Data and the Healthcare 'Revolution'?

Data is changing healthcare. But how and to what effect?

Our research aims to provide a novel comparative and context-specific framework for understanding how informatics and medicine are re-shaping each other and how data-driven healthcare is changing conceptions of health, illness and personhood. In doing so, we will make a major sociological contribution to understandings of healthcare in the era of digital transformation.

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Shadows of the four DARE team members

Reading, Reflecting, Connecting

Reflections on the DARE team's first reading retreat
DARE Postdocs, Abby, Nicola, and Max (left to right) standing in front of their presentation title slide.

Data-Driven Healthcare: Empirical Encounters with Computational ‘Intelligence’

DARE Team Presents at University of Edinburgh’s AI Ethics and Society Seminar.
Image of Let's Talk Digital Panel 2026 -- from left to right: Max Perry, Geoff Revill,Basil Bekdash, Charlie McCay, Abi Durrant.

Let's Talk Digital Conference 2026

Earlier this year, I spoke on a panel at the Let's Talk Digital Conference in Prainswick, Stroud UK. It was a lovely conference populated by the real stalwarts, hobbyists, and […]
The Seattle Space Needle viewed from the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum.

4S Seattle Roundup

In September, Abby and Nicola joined the biennial Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Seattle and online to lead the DARE team’s panel on ‘Data, Care, and […]
Spider diagram produced during the first discussion on ‘Atmospheres of Knowledge Production’, mapping diverse theoretical streams participants connected to the topic.

‘Atmospheres of Knowledge Production’ as a frame for exploring data in the home

Over the past few months, I’ve organised three sessions bringing together researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) to think through how understandings of space […]
Black and white image of Max presenting at 'social science of database workshop'. Max is stood, gesturing, in front of a screen with the words 'database ontology' written in large font.

Naming Things.

And if you swear that there’s no truth, and who cares. How come you say it like you’re right?--- Bright Eyes, We are Nowhere and it’s Now.In June we ran a […]
Image shows the outline of a map drawn on paper in coloured pen. A handful of dice are sitting on the map.

A playful experiment in map-making: Safe havens, innovation highways, and the desert of missing data

As an interdisciplinary research team with quite different trainings and research foci, the DARE team takes a reflexive attitude towards collaboration and actively seeks new and creative ways to think […]
DARE Team: Nicola, Abby, Max, and Cath stood together in front of an illustrated graphic.

Dialogues on Data: Who is Data-Driven Healthcare For?

On 31st January 2025, the DARE team, in association with the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, hosted ‘Dialogues on Data: Who is Data-Driven Healthcare For?’ Catalysing conversation between academics, […]

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