STS academic staff
UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) includes Professors, Associate Professors, Lecturers, Lecturers (Teaching), and Research Fellows. Finally, Honorary and Emeritus colleagues.
This page lists STS academic staff. This includes those on open-ended and fixed term contracts.
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Professor Jon Agar Professor Agar researches and writes on the history of modern science and technology.
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Professor Chiara Ambrosio Professor Ambrosio is an expert on the interrelations between science, art, and philosophy. Her research focuses on representations across art and science, nineteenth and twentieth century visual culture, the relations between classical Pragmatism and science, and the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile c.ambrosio@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Brian Balmer Professor Balmer has broad research interests in science and technology policy, particularly in relation to the life sciences. His work combines sociological and historical approaches to understanding the nature of scientific expertise and science advice in policy contexts. He has published extensively on the history and sociology of biological and chemical arms control. His other research interests include scientific migration (the ‘brain drain’), the role of volunteers in biomedical research, and the sociology of secrecy. | UCL Profiles b.balmer@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Timothy Boon
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Dr Jenny Bulstrode Dr Bulstrode is a historian of physical sciences, industry, techniques and materials, with particular interest in cross-cultural encounters in experiment and innovation. | UCL Profiles j.bulstrode@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Joe Cain Professor Cain’s research interests emphasise twentieth-century evolutionary studies, Darwin and Darwinism, exploration and empire, the history of natural history and museum, and science in London. | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile personal site j.cain@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Saheli Datta Burton
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Professor Emily Dawson Professor Dawson’s research examines relationships between social justice and science when it becomes ‘public’, whether in museums, schools and universities, activism, the mass media and people’s everyday lives. | |
Dr Theo Di Castri Dr Di Castri is a historian of the recent social sciences with a transnational focus on the Americas and an experimental educator with an action-research practice in Mexico and the UK. | UCL Profiles t.castri@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Karl Dudman Dr Karl Dudman is a Lecturer in Nature, Environment, and Society at UCL STS. With a background in anthropology and environmental governance, I use ethnographic and qualitative methods to explore cases of public non-participation in climate action. In particular, I am interested in the concepts of climate denialism, post-truth, or right wing populism, and how they have shaped the politics of climate change in the last decade | |
Professor Carina Fearnley Professor Fearnley is an interdisciplinary expert in public engagement, focusing on scientific uncertainty and risk, and its communication. Her research focuses on warning systems for hazards and threats, and art/science collaborations. | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile personal site c.fearnley@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Jean-Baptiste Gouyon As a researcher, Professor Gouyon’s investigates the history of the presentation of science in visual media. More broadly he is also interested in the sociology and history of the life sciences and the human animal relationship. He publishes on science museum displays, the history of British science television, and on the history of wildlife film and TV in Britain. He is the author of BBC Wildlife Documentaries in Age of Attenborough (2019). As a teacher, Professor Gouyon runs courses in science communication. He is currently delivering STS courses on Science journalism. He supervises dissertations at all level on any aspect of science communication. | UCL Profiles j.gouyon@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Andrew Gregory Professor Gregory focuses his research on the history of science in the ancient world, especially the history of cosmology and the relations between magic and science. | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile andrew.gregory@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Stephen Hughes Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society Dr Hughes is an expert in science communication and responsible innovation. His work explores emotions at the intersections of science, technology, and society. | UCL Profiles stephen.hughes@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Phyllis Illari Prof Illari is an expert in the philosophy of science, with research interests in causality and the philosophy of information. | UCL Profiles philpapers profile phyllis.illari@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Frank A.J.L. James Research interests centre on the physical sciences, their social and cultural settings between roughly 1780 and 1850 and on the post-1945 cultural debates and the role of science and history of science (he welcomes expressions of interest from potential students in these areas). Currently focussing on Humphry Davy and his contexts, he edited the Correspondence of Michael Faraday. | UCL Profiles frank.james@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Rory Jubber Lecturer