Professor Anne Kerr

Professor of Science and Technology Studies (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
Head of School, Social & Political Sciences (School of Social & Political Sciences)
Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

Personal assistant: Mrs Jeane Bonner
telephone: 01413306090
email: Jeane.Bonner@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

My research interests are in the fields of:
• Science and Technology Studies
• Medical Sociology

I am particularly interested in biomedicine and bioethics and have written and researched on genetics, genomics, assisted conception and regenerative medicine.

I have a longstanding interest in professional practice and innovation in bioscience and biomedicine, especially with respect to responsibility, and public engagement. My interests also extend to patient and public experiences of innovative health technologies.

I recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (2015-2021) on personalised cancer medicine with colleagues at Edinburgh and Leeds: www.cancerandsociety.ac.uk. I am also a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

Research groups

Social & Urban Policy

Publications

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Number of items: 40.

2024

Barkas, Betsy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5259-9468, Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Hawkton, Gavin and Kish, Clare (2024) UK national newspapers' representation of cancer patients and their care during the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic: invoking and undermining solidarity? Sociology of Health and Illness, 46(7), pp. 1438-1455. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13790) (PMID:38795317) (PMCID:PMC11587823)

2023

Ross, Emily, Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Swallow, Julia, Chekar, Choon Key and Cunningham‐Burley, Sarah (2023) Unsettling the treatment imperative? Chemotherapy decision-making in the wake of genomic techniques. Sociology of Health and Illness, 45(5), pp. 1063-1081. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13637) (PMID:36965058)

Swallow, Julia, Broer, Tineke, Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2023) Laboratory practices, potentiality, and material patienthood in genomic cancer medicine. Science, Technology and Human Values, (doi: 10.1177/01622439231172571) (Early Online Publication)

2021

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Piacentini, Teresa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Millar, David, Aksu, Pinar and Mainwaring, Cetta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8264-2765 (2021) Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow? [Audio]

Ross, Emily, Swallow, Julia, Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Chekar, Choon Key and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2021) Diagnostic layering: patient accounts of breast cancer classification in the molecular era. Social Science and Medicine, 278, 113965. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113965) (PMID:33940433) (PMCID:PMC8146724)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Chekar, Choon Key, Ross, Emily, Swallow, Julia and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2021) Personalised Cancer Medicine: Future Crafting in the Genomic Era. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526141026

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Chekar, Choon Key, Swallow, Julia, Ross, Emily and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2021) Accessing targeted therapies for cancer: self and collective advocacy alongside and beyond mainstream cancer charities. New Genetics and Society, 40(1), pp. 112-131. (doi: 10.1080/14636778.2020.1868986) (PMCID:PMC8547735)

2020

Swallow, Julia, Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Chekar, Choon Key and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2020) Accomplishing an adaptive clinical trial for cancer: Valuation practices and care work across the laboratory and the clinic. Social Science and Medicine, 252, 112949. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112949) (PMID:32278242) (PMCID:PMC7193889)

2019

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Broer, Tineke, Ross, Emily and Cunningham Burley, Sarah (2019) Polygenic risk-stratified screening for cancer: responsibilization in public health genomics. Social Studies of Science, 49(4), pp. 605-626. (doi: 10.1177/0306312719858404) (PMID:31230567) (PMCID:PMC6688132)

Ross, Emily, Swallow, Julia, Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2019) Online accounts of gene expression profiling in early-stage breast cancer: interpreting genomic testing for chemotherapy decision making. Health Expectations, 22(1), pp. 74-82. (doi: 10.1111/hex.12832) (PMID:30387238) (PMCID:PMC6351409)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Swallow, Julia, Chekar, Choon Key and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2019) Genomic research and the cancer clinic: uncertainty and expectations in professional accounts. New Genetics and Society, 38(2), pp. 222-239. (doi: 10.1080/14636778.2019.1586525) (PMID:31156350) (PMCID:PMC6519890)

2018

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Ross, Emily, Jacques, Gwen and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2018) The sociology of cancer: a decade of research. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(3), pp. 552-576. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12662) (PMID:29446117) (PMCID:PMC5901049)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Hill, Rosemary L. and Till, Christopher (2018) The limits of responsible innovation: exploring care, vulnerability and precision medicine. Technology in Society, 52, pp. 24-31. (doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2017.03.004)

Ross, Emily, Broer, Tineke, Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2018) Identity, community and care in online accounts of hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome. New Genetics and Society, 37(2), pp. 117-136. (doi: 10.1080/14636778.2018.1469974) (PMID:29875617) (PMCID:PMC5964445)

2016

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X and Garforth, Lisa (2016) Affective practices, care and bioscience: a study of two laboratories. Sociological Review, 64(1), pp. 3-20. (doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12310)

