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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
student | subject |
| 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 | What is the influence of narrative in the cybersecurity AI imaginary? |
| Coates, Rebecca | From Deficit to Dialogue? The role of the Royal Institution in COPUS from 1985-2002 |
| Crowson, Jaspreet | How are 鈥榓ccountability鈥� and 鈥榬esponsibility鈥� 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'?听 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 |
| 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) 鈥� his impact on science and scientists |
| Salgardo D'Arcy, Roshan | Science Communication Onscreen:听 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 |
| 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)听since 2000). 听are available online.
| Thomas, Kylo | 2024 | Black women's experiences of Working in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in UK Universities.听 Labour.听 Care.听 Abolition. | 听 |
| Kubota, Tadafumi | 2024 | The 鈥業magined Publics鈥� in Science Policy: A Study of Public Engagement around Advisory Committees | 听 |
| Allegra, Alessandro | 2024 | The division of labour in the practice of scientific advice to policy in the European Union | 听 |
| 2023 | From London to Mars and Back to London: People, Objects and the History of UK Space Science | 听 | |
| Memon, Rakhshi | 2023 | Ethical issues in Randomised Clinical Trials for Adolescents听 who Self-Harm: the limits of equipoise and evidence in a cultural context | 听 |
| Guzman Gamez, Santiago | 2023 | Science for Colombia: scientific nationalism, and the case of Enrique P茅rez Arbel谩ez 1929-1957 | 听 |
| Brown, Joseph | 2022 | The Land Experiments in Colour Vision -听 Colour as a Physical, Phenomenological and Synthetic Object | 听 |
| 2022 | Bad Blood: A Critical Inquiry into UK Blood Donor Activism | 听 | |
| 2022 | Science, Empire, and Polymathy in Victorian Society: George Douglas Campbell, The 8th Duke of Argyll | 听 | |
| 2022 | Soul, Cosmos and Mathematics in Plato's Timaeus | 听 | |
| Van Laun, John | 2021 | John Cooke Bourne (1814-1896), Lithographer 'Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway, 1836-1839' | 听 |
| Zhang, Qinyuan | 2021 | Behind the laboratory: political psychology, military culture and science in the Japanese biological and chemical warfare programme (1933-1945) | 听 |
| 2020 | Stories and silences in modern physics collections: an object biography approach | 听 | |
| 2020 | Normalising whiteness: the use of standardised anatomical models in British university teaching, 1860-1910 | 听 | |
| 2020 | Charles Sanders Peirce and 19C psychology: a Pragmatist development of philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, and other stories | 听 | |
| 2020 | A scientist walks into a bar: exploring science comedy as a form of science communication | 听 | |
| Jubber, Rory | 2020 | Character, objects and properties | 听 |
| Jones, Erika | 2019 | Making the Oceans Visible: Science and Technology on the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) | 听 |
| 2019 | Scientific realism under the lens of processual ontology | 听 | |
| 2019 | 鈥楢ccept no limits鈥�: a study of responsibility in xenobiology. | 听 | |
| Mankoo, Alexander | 2019 | A Historical Sociology of Teargas Technology | 听 |
| 2019 | Medical extractions in the 'Red' Atlantic: Translating A Mi'kmaq smallpox cure in the mid-nineteenth century | 听 | |
| 2019 | The diary of Charles Blagden: information management and the gentleman of science in eighteenth-century Britain | 听 | |
| Lloyd, Hattie | 2019 | Rulers of Opinion: women at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1799-1812 | 听 |
| Harrison, Sadie | 2018 | The Conspicuous Body: Science and Fashion in Early Modern England | 听 |
| 2018 | Scientific representation in practice: models and creative similarity | 听 | |
听 | 2018 | Information and control: inventing the communications revolution in Post-War Britain | 听 |
| 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 | 听 |
2018 | 鈥淧luralism, values and context: understanding the boundaries of plurality in scientific practices in the case of neglected tropical diseases鈥� | 听 | |
2018 | Scientific migration and the brain drain in Mexico听 | 听 | |
2018 | 鈥淲e are not science museums but Ke Ji Guan鈥�: A study of Ke Ji Guan in China and their visitors鈥� identity-related motivations.听 | 听 | |
Quinn Schone, Harry | 2018 | What do we talk about when we talk about disease? | 听 |
