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Dr Michael Arribas-Ayllon
- Sylwebydd y cyfryngau
Timau a rolau for Michael Arribas-Ayllon
Darllenydd
Trosolwyg
Mae fy ymchwil yn archwilio sut mae ffurfiau o wybodaeth ac arbenigedd yn siapio iechyd, salwch a phersonoliaeth. Rwyf wedi archwilio'r cwestiynau hyn ar draws ystod o feysydd, gan gynnwys meddygaeth wedi'i bersonoli, gofal wedi'i gyfryngu yn ddigidol, diagnosis awtistiaeth, a goblygiadau cymdeithasol a sefydliadol modelau iaith mawr.
Mae llawer o fy ngwaith diweddar yn canolbwyntio ar sut mae asesu a chymorth awtistiaeth yng Nghymru yn cael eu llywodraethu trwy wybodaeth bolisi a phroffesiynol o dan amodau prinder. Mae ymchwil gysylltiedig yn ystyried sut mae technolegau digidol, gan gynnwys AI cynhyrchiol, yn ail-lunio arbenigedd, barn a gwneud penderfyniadau ar draws gofal iechyd a lleoliadau sefydliadol eraill. Rwyf hefyd yn parhau i ymchwilio i wleidyddiaeth meddygaeth bersonol, gan gynnwys cwestiynau o ansicrwydd, cyfrifoldeb a chyfathrebu teuluol mewn geneteg seiciatrig.
Rwy'n croesawu ceisiadau PhD mewn cymdeithaseg feddygol, astudiaethau gwyddoniaeth a thechnoleg, cymdeithaseg diagnosis, iechyd digidol, AI a chymdeithas, seicoleg feirniadol ac astudiaeth gymdeithasol biofeddygaeth.
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2026. Autism and educational governance: diagnostic regimes in England and Wales. Journal of Education Policy (10.1080/02680939.2026.2695082)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Papillon, D. 2026. Personalised medicine: From promissory science to infrastructural ethics. In: Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics [3rd edition]. Reference Module in Social Sciences Elsevier(10.1016/B978-0-443-15715-8.00049-2)
2025
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2025. Autism in Wales: Diagnostic regimes and the governance of care under scarcity. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 8 100668. (10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100668)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2025. Autism diagnosis in Wales: The case of governance-driven medicalisation in care pathways. Social Science & Medicine 382 118333. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118333)
2024
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2024. Caring through things at a distance: intimacy and presence in teletherapy assemblages. Sociology of Health & Illness 46 (1), pp.3-18. (10.1111/1467-9566.13685)
2022
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Shelton, K. and Clarke, A. 2022. Can genomics remove uncertainty from adoption? Social workers' and medical advisors' accounts of genetic testing. British Journal of Social Work 52 (2), pp.719-737. bcab017. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab017)
2020
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Clarke, A. and Shelton, K. 2020. Professionals’ accounts of genetic testing in adoption: a qualitative study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105 (1), pp.74-79. (10.1136/archdischild-2019-316911)
- Rizzo, R. et al. 2020. Co-creating a knowledge base in the “22q11.2 deletion syndrome” community. Journal of Community Genetics 11 (1), pp.101-111. (10.1007/s12687-019-00425-8)
2019
- Williams, L. et al. 2019. Comparing the utility of different classification schemes for emotive language analysis. Journal of Classification 36 (3), pp.619-648. (10.1007/s00357-019-9307-0)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Bartlett, A. and Lewis, J. 2019. Psychiatric genetics: from hereditary madness to big biology. Genetics and Society London: Routledge.
2017
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2017. Foucauldian discourse analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton Rogers, W. eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology 2nd Edition. Sage. , pp.110-123.
- Maureen, M. et al., 2017. Conceptualizing imaginaries of science, technology and society. In: Felt, U. et al., The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies 4th Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.435-464.
