Dr Rebecca Dimond
Research Associate
- dimondr1@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 225 10113
- 12.06, 12th floor, Eastgate House, 35-43 Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 0AB
Overview
I am a researcher in medical sociology. Her research interests include:
- Qualitative research methods
- Medical work and professional perspectives
- Patient and family experiences
- New genetic technologies
Rebecca is currently working on Dr Alison James’ project ‘Exploring the experiences of Executive Directors of Nursing in the wake of Covid-19’. The aim of the project is to identify priorities and actions for recovery and future learning from the pandemic and is funded by the General Nurse Council Trust for England and Wales (GNCT).
Biography
I am a qualitative social scientist, using interviews and/or ethnographic observation to understand diverse aspects relating to health and illness. I am currently exploring the experiences of nurse executive directors during covid. Previous projects have included junior doctors’ use of smart phones in hospitals, patient and professional experiences of rare genetic disease, and the implications of new genetic technologies. My research tracking the development and legalisation of mitochondrial donation in the UK was funded by an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (2014-2018).
Honours and awards
2021 HEA fellowship status
2020 Learned Society of Wales Dillwyn Medal Winner (Social Sciences, Education and Business)
2020 Shortlisted for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness book prize (for Legalising Mitochondrial Donation: Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics)
2018 School of Social Sciences award for contribution to teaching
Publications
2023
- Dimond, R., Stephens, N. and Herbrand, C. 2023. Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the 'idealised policy patient'. Social Science & Medicine 338, article number: 116333. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116333)
- James, A., Kelly, D. and Dimond, R. 2023. Nurses in the Boardroom: Exploring the changing role of the Executive Nurse Director -Identifying priorities and actions for leadership strategies post pandemic: the CovLead study.. Presented at: RCN International Research Conference 2023, Manchester UK, 6-8 Sept 2023.
- Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2023. Legalising MRT in the United Kingdom. In: Bowman, D., Ludlow, K. and Johnston, W. G. eds. Reproduction Reborn: How Science, Ethics, and Law Shape Mitochondrial Replacement Therapies. Oxford University Press, pp. 87-119., (10.1093/oso/9780197616192.003.0005)
- Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2023. Science and democracy on stage at the Science and Technology Select Committee. BioSocieties (10.1057/s41292-022-00289-1)
- Gonzalez-Santos, S. and Dimond, R. 2023. Science and technology studies. In: Reimagining Health Law: from Medical to Health and Social Care Law. Elgar Publishing
- Dimond, R., Lewis, J. and Sumner, A. 2023. The unexpected and unanticipated announcement of the ‘world’s first’ gene edited babies: breaching, repairing and strengthening community boundaries. New Genetics and Society 42(1), article number: e2155124. (10.1080/14636778.2022.2155124)
2022
- Dingwall, R. et al. 2022. Environment. In: Monaghan, L. F. and Gabe, J. eds. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, 3rd Edition. London: SAGE Publications
- Dimond, R., Doheny, S. and Clarke, A. 2022. Genetic testing and family entanglements. Social Science & Medicine 298, article number: 114857. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114857)
- Dimond, R. 2022. On ‘being there’: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman. Communication & Medicine 17(2), pp. 173-176. (10.1558/cam.19753)
- Dimond, R., Strange, H. and Hughes, J. 2022. Geneticization. In: Monaghan, L. and Gabe, J. eds. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology. SAGE Key Concepts series Sage, pp. 247-253.
2021
- Dimond, R., Lewis, J. and Thomas, G. 2021. Editorial: Themed issue: Understanding the technical and social landscape of gene editing. New Genetics and Society 40(4), pp. 361-366. (10.1080/14636778.2021.2004032)
2019
- Courbier, S., Dimond, R. and Bros-Facer, V. 2019. Share and protect our health data: an evidence based approach to rare disease patients’ perspectives on data sharing and data protection - Quantitative survey and recommendations. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 14, article number: 175. (10.1186/s13023-019-1123-4)
- Dimond, R., Machin, L. and Frith, L. 2019. Editorial: Towards a sociology of donation. Sociology of Health and Illness 41(3), pp. 549-552. (10.1111/1467-9566.12840)
2018
- Dimond, R. 2018. Ethics of mitochondrial gene replacement therapy. In: Hostic, S. ed. Clinical Ethics At the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies. Academic Press, pp. 31-53., (10.1016/B978-0-12-813764-2.00002-7)
- Dimond, R. 2018. Ethics of mitochondrial gene replacement therapy. In: Hostiuc, S. ed. Clinical Ethics at the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies. Academic, pp. 31-54.
