Fakes
Patricia Kingori explores the potential for fakes to reveal hidden truths and considers the ethics of using fakes as a revelatory or investigative method.
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About Patricia Kingori


Professor Kingori is a sociologist whose work focuses on the ethics of global health. Her Wellcome-funded ‘Fakes, Fabrications and Falsehoods in Global Health’ research project explores concerns about the roles that fakes, authenticity and quality play in global health and the process of discerning the ‘real’ in everyday settings.
Podcast: Exploring The Genuine Fake
Projects
April Fakes Day
The Museum of Revelatory Fakes
2025 events
John Myatt & Professor Patricia Kingori in conversation
April Fakes Day 2025: The Third Man
Spot The Fake
Makers and Fakers: How copies, replicas, casts and fakes ‘make’ museum collections
April Fakes Day 2025 Events: 5th & 6th April
April Fakes Day 2025: Parasite
Blog
#Fake: The Zimbabwe Bird and Cecil Rhodes’ Legacy
April Fakes: Bust of Queen Nefertiti
April Fakes Day 2024: The Yoro Waterfall
Dispelling the myths: the true story of the Windrush Generation
The Fake (Fake) Artist
David E.H. Jones: In Perpetual Motion
The Psychic Detective
John Howard Griffin: Black Like me
April Fakes Day 2024: Bust of Queen Nefertiti
Talks
Publications
Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces | Click here
Kenya's "Fake Essay" Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production | Click here
Revelation or confirmation? The ‘fake probe’ in global health | Click here
Scholarly Publishing, Boundary Processes, and the Problem of Fake Peer Reviews | Click here
“Fake” Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, “Predatory” Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem | Click here
Why the pseudo matters to global health | Click here
Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals | Click here
The masking and making of fieldworkers and data in postcolonial Global Health research contexts | Click here
Morals, morale and motivations in data fabrication: Medical research fieldworkers views and practices in two Sub-Saharan African contexts | Click here
More information
Podcast: listen to Patricia on A Podcast Of One's Own | Click here
Talk: Fakes and Facts In A Pandemic | Click here