The Scottish Healthcare Genetics
Public Engagement Network

Research sub-group

The Research sub-group has two main aims...

• To provide a means for social scientists and others with an interest in healthcare genetics to exchange knowledge and experience

• To promote research on and evaluation of public engagement activities both within and beyond Gengage

Members of the Research sub-group

Prof Sarah Cunningham-Burley
Chair

Professor of Medical and Family Sociology and also a co-director at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh.

Prof Harry Campbell

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health, Public Health Sciences section, Division of Community Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Prof Blair H. Smith

Professor of Primary Care Medicine and Head of Section, General Practice and Community Medical Education, University of Aberdeen.

Prof Steve Yearley

Director of the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at the University of Edinburgh

Professor Douglas Blackwood

Professor of Psychiatric Genetics and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh

Dr Robin A Morton

Knowledge Transfer Officer at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, and Project Manager at Generation Scotland