Social Sciences Discovery Advisory Group
This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Career Development Awards and Wellcome Discovery Awards.
Its remit covers applications that aim to transform understandings of health, healthcare, and wellbeing in their social, economic, and political contexts. It includes all disciplines in the social sciences and bioethics, such as (but not limited to): sociology; anthropology; economics; human geography; international development and global health; law and socio-legal studies; science and technology studies. It includes all methodologies and approaches, as long as the aim is to generate new knowledge and understandings related to health. Examples include, but are not limited to: ethnography and participant observation; interviews and focus groups; surveys and questionnaires; document analysis; secondary analysis of quantitative and/or qualitative data-sets; discrete choice experiments; economic modelling.
Examples include:
- research on experiences of health and healthcare, health practice and/or policy, and the generation of medical knowledge
- research on the development, implementation, and reception of health-related policy at a local, national, international, or global level, relating to any geographical location
- conceptual and/or empirical work on bioethics, and ethical challenges in medicine, healthcare, and medical research
- the development of new methodologies, techniques, and conceptual frameworks in the social sciences and bioethics related to research on health, healthcare, and wellbeing.
Members
Members are listed below. Additional experts will join the panel as necessary.
Professor Clare Bambra (Chair)
Newcastle University
Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones
Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Joanna Coast
University of Bristol
Professor Gail Davies
University of Exeter
Dr Jantina de Vries
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Jenny Douglas
Open University
Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra
University of Edinburgh
Professor Daniel Goodley
University of Sheffield
Professor Sarah Green
University of Helsinki, Finland
Professor Stephani Hatch
King's College London
Professor Maureen Kelley
University of Oxford
Professor Edward Kirumira
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Dr Madeleine Reeves
University of Manchester
Dr Sharifah Sekalala
University of Warwick
Manager
Philip Jones
Funding Manager
Wellcome Trust