People
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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Dr J. P. (James Phillip) Ascher
Research Fellow
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Methods
- Studies of information and communication technology
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
Dr Geoffrey Banda
Senior Lecturer - Global Food Security and Innovation
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
- International development
- Science, technology and innovation
Dr Jenny Bangham
Lecturer in the History of Medicine
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Identities & Inequalities
- Race and decolonial thought
- Social studies of biology and medicine
Dr Michael Barany
Senior Lecturer in the History of Science
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
James Besse
PhD Student. Title: "The Implementation of the EU Settlement Scheme."
- Science, technology and innovation
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
Kate Bowell
PhD Student
Ann Bruce
Professor of Innovation in Food Systems
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
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
Jane Calvert
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Studies of the life sciences
Dr Gian Marco Campagnolo
Senior Lecturer & Alan Turing Inaugural Fellow
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Studies of information and communication technology
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
Dr Benedetta Catanzariti
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
- Data & Digital
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
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
Morgan Currie
Senior Lecturer in Data & Society
- Cities
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
Lara Dal Molin
PhD Student
- Data & Digital
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
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
Géraldine Debard
Subject Academic Support Officer - Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (STIS)
Dr Lawrence Dritsas
Senior Lecturer and Head of Subject
- Cultural Heritage
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Studies of the life sciences
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
Daniel Essapo
PhD Student
- Cities
- Culture
- Data & Digital
- Digital sociology
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
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
Emma Frow
Honorary and visiting staff
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
Miguel Garcia-Sancho
Senior Lecturer
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
Iñaki Goñi
PhD Student
- Governance & Democracy
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Studies of information and communication technology
Dr Victoria Gorton
Lecturer in Data and Society
- Data & Digital
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
Eva Gray
PhD Student
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Technology and material culture
Professor Gill Haddow
Professor of Sociology of Medicine and Technology
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Methods
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Technology and material culture
Professor Emeritus John Henry
Honorary and Visiting Staff
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
Dr Rebekah Higgitt
Honorary Fellow
Jarita Holbrook
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- Science, knowledge and policy
Hadewych Honné
PhD Student
- Health & Well-being
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Studies of the life sciences
Kaja Horn
PhD Student
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Work & Economy
Farah Huzair
Lecturer
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
Sofie Illemann Jæger
PhD Student
- Data & Digital
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Science, knowledge and policy
Professor David S. Ingram
Honorary Professor
Paradzayi Jawona
PhD Thesis: Science Technology and Innovation- Innovation of Assistive Technologies in resource constrained environments
- Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health)
- International development
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Technology and material culture
Dr Kirsten E H Jenkins
Senior Lecturer in Energy, Environment and Society
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
Dr Niall Kerr
Research Fellow - 'Integrate' and 'Going Dutch' projects
- Energy, environment and sustainability
Dr Abby King
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (DARE Home)
- Data & Digital
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Technology and material culture
Dr Gladys Kostyrka
Research Fellow
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Studies of the life sciences
Dr Rhodri Ivor Leng
Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
Yu-Chen Lin
PhD Student
Andreas Lindemann
PhD student
- Energy & Sustainability
- Governance & Democracy
- Science, technology and innovation
Professor Emeritus Catherine Lyall
Emerita Professor of Science and Public Policy
- Science, knowledge and policy
Carolina Mayes
Research Fellow
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- Science, technology and innovation
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
- Technology and material culture
Fadhila Mazanderani
Chancellor's Fellow
- Social studies of biology and medicine
Dr Adolfo Mejía-Montero
Lecturer in Energy, Society and Sustainability
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Not just energy futures