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I am a Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. While I have a mixed educational background, I think of myself as a sociologist of science and technology, sitting at the intersection of STS, medical sociology and bioethics.
I have two main areas of interest. The first is the impact on professional practice of genetic tests, which I have published on since 1996, and which I have explored through my Ph.D. (which looked at the geneticization of medical discourse), a Wellcome trust funded postdoc (on the clinical uptake of pharmacogenetics) and my recent Wellcome Trust funded investigator award looking at the impact on clinical practice of next generation sequencing technologies.
My second area of interest is in the regulation of biomedical research, especially the use of research ethics committees (or IRBs or their equivalent) to regulate research prior to it taking place. In this latter area, I ran a four-country comparative ethnography of Research Ethics Committees (RECs), and have a particular interest in the history and sociology of RECs in the UK.
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