UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) includes Professors, Senior Lecturers, Readers, 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.
| Professor Jon Agar Professor Agar writes on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology. | UCL IRIS profile Blog: STS-observatory 0207 679 3521 e-mail: jonathan.agar | |
| Dr Chiara Ambrosio Dr 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 IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 0166 e-mail: c.ambrosio | |
| Professor Brian Balmer Professor Balmer has been a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University. His research interests include policies for biotechnology and genetics, military technology and arms limitation, and the sociology of science. | UCL IRIS profile 0207 679 3924 e-mail: b.balmer | |
| Dr Jenny Bulstrode Dr Bulstrode is a historian of physics, with particular interest in the | UCL IRIS Profile | |
| 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 IRIS profile Academia.edu profile personal site 0207 679 3041 e-mail: j.cain | |
![]() | Dr Saheli Datta Burton
| UCL IRIS profile e-mail: saheli.burton | |
![]() | Dr Carina Fearnley Dr Fearnley is an expert in public engagement, focusing on the science of risk and its communication. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile personal site phone: 0207 679 4414 e-mail: c.fearnley | |
| Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon Dr Gouyon is an expert in Science Communication and Science in the Media. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 3490 e-mail: j.gouyon | |
| 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 IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 2490 e-mail: andrew.gregory | |
Dr Stephen Hughes Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society Dr Hughes is delivering a Responsible Innovation programme to EPSRC CDT doctoral students across UCL. He is interested in exploring the intersection of emotion and responsibility in research cultures. | UCL IRIS Profile | ||
| Professor Phyllis Illari Prof Illari is an expert in the philosophy of science, with research interests in causality and the philosophy of information. | UCL IRIS profile philpapers profile 0207 679 2486 email: phyllis.illari | |
| 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 IRIS profile 0207 679 7713 email: frank.james | |
![]() | Dr Rory Jubber Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in the 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 IRIS profile 0203 108 9196 e-mail: rory.jubber | |
| Dr Simon Jay Lock Dr 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 IRIS profile 0207 679 3763 e-mail: simon.lock | |
| Dr Tiago Mata Dr Mata is an expert in the history and sociology of economics and political science. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile personal site 0203 108 4412 e-mail: t.mata | |
![]() | Dr Cian O'Donovan Dr Cian O'Donovan is an expert in the politics of innovation, especially digital transformations in long term care. | UCL IRIS Profile | |
![]() | Dr Siabhainn Russell Dr Siabhainn Russell is a Research Fellow working on the Empowering Future Care Workforces interdisciplinary project. Dr Russell's background is in political science mainly concentrating on how public policy develops. She specialises in devolved policy and how policy develops and has an interest in how this relates to social care. | UCL IRIS Profile | |
![]() | Dr Charlotte Sleigh | UCL IRIS profile | |
| Dr Melanie Smallman Dr Smallman is an expert on science communication and policy, especially in the area of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile e-mail: m.smallman | |
| 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 IRIS profile personal site 0207 679 2959 email erman.sozudogru | |
![]() | Professor Jack Stilgoe Prof Stilgoe is an expert in the governance of emerging technologies. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 020 3108 1344 email: j.stilgoe | |
| 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 IRIS profile 0207 679 1321 e-mail: e.tobin | |
| Dr Noemi Tousignant Dr Tousignant is an expert in medical anthropology, studying policy development in subsaharan Africa. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile e-mail: n.tousignant | |
| Dr Cristiano Turbil Dr Turbil researches history of science and medicine in Europe in the modern period. His current research focuses on the history of evolution and the ‘science of the mind’ in Europe, especially how evolution and experimental psychology were discussed by scientists, philosophers and amateurs between 1870 and 1920. | UCL IRIS Profile email: c.turbil | |
![]() | Dr Michel Wahome | UCL IRIS profile | |
| Professor Simon Werrett Prof Werrett is an expert in history of early modern and Enlightenment Science, especially in Europe and Russia. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 3261 email: s.werrett |
STS Emeritus and Honorary academic staff
Dr Karen Bultitude Honorary Senior Lecturer in Science Communication | email: k.bultitude |
Professor Hasok Chang Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science | email: h.chang |
Professor Donald Gilles Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science and Mathematics | e-mail: donald.gillies |
Mr Nicholas Maxwell Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science | e-mail: nicholas.maxwell |
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 | email: c.reeves |