Lydia Okoibhole

PhD student
Engagement and Society

Lydia Okoibhole is a first-year PhD student at Wellcome connecting science (Engagement and society) and the University of Cambridge. For her PhD, she is exploring how communities affected by Sickle cell disease engage in genomics. She has previously worked in research roles, most recently working at UCL as a research assistant on the Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE): diabetes in Ghana project, which explored the context and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in urban Ghana. Lydia is very interested in ethnography, participatory methods and community engagement, and lead the design of photovoice sub-study for the CARE project and hopes to use these methods during her PhD. Before working at UCL, Lydia worked at Cancer Research UK on their graduate scheme.