People
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Dayana Ariffin | anthropology and indigenous peoples,science in the Philippines,taxonomy of race,colonial science | s1164818@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Jim Baker | Fire safety in buildings,Sociology of fire safety | University e-mail: s1363854@sms.ed.ac.uk Personal e-mail: jimbaker999@btinternet.com | |
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Geoffrey Banda | Lecturer in Global Food Security and Innovation | Innovation,International development,Science,Regenerative Medicine,Business Models,Financing Innovation,Pharmaceutical Production | 2.03 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards Geoffrey.Banda@ed.ac.uk |
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Justyna Bandola-Gill | Policy construction,Knowledge transfer/exchange,Policy learning,Knowledge production,Evidence & experts in policy,Research impact,Science policy,Knowledge mobilisation,Politics of knowledge,Knowledge brokers,Scientific advice,Impact agenda,Knowledge in policy | Justyna.Bandola-Gill@ed.ac.uk | |
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Sara Bea | Science and technology studies,feminist technoscience,Material Semiotics,inventive methods,ethnography,Organ and tissue donation,Bioengineered Medical Futures,Regenerative Medicine,iPS cellular biotechnology,Nonhuman Animal Studies,Genetic Engineering | S.Bea@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Dominic Berry | Research Fellow | History of science,technology and engineering,Philosophy of science,Synthetic biology,Science and technology studies,History of theories about heredity,Plant breeding,History and philosophy of biology,Agriculture,Agricultural science | G1 Chisholm House Dominic.J.Berry@ed.ac.uk |
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David Bloor | Emeritus Professor | Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 4256 D.Bloor@ed.ac.uk |
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Ronan Bolton | Lecturer | Climate change and energy policy,energy policy and politics,Technology and society,sociology of markets,Sustainability | S1 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6366 Ronan.Bolton@ed.ac.uk |
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Ann Bruce | Associate Director Research (KE & Impact), lecturer | Environment,Participation,Sustainability,Risk,agriculture and food security,interdisciplinarity,GM,animal genetics,Knowledge exchange,animal biosciences,Values | G.32 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6364 a.bruce@ed.ac.uk |
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Jane Calvert | Reader in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies | Science and technology studies,Sociology of Science,Philosophy of biology,Science policy,Engineering studies,Synthetic biology,Systems biology,Interdisciplinary collaborations | High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 9126 Jane.Calvert@ed.ac.uk |
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Gian Marco Campagnolo | Lecturer & Programme Director; Alan Turing Fellow | Valuation Studies,Social Data Science,Sociology of Images,Sociology of Business Knowledge,social studies of markets,Social Studies of ICT | Attic Office Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 2843 g.campagnolo@ed.ac.uk |
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Géraldine Debard | Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (STIS) Administrator | G.46 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 9113 geraldine.debard@ed.ac.uk |
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Diana Carolina Velasco Malaver | National system of innovation,Systems of Innovation,Policing | 447827414244 s1059497@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Lawrence Dritsas | Lecturer; Deputy Director of the Undergraduate School | Science & technology studies,History of science,Colonial/imperial history,Decolonisation,global histories of science technology and medicine,Scottish history,Missionary Encounter | Top floor A.4 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 4011 L.Dritsas@ed.ac.uk |
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Sergio Orozco-Echeverri | Philosophy of science,History of science,Sociology of Knowledge,The Scientific Revolution,Early Modern Science and Philosophy,Science and Religion,Laws of nature | +44 (0) 7986820897 s1504702@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Emma Frow | Honorary Fellow | Science & technology studies,Sociology of Science,Engineering studies,synthetic biology,expertise and interdisciplinarity,Values,Representation in scientific practice | Chisholm House High School Yards emma.frow@ed.ac.uk |
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Miguel Garcia-Sancho | Chancellor's Fellow / Senior Lecturer | History of science,Science and technology studies,science communication,genomics,biotechnology,bioinformatics,animal genetics,biology and agriculture | Room 2.03 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 6506393 miguel.gsancho [at] ed.ac (dot) uk |
