Naomi is a medical anthropologist currently based at Oxford’s Centre for Human Genetics. She is part of the Clinical Ethics, Law and Society Research Group, where she works alongside Dr Susie Weller on two social science research projects: one exploring patients’ experiences of living in limbo while searching for a molecular diagnosis (funded by the MRC-NIHR), and the other examining how family members care for one another following a genetic diagnosis (funded by the ESRC).

During her DPhil, she conducted an ethnographic study of people’s experiences of living with neurofibromatosis in the UK. Her thesis, Insignificant Genes, explored how genetic knowledge can provoke existential reflection and temporal disruption.

Her current work is interdisciplinary and multimodal. Naomi’s research interests include societal attitudes towards genetic difference, genetic identity, and how people use genetic knowledge to anticipate the future, both in relation to their own life course and the lives of their descendants.