Professor Sarah Cunningham Burley
Sarah Cunningham-Burley is Professor of Medical and Family Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, where she has worked since 1990. Sarah is based in the Division of Community Health Sciences (Public Health Sciences section) within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and also at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), where she is one of its co-directors. She has been conducting research in the sociology of health and illness and family sociology for many years, mostly employing qualitative methods. Her research interests include sociological aspects of genetics and health, public engagement in science, young people, children and health, families, relationships and health. She is also involved in teaching undergraduate medical students and postgraduate public health research students; she also supervises several PhD students.
Sarah is currently involved in research, with colleagues, on the social dynamics of public engagement in stem cell research and on public engagement within some of the projects under the Generation Scotland initiative.
Recent publications include an edited book with Linda McKie Families and Society: Boundaries and Relationships. Polity Press 2005.
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