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Evi Giannatou | Socio-legal Study,Open Content Licensing,Digital Copyright,Creative Industries | E.Giannatou@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Iain Gillespie | Innogen Visiting Professor | Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards |
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Leah Gilman | Reproduction and assisted conception,Sociology of the family and kinship,Altruism and donation,Sex & Gender,Gift discourses,Medical sociology,Bodies and identity,Research ethics | l.i.gilman@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Owais Golra | Interactive Learning and Innovation,Dynamic Capability,Absorptive Capacity,technological capabilities,Global Value Chains,Knowledge System,Knowledge exchange,innovation systems and theory,theory of firm learning,industrial clustering and proximity | +44(0)7563557556 S1256783@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Nathan Gove | nathan.gove@ed.ac.uk | ||
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Javier Guerrero-C | The war on drugs,Technology and society,Outlaw Innovation,Narcosubmarines,Security | j.guerrero@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Gill Haddow | Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow | Patient experiences,Cyborgs,Sociology of health and illness,Medical sociology,Qualitative Research Methods,embodiment,new scientific and medical technologies,public engagement | 2.05 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0) 131 650 2389 gill.haddow@ed.ac.uk |
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Barbara Haward | History of Occupational Health,Emergence of Health and Safety at work 1840 - 1930,Workers compensation,Workplace disease,Medical sociology | s1267932@ed.ac.uk | |
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Catherine Heeney | Research Fellow, Making Genomic Medicine | Research Ethics,Science and technology,genomics | 2.08 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards 01316506388 Catherine.Heeney@ed.ac.uk |
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John Henry | Director Science Studies | History of western thought,sociology of scientific knowledge,History of science,science and religion | F2 Chisholm House High School Yards John.Henry@ed.ac.uk |
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Eva Maria Hoffmann | +44 (0) 131 651 3207 s1062184@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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Farah Huzair | Lecturer | governance,Innovation,Policy,Life Sciences | G.35 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6386 Farah.Huzair@ed.ac.uk |
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David S. Ingram | Honorary Professor/Honorary Professorial Fellow, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. | Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards d.s.ingram@ed.ac.uk |
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Bill Jenkins | History of science,Pre-Darwinian evolutionary theories,Science and religion in 19th-century Britain,History of the plurality of worlds debate | writetobillj@yahoo.co.uk | |
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Thokozani Kamwendo | My research interests are the formation of disciplines and claims to scientificity. I am also interested in questions about rationality and the dynamics of scientific explanation. | S.T.Kamwendo@exseed.ed.ac.uk | |
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Michael Kattirtzi | sociology of scientific knowledge,Public participation,Behavioural Economics | M.Kattirtzi[AT]sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Niall Kerr | Research Fellow (policy effectiveness) | Climate change and energy policy,Built environment,Policy effectiveness,Cognitive dissonance | B1 Chisholm House High School Yards 01316503984 Niall.Kerr@ed.ac.uk |
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Christine Knight | Senior Research Fellow | food,nutrition,national identity | Christine.Knight@ed.ac.uk |
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Rhodri Leng | Scientometrics,Sociology of Scientific Knowledge,Philosophy of Science,Citation Network Analysis,Social Network Analysis,Research Bias,Citation Bias,Public Health Policy,Science-based Policy,History of Medical Science,Public Policy | +447958146337 s1567359@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Mareike Lührs | Energy Systems,Energy policy,Decentralisation | s1461031@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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James Lowe | Research Fellow | genomics,History of science,History of biological sciences,variation,Translation,biotechnology,Philosophy of science,philosophy of biology | 2.07 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 6502 842 James.Lowe@ed.ac.uk |
