Social Sciences Early-Career Advisory Group
This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Early Career 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 Felicity Boardman (Chair)
University of Warwick
Dr Hareth Al-Janabi
University of Birmingham
Dr Jennifer Chubb
University of York
Dr Ricardo De Campos
University of Exeter
Dr Tereza Hendl
University of Augsburg
Dr Daniel Holman
University of Sheffield
Dr Dorcas Kamuya
Kemri-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Dr Nambusi Kyegombe
MRC/UVRI & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit
Dr Mark McCann
University of Glasgow
Dr Michelle Pentecost
King's College London
Professor Muireann Quigley
University of Birmingham
Dr Arianne Shahvisi
University of Sussex
Dr Tanisha Spratt
King's College London
Manager
Emmanuel Moro
Funding Manager, Funding Management