2016
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2016. After geneticization. Social Science and Medicine 159 , pp.132-139. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.011)
- Jenkins, S. and Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2016. Genetic counselling for psychiatric disorders: accounts of psychiatric health professionals in the United Kingdom. Journal of Genetic Counseling 25 (6), pp.1243-1255. (10.1007/s10897-016-9990-5)
2015
- Williams, L. et al. 2015. The role of idioms in sentiment analysis. Expert Systems with Applications 42 (21), pp.7375-7385. (10.1016/j.eswa.2015.05.039)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2015. Genetic counseling in psychiatry. In: Sadler, J. Z. , Fulford, K. W. M. and van Staden, W. (. W. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. Vol. 2, Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.736-751. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.54)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2015. Genetic testing and human subjectivity. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 9 (6), pp.213-224. (10.1111/spc3.12174)
2014
- Shipman, H. E. et al., 2014. On the limits of genetic responsibility: Communication and consent for tumour testing for Lynch syndrome. Communication & Medicine 10 (3), pp.225-235. (10.1558/cam.v10i3.225)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Bartlett, A. 2014. Sociological ambivalence and the order of scientific knowledge. Sociology 48 (2), pp.335-351. (10.1177/0038038513477937)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Sarangi, S. 2014. Counselling uncertainty: genetics professionals' accounts of (non)directiveness and trust/distrust. Health, Risk and Society 16 (2), pp.171-184. (10.1080/13698575.2014.884545)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2014. Ambivalence, overview. In: Teo, T. ed. Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer. , pp.87-89. (10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_402)
2012
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2012. Accounting for genetic testing: familial and professional perspectives. eLS , pp.171-184. (10.1002/9780470015902.a0024171)
- Spasic, I. et al. 2012. A naïve Bayes approach to classifying topics in suicide notes. Biomedical Informatics Insights 5 (Supp 1), pp.87-97. (10.4137/BII.S8945)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2012. Personalized medicine and promissory science. In: Chadwick, R. ed. Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Second Edition). Elsevier. , pp.422-430. (10.1016/B978-0-12-373932-2.00428-2)
2011
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Featherstone, K. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. The practical ethics of genetic responsibility: non-disclosure and the autonomy of affect. Social Theory & Health 9 (1), pp.3-23. (10.1057/sth.2009.22)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2011. The ethics of disclosing genetic diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease: do we need a new paradigm?. British Medical Bulletin 100 (1), pp.7-21. (10.1093/bmb/ldr023)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2011. Genetic testing: accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame. Genetics and Society London: Routledge.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2011. Promissory strategies of personalisation in the commercialisation of genomic knowledge. Communication & Medicine 8 (1), pp.53-66. (10.1558/cam.v8i1.53)
2010
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2010. Beyond pessimism: the dialectic of promise and complexity in genomic research. Genomics, Society, and Policy 6 (2), pp.1-12. (10.1186/1746-5354-6-2-1)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Bartlett, A. and Featherstone, K. 2010. Complexity and accountability: The witches' brew of psychiatric genetics. Social Studies of Science 40 (4), pp.499-524. (10.1177/0306312710363511)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2010. The politics of autonomy in genetic testing of children. In: Wieser, B. and Berger, W. eds. Assessing life: on the organisation of genetic testing. München: Profil. , pp.17-50.
2009
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2009. Professional ambivalence: accounts of ethical practice in childhood genetic testing. Journal of Genetic Counselling 18 (2), pp.173-84. (10.1007/s10897-008-9201-0)
2008
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. Managing self-responsibility through other-oriented blame: family accounts of genetic testing. Social Science & Medicine 66 (7), pp.1521-1532. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.12.022)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. The micropolitics of responsibility vis-à-vis autonomy: parental accounts of childhood genetic testing and (non)disclosure. Sociology of Health & Illness 30 (2), pp.255-271. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01037.x)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. Professional ambivalence: accounts of ethical practice in childhood genetic testing. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.caerdydd.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp108.pdf.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. The politics of autonomy in genetic testing of children. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.caerdydd.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp107.pdf.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2008. Foucauldian discourse analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton-Rogers, W. eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. London: Sage. , pp.91-108.
2005
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2005. Genealogy and the subject of welfare: a question of which techniques?. In: Walkerdine, V. ed. Neoliberal Subjects. The International Journal of Critical Psychology Vol.15 Lawrence & Wishart Ltd. , pp.8-40.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2005. On the medicalisation of welfare : towards a genealogy of dependency. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Papillon, D. 2026. Personalised medicine: From promissory science to infrastructural ethics. In: Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics [3rd edition]. Reference Module in Social Sciences Elsevier(10.1016/B978-0-443-15715-8.00049-2)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2017. Foucauldian discourse analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton Rogers, W. eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology 2nd Edition. Sage. , pp.110-123.
- Maureen, M. et al., 2017. Conceptualizing imaginaries of science, technology and society. In: Felt, U. et al., The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies 4th Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.435-464.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2015. Genetic counseling in psychiatry. In: Sadler, J. Z. , Fulford, K. W. M. and van Staden, W. (. W. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. Vol. 2, Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.736-751. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.54)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2014. Ambivalence, overview. In: Teo, T. ed. Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer. , pp.87-89. (10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_402)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2012. Personalized medicine and promissory science. In: Chadwick, R. ed. Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Second Edition). Elsevier. , pp.422-430. (10.1016/B978-0-12-373932-2.00428-2)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2010. The politics of autonomy in genetic testing of children. In: Wieser, B. and Berger, W. eds. Assessing life: on the organisation of genetic testing. München: Profil. , pp.17-50.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Walkerdine, V. 2008. Foucauldian discourse analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton-Rogers, W. eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. London: Sage. , pp.91-108.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2005. Genealogy and the subject of welfare: a question of which techniques?. In: Walkerdine, V. ed. Neoliberal Subjects. The International Journal of Critical Psychology Vol.15 Lawrence & Wishart Ltd. , pp.8-40.
Erthyglau
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2026. Autism and educational governance: diagnostic regimes in England and Wales. Journal of Education Policy (10.1080/02680939.2026.2695082)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2025. Autism in Wales: Diagnostic regimes and the governance of care under scarcity. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 8 100668. (10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100668)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2025. Autism diagnosis in Wales: The case of governance-driven medicalisation in care pathways. Social Science & Medicine 382 118333. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118333)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2024. Caring through things at a distance: intimacy and presence in teletherapy assemblages. Sociology of Health & Illness 46 (1), pp.3-18. (10.1111/1467-9566.13685)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Shelton, K. and Clarke, A. 2022. Can genomics remove uncertainty from adoption? Social workers' and medical advisors' accounts of genetic testing. British Journal of Social Work 52 (2), pp.719-737. bcab017. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab017)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Clarke, A. and Shelton, K. 2020. Professionals’ accounts of genetic testing in adoption: a qualitative study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105 (1), pp.74-79. (10.1136/archdischild-2019-316911)
- Rizzo, R. et al. 2020. Co-creating a knowledge base in the “22q11.2 deletion syndrome” community. Journal of Community Genetics 11 (1), pp.101-111. (10.1007/s12687-019-00425-8)
- Williams, L. et al. 2019. Comparing the utility of different classification schemes for emotive language analysis. Journal of Classification 36 (3), pp.619-648. (10.1007/s00357-019-9307-0)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2016. After geneticization. Social Science and Medicine 159 , pp.132-139. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.011)
- Jenkins, S. and Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2016. Genetic counselling for psychiatric disorders: accounts of psychiatric health professionals in the United Kingdom. Journal of Genetic Counseling 25 (6), pp.1243-1255. (10.1007/s10897-016-9990-5)
- Williams, L. et al. 2015. The role of idioms in sentiment analysis. Expert Systems with Applications 42 (21), pp.7375-7385. (10.1016/j.eswa.2015.05.039)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2015. Genetic testing and human subjectivity. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 9 (6), pp.213-224. (10.1111/spc3.12174)
