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STS Postgraduate (Research) students pursue doctoral studies, leading to a PhD or MPhil. This directory lists current and former students. It is current from September 2023.
Current STS postgraduate (research) students are listed here. They develop a digital presence as part of their training programmes, and links here are to resources they maintain themselves.
STS doctoral students 2023-2024
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| Ballo, Rokia | (Social) science for policy during Covid-19 |
| Belli, Antonia | Containing Knowledge: The Material History of Medicine Chests in Early Modern Italy |
| Bocca, Carlos | Mechanistic Explanation in Systems Neuroscience |
| Buchan, Nicholas | Identification and assessment of risk from latent-hazard activities in biotechnology and nanotechnology and their implications for human, animal and plant health |
| Cavaliere, Iosepho | An in-depth Exploration of Italy's Brain Drain Phenomenon and its Modern Implications |
| Clerkin, Shannon-Marie | TBC |
| Coates, Rebecca | From Deficit to Dialogue? The role of the Royal Institution in COPUS from 1985-2002 |
| Crowson, Jaspreet | How are ‘accountability’ and ‘responsibility’ perceived amongst practitioners of AI? |
| Dickinson, Jonathan | TBC |
Elton, Julia | Nineteenth-century lighthouse engineering practice in France, Scotland and England and its international impact. |
| Fajinmi, Oluwadamilola | Medical Device Reimbursement in the United States |
| Falco, Elena | How can we foster good practices in crowdsourced knowledge-production? |
| Francis, Ryan | Guided Scientific Inferences for Non-Empirical Physical Theories |
| Garrison, Jesse | Material Culture of Research on the Solar Atmosphere During the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Heath, Victoria | 'Follow the science'? How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on young people's engagement with healthcare science communication |
| Hill, Rachel | Rocketing Imaginaries: Futurity and (Extra)Planetary Environments in The Visualities of Spaceflight |
| Hilmer, Cecilie | Mission-oriented research funding and public engagement - democratizing innovation or masking a hegemony of thought? |
Johnstone, Robert | Seeing the light? Research into the export trade in window glass and associated technology from Britain to the British Atlantic colonies in the 18th and 19th Centuries. |
| Keir, Scott | The Royal Institution and COPUS: lessons from the 1980s and 1990s to inform 21st century public engagement |
| Kidd, Bethany | Resourcing the New Science, 1660-1760 |
| Ktori, Elena | The Art, Science and Philosophy of Electronic Music and Sound |
| Kubota, Tadafumi | The 'Imagined Publics' in Science Policy: A Study of Public Engagement around Advisory Committees |
| Lin, Shih-Jung | Taiwan's COVID-19 Vaccine Controversy and its Normative Implications |
| Liu, Xiaoyu | Introducing Geophysics at the British Geological Survey, 1920's to 1950's |
| Love Soper, Jake | International comparisons of the ways different governments used science in their policy response to the Covid crisis. |
| Luca, Laura | E-Government for All? The role of technology relating to the processes and mediation of diverse citizen-state interaction |
| Lucas, Catherine | The singing machine: science, music and speech in the long 19th century |
| Maun, Lucy | Urban humans, wild animals and the technology between them: improving technosocial care in human-animal interactions with a focus on conservation and wild animal management |
| Mercier, Delphine | People and objects in museums: Engaging with them and producing knowledge |
Gender, Technology, and Makerspaces | |
Ranford, Paul | Sir George Gabriel Stokes Bart. (1819-1903) – his impact on science and scientists |
| Salgardo D'Arcy, Roshan | Science Communication Onscreen: How are Public Perceptions of Science Affected by the Media? |
| Tang, Xiangchu | The Social Studies of FinTech |
| Tao, Yiran | From Aetiology to Treatment: Causation and Pluralism in Psychiatry |
| Tennison, David | Epistemic injustice and the interactions of patients and doctors outside the traditional clinical power hierarchies |
| Thomas, Kylo | Black women's counterstories of working in UK Higher Education Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| Von Albertini, Greta | Therapeutic Screens: A multi-method research project on AI-based psychotherapy |
| Zhang, Mengxi | Senior citizens' acceptance and engagement in emerging health technologies |
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Completed Postgraduate (Research) Students
These students completed their doctoral studies in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) since 2000). Recent dissertations are available online.
