Dr Giorgia Kerr
Job Title
Research Assistant
Research interests
Research interests
Medical anthropology, Value, Innovation in biotechnology, Patient activism, Bioeconomics, Clinical research, Anthropology of pharmaceuticals, Data in healthcare
Background
Education
University of Edinburgh – PhD Social Anthropology, 2026
University of Edinburgh – MSc Medical Anthropology, 2018
University of Melbourne – BA (Hons.) Anthropology, 2015
Funding
Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship (2020-2023)
Conference presentations
Kerr, G. (2026) "A more messy and collaborative way": Creative collaboration as a challenge to the norms of pharmaceutical innovation. European Association of Social Anthropologists, Poznań, Poland.
Kerr, G. (2025). "We want to make the most of each sample": Affective reproduction of human genetic material for biomedical research. Association of Social Anthropologists, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Kerr, G. (2024). Tominersen on trial: The ambivalence of novel therapeutics in ongoing clinical trials. July 25, 2024. European Association of Social Anthropologists, Barcelona, Catalonia.
Kerr, G. (2023). Value in open science pharmaceutical innovation: The collective development of novel treatments for Huntington’s disease. November 16, 2023. American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.