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Overview
Michael's current research is tracing the subsequent developments of genomic technologies. One branch is pursuing the impact of direct-to-consumer genetic testing and the ways in which lay communities use and interpret genetic information. Another branch is interested in the politics of personalised medicine and the ways in which promises and expectations about the 'new biology' are mediated in expert and public domains.
Michael is also interested in public engagement as a means of reflecting upon and participating in the construction of scientific knowledge, perceptions of risk, and the joint imagining of technological futures. A persistent question he asks in relation to his research is: what does it mean to be human?
I welcome PhD applicants to work on topics related to my research interests, including medical sociology, science and technology studies and critical psychology as well as applicants with an interest in biopolitics, genetics and mental health.
Publication
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., article number: 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., Van Den Bree, M., Challenger, A., Cuthbert, A., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Clarke, A. and Thompson, R. 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., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Artemiou, A. and Spasic, I. 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., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Haran, J., Mackenzie, A. and Tutton, R. 2017. Conceptualizing imaginaries of science, technology and society. In: Felt, U. et al. eds. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies 4th Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 435-464.
2016
- 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)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2016. After geneticization. Social Science and Medicine 159, pp. 132-139. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.011)
2015
- Williams, L., Bannister, C., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Preece, A. and Spasic, I. 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., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Murray, A. and Gaff, C. L. 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., Burnap, P., Greenwood, M. and Arribas-Ayllon, M. 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. 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., 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., 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., Sarangi, S. K. and Clarke, A. J. 2011. Genetic testing: accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame. Genetics and Society. London: Routledge.
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.
Articles
- 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., article number: 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., Van Den Bree, M., Challenger, A., Cuthbert, A., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Clarke, A. and Thompson, R. 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., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Artemiou, A. and Spasic, I. 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)
- 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)
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2016. After geneticization. Social Science and Medicine 159, pp. 132-139. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.011)
- Williams, L., Bannister, C., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Preece, A. and Spasic, I. 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., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Murray, A. and Gaff, C. L. 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., Burnap, P., Greenwood, M. and Arribas-Ayllon, M. 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. 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., 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., 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)
Book sections
- 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., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Haran, J., Mackenzie, A. and Tutton, R. 2017. Conceptualizing imaginaries of science, technology and society. In: Felt, U. et al. eds. 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.
Books
- 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.
Monographs
- 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
Thesis
- Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2005. On the medicalisation of welfare : towards a genealogy of dependency. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Research
Michael's current research interests are oriented to three overlapping themes:
The politics of genetic responsibility: Advances in molecular genetics have not only expanded the domain of screening, testing and prevention but have generated new tensions and dilemmas regarding the management of genetic risk. In addition to creating persons who are 'genetically at risk', genetic technologies are shaping new rights and responsibilities and informing new practices of identification. To what extent are these technologies a continuation of advanced liberal rationalities? What kind of relations between experts and clients do they enjoin? What forms of citizenship, community and subjectivity do they engender? And to what extent does genetic knowledge transform what it means to be human?
The micropolitics of genetic testing: The increasing availability of genetic testing is shaping the ways in which medical information is communicated in the clinic. Given that the 'new genetics' is a science of contingency and genetic counselling is the art of managing and interpreting contingency, how do we understand the relations between experts and genetically at risk clients? What micro-techniques do experts employ to facilitate autonomy and transfer genetic responsibility? How do clients make sense of and respond to uncertain and complex risk information? What effect does genetic information have on practical family relations?
The promise of personalised medicine: A related issue is that advances in molecular genetics are rapidly converging with information technologies and thus promising greater personalisation of medical knowledge. At present, the hype surrounding 'personalised medicine' introduces new opportunities and tensions that resonate with neoliberal models of health consumerism. Will the new biology deliver a truly personalised medicine? Will genetic technologies revolutionise healthcare? How does personalised medicine differ from other kinds of medical utopias? What forms of community, citizenship and subjectivity are currently taking shape around these promises of individualised healthcare?
Biography
Michael joined the School in January 2004 to complete his doctorate after transferring from the University of Western Sydney. He holds an Honours degree in Philosophy and Social Psychology (University of Western Sydney) and a doctorate in Philosophy (Cardiff University).
In November 2005, Michael joined Cesagen (ERSC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics) to work on the social and ethical aspects of genomics. He has worked on numerous projects exploring parental accounts of genetic testing; the communication and disclosure of genetic risk in the family; professional accounts of ethical dilemmas in the clinic; and the representation of genetic testing in the public domain. He has also conducted research on psychiatric genetics and interviewed scientists about large-scale collaborative research.