ASCL Seminar: The Shadow Scholars

Patricia Kingori is a sociologist and Professor of Global Health Ethics at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. Patricia is the Lead Investigator of the Fakes, Fabrications and Falsehood research project and the Between Deception and Dissent research project, both funded by the Wellcome Trust.

 

Patricia’s work sits at the intersection of sociology, ethics and Science and Technology Studies. Patricia has acted as an advisor on the ethical conduct of research and intervention in the UK and in a range of African and South-east Asian countries on the ethical treatment of frontline staff to numerous organisations including the WHO, Save the Children, the Medical Research Council, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and the Nuffield Council of Bioethics.

 

Patricia has been invited to be keynote speaker at multiple international conferences, panel member for funding bodies including the Wellcome Trust. Patricia is committed to publishing research that is theoretically informed and socially impactful, translating research into accessible, human-centred narratives. Patricia is experienced at working at the intersection of media, health, ethics and society. She has published and has acted as a guest editor for numerous special issues for journals including the Sociology of Health & Illness, Social Science & Medicine, Global Public Health, Journal of African Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies.