Catherine Montgomery awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
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STIS’ Dr Catherine Montgomery has received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for a new project, Data and the ‘Healthcare Revolution (DARE).
The award is worth almost €2million over the five-year project.
Catherine is one of 321 researchers across Europe to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant, with a total sum of €657 million. There were only 31 successful applicants in the UK, and Catherine is one of just two at the University of Edinburgh.
The aim of the grant is to help excellent scientists, who have 7 to 12 years’ experience after their PhDs to pursue their most promising ideas.
Catherine Montgomery said: “Data is changing healthcare. But how and to what effect? DARE will answer these questions through comparison across multiple data technologies, fields of medicine, and contexts of use. The research will provide a novel comparative and context-specific framework for understanding how informatics and medicine are re-shaping each other and how data-driven healthcare is changing conceptions of health, illness and personhood. In doing so, it will make a major sociological contribution to our understanding of healthcare in the era of digital transformation.”