Below is a list of our past PhD students and their thesis titles, which are linked to our online library.
| Name | Year | PhD Title | |
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| Jim Baker | 2019 | 'Suitable and Sufficient'? UK Regulation of Post-construction Fire Safety. | |
| Justyna Bandola Gill | 2019 | Between Autonomy and Engagement: Interpreting and Practising Knowledge Exchange in UK Academia. | |
| George Papamichail | 2019 | The implementation challenge of smart specialisation innovation strategies in catch-up regions: The role of institutions, governance and capacity building. | |
| Hung The Nguyen | 2019 | The Dynamics of Expectations & Linked Ecologies: A case study of the Copyright Hub. | |
| Daniel Thorpe | 2019 | Unbundling 'Indigenous Space Capability': Actors, Policy Positions and Agency in Geospatial Information Science in Southwest Nigeria. | |
| Xiaona Wang | 2019 | 'Though their Causes be not yet discover'd': Occult Principles in the Making of Newton's Natural Philosophy. | |
| Chihwei Yeh | 2019 | Particle Physics in Public: Legitimising Curiosity-driven Research on the Higgs Boson and beyond. | |
| Giorgos Zoukas | 2019 | Climate blogging in a post-truth era: Opportunities for action and interaction. Mainstream scientist-produced climate blogs as a climate science communication niche. | |
| Natalia Nino | 2018 | Growing Right: Unpacking the WHO Child Growth Standards Development and their implementation in Colombia. | |
| Sara Valencia | 2018 | A model to study the flow and use of knowledge in Outsourced Knowledge Intensive projects: A multi-case study of three vaccine clinical trials in Latin America. Countries researched: Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. | |
| Abel Villa | 2018 | Global Value Chains (GVC) and Social Learning. Developing Producer Capabilities in Smallholder Farmers. The case of San Francisco Produce/Peninsula Organics. | |
| Tarmphong Chobisara | 2017 | Partnership and Biobank Governance | |
| Sara Bea | 2017 | No Heroics, Please: Mapping Deceased Donation Practices in a Catalan Hospital | |
| Leah Gilman | 2017 | Qualifying kinship: How do UK gamete donors negotiate identity-release donation? | |
| Javier Guerrero | 2017 | Maritime interdiction in the war on drugs in Columbia: practices, technologies and technological innovation (a.k.a. narco-subs) | |
| Michael Kattirtzi | 2017 | “Challenge and be challenged”: A history of social research capacity and influence in DEFRA and DECC, 2001-2015 | |
| Zara Thokozani Kamwendo | 2017 | Heuristics and Biases to Behavioural Economics: A Sociology of a Psychology of Error | |
| Pattamaporn Prachomrat | 2016 | Public sector R & D and innovation in an emerging country: An analysis of knowledge flow between public and private sectors in the Thai National System of Innovation. | |
| Malissa Shaw | 2016 | Embodied Agency and Agentic Bodies: Negotiating Medicalisation in Colombian Assisted Reproduction | |
| Vera Mugittu | 2016 | Influencing innovation structures and processes in agro-industries dominated by subsistence providers: the analysis of the rural poultry industry in Tanzania | |
| Hyojung Sun | 2016 | Digital Disruption in the Recording Industry | |
| Eva Hoffmann | 2016 | Computer Science in Afghanistan: A Situational Analysis of University Lecturers | |
| Valeri Wiegel | 2016 | Biographies of an innovation: an ecological analysis of a strategic technology project in the auto-industry | |
| Pat Byrne | 2016 | Hurling together with technology: Appropriation of the mobile phone in the everyday life of an Irish community group | |
| Pattamaporn Prachomrat | 2015 | Public sector R & D and innovation in an emerging country: An analysis of knowledge flow between public and private sectors in the Thai National System of Innovation | |
| Meritxell Ramírez-Ollé | 2015 | The Making of Dendroclimatological Knowledge. A symmetrical account of trust and scepticism in science. | |
| Vasilis Tsiatouras | 2015 | Mathematics and the USSR: organising a discipline | |
| Alison Wheatley | 2015 | Good soldiers, good guys, and good parents: the meanings of donation and donated tissue in the context of the Danish donor sperm industry. | |
| Eun Sun Kim | 2015 | Facilitating innovation in SMEs: the case of public intermediaries in South Korea | |
| Evi Giannatou | 2015 | Exploring the sociotechnical dynamics of the Creative Commons Licenses: the case of Open-Content filmmakers | |
| Diana Velasco | 2015 | Innovation systems in developing contexts: A top-down and bottom-up approach to the Colombian National System of Innovation and the coffee, flower and sugarcane production chains | |
