I will be speaking at the Barbican at Battle of Ideas on October 22nd and 23rd on genome editing and doping in sport:
http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2016/speaker/12040
If you are a student and would like to attend the weekend of events and debate at the Barbican, please note that there are discounted tickets available! Check the Barbican website for more info.
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An almost complete (I hope!) list of my academic works on the topic of hyperandrogenism, and eligibility criteria for participation in the female category from 2009 up to now can be found here (email me to request PDFs of articles if you don’t have access):
Op-eds can be found here:
And you can find some of my early academic work on Caster Semenya here:
IMPORTANT!
Here you can download the original IAAF documents on Hyperandrogenism Regulations (they have been taken off website since suspension of regulation in July 2015 following CAS ruling)
IAAF guidelines Eligibility Hyperandrogenism May 2011
IAAF Hyperandrogenism Regulations – Appendices
MEDIA AND OUTREACH
Radio and Television Commentary and Expert Opinion
Al Jazeera Inside Story (May 2019, Television)
Commentary on CAS ruling against Caster Semenya:
BBC Radio 5 (May 2019, Radio)
Commentary on CAS ruling against Caster Semenya:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0769g7f
BBC Radio London (May 2019)
Commentary on CAS ruling against Caster Semenya:
BBC Inside Science (April 2019, Radio)
Commentary on experiments carried out at Yale University to reanimate pig heads:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00046sj
BBC Big Questions (June 2017, Television)
Panelist for episode “Is it ethical to interfere with the genome?”:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08vg018/the-big-questions-series-10-episode-20
BBC News Hour Extra (July 2016, Radio)
Commentary for: “A flickering flame: Is the Olympic ideal dead?”:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04263n3
BBC World Service (March 2015, Radio)
Commentary on Dutee Chand’s case:
https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/what-makes-a-woman
BBC Have Your Say (March 2015, Radio)
Commentary on Dutee Chand’s case:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02m31rq
BBC Radio 4 News (March 2015, Radio)
Commentary on Dutee Chand’s case:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mrc53
BBC World News (February 2015, Television)
Commentary on the case of eugenics victims receiving compensation for sterilization in Virginia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kDev7pyloM
My work on Caster Semenya has been quoted in mainstream media and other professional outlets:
IMPORTANT!
Here you can download the original IAAF documents on Hyperandrogenism Regulations (they have been taken off website since suspension of regulation in July 2015 following CAS ruling)
In this AEON Idea, published on July 21st, and written in collaboration with the London Health & Society Hub, James Knuckles and I argue that the only way to make professional sports sustainable in the longer term and solve the problem of widespread doping is to transform the financial matrix that supports and endorses it.
How can we do that?
Richard Virenque of the Festina team in the 1995 Tour de France. Photo by Anders/Flickr.
We can start with the idea that athletes should not be the only ones held to account (in the sense of liability) for doping. In practice, this means changing WADA’s system of strict liability for the athlete. To do so, we first need a stakeholder analysis to understand who the relevant stakeholders are for each team, athlete or sport. WADA could require teams or individual athletes and their entourages to submit something akin to a classic organisational chart, showing who reports to whom, who pays whom, and who makes decisions for whom.
The next step would be to assign liability to the appropriate stakeholder(s). Here, we think that the individuals identified through the stakeholder analysis as possessing the most power or control over the ‘organisation’ should be held personally liable for the doping of the athlete(s) under their control. In some cases, the organisations themselves will have corporate responsibility.
You can read the full piece here:
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-solution-to-doping-is-to-extend-the-blame-beyond-athletes
If you are interested in writing for the London Health & Society Hub you can send us a pitch for your Idea to:
londonhealthsocietyhubATgmail.com
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Prof. Silvia Camporesi 
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