In April I was invited to speak at a U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) held a public committee workshop exploring how to standardise…
New Year, New You?
Image of Aaron James, recipient of the first eye and face transplant with his surgeon, Eduardo Rodriguez, courtesy of the NYU Langone Many of us…
EXCITING NEWS: ABOUTFACE IS MOVING!
From January 9, 2023, AboutFace, which is funded by my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, will be moving to King’s College London. There, I will take…
THE MAKING OF A BLUEPRINT. HOW HISTORICAL, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SHOULD INFORM FACE TRANSPLANT POLICY AND PRACTICE
In December 2021, the AboutFace team convened a three-day Policy Lab with the support of the Policy Institute at King’s College London. The Policy Institute has a track…
FACE TRANSPLANTS: AN ANNIVERSARY AND A TIMELINE
On this day in 2012, surgeons performed Turkey’s first face transplant on patient Uğur Acar. We designed a timeline of the history of face transplants that…
JEROME HAMON: THE ‘MAN WITH THREE FACES’
There have been fewer than 50 face transplants in the world since 2005, and only two people have undergone the procedure twice: an American woman, Carmen Tarleton,…
WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING AT ABOUTFACE? AN END OF 2021 ROUND UP
This year has been extremely busy on the AboutFace project that I run at the University of York. Funded by my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship,…
LONELINESS AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: WHY IT ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE FAST
I spoke to CNN News this week about loneliness and why it will linger longer than Covid-19. Over the past year I’ve talked to various…
TIME FLIES
It’s a long time since my last post, reflecting how busy things have been during the Covid-19 lockdown – at home and at work. My…
WHAT’S IN A FACE? REFLECTIONS ON BEING HUMAN
This month the AboutFace team has been been focusing on the Being Human Festival, the only UK national festival for the humanities, led by the School…