- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Sex work and related issues
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
University of Oxford
2023-2024
University of Cambridge
2020-2022
Goldsmiths University of London
2021-2022
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2016-2019
King's College London
2019
Faculty of Public Health
2018
HealthNet TPO
2014
Background Triage and clinical consultations increasingly occur remotely. We aimed to learn why safety incidents in remote encounters how prevent them. Setting sample UK primary care. 95 (complaints, settled indemnity claims reports) involving interactions. Separately, 12 general practices followed 2021–2023. Methods Multimethod qualitative study. explored causes of real retrospectively (‘Safety I’ analysis). In a prospective longitudinal study, we used interviews ethnographic observation...
Nepal is experiencing a significant ‘treatment gap’ in mental health care. People with disorders do not always receive appropriate treatment due to range of structural and individual issues, including stigma poverty. The PRIME (Programme for Improving Mental Health Care) programme has developed care plan address this issue four other low middle income countries. This study aims inform the development comprehensive by investigating perceptions stakeholders at different levels system district...
In this paper, we examine the practice and promises of digital phenotyping. We build on work 'data self' to focus a medical domain in which value nature knowledge relations with data have been played out particular persistence, that Alzheimer's disease research. Drawing research researchers developers, consider intersection hopes concerns related both tools using metaphor shadow'. suggest as tool for engaging self, shadow is usefully able capture dynamic distorted representations, unease...
Abstract This paper engages with the notion of ‘embodied belonging’ through an ethnography social and material aspects accessing mental health care in UK. I focus on moments access transition a voluntary sector organisation London: intercultural psychotherapy centre, serving range im/migrant communities. Whilst both ‘belonging’ ‘place’ are often invoked to imply stability, explore how contexts inclusion can paradoxically be implicated ongoing production precarity—of unstable, uncertain,...
Because HIV and AIDS key populations share common social-cultural factors challenging their sexual health rights (e.g. stigma, criminalisation), there is an assumed benefit of collaborative programmes where various work in solidarity. In this paper, we reflect on how partners collaborated a complex alliance over 100 different NGOs, representing supporting three – lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender (LGBT) people, sex workers people who use drugs working across 16 countries. We used...
<h3></h3> Remote consulting and digital triage have recently been adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are changing nature of consultations primary care. These new modes consultation unsettle interaction between patient clinician which lies at core general practice. Drawing on Bakhtin's notion language as dialogical we explore how these innovations open up different voices spatio-temporal arrangements. We used mixed methods remote three practices. undertook team ethnography over two...
Background: Triage and consultations increasingly occur remotely (telephone, video or online). Safety concerns have been raised.Aim: To learn why safety incidents in remote encounters how they could be prevented.Design setting: UK primary care. Mixed-method study including incident analysis ethnography.Methods: triage consultations, comprising complaints (n = 69), closed indemnity claims 16) reports 10), were coded independently by two researchers systematically fictionalised. Culture...
“Readiness cohorts” are an innovation in clinical trial design to tackle the scarcity of time and people drug studies. This has emerged response challenges recruiting “right” research participants at “right time” context precision medicine. In this paper, we consider how achievement “readiness” aligns temporalities, biologies, market processes pharmaceutical innovation: promise “willing bodies” emerges relation intertwined economic biological imperatives. Drawing on long-term engagement with...
Abstract In this article, we address the problem of participation and dominant focus on motivations in clinical research. We explore as a relational mode ‘being time’ Alzheimer's dementia prevention—a field profoundly shaped by changing bodies through time, well promissory trends towards future‐oriented preventative medicine. Analysis interviews with older adults trial platform demonstrates that what research ‘does’ or might (not) ‘do’ for participants emerges temporalities participants’...
In this think piece, I discuss a composite category – Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) that has emerged expanded to incorporate race, ethnicity, now also immigration status, in somewhat clumsy meeting of political narratives sanitised public health-speak. look at how been interrogated put work particular UK mental health setting, one is committed improving access inclusion for ethnic cultural minorities. Using the analytical tool ‘thinking with’, explore was used relation an absent majority...
Abstract Background SPEAR (Study of Participant Experience Alzheimer’s disease Research) was a sub‐study work on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications European Prevention Dementia (EPAD) project. The EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS) aimed to generate detailed picture biological cognitive change over time, build ‘readiness cohort’ recruit eligible willing participants into clinical trials. This poster presents findings about willingness cohort participate in future trial. Method A...