STS academic staff

Professor Jon Agar
Joint Head of Department and Professor in Science and Technology Studies

Professor Agar writes on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology. 

Dr Chiara Ambrosio
Associate Professor in History and Philosophy of Science

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.

Professor Brian Balmer
Professor in Science Policy Studies

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. 

Dr Jenny Bulstrode
Lecturer in History of Science and Technology

Dr Bulstrode is a historian of physics, with particular interest in the
universalising claims of science and capitalism, and cross-cultural
encounters in experiment, innovation, and materials.  

UCL IRIS Profile
0207 679 1471
e-mail: j.bulstrode

Professor Joe Cain
Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

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. 

Dr Saheli Datta Burton
Lecturer (Teaching) in Science Policy (Responsible Research and Innovation)

Dr Datta Burton’s research focuses on the (trans)national governance of emerging technologies with a focus on data-driven health and digital technologies.
 

Dr Carina Fearnley
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies

Dr Fearnley is an expert in public engagement, focusing on the science of risk and its communication. 

Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
Associate Professor in Science Communication

Dr Gouyon is an expert in Science Communication and Science in the Media. 

Professor Andrew Gregory
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science

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.  

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
0207 679 4005
e-mail: stephen.hughes

Professor Phyllis Illari
Professor in Philosophy of Science

Prof Illari is an expert in the philosophy of science, with research interests in causality and the philosophy of information.

Professor Frank A.J.L. James
Professor of History of Science

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.

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. 
Outside of academic philosophy Dr Jubber takes an active interest in the political landscape of Southern Africa. 
 

Dr Simon Jay Lock
Associate Professor of Science Communication and Governance

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. 

Dr Tiago Mata
Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies

Dr Mata is an expert in the history and sociology of economics and political science.

Dr Cian O'Donovan
Senior Research Fellow

Dr Cian O'Donovan is an expert in the politics of innovation, especially digital transformations in long term care.

UCL IRIS Profile
0207 679 4008
c.o'donovan

Dr Siabhainn Russell
Research Fellow

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
0207 679 9020
e-mail: siabhainn.russell

Dr Charlotte Sleigh
Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Studies of Science

Dr 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 IRIS profile
0207 679 4006
e-mail: c.sleigh

Dr Melanie Smallman
Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies

Dr Smallman is an expert on science communication and policy, especially in the area of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).

Dr Erman Sözüdoğru
Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Medicine

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.

Professor Jack Stilgoe
Professor of Science and Technology Policy 

Prof Stilgoe is an expert in the governance of emerging technologies.

Professor Emma Tobin
Joint Head of Department and Professor of Philosophy of Science

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.

Dr Noemi Tousignant
Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies and Wellcome Trust University Award Research Fellow

Dr Tousignant is an expert in medical anthropology, studying policy development in subsaharan Africa. 

Dr Cristiano Turbil
Lecturer in History of Medicine

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.

Dr Michel Wahome
Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society

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email: m.wahome
 

Professor Simon Werrett
Professor in History and Philosophy of Science

Prof Werrett is an expert in history of early modern and Enlightenment Science, especially in Europe and Russia.