Kay, Dr Alison

Dr Alison Kay

Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences, Centre for Personalised Medicine

Email: alison.kay@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Website/social media accounts:

RMD profile: https://www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/alison-kay

Twitter @AliMakesHay

Special responsibilities:

JRF attached to Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM)

Academic background

Ali applies social science approaches and qualitative methodologies to research questions in personalised medicine and genetics and society. She has a particular interest in genetic counselling and is a member of the Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors. She is also a fellow of the RHistSoc and has researched a variety of issues relating to the family, careers, entrepreneurship.

Doctorate (DPhil), Nuffield College, University of Oxford – ESRC sponsored.

Masters, Psychology (UCLAN); Genetic and Genomic Counselling (Cardiff University).

Research interests

Ali is a researcher in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) and is co-investigator on an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit study called iPREGCARE. Her current research investigates stakeholder experiences with personalised medicine. She also has a research interest in genetics and genomics for health, ancestry and identity, particularly for groups lacking traditional family health histories.

Recent Publications

Kay, A. C., Wells, J., Goriely, A., & Hallowell, N. (2024). Professionals’ views on providing personalized recurrence risks for de novo mutations: Implications for genetic counseling. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 00, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1910

Kay AC, Wells J, Hallowell N et al. Providing recurrence risk counselling for parents after diagnosis of a serious genetic condition caused by an apparently de novo mutation in their child: a qualitative investigation of the PREGCARE strategy with UK clinical genetics practitioners. Journal of Medical Genetics (2023). https://doi:10.1136/jmg-2023-109183

Kay AC, Taverner NV. Adoptees’ views and experiences of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genomic testing: an exploratory interview study from the UK. Journal of Community Genetics 14, 149-162 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-022-00622-y