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Catherine Lyall | Professor of Science and Public Policy; Head of Science, Technology & Innovation Studies | Policy issues related to the governance of science, technology, innovation,The promotion and management of interdisciplinary research,Research evaluation and the assessment of research impact | G.39 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 2452 c.lyall@ed.ac.uk |
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Valentina Marcheselli | ethnography,Sociology of Knowledge,astrobiology | V.Marcheselli[at]sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Fadhila Mazanderani | Chancellor's Fellow | Social movements,Patient experiences,Public health,Health policy,Sociology of Knowledge,Medical sociology,Social media and internet technologies,Chronic illness,Care ethics | 1.01A Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards f.mazanderani@ed.ac.uk |
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Koichi Mikami | Visiting Research Fellow - Making Genomic Medicine; Project Assistant Professor, Science Interpreter Training Program at University of Tokyo (Japan) | Science and technology studies,Biomedical knowledge(s),practices and technologies,Patient experiences,Genetics and Society, Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs | Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards K.Mikami@ed.ac.uk |
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James Mittra | Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies | Innovation,translational medicine,agrobiotechnology,Pharmaceuticals,risk governance,regulation,stratified medicine,genomics,Regenerative Medicine,Value,Public-private partnerships,collaboration,interdiciplinarity | Room G.33 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 2453 James.Mittra@ed.ac.uk |
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Eileen Mothersole | Secretary | G.43 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6398 E.Mothersole@ed.ac.uk |
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Tair Mukhamadiyev | National innovation systems,World Trade Organization,Transition Economies | s1055791@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Hung The Nguyen | Information Infrastructure Studies,Digital Copyright Exchange,Social consequences of technological change | S1268632@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Natalia Nino | Science and technology,Standars and Classification,Medical Anthropology | s1100389@exseed.ed.ac.uk | |
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Meritxell Ramirez-i-Olle | Sociology of Knowledge,sociology of scientific knowledge,Paleoclimatology,trust,scepticism,Research methods,Politics of climate change science | m.ramirez-olle@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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George Papamichail | g.papamichail@sms.ed.ac.uk | ||
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Sarah Parry | Senior Lecturer | Gender and Environment,Gender and Technology,Gender,Environment and Health,Environment and Social Change | Attic Room A.2 Chisholm House High School Yards ++44 (0)131 650 4262 sarah.parry@ed.ac.uk |
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Pattamaporn Prachomrat | National system of innovation | s0975678@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Mason Robbins | Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies,Politics of Football,IR and Middle East,Diplomacy,Big Data Analytics,Ranking Systems,Football and IT Companies,Microsoft,Deloitte,Real Madrid,Spanish Football,Sports Management | +44 (0)745 025 5096 m.robbins-2@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Eugenia Rodrigues | Senior Research Fellow | environment,monitoring,surveillance,new technologies,new social media,public engagement,citizen science | A3 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 651 4751 Eugenia.Rodrigues@ed.ac.uk |
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Abel Villa | Science and technology studies,agriculture,Global Value Chains,technological capabilities,innovation networks,organic agriculture,Cooperation and Value creation,Small-scales farmers | 07983139345 s1254422@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Karina E Romo Medrano M | K.E.Romo-Medrano-Mora@sms.ed.ac.uk | ||
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Alvaro Saez | Evidence & experts in policy,Sociology of (scientific) Knowledge,Disasters,Social theory,Green politics/cities,Quantitative Methods,Systems and Complexity Theory,Science in the Law | s1268040@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Pablo Schyfter | Lecturer; Director of Science and Technology in Society MSc. | Sociology of knowledge,Science and technology studies,Gender,Feminist Theory,Engineering studies,Phenomenology,Philosophy of biology,Philosophy of technology | A2 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 4262 p.schyfter@ed.ac.uk |
