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.
Dr Hayley MacGregor (Chair)
University of Sussex
Dr Hareth Al-Janabi
University of Birmingham
Professor Lisa Dikomitis
University of Kent
Professor Seeromanie Harding
King's College London
Professor Marcia Inhorn
Yale University, USA
Dr Dorcas Kamuya
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
Professor Helen Lambert
University of Bristol
Dr Michelle Pentecost
King's College London
Professor Muireann Quigley
University of Birmingham
Dr Aaron Reeves
University of Oxford
Dr Arianne Shahvisi
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Dr Mark McCann
University of Glasgow
Dr Nambusi Kyegombe
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr Tereza Hendl
University of Augsburg, Germany
Manager
Helen Stanton
Funding Manager, Funding Management
Wellcome Trust