Naomi Marshall

Naomi is a postdoctoral research assistant in the CELS group at the Centre for Human Genetics. She works alongside Susie Weller on two qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) projects – one funded by the ESRC and investigating genomic care; the other funded by the MRC-NIHR and exploring patients’ experiences of diagnostic liminality, which forms part of Rare Disease Research UK. 

Naomi is a medical anthropologist with a background in sociocultural anthropology and bioethics. Her research interests include societal attitudes towards genetic difference, anti-eugenic scholarship, disability advocacy, and reproductive decision-making.

She recently completed her DPhil in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research explored people’s experiences with the genetic condition neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and engaged with literature on genetic identity and biopolitics.

Prior to her doctoral work, Naomi completed an MA in Bioethics at Emory University as a Robert T. Jones Scholar. Her master’s thesis analysed the moral and technical significance of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing.