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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.

 

Prof. Jon Agar

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. 

UCL Profiles
Blog: STS-observatory
0207 679 3521
e-mail: jonathan.agar

 

Dr Chiara Ambrosio

Professor Chiara Ambrosio
Professor in History and Philosophy of Science

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
0207 679 0166
e-mail: c.ambrosio 

 

Prof. Brian Balmer

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. 

UCL Profiles
0207 679 3924
e-mail: b.balmer

 

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Dr Jenny Bulstrode
Lecturer in History of Science and Technology

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
e-mail: j.bulstrode

 

Professor Joe Cain

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. 

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
personal site
0207 679 3041
e-mail: j.cain
Saheli

Dr Saheli Datta Burton
Lecturer 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.
 

UCL Profiles
e-mail: saheli.burton
 

Professor Emily Dawson
Professor of Education, Science and Society

Prof Dawson is an expert on public engagement, with a focus on equity and different ways diverse communities engage science museums and events. 

e-mail: sts@ucl.ac.uk

 

Dr Carina Fearnley Science and Technology Studies UCL

Professor Carina Fearnley
Professor of Science Communication and Warning Research

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

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
personal site
phone: 0207 679 4414
e-mail: c.fearnley 

 

Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon

Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
Associate Professor in Science Communication

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

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
0207 679 3490
e-mail: j.gouyon 

 

Prof. Andrew Gregory

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.  

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
0207 679 2490
e-mail: andrew.gregory
S Hughes

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
0207 679 4005
e-mail: stephen.hughes

 

Dr Phyllis Illari

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.

UCL Profiles
philpapers profile
0207 679 2486
email: phyllis.illari

 

Professor Frank James

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.

UCL Profiles
0207 679 7713
email: frank.james

rory_jubber

Dr Rory Jubber

Lecturer 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. 
 

 

UCL Profiles
0203 108 9196
e-mail: rory.jubber

 

Dr Simon Lock

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. 

UCL Profiles

0207 679 3763
e-mail: simon.lock

 

Dr Tiago Mata

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.

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
personal site
0203 108 4412
e-mail: t.mata

Dr Cian O'Donovan

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 Profiles
0207 679 4008
c.o'donovan

Dr Charlotte Sleigh - STS Lecturer (Teaching)

Dr Charlotte Sleigh
Associate Professor 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 Profiles
0207 679 4006
e-mail: c.sleigh

 

Dr Melanie Smallman

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).

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
e-mail: m.smallman

 

Dr Erman Sozudogru

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.

UCL Profiles
0207 679 2959
email erman.sozudogru

Prof Jack Stilgoe

Professor Jack Stilgoe
Professor of Science and Technology Policy 

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

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
020 3108 1344
email: j.stilgoe

 

Dr Emma Tobin

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.

UCL Profiles
0207 679 1321
e-mail: e.tobin

 

Dr Noemi Tousignant

Dr Noemi Tousignant
Associate Professor 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. 

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
e-mail: n.tousignant

 

Dr Cristiano Turbil

Dr Cristiano Turbil
Associate Professor 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.

UCL Profiles
Twitter
email: c.turbil
Dr Michel Wahome

Dr Michel Wahome
Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society

UCL Profiles
email: m.wahome
 

 

Dr Simon Werrett

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. 

UCL Profiles
Academia.edu profile
0207 679 3261
email: s.werrett

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
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
e-mail: c.reeves
Professor Jon Williamson
Honorary Professor in Philosophy of Science and Medicine
e-mail: jon.williamson