Cian O'Donovan

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Name	Cian O'Donovan
Affiliation / organisation	Senior Research Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London
Website	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/people/dr-cian-odonovan
Twitter URL	https://twitter.com/cian
Professional role	Research
Area of expertise	Long-Term Care data and information systems Long-Term Care policy
Associated countries	United Kingdom
Short bio	I’m a social scientist at UCL. I research how politics and policy works in areas like data use for social care and what role there is for democratic engagement. I also look at the resources, practices and research infrastructures needed to do research. Especially the capabilities required to form interdisciplinary teams of academics and social care practitioners needed to implement change from the ground up. You can get in touch at c.o’donovan@ucl.ac.uk.
Research interests	Innovation policy Data policy and ethics Science and technology studies Research infrastructures Innovation and data for social care
Research projects on COVID and Long-Term Care	The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator Environmental impacts of digital services for health and wellbeing in the home
LTCcovid webinar presentations	Oct. 18th 2021: What policy for UK social care data needs now
Key publications	Public trust and health data projects (peer reviewed article) Consultation on the NHS X Data Saves Lives strategy (government consultation response) Making older people visible in care home data (rapid ethics review)