| William Jenkins | 2015 | New perspectives on Edinburgh Lamarckians and other transformist thinkers. Evolutionary debates in the Athens of the North, 1790–1844 | |
| Joseph Blessin | 2014 | 'Scientist Sade' and discovery in the high Enlightenment | |
| Jee Hyun Suh | 2014 | The co-evolution of an emerging mobile technology and mobile services: A study of the distributed governance of technological innovation through the case of WiBro in South Korea | |
| Seyed Emamian | 2014 | British electricity policy in flux: paradigm ambivalence and technological tension | |
| Diego de la Hoz del Hoyo | 2014 | A different kettle of fish: Turning around how computer modelling counts for (fisheries) policy-making | |
| Shishusri Pradhan | 2013 | From Green Revolution to Green Gold: The Evolution of the Indian National Mission on Biodiesel | |
| Laur Kanger | 2013 | Domestic PC Production in Soviet Baltic States 1977–1992 | |
| Ali Maleki | 2013 | Dynamics of Knowledge Base Complexity: an Inquiry into Oil Producing Countries' Struggle to Build Innovation Capabilities | |
| Emma King | 2013 | Blood, Sweat and Tears: a Case Study of the Development of Cultured Red Blood Cells for Transfusion | |
| João Rangel de Almeida | 2012 | The 1851 International Sanitary Conference and the Construction of an International Sphere of Public Health | |
| V.P.J. Arponen | 2012 | The Cultural Causes of Environmental Problems: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Action | |
| Isabel Fletcher | 2012 | Obesity: a Historical Account of the Construction of a Modern Epidemic | |
| James Wood | 2011 | The Natural Guardian of the Race: Heredity, Hygiene, Alcohol and Degeneration in Scottish Psychiatry c.1860–1920 | |
| Xiang Fang | 2011 | Risk and Social Construction of Nuclear Power Development in China: Local People's Participation in Civil Nuclear Issues in China at the Start of the 21st Century (Sociology) | |
| Fraser Stewart | 2011 | Scotland's Rubbish: Domestic Recycling, Policy and Practice in Everyday Life (Sociology) | |
| Olga Morawczynski | 2010 | Examining the Adoption, Usage and Outcomes of Mobile Money: the Case of M-PESA in Kenya | |
| Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra | 2010 | Computerising Gentlemen: the Automation of the London Stock Exchange, c.1945–1995 | |
| Chih-Tung (Morgan) Huang | 2010 | Shaping Environmental "Justices" | |
| Moxuan Li | 2010 | To See China in a Grain of Genetically Modified Rice: a Case Study on the Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology in China (Sociology) | |
| Claudia Monica Garcia | 2009 |
From Medical Geography to Germ Theory in Colombia, 1860–1900 |
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| Siân Beynon-Jones | 2009 | Expertise and Scottish Abortion Practice: Understanding Healthcare Professionals' Accounts | |
| Zoe Keddie | 2009 | Communications in General Practice and the Domestication of ICT (Politics) | |
| Christine Grimm | 2009 | Inside a Secret Software lab: an Ethnographic Study of Software Package Development | |
| Josipa Petrunic | 2009 | Quaternion Engagements and Terrains of Knowledge (1858-1880): a Comparative Social History of Peter Guthrie Tait and William Kingdon Clifford | |
| Pablo Schyfter | 2009 | Entangled Ontologies: a Sociophilosophical Analysis of Technological Artefacts, Subjects, and Bodies | |
| Gethin Rees | 2009 | Corroboration, Consent and Community: a Meaning Finitist Account of the Forensic Medical Examination of Rape and Penetrative Sexual Assault Complainers in Scotland | |
| Graeme Beale | 2009 | Tinbergian Schooling: a Case Study in the Field and Laboratory Methods and Practice of the Animal Behaviour Research Group under Nikolaas Tinbergen at Oxford University | |
| Tzung-De Lin | 2009 | Japan Fuzzified: the Development of Fuzzy Logic Research in Japan | |
| David Leung | 2008 | Accounting in the Wild: an Adventure in Ethnoaccountancy | |
| Donna Messner | 2008 | Fast Track: the Practice of Drug Development and Regulatory Innovation in the Late Twentieth Century U.S | |
| Matthew Harsh | 2008 | Living Technology and Development: Agricultural Biotechnology and Civil Society in Kenya | |
| Phoebe Cochrane | 2008 | Community Involvement in Woodlands: governance and social benefits | |
| Rebecca Hanlin | 2008 | Partnerships for Vaccine Development: building capacity to strengthen developing country health and innovation | |
| Shu-Lin Chiang | 2008 | An Interpretive Approach to Digital Divide Policy-Making: a comparative study of China and Taiwan | |
| Nicola Marks | 2008 | Opening up Spaces for Reflexivity? Scientists' Discourses about Stem Cell Research and Public Engagement (Medical Science) | |
