
Dr Gabrielle Samuel
Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health
- Co-Director of SHADE
Research interests
- Biomedical and life sciences
- Environment
- Ethics
Biography
Dr Gabrielle (Gabby) Samuel is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and co-Director of SHADE - a research group and network at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies, and the Environment. Her main research interests relate to the social/ethical issues associated with digital health, big data, and AI.
She is trained in sociology and ethics (Medical sociology PhD and Bioethics MA) with a background in the life sciences (Molecular Genetics PhD). She draws mainly on qualitative research methods and has published extensively in the field of biobanking, genomics, digital health, forensic/health genetic technologies, research ethics, and research ethics committees, and social media and AI/big data research.
Gabby is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. She supervises both undergraduate and master's dissertations and welcomes PhD students. She is also a member of the Digital Environmental Sustainability Ethics and Clinical Ethics and Law in Society research groups at Oxford University – and the King’s Climate Action Network.
Research
- Sustainability and environmental justice
- Genomics and biobanking
- Digital health, health apps, AI and big data
- Responsibilities, decision-making and value trade-offs
- Research ethics and research ethics committees
- Ethics and sociology
- Qualitative research
Gabby is particularly interested in the environmental impacts of these technologies and her research programme explores ethical and governance issues related to this. She has argued that the moral gaze of technologies should include not only their use, but also where they have come from and where they are disposed.
She draws on concepts of sustainability, justice, power, equity, responsibility and neo-liberalism to do this. She is particularly interested in decision-making and how values-trade-offs are balanced, and how this relates to moral obligation, responsibility, justice and critical justice scholarship.
Outside of environmental sustainability, her research focuses on the ethical and sociological aspects of innovative, digital health, and genomics technologies and methodologies.
Here she explores responsible research and innovation through concepts of participation and reflection. She is particularly interested in notions of trust/trustworthiness, and the importance of behaviour change models to be considered in wider sociological and ethical literature.
Gabby's research is funded by a range of grants, including a Wellcome Fellowship, which is exploring the environmental sustainability of data-driven health research.
She is also a co-Investigator on a ESPRC collaborative project PARIS-DE (Design Principles and Responsible Innovation for a Sustainable Digital Economy), led by Professor Gordon Blair at Lancaster, and holds two MRC grants exploring the intersection of health and environmental impacts, in the context of neuroimaging and biobanking.
PhD supervision
Gabby is happy to supervise projects in areas associated with big data, genomics, AI, sustainability, ethics or similar
Research projects and awards
- 2023-2024. £48,529.80 Samuel G, Lucivero, F. Exploring digital health promises and practices through a sustainability lens. Implementing sustainability in decision-making. King’s Climate and Sustainability Seed Fund
- 2021-2024. £883,623 Blair G (PI), Jirotka M, Knowles B, Lucivero F, Samuel G (CI), Sorrell S, Widdicks K, Webb H. Design Principles and Responsible Innovation for a Sustainable Digital Economy (Paris-DE). ESPRC
- 2021-2027. £246,365 Samuel, G. The environmental sustainability of data-driven health research: a case-study of genomics and digital phenotyping in the UK. Wellcome Research Fellowship
- 2023. £7,200 Global Engagement Partnership Fund, KCL, to cement collaborations with Indian and African colleagues in the area of environmental sustainability.
- 2022-2023. Partner. UKRI Net-Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping.
- 2022-2023. £100,792 Samuel G. Farley, M. Developing a roadmap for environmentally sustainable ultra-low temperature storage in biobanking. MRC
- 2022-2024. £125,164 Rae, C. Selvan, R, Samuel G. Developing environmentally sustainable best practices for human brain imaging. MRC
Policy impact
- Co-editor of ITU (International Telecommunications Union) AI4EE (Requirements of AI and other Emerging Technologies to Ensure Environmental Efficiency) working group technical report: Driving AI-IoT towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 2022
- Contribution to Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) note on environmental impacts of the digital sector. Expert stakeholder contribution, and referenced within report (report can be found here: https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0677/). 2022.
Media and public engagement
- Exhibitions:
- Who's Responsible, Bringing the Human to the Artificial, King's (May/June 2023)
- Test your digital sustain-ability, Southampton Science Festival (March 2023). Read about her experience.
- Video appearances:
- Podcast appearances:
- The ethics of personalised medicine with Dr Rachel Horton, Centre of Personalised Medicine, University of Oxford (2022)
- Artificial Intelligence, who cares? Appeared on podcast as an expert in AI and environmental sustainability. BBC Global News, September 2023.
- School outreach:
- Changing our world by re-imagining digital technologies, presenting to 70 students from six local schools, as part of 'Our World', Oxford University (September 2022)
- Environmental sustainability and digital technologies, one-day school workshop at Cheney School (March 2023)
- Documentary appearances: Dataiku AI & Us, Fortemusfilms, speaking on the ethical and environmental issues of AI (2022)
- News interviews: Personalized medicine sector needs to consider environmental impact, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (2022)
Further details
Addressing environmental harms in the health sector: environmentality as a lens to expose (neglected) sites of knowledge/power
Samuel, G. & Roberts, 10 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
"As an individual, I suppose you can't really do much": Environmental Sustainability Perceptions of Machine Learning Practitioners
