WSI announces new Director

The Web Science Institute is delighted to announce that Anneke Lucassen will be joining our team as WSI Director.
Anneke, Professor of Clinical Genetics within Medicine at the University of Southampton, is a physician who leads a research group in the Faculty of Medicine which examines the ethical issues raised by genetic/genomic medicine, and the impact of this- and other new forms of data- on medical practices. Direct to consumer testing; internet support groups, wearable technologies etc are changing medical practices and Web Sciences will help us to understand how these developments can best be adopted in the real world.