- Shipman, H. E. et al., 2014. On the limits of genetic responsibility: Communication and consent for tumour testing for Lynch syndrome. Communication & Medicine 10 (3), pp.225-235. (10.1558/cam.v10i3.225)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Bartlett, A. 2014. Sociological ambivalence and the order of scientific knowledge. Sociology 48 (2), pp.335-351. (10.1177/0038038513477937)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. and Sarangi, S. 2014. Counselling uncertainty: genetics professionals' accounts of (non)directiveness and trust/distrust. Health, Risk and Society 16 (2), pp.171-184. (10.1080/13698575.2014.884545)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2012. Accounting for genetic testing: familial and professional perspectives. eLS , pp.171-184. (10.1002/9780470015902.a0024171)
- Spasic, I. et al. 2012. A naïve Bayes approach to classifying topics in suicide notes. Biomedical Informatics Insights 5 (Supp 1), pp.87-97. (10.4137/BII.S8945)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Featherstone, K. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. The practical ethics of genetic responsibility: non-disclosure and the autonomy of affect. Social Theory & Health 9 (1), pp.3-23. (10.1057/sth.2009.22)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2011. The ethics of disclosing genetic diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease: do we need a new paradigm?. British Medical Bulletin 100 (1), pp.7-21. (10.1093/bmb/ldr023)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2011. Promissory strategies of personalisation in the commercialisation of genomic knowledge. Communication & Medicine 8 (1), pp.53-66. (10.1558/cam.v8i1.53)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2010. Beyond pessimism: the dialectic of promise and complexity in genomic research. Genomics, Society, and Policy 6 (2), pp.1-12. (10.1186/1746-5354-6-2-1)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Bartlett, A. and Featherstone, K. 2010. Complexity and accountability: The witches' brew of psychiatric genetics. Social Studies of Science 40 (4), pp.499-524. (10.1177/0306312710363511)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2009. Professional ambivalence: accounts of ethical practice in childhood genetic testing. Journal of Genetic Counselling 18 (2), pp.173-84. (10.1007/s10897-008-9201-0)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. Managing self-responsibility through other-oriented blame: family accounts of genetic testing. Social Science & Medicine 66 (7), pp.1521-1532. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.12.022)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. The micropolitics of responsibility vis-à-vis autonomy: parental accounts of childhood genetic testing and (non)disclosure. Sociology of Health & Illness 30 (2), pp.255-271. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01037.x)
Gosodiad
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2005. On the medicalisation of welfare : towards a genealogy of dependency. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Llyfrau
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Bartlett, A. and Lewis, J. 2019. Psychiatric genetics: from hereditary madness to big biology. Genetics and Society London: Routledge.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2011. Genetic testing: accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame. Genetics and Society London: Routledge.
Monograffau
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. Professional ambivalence: accounts of ethical practice in childhood genetic testing. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.caerdydd.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp108.pdf.
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2008. The politics of autonomy in genetic testing of children. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.caerdydd.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp107.pdf.
Ymchwil
Diagnosis, gofal a llywodraethu cymorth
Mae rhan fawr o fy ymchwil gyfredol yn archwilio sut mae systemau diagnostig yn cael eu trefnu trwy bolisi, gwybodaeth broffesiynol ac ymarfer gweinyddol. Mae'r gwaith hwn yn ymwneud yn arbennig â diagnosis a chymorth awtistiaeth yng Nghymru, gan gynnwys llywodraethu llwybrau asesu, cymhwysedd, mynediad at ddarpariaeth, a gofal o dan amodau prinder. Yn fwy eang, mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn sut mae categorïau diagnostig yn siapio penderfyniadau sefydliadol, ailddosbarthu cyfrifoldeb, a dylanwadu ar sut mae anghenion, hunaniaethau a ffurfiau o bersonoliaeth yn cael eu cydnabod a'u gweithredu.
Cyfryngu digidol, arbenigedd a barn sefydliadol
Mae ail linyn fy ymchwil yn archwilio sut mae technolegau digidol yn ail-lunio gofal, arbenigedd a barn broffesiynol. Mae hyn yn cynnwys gwaith ar ofal cyfryngu digidol a threfniadaeth newidiol rhyngweithio, presenoldeb a gwneud penderfyniadau mewn lleoliadau gofal iechyd. Yn fwy diweddar, rwyf wedi dechrau archwilio goblygiadau cymdeithasol a sefydliadol AI cynhyrchiol a modelau iaith mawr, yn enwedig sut maent yn ail-ffurfweddu gwybodaeth, awdurdod, atebolrwydd a'r amodau o dan y mae hawliadau yn dod i gael eu trin fel dibynadwy neu weithredadwy.
