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Dr Lucy Brindle

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Risk communication in healthcare
  • Health care encounters
  • Gendered interaction and healthcare inequity 

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Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Lucy

Email: L.A.Brindle@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8526

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About

Associate Professor in Early Diagnosis Research

"The integration of medical and social sciences provides new ways of understanding current challenges in health care, making possible the identification and development of innovative health care solutions."

Lucy Brindle, a medical sociologist, is Associate Professor of Early Diagnosis Research in the School of Health Sciences.  Lucy’s current research is exploring the sociocultural construction of risk and gender in healthcare, with application to early cancer diagnosis. They were an invited member of the Yorkshire Cancer Research funding panel 2016 – 2024, invited member of the CRUK Population Sciences Early Diagnosis Funding Panel until 2020, and competitively appointed member of the NCRI Primary Care Clinical Studies Group, providing medical sociology input to inform development of UK early cancer diagnosis research strategy.  Lucy is currently leading a programme of research investigating clinician-patient communication about cancer risk and is working with Prostate Cancer UK to avoid overtreatment of prostate cancer in the UK.  They are also PI for the CRUK-funded CATRIC Study, providing a unique video-archive of GP consultations involving patients presenting potential cancer symptoms.  

Lucy founded and currently co-leads the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership Social Science Methods for Health Research Pathway, is the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences PGR Training Lead, and a member of the ESRC SCDTP PGR Training Committee.  As Faculty (FELS) Deputy Director of Graduate School Lucy is leading FELS initiatives to improve training culture and experience of progression; early transferable skills awareness including engagement with communities, and fostering supportive environments for writing.  As PGR Lead for the Institutional Athena Swan i-SAT, Lucy is working with colleagues to enhance inclusive research culture and equity of opportunity for staff and students across the University. 

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