Görücü, S., Ren, Y., Samuel, G. & Panagiotidou, G., 2025, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2025: FAccT 2025. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
UK public focus groups on healthcare’s environmental impacts: a critical analysis of co-benefits approaches
Samuel, G., MacFarlane, M. & Briggs, S. E., 6 Jun 2025, In: Sociology of Health and Illness.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Can care ethics help healthcare systems address their environmental harms? Findings from focus groups with members of the UK public
Samuel, G., MacFarlane, M. & Briggs, 17 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Social Science & Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The research relationship: participant perspectives on consent in biobanking
Thompson, Lyle, Samuel, G., Holliday, Starkey, Wallace & Lucassen, 17 Mar 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: BMC Medical Ethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reducing inequalities through greater diversity in clinical trials –: as important for medical devices as for drugs and therapeutics
Roope, L., Walsh, Welland, Samuel, G., Johansen-Berg, Nobre, Clare, Higham, Campbell, Denison, Miller, Fazel, Costa, Farmer, Knight, Taylor, Henderson, Vaid, Geddes & Kiparoglou & 2 others, McShane & Clarke, Jun 2025, In: Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 45, 5 p., 101467.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The role of open standards in catalysing knowledge transfer to deliver climate adaptive care
Orton, Swann, Samuel, G., Drury, Kalogeropoulos, Pencheon, Celentano, Babayeju & Grant, 2025, In: npj Digital Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Who Carries the Responsibility For Health Care Carbon Reduction? An Analysis of Ethical and Logistical Challenges to Health Care Carbon Reduction at the Individual, Regional, National, and International Level
Richie & Samuel, G., 2025, In: Hastings Center Report.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Understanding current thinking around carbon emission impact assessment and clinical trials regulation
Samuel, G., Williamson, Fox & Graham, 2025Research output: Book/Report › Report
Genome Sequencing: Challenges for Equity and Sustainability in an Age of Big Data
Samuel, G., Horton, Weller, Lyle & Lucassen, 2025, The Sage Handboook of Data and Society .Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Driving AI-IoT design towards the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Tulone & Samuel, G., 2022Research output: Other contribution
The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding
Weber, Bendiscioli, Wallon, von Ahsen, de Beaufort, Boland, Dekkers, Dunon-Bluteau, Farley, Fox, Guillot, Lannelongue, Łazarowicz-Kowalik, Rouse, Samuel, G., Sanchis, Simon, Tata, van der Goot & Watt, 2024Research output: Other contribution
The Ubuntu Way: Ensuring Ethical AI Integration in Health Research
Odero, Nderitu & Samuel, G., 28 Nov 2024, In: Wellcome Open Research. 9, 625.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Royal College of Physicians Green Physician Toolkit: what can be learnt from listening to the public and patients
Samuel, G., MacFarlane, M. & Briggs, S., 2024Research output: Other contribution
Efficiency is Not Enough: A Critical Perspective of Environmentally Sustainable AI
Wright , D. B., Igel, C., Samuel, G. & Selvan , R., 3 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Responsibility for the Environmental Impact of Data-Intensive Research: An Exploration of UK Health Researchers' perceptions
Samuel, G., 21 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why digital innovation may not reduce healthcare's environmental footprint
Samuel, G., Anderson, G. M., Lucivero, F. & Lucassen, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: BMJ. e078303.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Roadmap for low-carbon ultra-low temperature storage in biobanking
Graham, Samuel, G. & Farley, 2024, In: Journal Of Translational Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why digital innovation may not reduce healthcare’s environmental footprint
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F., Anderson & Lucassen, A., 2024, In: BMJ.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ten recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of research computing in human neuroimaging
Souter, Lannelongue, Samuel, G., Racey, Collins, Bhagwat , Selvan & Rae, 2023, In: Imaging Neuroscience.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Carbon Accounting in the Digital Industry: The Need to Move towards Decision Making in Uncertainty
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F., Knowles, B. & Wright, K., Mar 2024, In: Sustainability. 16, 5, 2017.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities
Samuel, G., Hardcastle, F. & Lucassen, A., 2024, In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS. 24, 3, p. 109-111Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Clinical Research Risks, Climate Change, and Human Health
D'Souza & Samuel, G., 19 Dec 2023, In: JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 330, 23, p. 2247-2248 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Understanding pandemic solidarity: Mutual support during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom
Johnson, Roberts, Hayes, Fiske, Lucivero, F., McLennan, Phillips, Samuel, G. & Prainsack, B., 13 Nov 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Health Ethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic
Zimmermann, B. M., Wagenaar, H., Kieslich, K., Prainsack, B., Meyers, G., Buyx, A., El-Sayed, S., Fiske, A., Galasso, I., Geiger, S., Hangel, N., Horn, R., Johnson, S., Kuiper, J. M. L., Lucivero, F., McLennan, S., Paul, K. T., Pot, M., Radhuber, I. & Samuel, G. & 30 others, Sharon, T., Siffels, L., Van Hoyweghen, I., Awad, S., Bourgeron, T., Eichinger, J., Gaille, M., Haddad, C., Hayes, S., Hoffman, A., Jasser, M., Kenens, J., Lanzing, M., Libert, S., Lievevrouw, E., Marelli, L., Ongolly, F., Phillips, A., Pinel, C., Riesinger, K., Roberts, S., Saxinger, G., Schlogl, L., Schönweitz, F., Sierawska, A., Spahl, W., Stendahl, E., Vanstreels, S., Vidolov, S. & Weiss, E., 1 Dec 2022, In: SSM. Qualitative research in health. 2, 1 p., 100158.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
