Rachel Dlugatch

Research Fellow (Qualitative)

  • Usher Institute
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Contact details

Address

Street

Centre for Population Health Sciences
Usher Institute, Usher Building
The University of Edinburgh
5-7 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter ‒ Gate 3

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4UX

Biography

Background

Rachel is a social anthropologist who joined the University of Edinburgh as a Research Fellow in September 2023. She currently works on the UNBIASED project, which aims to understand inequalities and barriers to children and young people accessing diabetes technology. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ethox Centre based at the University of Oxford, where she worked on a bioethics project that explored the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence in perinatal care.

Rachel’s research interests are deeply interdisciplinary, spanning chronic illness and health activisms, critical theories and methodologies, and social change. Her doctoral research, based at the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, was an ethnographic study of a feminist bookstore and offered a reconceptualisation of safe spaces as dynamic sites of social negotiation and change.

Qualifications

DPhil (Anthropology), University of Oxford

MPhil (Social & Cultural Anthropology), University of Oxford

BA (Philosophy), New York University

Responsibilities & affiliations

Rachel is a member of EQual (the Edinburgh Qualitative Health Research Group) and the Centre for Population Health Sciences, both based within the Usher Institute.

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