Patricia Kingori

Patricia Kingori, PhD, is a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Society and Ethics Fellow at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. Her disciplinary background is in Medical Sociology and her current interests research interests lie at the intersect of sociology of science and medicine and a critical examination of ethics with a particular interest in the frontline practitioners of medical research, the politics of health and what research and guidelines come to mean in practice.  Her work has focused on the views, values and experiences of fieldworkers and similar frontline workers involved in collecting data and interacting with research participants.  This has taken place in East Africa but has recently extended its focus to South East Asian and West African countries.