UK health researchers’ considerations of the environmental impacts of their data-intensive practices and its relevance to health inequities
Samuel, G., Dec 2023, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 24, 1, 90.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What contribution do robots make to the care of older people? A scoping review
Samuel, G., Correa, M., Todd, C. & Tinker, A., 25 Aug 2023, In: Gerontechnology. 22, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Drivers and constraints to environmental sustainability in UK-based biobanking: balancing resource efficiency and future value
Samuel, G. & Sims , J. M., Dec 2023, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 24, 1, 36.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Systems thinking and efficiency under emissions constraints: Addressing rebound effects in digital innovation and policy
Widdicks, K., Lucivero, F., Samuel, G., Croxatto, L. S., Smith, M. T., Holter, C. T., Berners-Lee, M., Blair, G. S., Jirotka, M., Knowles, B., Sorrell, S., Rivera, M. B., Cook, C., Coroamă, V. C., Foxon, T. J., Hardy, J., Hilty, L. M., Hinterholzer, S. & Penzenstadler, B., 10 Feb 2023, In: Patterns. 4, 2, 10 p., 100679.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
The environmental impact of data-driven precision medicine initiatives
Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 2022, In: Precision Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ethical preparedness in health research and care: the role of behavioural approaches
Samuel, G., Ballard, Carley & Lucassen, Dec 2022, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 23, 1, 115.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents
Samuel, G., Broekstra, Hardcastle & Lucassen, 29 Aug 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: BMC Medical Ethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Addressing the Environmental Impact of (Digital) Health Research Conversations with UK funders Summary Report
MacFarlane, M. & Samuel, G., 2022Research output: Other contribution
Digital Phenotyping for Mental Health: Reviewing the Challenges of Using Data to Monitor and Predict Mental Health Problems
Hoffman Birk, R. & Samuel, G., Oct 2022, In: CURRENT PSYCHIATRY REPORTS. 24, 10, p. 523-528 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reimagining research ethics to include environmental sustainability: a principled approach, including a case study of data-driven health research
Samuel, G. & Richie, C., 3 Aug 2022, In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 108489.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Beyond regulatory approaches to ethics: Making space for ethical preparedness in healthcare research
Lyle, K., Weller, S., Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 20 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 108102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Access to biobanks: responsibilities within a research ecosystem
Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 28 Apr 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Biopreservation And Biobanking.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Environmental sustainability and biobanking: a pilot study of the field
Samuel, G., Hardcastle, F. & Lucassen, A., 27 May 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: New Genetics and Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The environmental sustainability of data-driven health research: a scoping review
Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 15 Jun 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Digital Health.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Technologies: Stakeholder Practices and Perspectives
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F. & Somavilla, L., 23 Mar 2022, In: Sustainability. 14, 7, 3791.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ethical Reasoning During a Pandemic: Results of a Five Country European Study
Johnson, S. B., Lucivero, F., Zimmermann, B. M., Stendahl, E., Samuel, G., Phillips, A. & Hangel, N., 2022, In: AJOB Empirical Bioethics. 13, 2, p. 67-78 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Public Trust and Trustworthiness in Biobanking: The Need for More Reflexivity
Samuel, G., Broekstra, Gille, F. & Lucassen, A., 1 Jun 2022, In: Biopreservation And Biobanking. 20, 3, p. 291-296 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Framing ethical issues associated with the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app: exceptionalising and narrowing the public ethics debate
Samuel, G. & Lucivero, F., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Ethics and Information Technology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Investigative genetic genealogy: Can collective privacy and solidarity help?
Samuel, G., 1 Dec 2021, In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 47, 12, p. 796-797 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
The UK COVID-19 contact tracing app as both an emerging technology and public health intervention: The need to consider promissory discourses
Samuel, G. & Sims, R., 23 Nov 2021, In: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sustainable biobanks: a case study for a green global bioethics
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F. & Lucassen, A., 21 Oct 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Global Bioethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
For what it's worth. Unearthing the values embedded in digital phenotyping for mental health
Birk, R., Lavis, A., Lucivero, F. & Samuel, G., 2021, In: Big Data and Society. 8, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ecologies of public trust: the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F., Johnson, S. & Diedericks, L., 13 Aug 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bringing ethics into governance: the case of the UK COVID- 19 contact tracing app
Samuel, G. & Lucivero, F., 24 Jun 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: International journal of health governance.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Shifting Ethical Boundaries in Forensic Use of DNA
Samuel, G. & Prainsack, B., 2021, In: Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research