| Katz, Osnat | 2023 | From London to Mars and Back to London: People, Objects and the History of UK Space Science | |
| Memon, Rakhshi | 2023 | Ethical issues in Randomised Clinical Trials for Adolescents who Self-Harm: the limits of equipoise and evidence in a cultural context | |
| Guzman Gamez, Santiago | 2023 | Science for Colombia: scientific nationalism, and the case of Enrique Pérez Arbeláez 1929-1957 | |
| Brown, Joseph | 2022 | The Land Experiments in Colour Vision - Colour as a Physical, Phenomenological and Synthetic Object | |
| Weil, Benjamin | 2022 | Bad Blood: A Critical Inquiry into UK Blood Donor Activism | |
| Bossoh, Nathan | 2022 | Science, Empire, and Polymathy in Victorian Society: George Douglas Campbell, The 8th Duke of Argyll | |
| Griffiths, Jonathan | 2022 | Soul, Cosmos and Mathematics in Plato's Timaeus | |
| Van Laun, John | 2021 | John Cooke Bourne (1814-1896), Lithographer 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway, 1836-1839' | |
| Zhang, Qinyuan | 2021 | Behind the laboratory: political psychology, military culture and science in the Japanese biological and chemical warfare programme (1933-1945) | |
| Boyle, Alison | 2020 | Stories and silences in modern physics collections: an object biography approach | |
| Martin, Rebecca | 2020 | Normalising whiteness: the use of standardised anatomical models in British university teaching, 1860-1910 | |
| Cristalli, Claudia | 2020 | Charles Sanders Peirce and 19C psychology: a Pragmatist development of philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, and other stories | |
| Bankes, Edward | 2020 | A scientist walks into a bar: exploring science comedy as a form of science communication | |
| Jubber, Rory | 2020 | Character, objects and properties | |
| Jones, Erika | 2019 | Making the Oceans Visible: Science and Technology on the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) | |
| Pantazakos, Themistoklis | 2019 | Scientific realism under the lens of processual ontology | |
| Aparicio De Narvaez, Alberto | 2019 | ‘Accept no limits’: a study of responsibility in xenobiology. | |
| Mankoo, Alexander | 2019 | A Historical Sociology of Teargas Technology | |
| Lawrence-Mackey, Farrah | 2019 | Medical extractions in the 'Red' Atlantic: Translating A Mi'kmaq smallpox cure in the mid-nineteenth century | |
| Wills, Hannah | 2019 | The diary of Charles Blagden: information management and the gentleman of science in eighteenth-century Britain | |
| Lloyd, Hattie | 2019 | Rulers of Opinion: women at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1799-1812 | |
| Harrison, Sadie | 2018 | The Conspicuous Body: Science and Fashion in Early Modern England | |
| Sanchez-Dorado, Julia | 2018 | Scientific representation in practice: models and creative similarity | |
2018 | Information and control: inventing the communications revolution in Post-War Britain |
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2018 | "Nah, musing is fine. You don't have to be 'doing science'": emotional and descriptive meaning-making in online non-professional conversations about science |
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2018 | “Pluralism, values and context: understanding the boundaries of plurality in scientific practices in the case of neglected tropical diseases” |
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2018 | Scientific migration and the brain drain in Mexico |
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2018 | “We are not science museums but Ke Ji Guan”: A study of Ke Ji Guan in China and their visitors’ identity-related motivations. |
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Quinn Schone, Harry | 2018 | What do we talk about when we talk about disease? |
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2018 | A Humean account of laws and causation |
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2017 | The common culture: promoting science at The Royal Institution in Postwar Britain |
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Campbell, Christopher | 2017 | The chemistry of relations: the periodic table examined through the lens of C.S. Peirce's philosophy |
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2017 | Fixing the Gap: an investigation into wheelchair users' shaping of London transport |
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Wilson, Jennifer | 2017 | Crystallographer and Campaigner: The life and work of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971) |
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2017 | The Search for Ancient DNA in the Media Spotlight: A Case Study of Celebrity Science |
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2017 | Neglect in Policy Problems: The Case of 'Neglected Tropical Diseases' |
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2017 | The Affect of Fosterage in Medieval Ireland |
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2017 | Breeding resilience: plant biodiversity and climate change |
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Smith, Paul | 2016 | The Development of Horticultural Science in England, 1910-1930 |
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Au, Yin Chung | 2016 | Synthesising heterogeneity: trends of visuality in biological sciences |