in Philosophy of Science Dr Jubber works primarily in the metaphysics of science with a particular focus on properties, composition and the laws of nature. In addition, Dr Jubber is interested in the nature of scientific testimony and the relation between political philosophy, ethics and other areas of philosophy. | UCL Profiles rory.jubber@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Simon Jay Lock Prof Lock’s research interests are centred around the relationship between science and public,the development of science communication, and public engagement with science and technology. | UCL Profiles simon.lock@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Tiago Mata Dr Mata is an expert in the history and sociology of economics and political science. | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile personal site t.mata@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Joanna Octavia Dr Joanna Octavia’s research explores the changing nature of work in the digital age, alongside the governance and broader societal impacts of emerging technologies in the Global South. | UCL Profiles j.octavia@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Cian O’Donovan Dr. Cian O’Donovan is an expert in the politics of technology and responsible innovation | UCL Profiles c.o’donovan@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Maryam Rokhideh Maryam is an expert in risk communication and public engagement, especially in crisis contexts. Her research examines how communities and governments deal with ongoing and emerging threats, including conflict, climate change, health emergencies, and social and technological change. | UCL Profiles m.rokhideh@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand Dr Scott-Fordsmand has a background in philosophy – analytic and continental – but works interdisciplinarity, drawing especially on ethnographic methods. Her research centres on questions in the epistemology of medical practice, the medical body, and on unruly elements of enquiry more broadly, as well as on questions of the use of empirical methods in philosophy. She holds a PhD from a university museum (Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen), and values collaborations with creative practitioners and museum professionals as a core part of her research. | UCL Profiles h.scott-fordsmand@ucl.ac.uk |
| Professor Charlotte Sleigh Professor of Science Humanities Professor Charlotte Sleigh is a researcher, writer and practitioner across the science humanities (science & history, literature, theology) and science communication. In recent years Charlotte has been involved with a number of art and science projects and various forms of climate science communication. She has long-standing research interests in human-animal relations and science fiction. | UCL Profiles 0207 679 4006 c.sleigh@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Melanie Smallman Prof Smallman is an expert on science communication and policy, especially in the area of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile m.smallman@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Erman Sözüdoğru Dr Erman Sozudogru is an interdisciplinary researcher in philosophy of science with a background in pharmaceutical chemistry. Erman combines philosophy of science and science and technology studies approaches in addressing epistemic and practical questions regarding scientific inquiry. In his PhD thesis, Erman focused on understanding how the broader socioeconomic and political context of Neglected Tropical Diseases shape the scientific practices employed to eliminate these diseases. Erman’s research focuses on understanding the scientific inquiry in its broader policy context. | UCL Profiles erman.sozudogru@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Jack Stilgoe Prof Stilgoe is an expert in the governance of emerging technologies. | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile j.stilgoe@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Emma Tobin Dr Tobin is an expert in the philosophy of science; metaphysics of science and philosophy of science in practice. She is particularly interested in the philosophy of biochemistry. | UCL Profiles e.tobin@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Cristiano Turbil Dr Cristiano Turbil’s research explores the relationship between medicine, politics and national identity in modern Europe; he has written on the history of health & science communication; the history of public health in modern Italy, and literature and science. | UCL Profiles c.turbil@ucl.ac.uk |
Dr Michel Wahome Dr. Wahome’s research examines technological and scientific knowledge production in Africa | UCL Profiles m.wahome@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Simon Werrett Prof Werrett is an expert in history of early modern and Enlightenment Science, especially in Europe and Russia. | UCL Profiles Academia.edu profile s.werrett@ucl.ac.uk |
STS Emeritus and Honorary academic staff
| Dr Karen Bultitude Honorary Senior Lecturer in Science Communication | e-mail: k.bultitude |
| Professor Hasok Chang Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science | e-mail: h.chang |
| Professor Donald Gilles Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science and Mathematics | e-mail: donald.gillies |
| Professor Arthur I. Miller Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science | e-mail: a.miller |
| Professor Steve Miller Emeritus Professor of Science Communication and Planetary Science | e-mail: s.miller |
| Dr Carole Reeves Honorary Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies | e-mail: c.reeves |
| Professor Jon Williamson Honorary Professor in Philosophy of Science and Medicine | e-mail: jon.williamson |