Robert Pralat
- Affiliated Lecturer
About
I am a medical sociologist based at The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Previously, I worked in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge where I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. From 2017 to 2022, I was the medical sociology subject manager on the MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society. Before studying for a PhD, I worked in the Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research at UCL. I have a multidisciplinary background, with a BSc in Psychology and an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Sociology from Cambridge.
Research
I study how advances in medicine transform healthcare practices, intimate relationships and the ways people imagine the future. Much of my work has explored how sexual minorities and people living with HIV approach new possibilities that enable them to become parents, furthering the understanding of how technology changes reproduction. In recent years, my research has expanded into other areas of health, advancing a sociological analysis of cultures and systems of medicine while examining challenges facing the English NHS.