Team

Catherine Montgomery is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Sociology of Biomedicine. She is the PI of the DARE project. With a long-standing interest in the ethnographic study of scientific knowledge production and clinical care, her work has addressed how methods travel in global health research; shifts from standardisation to adaptation in clinical trials; the ways in which patient experience data are mobilised in healthcare; and the changing materialities of care during COVID-19. Her work sits at the intersection of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and medical sociology, and is informed by anthropology and design.

Abby leads DARE's 'Home' work package, exploring the ways in which big data shapes care and biomedical knowledge production in the home. Working at the intersections of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, her work has focused on the use of telehealth in the provision of mental health care; the implementation of electronic prescribing technologies in hospital; and the meanings and cultures guiding understandings of 'access to care'.

Max is the lead researcher for DARE’s ‘Policy’ work package. His research focuses on the ways that technological innovation is processed and produced through policy making practices. Specifically, Max is interested in the ways that rhetorical and discursive formations within policy foreclose particular technological futures, whilst opening others. In short, what types of knowing are valorised through the invocation to a 'data driven' healthcare system, and what types of knowing are considered too unstructured or too unscientific to perform clinical knowledge production, and under what conditions are such determinations of value made?

Nicola is the lead researcher for DARE’s ‘Nation’ work package.  Trained in the history and philosophy of science and influenced by Science and Technology Studies (STS), she has an overarching interest in the past, present, and future of science, technology, and medicine – especially as they pertain to identity, normality, moral worth, and justice. Her past work has interrogated evolution and genetics; psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry; disability, inclusion, and ethics; and reproductive technologies. She is also interested in theories and practices of science communication and public engagement.

Amelie is a PhD researcher at the Technical University of Denmark and a visiting PhD student on the DARE project. Trained in anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, her work uses ethnographic approaches to examine data-intensive practices in chronic pain management across clinical, welfare, and laboratory settings. She is particularly interested in how processes of quantification and automation are reshaping chronic care, including developments in clinical risk assessment, care trajectories, and experimental pain sensing technologies