Clara is a Post-doc Research Associate, within the Division of Care in Long Term Conditions at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, working on a programme of research about diabetes distress in adults with type 1 diabetes. Clara received her ESRC funded PhD in Medical Anthropology at University College London (UCL) in 2024. Her doctoral research in cancer care involved undertaking comparative ethnographic fieldwork in cancer treatment settings. Working with health care professionals delivering and patients receiving personalised medicine Clara’s PhD provides anthropological understanding of the complex and affective nature of personalised medicine care pathways. Specifically, her work underscores the way suffering, hope, uncertainty, and expectation intersect in new and unfamiliar ways as bodies, genes, technologies, and subjectivities become ever more entangled. Clara’s wider research interests include examining the relationality of care, embodiments of trauma, and materialities of hope across cultural contexts and within arenas of chronic and/or life-threatening disease. She also has a research commitment to the anthropology of ethics particularly in relation to biotechnological progress unfolding across and between public and private healthcare organisations.