Dr Gabrielle Samuel BSc (Hons I), MA, PhD (science), PhD (social science)
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Gabrielle Samuel is a Senior Research Fellow at UKBiobank and the University of Southampton.
Gabrielle completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, her PhD in Genetics at the University of Adelaide, and a two-year genetics post-doctoral position at the University of Sydney (Australia), before moving to the social sciences. Here she has completed an MA in Bioethics and a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics PhD.
Gabrielle’s main interests relate to the ethical issues surrounding innovative biotechnologies such as genomics. She spent some time at the Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine (University of Sydney) exploring ethical concerns related to the advertising of prescription medicines, umbilical cord blood banking, synthetic biology, and direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Following this, her PhD explored ethical and social issues surrounding the use of fMRI for severely brain-injured individuals.
From here she has worked as a Research Fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School exploring ethical issues related to the UK 100,000 genomes project; and as a research associate at King’s College London on the VISAGE project exploring the ethical, social and regulatory issues related to forensic DNA phenotyping.
She has also won two Wellcome Trust seed awards to explore ethical issues related to health research which uses social media data, as well as the ethical governance of AI research in HEIs.
Qualifications
BSc, 1997. Biochemistry, University of Birmingham
MA, 2004. Bioethics, MONASH, Australia
PhD, 2002. Molecular genetics, University of Adelaide, Australia
PhD, 2014. Medical sociology, Brunel University
2020 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Appointments held
2019 - 2021- Research Fellow, King’s College London
Ethical decision-making when using AI for health research
2017 - 2020 - Research Associate, King’s College London
Regulatory, ethical and social issues of forensic DNA phenotyping
2016 – 2018 - Research Fellow, Lancaster University
Ethical decision-making when using social media data for health research
2016 – 2017 - Research Fellow, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Ethical and social issues related to the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project
2014-2015 - Research Associate, Institute of Environment, Health and Societies, Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University London
Evaluation of research impact/group-decision making