Biotechnology & Society research group
Addressing the social, ethical and legal questions arising from developments in health and biomedicine using a multidisciplinary research approach.

Mental Health & Society research group
Seeking to better understand the socio-political dimensions of mental health and illness in the Global North and South.

King's Climate Research Hub
Studying climate change through the relationship between science, policy and culture.

Reproduction Research Group
Our interdisciplinary group examines the complex social, cultural, and political dimensions of reproduction.

SHADE Research Hub
SHADE sits at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment. SHADE is guided by a fundamental question: How should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles? To address this SHADE promotes interdisciplinary enquiry to understand and make visible sustainable practices situated in specific geographical and societal contexts. Undertaking both normative and solutions based research, SHADE draws on empirical, epistemic and ethical perspectives from philosophy, law, sociology and ethics, as well as from more quantitative approaches such as life cycle sustainability assessment.

Climate & sustainability researchers at King’s
King's researchers working across climate and sustainability

Safe and sustainable diets for a healthy body and mind (SSuDs)
This Research Interest Group on Safe and Sustainable Diets for a Healthy Body And Mind provides a unique opportunity for the King’s research community to address the challenges of safe and sustainable diets across a range of health outcomes

Environmentally Sustainable HeAlth REsearch (SHARE): from ‘tool solutionism’ to a context sensitive, just, systems-focused and reflexive approach
Project investigating wider meanings of environment, sustainability and climate-related discourses in different contexts and countries within health research.
Project status: Starting
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Addressing environmental harms in the health sector: environmentality as a lens to expose (neglected) sites of knowledge/power
Samuel, G. & Roberts, 10 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
"As an individual, I suppose you can't really do much": Environmental Sustainability Perceptions of Machine Learning Practitioners
Görücü, S., Ren, Y., Samuel, G. & Panagiotidou, G., 2025, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2025: FAccT 2025. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
UK public focus groups on healthcare’s environmental impacts: a critical analysis of co-benefits approaches
Samuel, G., MacFarlane, M. & Briggs, S. E., 6 Jun 2025, In: Sociology of Health and Illness.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Can care ethics help healthcare systems address their environmental harms? Findings from focus groups with members of the UK public
Samuel, G., MacFarlane, M. & Briggs, 17 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Social Science & Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The research relationship: participant perspectives on consent in biobanking
Thompson, Lyle, Samuel, G., Holliday, Starkey, Wallace & Lucassen, 17 Mar 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: BMC Medical Ethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reducing inequalities through greater diversity in clinical trials –: as important for medical devices as for drugs and therapeutics
Roope, L., Walsh, Welland, Samuel, G., Johansen-Berg, Nobre, Clare, Higham, Campbell, Denison, Miller, Fazel, Costa, Farmer, Knight, Taylor, Henderson, Vaid, Geddes & Kiparoglou & 2 others, McShane & Clarke, Jun 2025, In: Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 45, 5 p., 101467.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The role of open standards in catalysing knowledge transfer to deliver climate adaptive care
Orton, Swann, Samuel, G., Drury, Kalogeropoulos, Pencheon, Celentano, Babayeju & Grant, 2025, In: npj Digital Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Who Carries the Responsibility For Health Care Carbon Reduction? An Analysis of Ethical and Logistical Challenges to Health Care Carbon Reduction at the Individual, Regional, National, and International Level
Richie & Samuel, G., 2025, In: Hastings Center Report.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Understanding current thinking around carbon emission impact assessment and clinical trials regulation
Samuel, G., Williamson, Fox & Graham, 2025Research output: Book/Report › Report
Genome Sequencing: Challenges for Equity and Sustainability in an Age of Big Data
Samuel, G., Horton, Weller, Lyle & Lucassen, 2025, The Sage Handboook of Data and Society .Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Driving AI-IoT design towards the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Tulone & Samuel, G., 2022Research output: Other contribution
The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding
Weber, Bendiscioli, Wallon, von Ahsen, de Beaufort, Boland, Dekkers, Dunon-Bluteau, Farley, Fox, Guillot, Lannelongue, Łazarowicz-Kowalik, Rouse, Samuel, G., Sanchis, Simon, Tata, van der Goot & Watt, 2024Research output: Other contribution
The Ubuntu Way: Ensuring Ethical AI Integration in Health Research
Odero, Nderitu & Samuel, G., 28 Nov 2024, In: Wellcome Open Research. 9, 625.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Royal College of Physicians Green Physician Toolkit: what can be learnt from listening to the public and patients
Samuel, G., MacFarlane, M. & Briggs, S., 2024Research output: Other contribution
Efficiency is Not Enough: A Critical Perspective of Environmentally Sustainable AI
Wright , D. B., Igel, C., Samuel, G. & Selvan , R., 3 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Responsibility for the Environmental Impact of Data-Intensive Research: An Exploration of UK Health Researchers' perceptions
Samuel, G., 21 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why digital innovation may not reduce healthcare's environmental footprint
Samuel, G., Anderson, G. M., Lucivero, F. & Lucassen, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: BMJ. e078303.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Roadmap for low-carbon ultra-low temperature storage in biobanking
Graham, Samuel, G. & Farley, 2024, In: Journal Of Translational Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why digital innovation may not reduce healthcare’s environmental footprint
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F., Anderson & Lucassen, A., 2024, In: BMJ.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ten recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of research computing in human neuroimaging
Souter, Lannelongue, Samuel, G., Racey, Collins, Bhagwat , Selvan & Rae, 2023, In: Imaging Neuroscience.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Carbon Accounting in the Digital Industry: The Need to Move towards Decision Making in Uncertainty
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F., Knowles, B. & Wright, K., Mar 2024, In: Sustainability. 16, 5, 2017.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities
Samuel, G., Hardcastle, F. & Lucassen, A., 2024, In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS. 24, 3, p. 109-111Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Clinical Research Risks, Climate Change, and Human Health
D'Souza & Samuel, G., 19 Dec 2023, In: JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 330, 23, p. 2247-2248 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Understanding pandemic solidarity: Mutual support during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom
Johnson, Roberts, Hayes, Fiske, Lucivero, F., McLennan, Phillips, Samuel, G. & Prainsack, B., 13 Nov 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Health Ethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic
Zimmermann, B. M., Wagenaar, H., Kieslich, K., Prainsack, B., Meyers, G., Buyx, A., El-Sayed, S., Fiske, A., Galasso, I., Geiger, S., Hangel, N., Horn, R., Johnson, S., Kuiper, J. M. L., Lucivero, F., McLennan, S., Paul, K. T., Pot, M., Radhuber, I. & Samuel, G. & 30 others, Sharon, T., Siffels, L., Van Hoyweghen, I., Awad, S., Bourgeron, T., Eichinger, J., Gaille, M., Haddad, C., Hayes, S., Hoffman, A., Jasser, M., Kenens, J., Lanzing, M., Libert, S., Lievevrouw, E., Marelli, L., Ongolly, F., Phillips, A., Pinel, C., Riesinger, K., Roberts, S., Saxinger, G., Schlogl, L., Schönweitz, F., Sierawska, A., Spahl, W., Stendahl, E., Vanstreels, S., Vidolov, S. & Weiss, E., 1 Dec 2022, In: SSM. Qualitative research in health. 2, 1 p., 100158.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
UK health researchers’ considerations of the environmental impacts of their data-intensive practices and its relevance to health inequities
Samuel, G., Dec 2023, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 24, 1, 90.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What contribution do robots make to the care of older people? A scoping review
Samuel, G., Correa, M., Todd, C. & Tinker, A., 25 Aug 2023, In: Gerontechnology. 22, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Drivers and constraints to environmental sustainability in UK-based biobanking: balancing resource efficiency and future value
Samuel, G. & Sims , J. M., Dec 2023, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 24, 1, 36.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Systems thinking and efficiency under emissions constraints: Addressing rebound effects in digital innovation and policy
Widdicks, K., Lucivero, F., Samuel, G., Croxatto, L. S., Smith, M. T., Holter, C. T., Berners-Lee, M., Blair, G. S., Jirotka, M., Knowles, B., Sorrell, S., Rivera, M. B., Cook, C., Coroamă, V. C., Foxon, T. J., Hardy, J., Hilty, L. M., Hinterholzer, S. & Penzenstadler, B., 10 Feb 2023, In: Patterns. 4, 2, 10 p., 100679.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
