Fondation Brocher | Carmen McLeod

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Carmen McLeod

Senior Research Fellow - University of Nottingham
United Kingdom

01.02.2018-28.03.2018

Faecal Microbiota Transplantation: Perspectives from the Laboratory, the Clinic, and the Community
Carmen McLeod has a PhD in social anthropology, awarded by the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has held postdoctoral posts at University of Nottingham and University of Oxford. From April 2018, Carmen will be leading the social science programme on responsible innovation in the Nottingham Synthetic Biology Research Centre. Carmen’s work at the Brocher Foundation is focussed on developing publications relating to the sociocultural aspects of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT). FMT is a novel procedure in which a stool sample is collected from a donor, mixed with a saline or other solution, strained and transplanted into a patient. The goal of Carmen’s research is to analyse media coverage and qualitative interview data on FMT, in order to understand perceptions and understandings of stool transplantation in the laboratory, the clinic, and the community.
03.03.2015-30.04.2015

Transparency, Trust, and Animal Experimentation: Exploring UK and Swiss initiatives to 'open up' biomedical research involving animals to the public
The objectives of this research project are: - To engage with other researchers who are resident at the Brocher Society in order to deepen my understanding of cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the complex relationship between ethics, society and biomedical research. - To attend meetings in Switzerland with key members of the Basel Declaration Society, which will enable me to carry out a comparison of UK and Swiss biomedical initiatives to ‘open up’ animal research to the public. - To have dedicated and uninterrupted time to spend on writing two papers for publication in academic journals. - To make a significant contribution to current literature, particularly in the STS field, that is concerned with exploring the role of transparency in the relationship between science and society.

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