2018 | A Humean account of laws and causation | 听 | |
2017 | The common culture: promoting science at The Royal Institution in Postwar Britain听 | 听 | |
Campbell, Christopher | 2017 | The chemistry of relations: the periodic table examined through the lens of C.S. Peirce's philosophy | 听 |
2017 | Fixing the Gap: an investigation into wheelchair users' shaping of London transport | 听 | |
Wilson, Jennifer | 2017 | Crystallographer and Campaigner: The life and work of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971) | 听 |
2017 | The Search for Ancient DNA in the Media Spotlight: A Case Study of Celebrity Science | 听 | |
2017 | Neglect in Policy Problems: The Case of 'Neglected Tropical Diseases' | 听 | |
2017 | The Affect of Fosterage in Medieval Ireland | 听 | |
2017 | Breeding resilience: plant biodiversity and climate change听 | 听 | |
Smith, Paul | 2016 | The Development of Horticultural Science in England, 1910-1930 | 听 |
Au, Yin Chung | 2016 | Synthesising heterogeneity: trends of visuality in biological sciences | 听 |
2016 | Exemplarising Science: From Mendel to de Vries听 | 听 | |
2016 | The impact of 10 years of public dialogue in science听 | 听 | |
2015 | Nanotechnology | 听 | |
Chou, Ju-Yi | 2015 | From insiders to outsiders: British homeopathy as a medical reform movement, 1875-1893 | 听 |
| 2015听 | 听Commercial and Sublime: popular astronomy lectures in nineteenth-century Britain | 听 |
Ratcliffe, Steph | 2015听 | 听Natural Kinds and chemical processes | 听 |
Nissen, Timothy | 2014听 | 听Incorporating societal concerns into research and development of security centric technologies | 听 |
2014 | The Society of Arts and cultures of invention and experiment | 听 | |
Cho, Hyun Sook听 | 2014 | Korean BSE protests | 听 |
Everett, Jonathan | 2013 | Kantian approaches to the philosophy of science | 听 |
Vijayan, Shana | 2013 | Performance听Anxiety: The nature of performance management in the NHS听under听New Labour. | 听 |
2011 | Impartiality in Clinical Trials | 听 | |
Serpente, Norberto | 2011 | Cells from Icons to Symbols: Molecularising Cell Biology in the 1980s | 听 |
2011 | Who's for the planets? - An analysis of the 'public for space exploration' and views of practitioners on their 'publics' and public communication. | 听 | |
Morley, Irenie | TBC | The MMR Controversy | 听 |
McCabe, Irena | 2012 | Second Best as Researcher, Second to None as Populariser? The Atmospheric Science of John Tyndall听FRS (1820-1893) | 听 |
2010 | Causation in Medicine | 听 | |
听 | 2010听 | Harnessing non-modernity: A case study in Artificial Life听 | 听 |
Jones, Allan | 2010 | History of science broadcasting in the BBC | 听 |
Kroener, Inga | 2010 | CCTV - A Technology Under the Radar? | 听 |
2009 | No Natural Home: Placing the Promise of Biopharming | 听 | |
Priestley, Mark | 2008 | Logic and the invention of programming languages | 听 |
2008 | Scientists' views on the scientific method | 听 | |
2007 | Iconicity, models and visual metaphors in Pablo Picasso: Creativity, network thinking and visual cognition听 | 听 | |
Taylor, Georgette | 2006 | Variations on a theme: Patterns of congruence and divergence among 18th century chemical affinity theories | 听 |
Washer, Peter | 2006 | Representations of newly emerging and re-emerging diseases | 听 |
Godwin, Matthew | 2005 | Anatomy of the 'Brain Drain' in UK after WW2 | 听 |
Jackson, Catherine | 2009 | From analysis to synthesis: Organic chemistry in the 19th century听 | 听 |
Leung, Danny | 2005 | Physiological and biological thinking in late nineteenth-century English medicine, with reference to Clifford Allbutt | 听 |
2009 | Lost in translations: Discourses, boundaries and legitimacy in the public understanding of science in the UK | 听 | |
Gooneratne, Sakura | 2005 | White dwarfs: the controversy between Chandrasekhar and Eddington 1930-1936 | 听 |
2004 | Mobile health risks: attempting a sociology of public science | 听 | |
2004 | The Importance of Place: A History of Genetics in 1930s Britain | 听 | |
Bregman, Leigh | 2003 | "Snug Little Coteries": A History of Scientific Societies in Early Nineteenth Century Cape Town, 1824-1835 | 听 |
2003 | Corporate uses of "transparency" in GM food controversies | 听 | |
2002 | Galileo's mathematical philosophy | 听 | |
2001 | The Social and Intellectual Origins of Sir Francis Galton鈥檚 (1822-1911) Ideas on Heredity and Eugenics | 听 | |
2000 | Narratives of geneticization: cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and schizophrenia | 听 | |
pre-2000 PhDs not listed | 听 | 听 | 听 |
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