Multidisciplinary perspectives and interprofessional experiences. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 2023 Jun;53(2):137-143. Epub 2023 Apr 28. doi: 10.1177/14782715231168208 |
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Hinton L, Dumelow C, Hodgkinson J, Montgomery C, Martin A, Allen C et al. ‘Nesting networks’: Women's experiences of social network support in high-risk pregnancy. Midwifery. 2023 May;120:103622. Epub 2023 Feb 17. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2023.103622 |
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Docherty A, Montgomery C, McCulloch C, Basra S, Abernethy L, Harris F. Critical Care Futures: Insight Report. 2023. 58 p. |
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Montgomery C, Mair J, Basra S. Co-designing cultural probes Medium. 2022. |
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Engelmann L, Montgomery C, Sturdy S, Moreno Lozano C. Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy. Social Studies of Science. 2022 Oct 13;1-25. Epub 2022 Oct 13. doi: 10.1177/03063127221126166 |
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Montgomery C, Basra S, McCulloch C, Docherty AB. Cultural probes for public engagement Medium. 2022. |
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Montgomery CM, Powell J, Mahtani K, Boylan AM. Turning the gaze: Digital patient feedback and the silent pathology of the NHS. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2021 Dec 4. Epub 2021 Dec 4. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13419 |
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Parkin S, Locock L, Montgomery C, Chisholm A. ‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork. Ethnography. 2021 Nov 14. Epub 2021 Nov 14. doi: 10.1177/14661381211038383 |
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Montgomery C, Humphreys S, McCulloch C, Docherty AB, Sturdy S, Pattison N. Critical care work during COVID-19: A qualitative study of staff experiences in the UK. BMJ Open. 2021 May 18;11(5). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048124 |
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De Togni G, Boydell N, Chan S, Erikainen S, Ford A, Ganguli-Mitra A et al. Imagining Life with “Immunity Passports”: Managing Risk during a Pandemic. Discover Society, Policy Press. 2020 Jun 1;1-4. |
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Montgomery C, Chisholm A, Parkin S, Locock L. Wild Data: How Frontline Hospital Staff Make Sense of Patients’ Experiences. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2020 May 31. Epub 2020 May 31. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13115 |
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Montgomery C, Parkin S, Chisholm A, Locock L. 'Team Capital’ in Quality Improvement Teams: Findings from an Ethnographic Study of Frontline Quality Improvement in the NHS. BMJ Open Quality. 2020 May 26. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-000948 |
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Montgomery C, Engelmann L. Epidemiological Publics? On the Domestication of Modelling in the era of COVID-19. 2020. |
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Locock L, Graham C, King J, Parkin S, Chisholm A, Montgomery C et al. Understanding how front-line staff use patient experience data for service improvement: an exploratory case study evaluation. Health Services and Delivery Research. 2020 Mar 9;8(13). doi: 10.3310/hsdr08130 |
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Locock L, Montgomery C, Parkin S, Chisholm A, Bostock J, Dopson S et al. How do frontline staff use patient experience data for service improvement? Findings from an ethnographic case study evaluation. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2020 Feb 14. Epub 2020 Feb 14. doi: 10.1177/1355819619888675 |
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Montgomery C. Clinical Trials and the Drive to Material Standardisation: ‘Extending the Rails’ or Reinventing the Wheel? Science & Technology Studies. 2017 Dec 15;30(4):30-44. doi: 10.23987/sts.59226 |
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Sariola S, Engel N, Kingori P, Montgomery C. Coffee Time at the Conference. The Global Health Complex in Action. Science & Technology Studies. 2017 Dec 15;30(4):2-7. doi: 10.23987/sts.66430 |
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Montgomery CM, Kingori P, Sariola S, Engel N. Critique and complicity: STS and global health. Science and Technology Studies. 2017 Sept 15;30(3):2-12. doi: 10.23987/sts.65369 |
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Montgomery CM, Pool R. From "trial community' to "experimental publics': how clinical research shapes public participation. Critical Public Health. 2017 Feb;27(1):50-62. Epub 2016 Jul 21. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1212161 |
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Kelly AH, MacGregor H, Montgomery CM. The publics of public health in Africa. Critical Public Health. 2017 Feb;27(1):1-5. Epub 2016 Dec 1. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1254178 |
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Montgomery CM. From Standardization to Adaptation: Clinical Trials and the Moral Economy of Anticipation. Science as Culture. 2017;26(2):232-254. Epub 2016 Nov 14. doi: 10.1080/09505431.2016.1255721 |
