Martyn Pickersgill
Professor 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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Maternal mental health research in Malawi: Community and healthcare provider perspectives on acceptability and ethicality
In:
SSM - Mental Health, pp. 100213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100213
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Responding to Mpox: Communities, Communication, and Infrastructures
(36 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Neuroscience, Novelty and the Sociology of the Brain
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
Is monkeypox an STI? The societal aspects and healthcare implications of a key question
In:
Wellcome Open Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18436.1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Pandemic preparedness means policy makers need to work with social scientists
In:
The Lancet, vol. 400
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00983-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Transforming Primary Care in Scotland: A critical policy analysis
In:
British Journal of General Practice, vol. 72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp22X71976
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Producing knowledge in a pandemic: accounts of UK-based postdoctoral biomedical scientists of undertaking research during the COVID-19 pandemic
In:
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01160-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Temporal Imaginaries in Accounts of Parenting Practices: Negotiations of Time, Advice, and Expertise
In:
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v8i1.36212
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The benefits, costs and feasibility of a low incidence COVID-19 strategy Health Policy
In:
The Lancet Regional Health Europe, vol. 13, pp. 100294
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100294
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Addiction Treatment Providers’ Engagements With The Brain Disease Model of Addiction
(294 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032762-30
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (E-pub ahead of print)