Kate Lyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 265110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Lyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyle |
| SIGNATURE | LYLE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9265-7648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Scale to Situated
Contemporary healthcare systems generate vast volumes of data, with algorithmic interrogation promising disease prediction, improved diagnoses, and optimised treatment. Despite significant investment, biases in data used for algorithmic interrogation persist, leading to inequities in health outcomes. Scale alone cannot address these biases. Rather, considerations of the contextual dimensions of data need to be reflected upon. Nevertheless, calls …
Journeys Through Genomics
Journeys through Genomics is a series of illustrations co-produced with patients and families to communicate their experiences of seeking genomic explanations for a health condition and the wider impact on their lives. The resources are embedded within qualitative longitudinal research exploring patient's experiences of genomic medicine. This research takes place as genomic medicine becomes an integral part of mainstream care within the UK health…
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine
Much has been published about the ethical issues encountered by clinicians in genetics/genomics, but those experienced by clinical laboratory scientists are less well described. Clinical laboratory scientists now frequently face navigating ethical problems in their work, but how they should be best supported to do this is underexplored. This lack of attention is also reflected in the ethics tools available to clinical laboratory scientists such a…
Response to commentaries
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture
This study was funded by Wellcome (222180/Z/20/Z and 208053/B/17/Z), SB is funded by an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship (CL-2022-13-001)
Beyond regulatory approaches to ethics
Centralised, compliance-focused approaches to research ethics have been normalised in practice. In this paper, we argue that the dominance of such systems has been driven by neoliberal approaches to governance, where the focus on controlling and individualising risk has led to an overemphasis of decontextualised ethical principles and the conflation of ethical requirements with the documentation of ‘informed consent’. Using a UK-based case study,…
Re-imagining 'the patient
How 'the patient' is imagined has implications for ethical decision-making in clinical practice. Patients are predominantly conceived in an individualised manner as autonomous and independent decision-makers. Fields such as genomic medicine highlight the inadequacies of this conceptualisation as patients are likely to have family members who may be directly affected by the outcome of tests in others. Indeed, professional guidance has increasingly…
Interventional STS
Technological innovation is often positioned as a solution to the challenges of healthcare provision, yet the experience of bringing new technologies into practice has proven uneven and unpredictable. To realise the potential benefits of innovation, we need to understand the complex relations between contingencies and contexts that seem to be ubiquitous as new technologies are brought into play in healthcare settings. This article explores what t…
Organizing Health Inequalities? Employee-Driven Innovation and the Transformation of Care
This article responds to calls for new approaches to understanding and intervening in health inequalities and, in particular, for attention to the processes and relations that mediate structural inequality and everyday outcomes. Our contribution focuses on the part that healthcare organizations play in this. We draw on organizational sociology, which theorizes that while organizational structures, cultures, and practices may appear neutral - and …
Shaping the Future of Sociology
Despite the increasing push towards interdisciplinarity across the physical and social sciences, little is known about the realities of working across such diverse disciplinary boundaries. This article provides empirical insight into the challenges of collaboration from the perspective of a sociologist working on an interdisciplinary project focused on developing a medical device. Findings suggest the effective contribution of sociological resear…
Shaping the Future of Sociology
Despite the increasing push towards interdisciplinarity across the physical and social sciences, little is known about the realities of working across such diverse disciplinary boundaries. This article provides empirical insight into the challenges of collaboration from the perspective of a sociologist working on an interdisciplinary project focused on developing a medical device. Findings suggest the effective contribution of sociological resear…
Re-imagining 'the patient
How 'the patient' is imagined has implications for ethical decision-making in clinical practice. Patients are predominantly conceived in an individualised manner as autonomous and independent decision-makers. Fields such as genomic medicine highlight the inadequacies of this conceptualisation as patients are likely to have family members who may be directly affected by the outcome of tests in others. Indeed, professional guidance has increasingly…
Organizing Health Inequalities? Employee-Driven Innovation and the Transformation of Care
This article responds to calls for new approaches to understanding and intervening in health inequalities and, in particular, for attention to the processes and relations that mediate structural inequality and everyday outcomes. Our contribution focuses on the part that healthcare organizations play in this. We draw on organizational sociology, which theorizes that while organizational structures, cultures, and practices may appear neutral - and …
Shaping the Future of Sociology
Despite the increasing push towards interdisciplinarity across the physical and social sciences, little is known about the realities of working across such diverse disciplinary boundaries. This article provides empirical insight into the challenges of collaboration from the perspective of a sociologist working on an interdisciplinary project focused on developing a medical device. Findings suggest the effective contribution of sociological resear…
Organizing Health Inequalities? Employee-Driven Innovation and the Transformation of Care
This article responds to calls for new approaches to understanding and intervening in health inequalities and, in particular, for attention to the processes and relations that mediate structural inequality and everyday outcomes. Our contribution focuses on the part that healthcare organizations play in this. We draw on organizational sociology, which theorizes that while organizational structures, cultures, and practices may appear neutral - and …
Interventional STS
Technological innovation is often positioned as a solution to the challenges of healthcare provision, yet the experience of bringing new technologies into practice has proven uneven and unpredictable. To realise the potential benefits of innovation, we need to understand the complex relations between contingencies and contexts that seem to be ubiquitous as new technologies are brought into play in healthcare settings. This article explores what t…
Re-imagining 'the patient
How 'the patient' is imagined has implications for ethical decision-making in clinical practice. Patients are predominantly conceived in an individualised manner as autonomous and independent decision-makers. Fields such as genomic medicine highlight the inadequacies of this conceptualisation as patients are likely to have family members who may be directly affected by the outcome of tests in others. Indeed, professional guidance has increasingly…
Beyond regulatory approaches to ethics
Centralised, compliance-focused approaches to research ethics have been normalised in practice. In this paper, we argue that the dominance of such systems has been driven by neoliberal approaches to governance, where the focus on controlling and individualising risk has led to an overemphasis of decontextualised ethical principles and the conflation of ethical requirements with the documentation of ‘informed consent’. Using a UK-based case study,…
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine
Much has been published about the ethical issues encountered by clinicians in genetics/genomics, but those experienced by clinical laboratory scientists are less well described. Clinical laboratory scientists now frequently face navigating ethical problems in their work, but how they should be best supported to do this is underexplored. This lack of attention is also reflected in the ethics tools available to clinical laboratory scientists such a…
Response to commentaries
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture
This study was funded by Wellcome (222180/Z/20/Z and 208053/B/17/Z), SB is funded by an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship (CL-2022-13-001)
Journeys Through Genomics
Journeys through Genomics is a series of illustrations co-produced with patients and families to communicate their experiences of seeking genomic explanations for a health condition and the wider impact on their lives. The resources are embedded within qualitative longitudinal research exploring patient's experiences of genomic medicine. This research takes place as genomic medicine becomes an integral part of mainstream care within the UK health…
From Scale to Situated
Contemporary healthcare systems generate vast volumes of data, with algorithmic interrogation promising disease prediction, improved diagnoses, and optimised treatment. Despite significant investment, biases in data used for algorithmic interrogation persist, leading to inequities in health outcomes. Scale alone cannot address these biases. Rather, considerations of the contextual dimensions of data need to be reflected upon. Nevertheless, calls …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · BRCA gene mutations in cancer (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)