| Alex Voss | 2007 | Corealisation: a radical respecification of the working division of labour in systems development (Informatics) | |
| Antonios Kaniadakis | 2007 | The Agora of Techno - Organisational Change | |
| David Stearns | 2007 | Think of it as Money: a history of the VISA payment system,1970-1984 | |
| Martina Gerst | 2007 | The Socio-Technical Dynamics of ICT Innovation: a social shaping analysis of portals | |
| Mei Wang | 2007 | Cultivating the 'Generic Solution': the emergence of a Chinese Product Data Management (PDM) software package | |
| Nils Markusson | 2007 | Cleaner Innovation? A political process approach to environmental aspects of process technology innovations | |
| Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen | 2006 | Meaning Change in the Context of Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy (Philosophy) | |
| Alexander Hilliam | 2005 | University Research Linkages to the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry | |
| Heidi Poon | 2005 | Life before Darwin: body, mind and soul in Britain, 1815-1859 (Divinity) | |
| Akiko Hemmi | 2005 | E-learning and Technical Change in Universities: a comparative case study of Japanese and Scottish higher education (Sociology) | |
| Dimitra Laspia | 2005 | Power and the Exercising Body: a study of Foucault and the gym experience (Sociology) | |
| Catherine Lyall | 2005 | Concurrent Power: the role of policy networks in the multi-level governance of science and innovation in Scotland (Sociology) | |
| Jinsang Hwang | 2005 | The Social Shaping of ICTs Standards: a case of national character set standards controversy in Korea (Sociology) | |
| Lorna Campbell | 2004 | Principle and Practice: an analysis of nineteenth and twentieth century euthanasia debates (1854–1969) (Clinical and Surgical Sciences) | |
| Sang-Hyun Kim | 2004 | Making the Science of Global Warming: a social history of climate science in Britain (Sociology) | |
| Bella Vivat | 2004 | The Whole and the Parts: spiritual aspects of care in a West of Scotland Hospice (Geography) | |
| Irene Rafanell | 2004 | The Sexed and Gendered body as a Social Institution: a critical reconstruction of two social constructionist models: Bourdieu's theory of habitus and the performative theory of social institutions (Sociology) | |
| Angela Cassidy | 2004 | Of Academics, Publishers and Journalists: popular evolutionary psychology in the UK | |
| Ki-heung Kim | 2003 | From Scrapie to Prion Disease: the social construction of a novel infectious agent | |
| Sarah Parry | 2003 | Debating Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning: multiple meanings, competing constructions | |
| Yuval Millo | 2003 | Where do Financial Markets Come From?: historical sociology of financial derivatives markets (Sociology) | |
| Scott Gallacher | 2003 | Social Learning and Multimedia Innovation in a Corporate Environment (Sociology) | |
| James Stewart | 2002 | Encounters with the Information Society: personal and social issues in the appropriation of new media products in everyday life: adoption, non-adoption, and the role of the informal economy and local experts | |
| Joseph Fitsanakis | 2002 | The Nerves of Government: electronic networking and social control in the information society (Politics) | |
| Patricia Soley-Beltran | 2001 | Transsexualism and the Heterosexual Matrix: a critical and empirical study of Judith Butler's performative theory of gender | |
| Sarah Glover | 2001 | Shaping the 'Right Stuff': gender, technology and the cultures of aviation | |
| Stuart Hartley | 2001 | Robert Jameson, Geology, and Polite Culture, 1796–1826: natural knowledge enquiry and civic sensibility in late enlightenment Scotland | |
| W. Morrice McCrae | 2001 | The Scottish Roots of the National Health Service (History) | |
| Jonathan Adams | 2000 | Unconventional Therapies in General Practice: boundary construction, identity and authentication | |
| Ngai Fen Cheung | 2000 | The Childbearing Experiences of Chinese and Scottish Women in Scotland (Sociology) | |
| Massimo Mazzotti | 1999 | The Geometers of God: mathematics in a conservative culture, Naples 1780–1840 | |
| Matthias Klaes | 1999 | The Emergence of Transaction Costs in Economics: a conceptual history | |
| Edward Fisher | 1999 | The Politics of the Linguistic Turn: a Wittgensteinian analysis and critique of the role of language in contemporary political theory (Politics) | |
| Ian Graham | 1999 | The Construction of Electronic Markets (Business Studies) | |
