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Ali Kay

  • Primary Investigator - Making it personal: using theatre to explore the implications of genomics for pregnancy (University of Oxford PCER Fund)
  • Co-investigator - iPREGCARE study: implications of genomic reproductive recurrence risk assessment for de novo mutations (NIHR; PI: Prof. Anne Goriely)
  • Research Fellow (JRF), Oxford Centre for Personalised Medicine & St. Anne's College

Research areas: genetics, genomics & genetic counselling; psychology; social science approaches to healthcare and medicine; qualitative research; PPIE.

Dr. Alison Kay (Ali) is an interdisciplinary researcher investigating experiences and implications of reproductive personalised medicine for practitioners, patients and families. She is also interested in the intersection of shifting public understandings of genetics with perspectives on the family, and the implications of new genomic technologies such as Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTC-GT) for identity and health.

Ali is able to draw on her ten years' experience in rare disease patient/public advocacy to drive innovative public involvement and engagement in research.

Doctorate (DPhil). Nuffield College, Oxford

MSc: Genetic & Genomic Counselling, Cardiff University; MSc Psychology, UCLan

MA (Hons) University of Edinburgh; PGCE (DMU)