Martyn Pickersgill
Personal Chair of the Sociology of Science and Medicine
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Professor Martyn Pickersgill is a sociologist of science and medicine. Martyn is currently engaged in research on biomedicine and society in the UK and the US, and with collaborators in the context of Australia, China, Japan, and Malawi.
Martyn holds a Personal Chair in the Sociology of Science and Medicine, and conducts research, teaching, and engagement in the social dimensions of biomedicine. He is also Co-Director of Research in the Medical School's Usher Institute. In 2020, Martyn became Co-Director of a new £5.3m Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in 'One Health Animal Models of Disease: Science, Ethics and Society', which brings together expertise from the social and biomedical sciences. In 2018, he co-founded the Centre for Biomedicine, Self & Society through seed and continuing funding totalling over £1.9m from the Wellcome Trust, where he remains an Associate Director.
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Expertise from the humanities and social sciences is essential for governmental responses to COVID-19
In:
Journal of Global Health
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Children's Understanding of Epilepsy: A Qualitative Study
In:
Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.107994
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A Consideration of the Social Dimensions and Implications of Neuroimaging Research in Global Health, as Related to the Theory-Ladened and Theory-Generating Aspects of Technology
In:
NeuroImage, vol. 236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118086
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A sociology of law and science
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Neurobiological Limits and the Somatic Significance of Love: Care-givers’ Engagements with Neuroscience in Scottish Parenting Programmes
In:
History of the Human Sciences, vol. 33, pp. 85-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120945966
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics
In:
Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520954752
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Pandemic Sociology
In:
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, vol. 6, pp. 347, 350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2020.523
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Uncertainty Work as Ontological Negotiation: Adjudicating Access to Therapy in Clinical Psychology
In:
Sociology of Health & Illness, vol. 42, pp. 84-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13029
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The social underpinnings of mental distress in the time of COVID-19 – time for urgent action
In:
Wellcome Open Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16123.1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Imagining Life with “Immunity Passports”:: Managing Risk during a Pandemic
(4 pages)
In:
Discover Society, Policy Press, pp. 1-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)