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Montgomery CM. Adaptive trials for tuberculosis: early reflections on theory and practice. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2016 Aug 1;20(8):1091-1098. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.16.0166 |
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Montgomery CM. "HIV has a woman's face': vaginal microbicides and a case of ambiguous failure. Anthropology and Medicine. 2015 Oct 6;22(3):250-262. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2015.1077200 |
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Lezaun J, Montgomery CM. The Pharmaceutical Commons: Sharing and Exclusion in Global Health Drug Development. Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV). 2015 Jan 1;40(1):3-29. doi: 10.1177/0162243914542349 |
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Legido-Quigley H, Montgomery CM, Khan P, Atun R, Fakoya A, Getahun H et al. Integrating tuberculosis and HIV services in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 2013 Feb;18(2):199-211. Epub 2012 Dec 10. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12029 |
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Montgomery CM. Making prevention public: The co-production of gender and technology in HIV prevention research. Social Studies of Science. 2012 Oct 15;42(6):922-944. doi: 10.1177/0306312712457707 |
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Montgomery CM, Watts C, Pool R. HIV and Dyadic Intervention: An Interdependence and Communal Coping Analysis. PLoS ONE. 2012 Jul 12;7(7):40661. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040661 |
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Montgomery CM. Protocols and participatory democracy in a North-South' product development partnership. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2012 Mar 5;34(7):1053-1069. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01455.x |
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Munguambe K, Pool R, Montgomery C, Bavo C, Nhacolo A, Fiosse L et al. What drives community adherence to indoor residual spraying (IRS) against malaria in Manhica district, rural Mozambique: a qualitative study. Malaria Journal. 2011 Nov 23;10:344. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-344 |
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Montgomery C, Pool R. Critically Engaging: Integrating the Social and the Biomedical in International Microbicides Research. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2011 Sept 27;14(Suppl 2):S4. doi: 10.1186/1758-2652-14-S2-S4 |
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Gafos M, Mzimela M, Sukazi S, Pool R, Montgomery C, Elford J. Intravaginal insertion in KwaZulu-Natal: sexual practices and preferences in the context of microbicide gel use. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2010 Aug 23;12(8):929-942. 926135713. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2010.507876 |
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Pool R, Montgomery CM, Morar NS, Mweemba O, Ssali A, Gafos M et al. A Mixed Methods and Triangulation Model for Increasing the Accuracy of Adherence and Sexual Behaviour Data: The Microbicides Development Programme. PLoS ONE. 2010 Jul 21;5(7):11600. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011600 |
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Pool R, Montgomery CM, Morar NS, Mweemba O, Ssali A, Gafos M et al. Assessing the Accuracy of Adherence and Sexual Behaviour Data in the MDP301 Vaginal Microbicides Trial Using a Mixed Methods and Triangulation Model. PLoS ONE. 2010 Jul 21;5(7):11632. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011632 |
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MDP Team. Re-framing microbicide acceptability: findings from the MDP301 trial. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 2010 Apr 14;12(6):649-662. 921307547. doi: 10.1080/13691051003736261 |
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Montgomery CM, Munguambe K, Pool R. Group-based citizenship in the acceptance of indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control in Mozambique. Social Science & Medicine. 2010 Feb 12;70(10):1648-1655. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.020 |
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Pool R, Mushi A, Schellenberg JA, Mrisho M, Alonso P, Montgomery C et al. The acceptability of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) delivered through the expanded programme of immunization in southern Tanzania. Malaria Journal. 2008 Oct 21;7:213. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-213 |
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Montgomery CM, Lees S, Stadler J, Morar NS, Ssali A, Mwanza B et al. The role of partnership dynamics in determining the acceptability of condoms and microbicides. AIDS Care. 2008 Jun 24;20(6):733-740. doi: 10.1080/09540120701693974 |
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Montgomery CM, Mwengee W, Kong'ong'o M, Pool R. 'To help them is to educate them': power and pedagogy in the prevention and treatment of malaria in Tanzania. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 2006 Nov;11(11):1661-1669. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01719.x |
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Montgomery CM, Hosegood V, Busza J, Timaeus IM. Men's involvement in the South African family: Engendering change in the AIDS era. Social Science & Medicine. 2006 May;62(10):2411-2419. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.10.026 |
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