The environmental impact of data-driven precision medicine initiatives
Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 2022, In: Precision Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ethical preparedness in health research and care: the role of behavioural approaches
Samuel, G., Ballard, Carley & Lucassen, Dec 2022, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 23, 1, 115.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents
Samuel, G., Broekstra, Hardcastle & Lucassen, 29 Aug 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: BMC Medical Ethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Addressing the Environmental Impact of (Digital) Health Research Conversations with UK funders Summary Report
MacFarlane, M. & Samuel, G., 2022Research output: Other contribution
Digital Phenotyping for Mental Health: Reviewing the Challenges of Using Data to Monitor and Predict Mental Health Problems
Hoffman Birk, R. & Samuel, G., Oct 2022, In: CURRENT PSYCHIATRY REPORTS. 24, 10, p. 523-528 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reimagining research ethics to include environmental sustainability: a principled approach, including a case study of data-driven health research
Samuel, G. & Richie, C., 3 Aug 2022, In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 108489.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Beyond regulatory approaches to ethics: Making space for ethical preparedness in healthcare research
Lyle, K., Weller, S., Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 20 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 108102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Access to biobanks: responsibilities within a research ecosystem
Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 28 Apr 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Biopreservation And Biobanking.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Environmental sustainability and biobanking: a pilot study of the field
Samuel, G., Hardcastle, F. & Lucassen, A., 27 May 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: New Genetics and Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The environmental sustainability of data-driven health research: a scoping review
Samuel, G. & Lucassen, A., 15 Jun 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Digital Health.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Technologies: Stakeholder Practices and Perspectives
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F. & Somavilla, L., 23 Mar 2022, In: Sustainability. 14, 7, 3791.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ethical Reasoning During a Pandemic: Results of a Five Country European Study
Johnson, S. B., Lucivero, F., Zimmermann, B. M., Stendahl, E., Samuel, G., Phillips, A. & Hangel, N., 2022, In: AJOB Empirical Bioethics. 13, 2, p. 67-78 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Public Trust and Trustworthiness in Biobanking: The Need for More Reflexivity
Samuel, G., Broekstra, Gille, F. & Lucassen, A., 1 Jun 2022, In: Biopreservation And Biobanking. 20, 3, p. 291-296 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Framing ethical issues associated with the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app: exceptionalising and narrowing the public ethics debate
Samuel, G. & Lucivero, F., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Ethics and Information Technology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Investigative genetic genealogy: Can collective privacy and solidarity help?
Samuel, G., 1 Dec 2021, In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 47, 12, p. 796-797 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
The UK COVID-19 contact tracing app as both an emerging technology and public health intervention: The need to consider promissory discourses
Samuel, G. & Sims, R., 23 Nov 2021, In: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sustainable biobanks: a case study for a green global bioethics
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F. & Lucassen, A., 21 Oct 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Global Bioethics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
For what it's worth. Unearthing the values embedded in digital phenotyping for mental health
Birk, R., Lavis, A., Lucivero, F. & Samuel, G., 2021, In: Big Data and Society. 8, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ecologies of public trust: the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app
Samuel, G., Lucivero, F., Johnson, S. & Diedericks, L., 13 Aug 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bringing ethics into governance: the case of the UK COVID- 19 contact tracing app
Samuel, G. & Lucivero, F., 24 Jun 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: International journal of health governance.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Shifting Ethical Boundaries in Forensic Use of DNA
Samuel, G. & Prainsack, B., 2021, In: Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research

Biotechnology & Society research group
Addressing the social, ethical and legal questions arising from developments in health and biomedicine using a multidisciplinary research approach.

Mental Health & Society research group
Seeking to better understand the socio-political dimensions of mental health and illness in the Global North and South.

King's Climate Research Hub
Studying climate change through the relationship between science, policy and culture.

Reproduction Research Group
Our interdisciplinary group examines the complex social, cultural, and political dimensions of reproduction.

SHADE Research Hub
SHADE sits at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment. SHADE is guided by a fundamental question: How should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles? To address this SHADE promotes interdisciplinary enquiry to understand and make visible sustainable practices situated in specific geographical and societal contexts. Undertaking both normative and solutions based research, SHADE draws on empirical, epistemic and ethical perspectives from philosophy, law, sociology and ethics, as well as from more quantitative approaches such as life cycle sustainability assessment.

Climate & sustainability researchers at King’s
King's researchers working across climate and sustainability

Safe and sustainable diets for a healthy body and mind (SSuDs)
This Research Interest Group on Safe and Sustainable Diets for a Healthy Body And Mind provides a unique opportunity for the King’s research community to address the challenges of safe and sustainable diets across a range of health outcomes

Environmentally Sustainable HeAlth REsearch (SHARE): from ‘tool solutionism’ to a context sensitive, just, systems-focused and reflexive approach
Project investigating wider meanings of environment, sustainability and climate-related discourses in different contexts and countries within health research.
Project status: Starting
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Championing Mental Health Innovation Across Africa
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Researchers warn a narrow focus on carbon emissions may obscure deeper environmental and social harms

Public Voices Reveal Complexities in Selling Health and Environment Win-Wins
Study questions simplicity of policymakers’ ‘co-benefits’ approach

King's academics look into crystal ball in new future gazing sci-fi anthology
Researchers in AI from across three different faculties provided expert reflections on energy, healthcare and education in the near future

New research hub launched to explore the intersection of digital technologies, health and the environment
The SHADE research hub has been launched by the School of Global Affairs in partnership with the Ethox Centre in the Nuffield Department of Population Health,...

Science Gallery London announces 'Friday Lates' as part of autumn AI programme
Dive further into the world of AI with performances, special events, a new exhibit and two opportunities for 'after hours' access

Project to explore the environmental sustainability of AI-enabled digital health
A new research project led by Dr Gabrielle Samuel, Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health at King’s, will examine the sustainability of digital...

Events

All Tomorrow's Futures: scientists meet sci-fi writers to invent possible futures
Immerse yourself in this unique fusion of insights, which will spark discussions about the implications for our future human experience.
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'The World Made Me': Candid conversations with researchers
Join us for the launch of 'The World Made Me', a new video series from the School of Global Affairs exploring the things that inspired our academics in their...
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Features
...Switch from Genetics to Sociology
Dr Gabrielle Samuel shares her journey of switching her research career from Genetics to Sociology.

'Places without postcards' highlights impact of climate change around the world
The Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy has created a collection of ‘postcards’ from key places around the globe that tell an important story around...

Health and our environment: is collecting data through new technologies actually helping us?
The collection and analysis of health data brings benefits but at what cost to the environment and others’ health?

Should we consider the environmental and social impacts of the health data we collect?
As part of her outreach activities, Dr Gabrielle Samuel explored the impact of data-driven health research at the Southampton Science Festival.
