School of Social and Political Science

Profile

PhD candidate in the doctoral programme in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Edinburgh. Previously trained in infectious disease science and medical anthropology, Cristina is interested in developing an understanding on how infections, biomedicine, science and societies intersect.

Using ethnographic and historical methods, her doctoral research investigates antimicrobial stewardship, one of the main biomedical interventions being implemented to mitigate the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in healthcare settings.

Her research has received funding from an Alice Brown scholarship at the School of Social and Political Science of the University of Edinburgh and a Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Fellowship.