Ingrid Young

Ingrid Young is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Science of Health & Medicine, with training in Sociology and History. Ingrid's research examines the interface between biomedicine and public health, with particular consideration of gender, sexuality and wider inequalities in relation to emerging biotechnologies in HIV and sexual health. Her research interests include:

• Pre-exposure prophylaxis
• HIV
• Sexual and gender minorities
• Gender
• Biotechnologies
• Sexualities
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Migration
• Arts-based methods
• Health literacy.

She is currently co-investigator on Digital Intimacies (2019-2021), an interdisciplinary ESRC-funded project in collaboration with Jamie Hakim (Kings) that explores how queer men in the UK use smartphones to negotiate intimacy. Ingrid is also working with Donna McCormack (Strathclyde) on a new project, Capturing Chronic Illness, which explores how chronic illness can be captured and reimagined through visual arts, such as photography, illustration and performance arts. She is co-lead, with Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, of the Beyond Sex Theme, as part of the Wellcome supported Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. She previously had funding from Wellcome for a project called Sex, Drugs and Activism: negotiating biological citizenship and pharmaceutical prevention (2018 – 2019), which explored the role of community and clinical activism in making PrEP available in the UK.