- González Santos, S. P., Stephens, N. and Dimond, R. 2018. Narrating the first "three-parent baby": The initial press reactions from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico. Science Communication 40(4), pp. 419-441. (10.1177/1075547018772312)
- Pond, E. and Dimond, R. 2018. Reproductive decision making: interviews with mothers of children with undiagnosed developmental delay. Journal of Community Genetics 9(3), pp. 315-325. (10.1007/s12687-017-0354-0)
- Docherty, F. and Dimond, R. 2018. 'Yeah that made a big difference!': The importance of the relationship between health professionals and fathers who have a child with Down Syndrome. Journal of Genetic Counseling 27(3), pp. 665-674. (10.1007/s10897-017-0171-y)
- Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2018. Three persons, three genetic contributors, three parents: Mitochondrial donation, genetic parenting and the immutable grammar of the 'three x x'. Health 22(3), pp. 240-258. (10.1177/1363459316689380)
- Herbrand, C. and Dimond, R. 2018. Mitochondrial donation, patient engagement and narratives of hope. Sociology of Health and Illness 40(4), pp. 623-638. (10.1111/1467-9566.12631)
- Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2018. Legalising mitochondrial donation: enacting ethical futures in UK biomedical politics. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot. (10.1007/978-3-319-74645-6)
2017
- Dimond, R. and Krajewska, A. 2017. Comment on mitochondrial replacement techniques and the birth of the 'first'. Journal of Law and the Biosciences 4(3), pp. 599-604. (10.1093/jlb/lsx021)
- Dimond, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2017. Paul Atkinson Festschrift: editorial. Qualitative Research 17(2), pp. 139-142. (10.1177/1468794116688414)
2016
- Webb, K. L., Bullock, A. D., Dimond, R. and Stacey, M. 2016. Can a mobile app improve the quality of patient care provided by trainee doctors? Analysis of trainees case reports. BMJ Open 6, article number: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013075. (10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013075)
- Dimond, R., Bullock, A. D., Lovatt, J. and Stacey, M. R. W. 2016. Mobile learning devices in the workplace: 'as much a part of the junior doctors' kit as a stethoscope'?. BMC Medical Education 16, article number: 207. (10.1186/s12909-016-0732-z)
- Stephens, N. J. and Dimond, R. 2016. Debating CRISPR/cas9 and mitochondrial donation: continuity and transition performances at scientific conferences. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2, pp. 312-321., article number: http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2016.080. (10.17351/ests2016.080)
2015
- Stephens, N. J. and Dimond, R. 2015. Unexpected tissue and the biobank that closed: an exploration of value and the momentariness of bio-objectification processes. Life Sciences, Society and Policy 11, article number: 14. (10.1186/s40504-015-0032-0)
- Stephens, N. and Dimond, R. 2015. Closure of a human tissue biobank: individual, institutional, and field expectations during cycles of promise and disappointment. New Genetics and Society 34(4), pp. 417-436. (10.1080/14636778.2015.1107469)
- Dimond, R. 2015. Social and ethical issues in mitochondrial donation. British Medical Bulletin 115(1), pp. 173-182. (10.1093/bmb/ldv037)
- Dimond, R. 2015. Techniques of donation: ‘three parents’, anonymity and disclosure. Journal of Medical Law and Ethics 3(3), pp. 165-173. (10.7590/221354015X14488767262831)
- Bullock, A. D., Dimond, R., Webb, K. L., Lovatt, J., Hardyman, W. and Stacey, M. R. W. 2015. How a mobile app supports the learning and practice of newly qualified doctors in the UK: an intervention study. BMC Medical Education 15(1), article number: 71. (10.1186/s12909-015-0356-8)
- González-Santos, S. and Dimond, R. 2015. Medical and scientific conferences as sites of sociological interest: A review of the field. Sociology Compass 9(3), pp. 235-245. (10.1111/soc4.12250)
- Dimond, R., Bartlett, A. and Lewis, J. 2015. What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference. Social Science and Medicine 126, pp. 1-8. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.12.005)
2014
- Dimond, R. 2014. Parent-led conferences as sites of medical work. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 18(6), pp. 631-645. (10.1177/1363459314524806)
- Dimond, R. 2014. Dimond views on consultation process. Cardiff University.
- Dimond, R. 2014. Dimond response to Department of Health mitochondria consultation. Project Report. Unpublished.
- Dimond, R. 2014. Negotiating identity at the intersection of paediatric and genetic medicine: the parent as facilitator, narrator and patient. Sociology of Health and Illness 36(1), pp. 1-14. (10.1111/1467-9566.12035)
- Dimond, R. 2014. Negotiating blame and responsibility in the context of a 'de novo' mutation. New Genetics and Society 33(2), pp. 149-166. (10.1080/14636778.2014.910450)
2013
- Banks, T. and Dimond, R. 2013. Nettleton, Sarah: The Sociology of Health and Illness 3rd. ed [Book Review]. Medical Sociology Online 7(2), pp. 78-79.
- Dimond, R. 2013. Patient and family trajectories of mitochondrial disease: diversity, uncertainty and genetic risk. Life Sciences, Society and Policy 9(1), article number: 2. (10.1186/2195-7819-9-2)
- Dimond, R. 2013. Telecare technologies and the transformation of healthcare [Book Review]. New Genetics and Society 32(1), pp. 97-99. (10.1080/14636778.2012.743275)
- Dimond, R. 2013. Managing the mutations. Britain in 2013 2013, pp. 90-91.
- Dimond, R. and Hughes, J. 2013. Geneticization. In: Gabe, J. and Monaghan, L. eds. Key Concepts of Medical Sociology (2nd ed.). SAGE Key Concepts series London: SAGE Publications, pp. 136-140.
2012
- Dimond, R. 2012. Preventing mitochondrial disease: What about the patients? [Comment]. [Online]. BioNews 678: BioNews. Available at: http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_196131.asp
- Dimond, R. 2012. Ethical issues in treating mitochondrial disease [Comment]. [Online]. ESRC Genomics Network: ESRC. Available at: http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/cesagen/news/
2009
- Grant, A., Mannay, D., Alberti, G., Needs, J. and Dimond, R. 2009. Postgraduate café papers 2008-9. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2007
- Gregory, M., Boddington, P., Dimond, R., Atkinson, P., Clarke, A. and Collins, P. W. 2007. Communicating about haemophilia within the family: the importance of context and of experience. Haemophilia 13(2), pp. 189-198. (10.1111/j.1365-2516.2006.01417.x)