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2016 | Exemplarising Science: From Mendel to de Vries |
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2016 | The impact of 10 years of public dialogue in science |
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2015 | Nanotechnology |
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Chou, Ju-Yi | 2015 | From insiders to outsiders: British homeopathy as a medical reform movement, 1875-1893 |
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2015 | Commercial and Sublime: popular astronomy lectures in nineteenth-century Britain |
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Ratcliffe, Steph | 2015 | Natural Kinds and chemical processes |
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Nissen, Timothy | 2014 | Incorporating societal concerns into research and development of security centric technologies |
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2014 | The Society of Arts and cultures of invention and experiment |
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Cho, Hyun Sook | 2014 | Korean BSE protests |
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Everett, Jonathan | 2013 | Kantian approaches to the philosophy of science |
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Vijayan, Shana | 2013 | Performance Anxiety: The nature of performance management in the NHS under New Labour. |
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2011 | Impartiality in Clinical Trials |
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Serpente, Norberto | 2011 | Cells from Icons to Symbols: Molecularising Cell Biology in the 1980s |
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2011 | Who's for the planets? - An analysis of the 'public for space exploration' and views of practitioners on their 'publics' and public communication. |
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Morley, Irenie | TBC | The MMR Controversy |
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McCabe, Irena | 2012 | Second Best as Researcher, Second to None as Populariser? The Atmospheric Science of John Tyndall FRS (1820-1893) |
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2010 | Causation in Medicine |
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2010 | Harnessing non-modernity: A case study in Artificial Life |
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Jones, Allan | 2010 | History of science broadcasting in the BBC |
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Kroener, Inga | 2010 | CCTV - A Technology Under the Radar? |
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2009 | No Natural Home: Placing the Promise of Biopharming |
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Priestley, Mark | 2008 | Logic and the invention of programming languages |
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2008 | Scientists' views on the scientific method |
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2007 | Iconicity, models and visual metaphors in Pablo Picasso: Creativity, network thinking and visual cognition |
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Taylor, Georgette | 2006 | Variations on a theme: Patterns of congruence and divergence among 18th century chemical affinity theories |
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Washer, Peter | 2006 | Representations of newly emerging and re-emerging diseases |
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Godwin, Matthew | 2005 | Anatomy of the 'Brain Drain' in UK after WW2 |
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Jackson, Catherine | 2009 | From analysis to synthesis: Organic chemistry in the 19th century |
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Leung, Danny | 2005 | Physiological and biological thinking in late nineteenth-century English medicine, with reference to Clifford Allbutt |
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2009 | Lost in translations: Discourses, boundaries and legitimacy in the public understanding of science in the UK |
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Gooneratne, Sakura | 2005 | White dwarfs: the controversy between Chandrasekhar and Eddington 1930-1936 |
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2004 | Mobile health risks: attempting a sociology of public science |
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2004 | The Importance of Place: A History of Genetics in 1930s Britain |
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Bregman, Leigh | 2003 | "Snug Little Coteries": A History of Scientific Societies in Early Nineteenth Century Cape Town, 1824-1835 |
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2003 | Corporate uses of "transparency" in GM food controversies |
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2002 | Galileo's mathematical philosophy |
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2001 | The Social and Intellectual Origins of Sir Francis Galton’s (1822-1911) Ideas on Heredity and Eugenics |
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2000 | Narratives of geneticization: cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and schizophrenia |
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pre-2000 PhDs not listed |
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