| Min-Jeong Kang | 1998 | Universality and Network Evolution: the cases of Korea Information Infrastructure and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) development (Business Studies) | |
| Kai Jakobs | 1998 | User Participation in Standardisation Processes: impact, problems and benefits (Computer Science) | |
| Elaine Thomson | 1998 | Women in Medicine in late 19th and 20th-Century Edinburgh: a case study | |
| Paul Taylor | 1998 | Hackers: a case study of the social shaping of computing | |
| Xiaobai Shen | 1998 | Technology Transfer and the Acquisition of Technological Capabilities: the development of public digital switching technology in China | |
| Mark Winskel | 1998 |
Privatisation and Technological Change: the case of the British electricity supply industry |
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Donald Hislop |
1997 | Capabilities, Strategy and Environment: Organizational Change in the UK’s Defence Industrial Base, 1989-1995 | |
| Ca Tran Ngoc | 1997 | Learning Technological Capability in Developing Countries: case of two industries in Vietnam: textile/garment and electronics | |
| Lez Rayman-Bacchus | 1996 | The Practice of Strategy (Business Studies) | |
| Simon Dresner | 1996 | Sustainability: a survey and critical analysis | |
| Spiros Gangas | 1995 | Relativism, Vitalism and Modernity in Georg Simmel's Social Theory (Sociology) | |
| Charlotte Methuen | 1995 | Keplers Tübingen: stimulus to a theological mathematics (Ecclesiastical History) | |
| E. Anne Kerr | 1995 | Feminising Science: linking theory and practice | |
| Tim Jordan | 1992 | Reinventing Revolution: value and difference in new social movements and the Left | |
| Ehud Rahat | 1990 | Metaphor Through an Evolutionary Perspective on Meaning (Philosophy) | |
| Anne Elder | 1990 | Breathing Life into the Wooden Model: a participant observation study of technical change | |
| Abigail Barrow | 1989 | Acquiring Technological Capabilities: the CNC machine tool industry in industrialising countries, with special reference to South Korea | |
| Eloina Pelaez | 1988 | A Gift from Pandora's Box: The software crisis | |
| Graham Spinardi | 1988 | The Development of U.S. Ballistic Missile Technology: Polaris to Trident | |
| Alfonso Molina | 1987 | The Socio-Technical Basis of the Microelectronics Revolution: a global perspective | |
| Steve Sturdy | 1987 | A Co-Ordinated Whole: the life and work of John Scott Haldane | |
| David Smith | 1986 | Nutrition in Britain in the Twentieth Century | |
| Moses Banda | 1985 | The Gwembe Valley: a study of local resource mobilisation in Zambia | |
| Paul Baxter | 1985 | Science and Belief in Scotland, 1805-1868: the Scottish Evangelicals | |
| Andrew Stoker | 1984 | Technology Transfer in the Indian and Indonesian Pharmaceutical Industries | |
| Andrew Pickering | 1983 | A History of Particle Physics: a sociological analysis | |
| Anton Eberhard | 1983 | Technological Change and Rural Development: a case study in Lesotho | |
| Malcolm Nicolson | 1983 | The Development of Plant Ecology, 1790–1960 | |
| Michael Barfoot | 1983 | James Gregory (1753-1821) and Scottish Scientific Metaphysics, 1750–1800 | |
| Paul Mosley | 1983 | Regulation of the River Huang: a study of the Chinese concept of river basin development | |
| Peter Bolton | 1983 | The Regulation of the Zambesi in Mozambique: a study of the origins and impact of the Cabora Bassa project | |
| David Newman | 1982 | Utilitization of Sugar Cane By-products: appropriate and inappropriate technology in Mauritius | |
| Jan Bialy | 1982 | Energy Flows in Subsistence Agriculture: a study of a dry zone village in Sri Lanka | |
| William Harvey | 1981 | The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: a case study in the sociology of science | |
| Ben Crow | 1981 | The politics and technology of sharing the Ganges | |
| John Dean | 1980 | A Naturalistic Model of Classification and its Relevance to some Controversies in Botanical Systematics, 1900–1950 | |
| Stephen Jacyna | 1980 | Scientific Naturalism in Victorian Britain: an essay in the social history of ideas | |
| Terry Winnington | 1979 | Technology and Innovation in a Mexican Village | |
| Michael Fears | 1978 | The 'Moral Treatment' of Insanity: a Study in the Social Construction of Human Nature | |
| David Hart | 1977 | The Volta River Project: a case study in politics and technology | |
| Donald MacKenzie | 1977 | The Development of Statistical Theory in Britain, 1865–1925 | |
| Leonard E. Schwartz | 1974 | Shaping of a Public Policy for Artificial Rainmaking, 1946–1958 | |
| John Law | 1972 | Specialities in Science: a sociological study of x-ray crystallography |