Meddygaeth wedi'i phersonoli, geneteg seiciatrig a dyfodol biofeddygol
Rwyf hefyd yn parhau i ymchwilio i wleidyddiaeth meddygaeth wedi'i bersonoli a'r disgwyliadau sy'n ymwneud â biowyddoniaeth gyfoes. Roedd fy ngwaith cynharach ar geneteg a genomeg yn archwilio risg genetig, cyfathrebu teuluol, ymarfer proffesiynol a bywyd cymdeithasol ansicrwydd. Mae hyn yn parhau i fod yn bwysig i'm diddordeb presennol mewn geneteg seiciatrig, yn enwedig cwestiynau cyfrifoldeb, dehongli a rhwymedigaeth teuluol yng nghyd-destun iechyd meddwl. Ar draws y gwaith hwn, mae gen i ddiddordeb yn sut mae addewidion biofeddygol yn cael eu cyfieithu i ymarfer, ac yn y mathau o goddrychedd, dinasyddiaeth a chyfrifoldeb moesol maen nhw'n helpu i'w cynhyrchu.
Bywgraffiad
Mae Michael Arribas-Ayllon yn Ddarllenydd yn Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Mae ei ymchwil yn dwyn ynghyd gymdeithaseg feddygol, astudiaethau gwyddoniaeth a thechnoleg a theori gymdeithasol feirniadol. Mae ei waith diweddar wedi canolbwyntio ar ddiagnosis a chymorth awtistiaeth, gan gynnwys llywodraethu llwybrau gofal o dan amodau prinder, yn ogystal â gofal wedi'i gyfryngu yn ddigidol a threfniadaeth newidiol arbenigedd mewn gofal iechyd. Mae ei gyhoeddiadau diweddar yn cynnwys gwaith ar deletherapi a diagnosis awtistiaeth yng Nghymru.
Yn gynharach yn ei yrfa, datblygodd Michael gorff sylweddol o waith ar geneteg, profion genetig a meddygaeth wedi'i phersonoli. Mae'r ymchwil hon yn archwilio dimensiynau cymdeithasol a moesegol risg genetig, cyfathrebu teuluol, gwneud penderfyniadau proffesiynol a gwleidyddiaeth promissory biofeddygaeth gyfoes. Mae'r llinyn hwnnw o waith yn parhau yn ei ddiddordeb parhaus mewn geneteg seiciatrig, ansicrwydd a chyfrifoldeb mewn iechyd meddwl, ac yng ngwleidyddiaeth ehangach meddygaeth bersonol. Mae ei gyhoeddiadau yn y maes hwn yn cynnwys gwaith ar geneteg seiciatrig, cwnsela genetig a masnacheiddio gwybodaeth genomig.
Ochr yn ochr â hyn, mae gan Michael ddiddordeb ymchwil sy'n dod i'r amlwg mewn goblygiadau cymdeithasol a sefydliadol AI cynhyrchiol a modelau iaith mawr, yn enwedig eu heffeithiau ar arbenigedd, barn a gwneud penderfyniadau mewn lleoliadau proffesiynol. Mae hefyd wedi cyfrannu at ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd o amgylch gwyddoniaeth a meddygaeth, gan gynnwys digwyddiadau cyhoeddus ar brofion genetig uniongyrchol i ddefnyddwyr, ac mae ei broffil yng Nghaerdydd yn ei restru fel sylwebydd yn y cyfryngau. Ymunodd â Phrifysgol Caerdydd yn 2004 ar ôl trosglwyddo o Brifysgol Gorllewin Sydney, lle cwblhaodd radd Anrhydedd mewn Athroniaeth a Seicoleg Gymdeithasol, ac yn ddiweddarach cwblhaodd ei PhD yng Nghaerdydd.