Ros Williams

Ros’ work spans across Science and Technology Studies (STS), critical media studies, sociologies of race and ethnicity, and of health and illness.

Ros joined the University of Sheffield in 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher on a Leverhulme-funded digital health project. From 2019-2023, Ros led a Wellcome Trust early career fellowship, exploring racialised bone marrow stem cell donor recruitment. As of 2023, they act as Associate Director for the ESRC Digital Good Network. They are also a co-invesigator on the Yorkshire Cancer Research-funded E-Immune programme.

Since 2024, Ros has been Editor at the journal Sociology of Health and Illness and, before this (2020-2023), acted as Associate Editor of the STS journal New Genetics and Society. Ros currently chairs the Social Sciences and Humanities Early Career Awards Interview Panel for Wellcome Trust’s Discovery Award scheme (2023-26), having previously sat on the panel as an interviewer (2022-23).

Ros previously worked at the University of Warwick as a Teaching Fellow, teaching quantitative and qualitative research methods, material on science and society, and social theory. Their PhD was awarded by the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) at the University of York in 2016. Ros was supervised by Professor Nik Brown and wrote a thesis exploring the ‘archival practices’ of contemporary public-use stem cell tissue banking and the transitory nature of biomedical standards.