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Deborah Scott | Research Fellow | governance of emerging science and technology;,Science and technology studies,synthetic biology,Science policy,knowledge politics,international law | G.01 Chisholm House High School Yards +44(0)131 650 6345 Deborah.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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Antti Silvast | Research Fellow - European Energy Policy and Markets | Energy & Infrastructure,Climate change and energy policy,European Union,Risk and vulnerability,Social Studies of Finance,Everyday Life,Sociological Theory | B.1 Chisholm House High School Yards +44(0)131 650 3427 antti.silvast@ed.ac.uk |
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Graham Spinardi | Ove Arup/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow in Integrating Technical and Social Aspects of Fire Safety, | Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6394 G.Spinardi@ed.ac.uk |
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Klaus Staubermann | Honorary Fellow / Principal Curator of Technology | National Museums Scotland +44 (0) 131 247 4357 k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk |
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James Stewart | Research Fellow and Lecturer | Technology and society,Media and society,Political Economy of Market Microstructure,Policy issues related to the governance of science,technology,innovation,Work & Labour,Social media and internet technologies,Space,place and the city,Social network analysis,Open Content Licensing,Computer models and simulations for policy,Social Shaping of Internet and Society,Digital Work,digital culture,digital research,Digital games and social inclusion,Innovation in elderly care,EU Policy,crowdsourcing,ICTs and development,,telecoms policy and innovation,Innovation,Open Data,Domestic Technology,the family,Mobile communications,Social Inclusion,ICTs in Social and Employment Policy,Digital Divide,participatory design,digital evidence | 2:02 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6392 J.K.Stewart@ed.ac.uk |
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Paul Stollard | v1pstoll@exseed.ed.ac.uk | ||
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Steve Sturdy | Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge; Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator in Medical Humanities | History of science and medicine,Medical sociology,sociology of scientific knowledge,genomics | 2.08 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 651 4741 S.Sturdy@ed.ac.uk |
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Hyojung Sun | digital culture,Internet research,copyright issues,popular music,Creative Industries | H.Sun-8@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Erika Szymanski | Research Fellow | synthetic biology,yeast,science communication,rhetoric,wine,Interdisciplinary collaboration | G.01 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 4258 Erika.Szymanski@ed.ac.uk |
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Joyce Tait | Director, Innogen Institute | Innovation-governance-stakeholder interactions in life science and related areas: cell therapies and regenerative medicine,synthetic biology,GM technologies,drug development,stratified medicine,and biofuels.Innovation-governance-stakeholder interactions in life science and related areas: cell therapies and regenerative medicine,and biofuels.,Strategic and management decision making in companies and public bodies; policy analysis; risk assessment and regulation; stakeholder attitudes; science and risk communication; evaluation and application of interdisciplinary research; sustainable development.Strategic and management decision making in companies and public bodies; policy analysis; risk assessment and regulation; stakeholder attitudes; science and risk communication; evaluation and application of interdisciplinary research; sustainable development. | G.36 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 9174 joyce.tait@ed.ac.uk |
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Daniel Thorpe | environmental politics,aerospace science and technologies,technopolitics,ethnography,Knowledge transfer/exchange,Sociology of Science & Technology,postcolonial science and technology studies,Situational analysis | D.Thorpe@ed.ac.uk | |
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Vasilis Tsiatouras | Soviet Mathematics,Economic Anthropology,Economic Sociology,Organizational Studies,Sociocybernetics | V.Tsiatouras-2@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Sara Valencia | Clinical Trials,Clinical regulation,Knowledge transfer/exchange,Knowledge managment,Latin America,Shared Knowledge,Vaccines | s1260565@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Anne Valentine | Research Administrator | G.46 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 2388 A.Valentine@ed.ac.uk |
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Niki Vermeulen | Lecturer in history/sociology of science; Wellcome Research Fellow | Science & technology studies,History of science and medicine,Social Organisation of Knowledge,Science policy,Innovation,Life Sciences | Attic - Room A1 Chisholm House High School Yards +44(0)131 650 6396 Niki.Vermeulen@ed.ac.uk |
