Dr Gabrielle (Gabby) Samuel is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and co-Director of SHADE – a research group and network at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies, and the Environment. Her main research interests relate to the social/ethical issues associated with digital health, big data, and AI.
She is trained in sociology and ethics (Medical sociology PhD and Bioethics MA) with a background in the life sciences (Molecular Genetics PhD). She draws mainly on qualitative research methods and has published extensively in the field of biobanking, genomics, digital health, forensic/health genetic technologies, research ethics, and research ethics committees, and social media and AI/big data research.
Gabby is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. She supervises both undergraduate and master’s dissertations and welcomes PhD students. She is also a member of the Digital Environmental Sustainability Ethics and Clinical Ethics and Law in Society research groups at Oxford University – and the King’s Climate Action Network.