
Sarah Cunningham Burley
Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Professor of Medical and Family Sociology ,
University of Edinburgh
Sarah is Professor of Medical and Family Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and the Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She is Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, and the University lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Sarah’s research focusses on the social and ethical contexts of medical technologies, data science, engagement, health and disease. She is co-director of the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, supported by Wellcome, which conducts interdisciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences relevant to biomedicine, public health and health care.