Rapid technological advances promise improvements in medical care. There are many contextual factors to be understood when implementing them. New technologies bring their own challenges to be addressed for them to be integrated into practice and deliver long term positive change. We bring together expertise to address the ethical, legal, and psychosocial issues of implementing new technologies through research, education, policy engagement, and public dialogue.
We research real-life issues that are sometimes missing from promises for science and healthcare practice through interdisciplinary approaches.
Examples of our research include issues related to:
- ethical preparedness in genomic medicine
- environmental sustainability and personalised medicine
- diversifying genomic data
- exploring how results are constructed in whole genome approaches
- familial communication of genetic information
- consent and confidentiality in genomic medicine
Our group has a presence at the University of Southampton and the University of Oxford's Centre for Human Genetics.
We have ongoing funding or recently completed funding from:
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Cancer Research - UK
- Health Education England
- UK Biobank
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Wellcome Trust