Dr Martyn Pickersgill, former IASH Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, has been awarded funds from the Leverhulme Trust for a new 2-year project on ‘Neuroscience and Family Life: The Brain in Policy and Practice’. Martyn is currently Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics in the Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh. His co-investigators are Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley (Head of the School of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences) and Professor Ian Deary (Director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology), both at Edinburgh. The research integrates the sociologies of science, medicine, and family life, and will map how neuroscience is being used in policy debates and services, and how these are regarded by the individuals and families they target.
