Andrew Hackett

Andrew’s research is multidisciplinary and considers the impact of the Equality Act 2010 on healthcare commissioning decisions in the UK and the way these differ across the four nations. Taking the funding of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (a highly effective HIV prevention drug) as a case study, he is using a range of broadly Foucauldian scholarship on biopower and governmentality to analyse the effects of different actors in this area, as well as by conducting interviews with medical professionals, lawyers, sexual health commissioners, academics and activists. These interviews have included key figures relating to the litigation between the National AIDS Trust and the government in 2016 concerning the refusal to fund PrEP. To date, there has been little scholarship which has taken a holistic, socio-legal analysis of these events which has clear implications for contemporary and future sociolegal scholarship, sexuality studies as well as science and technology studies.