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Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.

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Margaret Acton

Secretary

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Dr Rosalind Attenborough

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow: Open and Healthy Research Cultures

  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social studies of biology and medicine
  • Studies of the life sciences
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Jose Antonio Ballesteros Figueroa

PhD Student

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Not just energy futures
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Technology and material culture
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Dr Michael Barany

Senior Lecturer in the History of Science

  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
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James Besse

PhD Student. Title: "The Implementation of the EU Settlement Scheme."

  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
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Ronan Bolton

Reader

  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Finance and economic sociology
  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Technology and material culture
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Kate Bowell

PhD Student

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Ann Bruce

Senior Lecturer

  • Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
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Sophie Buijsen

PhD title: Knowing Sex: A qualitative study of the knowledge practices and experiences of teenage girls in Scotland and the Netherlands

  • Childhood & Youth
  • Children, families and relationships
  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Intimacy
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
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Jane Calvert

Professor of Science and Technology Studies

  • Social studies of biology and medicine
  • Studies of the life sciences
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Dr Gian Marco Campagnolo

Senior Lecturer & Alan Turing Inaugural Fellow

  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Studies of information and communication technology
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Dr Mark Cassidy

Research Fellow (TransFIRe)

  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Benedetta Catanzariti

PhD Candidate

  • Data & Digital
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Studies of information and communication technology
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Ben Collier

Lecturer in Digital Methods

  • Criminal justice
  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Methods
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Studies of information and communication technology
  • Technology and material culture
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Anna Couturier

PhD Student

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Fiona Coyle

PhD Student

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Morgan Currie

Senior Lecturer in Data & Society

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
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Jarmo De Vries

PhD student

  • Data & Digital
  • Health & Well-being
  • Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
  • Social studies of biology and medicine
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Technology and material culture
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Géraldine Debard

Subject Academic Support Officer - Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (STIS)

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Dr Lawrence Dritsas

Senior Lecturer and Head of Subject

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Studies of the life sciences
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Nathalie Dupin

PhD title: The Influence of Interdisciplinary Training on the Next Generation of Scientists

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Andrey M. Elizondo

PhD Student

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Lukas Engelmann

Chancellor's Fellow, Senior Lecturer - History and Sociology of Biomedicine

  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Race and decolonial thought
  • Social studies of biology and medicine
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
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Daniel Essapo

PhD Student

  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
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Denisea Fernandez

PhD Student

  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Intimacy
  • Technology and material culture
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Isabel Fletcher

Senior Research Fellow

  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social studies of biology and medicine
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Miss Julie Ann Fooshee

PhD Student

  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Health & Well-being
  • Health inequalities, disability and older people
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Kinship, bodies and relatedness
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Studies of information and communication technology
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Emma Frow

Honorary and visiting staff

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Vassilis Galanos

Teaching Fellow and Research Fellow

  • Culture
  • Data & Digital
  • Digital sociology
  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Methods
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Studies of information and communication technology
  • Technology and material culture
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Miguel Garcia-Sancho

Senior Lecturer

  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
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Iñaki Goñi

PhD Student

  • Governance & Democracy
  • Science, knowledge and policy
  • Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
  • Studies of information and communication technology
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Eva Gray

PhD Student

  • Culture
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Gender Politics Research Group
  • Technology and material culture
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Professor Gill Haddow

Professor of Sociology of Medicine and Technology

  • Health & Well-being
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Methods
  • Social studies of biology and medicine
  • Technology and material culture
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Professor Emeritus John Henry

Honorary and Visiting Staff

  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
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Dr Rebekah Higgitt

Honorary Fellow

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Jarita Holbrook

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Culture
  • Identities & Inequalities
  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Kaja Horn

PhD Student

  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
  • Work & Economy
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Farah Huzair

Lecturer

  • Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
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Sofie Illemann Jæger

PhD Student

  • Data & Digital
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Professor David S. Ingram

Honorary Professor

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Paradzayi Jawona

PhD Student

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Dr Kirsten E H Jenkins

Lecturer in Energy, Environment and Society

  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Energy, environment and sustainability
  • Environment and energy
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Dr Niall Kerr

Research Fellow - 'Integrate' and 'Going Dutch' projects

  • Energy, environment and sustainability
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Dr Gladys Kostyrka

Research Fellow

  • Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
  • Social studies of biology and medicine
  • Studies of the life sciences
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Anna Kuslits

PhD student

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Rhodri Ivor Leng

ESRC Postdoctoral Researcher in the Sociology of Science

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Yu-Chen Lin

PhD Student

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Andreas Lindemann

PhD student

  • Energy & Sustainability
  • Governance & Democracy
  • Technology and material culture
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Professor Catherine Lyall

Professor of Science and Public Policy

  • Science, knowledge and policy
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Fadhila Mazanderani

Chancellor's Fellow

  • Social studies of biology and medicine