2015

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2015) Embodied innovation and regulation of medical technoscience: transformations in cancer patienthood. Law, Innovation and Technology, 7(2), pp. 187-205. (doi: 10.1080/17579961.2015.1106103) (PMID:27996062) (PMCID:PMC5139616)

2013

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2013) Body work in assisted conception: exploring public and private settings. Sociology of Health and Illness, 35(3), pp. 465-478. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01502.x) (PMID:23009560)

2011

Garforth, Lisa and Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2011) Interdisciplinarity and the social sciences: capital, institutions and autonomy. British Journal of Sociology, 62(4), pp. 657-676. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01385.x) (PMID:22150380)

2010

Netlleton, Sarah, Woods, Brian, Burrows, Roger and Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2010) Experiencing food allergy and food intolerance: an analysis of lay accounts. Sociology, 44(2), pp. 289-305. (doi: 10.1177/0038038509357208)

2009

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2009) A problem shared...? Teamwork, autonomy and error in assisted conception. Social Science and Medicine, 69(12), pp. 1741-1749. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.09.045) (PMID:19836869)

Nettleton, Sarah, Woods, Brian, Burrows, Roger and Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2009) Food allergy and food intolerance: towards a sociological agenda. Health, 13(6), pp. 647-664. (doi: 10.1177/1363459308341433) (PMID:19841024)

Garforth, Lisa and Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2009) Women and science: what's the problem? Social Politics, 16(3), pp. 379-403. (doi: 10.1093/sp/jxp015)

2008

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2008) Assisted conception and the audit culture. Human Fertility, 11(1), pp. 9-16. (doi: 10.1080/14647270701864703) (PMID:18320434)

2007

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah and Tutton, Richard (2007) Shifting subject positions: experts and lay people in public dialogue. Social Studies of Science, 37(3), pp. 385-411. (doi: 10.1177/0306312706068492)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah and Tutton, Richard (2007) Exploring ambivalence about genetic research and its social context. Social Theory and Health, 5(1), pp. 53-69. (doi: 10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700085)

2005

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2005) Understanding genetic disease in a sociohistorical context: a case study of cystic fibrosis. Sociology of Health and Illness, 27(7), pp. 873-896. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00462.x) (PMID:16313521)

2004

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2004) Genetics and Society: A Sociology of Disease. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9780415300810 (doi: 10.4324/9780203489512)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2004) Giving up on geneticization: a comment on Hedgecoe's 'Expansion and uncertainty: Cystic fibrosis, classification and genetics'. Sociology of Health and Illness, 26(1), pp. 102-106. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2004.00380.x) (PMID:15027992)

2003

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2003) Genetics and citizenship. Society, 40(6), pp. 44-50. (doi: 10.1007/BF02712651)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2003) Rights and responsibilities in the new genetics era. Critical Social Policy, 23(2), pp. 208-226. (doi: 10.1177/0261018303023002005)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2003) Governing genetics: reifying choice and progress. New Genetics and Society, 22(2), pp. 143-158. (doi: 10.1080/1463677032000102611) (PMID:15282910)

2000

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (2000) (Re)constructing genetic disease: the clinical continuum between cystic fibrosis and male infertility. Social Studies of Science, 30(6), pp. 847-894. (doi: 10.1177/030631200030006002)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2000) On ambivalence and risk: reflexive modernity and the new human genetics. Sociology, 34(2), pp. 283-304. (doi: 10.1177/S0038038500000183)

1999

Cunningham-Burley, Sarah and Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (1999) Defining the 'social': towards an understanding of scientific and medical discourses on the social aspects of the new human genetics. Sociology of Health and Illness, 21(5), pp. 647-668. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.00177)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (1999) Double trouble: social analyses of the new human genetics. Science as Culture, 8(1), pp. 97-103. (doi: 10.1080/09505439909526533)[Book Review]

1998

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah and Amos, Amanda (1998) Drawing the line: an analysis of lay people's discussions about the new genetics. Public Understanding of Science, 7(2), pp. 113-133. (doi: 10.1177/096366259800700202) (PMID:11660565)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah and Amos, Amanda (1998) Eugenics and the new genetics in Britain: examining contemporary professionals' accounts. Science, Technology and Human Values, 23(2), pp. 175-198. (doi: 10.1177/016224399802300202) (PMID:11656684)

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah and Amos, Amanda (1998) The new genetics and health: mobilizing lay expertise. Public Understanding of Science, 7(1), pp. 41-60. (doi: 10.1177/096366259800700104) (PMID:11657071)

Kerr, E. Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X (1998) Toward a feminist natural science: linking theory and practice. Women's Studies International Forum, 21(1), pp. 95-109. (doi: 10.1016/S0277-5395(97)00081-2)

1997

Kerr, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-301X, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah and Amos, Amanda (1997) The new genetics: professionals' discursive boundaries. Sociological Review, 45(2), pp. 279-303. (doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.00065)

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