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Matjaz Vidmar | Innovation,Innovation theory,Sectoral Systems of Innovation,Systems of Innovation,Science and technology,Knowledge transfer/exchange,Anthropology of Knowledge,Institutional knowledge production and practices,Knowledge managment,Entrepreneurship,Business Incubation,Space,aerospace science and technologies,Policy | +44 (0)131 668 8461 m.vidmar@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Faye Wade | Career Development Fellow (Energy and Society) | Climate change and energy policy,Heat,Domestic energy,Building professionals,Technology and society | B1 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6399 Faye.Wade@ed.ac.uk |
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Michel Wahome | Technology and society,Innovation,Kenya,sustainable development | m.n.l.wahome@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Xiaona Wang | Intellectual History of Science,History of science and medicine,The Scientific Revolution,Science and religion | s1357591@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Andrew Watkins | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Science,technology and development,National innovation systems,Global Health Policy,Regional development,Entrepreneurship and regional development,Regulation and innovation,Inclusive innovation,Institutional capacity building,Entrepreneurial finance,Intermediaries and knowledge exchange | 2.07 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards Andrew.Watkins@ed.ac.uk |
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Alison Wheatley | donor insemination,gamete donation,denmark,gender,Masculinities | A.L.Wheatley@sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Valeri Wiegel | Technology and Innovation Studies,Biography of Artefact,Social Shaping of Technology,Social Learning,Information Infrastructures | v.wiegel@ed.ac.uk | |
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David Wield | Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh; Professor of Innovation and Development at the Open University; Co-Director, Innogen Institute | biotechnology,agriculture,Food Security,Policy,regulation,governance,development,innovation,health,Pharmaceuticals,Africa,capacity building,GM,India,interdisciplinarity,Research methods,Innovation in health care life sciences,development and global health,public-private collaboration in genomics and biotechnology | 2.07 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6385 david.wield@ed.ac.uk |
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Robin Williams | Director, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies; Research Adviser, and Postgraduate Research Adviser, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Subject Group | Room 2.09 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 650 6387 Robin.Williams@ed.ac.uk |
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Mark Winskel | Senior Chancellor's Research Fellow on Energy Innovation | sociology of energy innovation,expertise and interdisciplinarity,sociotechnical system change,energy policy and politics,research-policy exchange,energy organisations and institutions,innovation systems | F3 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0)131 651 4086 Mark.Winskel@ed.ac.uk |
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Mark T. O. Wong | Research Assistant | Big data,Social network analysis,Digital Sociology,Data Science,History of science and technology,Social Data Science,social media,bioinformatics,Social Policy,API,digital age,Bibliometric,Digital Social Research | 2.07 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards 0131 650 4256 Tsun.On.Wong@ed.ac.uk |
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Chris Mellingwood | Communication theories,sociology of scientific knowledge,public understanding of science,narrative and metaphor,Engineering studies,Science and technology studies,Biotechnologies | c.r.mellingwood[at]sms.ed.ac.uk | |
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Steven Yearley | Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge | Environment,citizen science,Justice and environment,Environmental Sociology,Sociology of knowledge and science,Sustainability,Sociology of Climate Change | 2.06 Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards +44 (0)131 651 4747 steve.yearley@ed.ac.uk |
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Chihwei Yeh | Science policy,Sociology of science,Representation of science,Social aspect of big science and basic research,CERN,Science communication | +44 (0) 131 651 4274 s1347642@sms.ed.ac.uk |
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Peter Zeniewski | Chancellor's Fellow, Energy and Society | energy security,energy politics,Energy policy,EU Energy Policy,natural gas | F3 Chisholm House High School Yards +44 (0) 131 651 1396 Peter.Zeniewski@ed.ac.uk |
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Giorgos Zoukas | Sociology of Scientific Knowledge,Science Communication,Internet Studies | G.Zoukas[AT]sms.ed.ac.uk |