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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.
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| Professor Jon Agar Professor听Agar writes on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology.听 | Blog:听 0207 679 3521 e-mail: jonathan.agar@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Professor听Chiara Ambrosio 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. | 0207 679 0166 e-mail: c.ambrosio@ucl.ac.uk听 |
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| Professor Brian Balmer Professor Balmer has broad research interests in science and technology policy, particularly in relation to the life sciences. 听 His work combines sociological and historical approaches to understanding the nature of scientific expertise and science advice in policy contexts. 听He has published extensively on the history and sociology of biological and chemical arms control. 听His other research interests include scientific migration (the 鈥榖rain drain鈥�), the role of volunteers in biomedical research, and the sociology of secrecy. | 0207 679 3924 e-mail: b.balmer@ucl.ac.uk |
听  | Dr Jenny Bulstrode Dr Bulstrode is a historian of physical sciences, industry, techniques and materials, with particular interest in cross-cultural encounters in experiment and innovation. |
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| 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.听 | 0207 679 3041 e-mail: j.cain@ucl.ac.uk |
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| 听 | Professor Emily Dawson Professor Dawson鈥檚 research examines relationships between social justice and science when it becomes 鈥榩ublic鈥�, whether in museums, schools and universities, activism, the mass media and people鈥檚 everyday lives. | e-mail: sts@ucl.ac.uk |
听  | Professor Carina Fearnley Professor Fearnley is an expert in public engagement, focusing on the science of risk and its communication.听 | phone:听0207 679 4414 e-mail: c.fearnley@ucl.ac.uk听 |
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| Professor Jean-Baptiste听Gouyon As a researcher, Professor Gouyon鈥檚 investigates the history of the presentation of science in visual media. More broadly he is also interested in the sociology and history of the life sciences and the human animal relationship. He publishes on science museum displays, the history of British science television, and on the history of wildlife film and TV in Britain. He is the author of BBC Wildlife Documentaries in Age of Attenborough (2019). As a teacher, Professor Gouyon runs courses in science communication. He is currently delivering STS courses on Science journalism. He supervises dissertations at all level on any aspect of science communication. | 0207 679 3490 e-mail: j.gouyon@ucl.ac.uk听 |
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| 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.听听 | 0207 679 2490 e-mail: andrew.gregory@ucl.ac.uk |
 | Dr Stephen Hughes Lecturer in听Science, Technology and Society听 Dr Hughes is an expert in science communication and responsible innovation. His work explores emotions at the intersections of science, technology, and society. |
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| Professor Phyllis Illari Prof Illari is an expert in the philosophy of science, with research interests in causality and the philosophy of information. | 0207 679 2486 email: phyllis.illari@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Professor Frank听A.J.L. James 听 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. | 0207 679 7713 email: frank.james@ucl.ac.uk |
 | Dr Rory Jubber Lecturer in 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.听 听 | 0203 108 9196 e-mail: rory.jubber@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Professor Simon Jay Lock Prof 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.听 | 0207 679 3763 e-mail: simon.lock@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Dr Tiago Mata Dr Mata is an expert in the history and sociology of economics and political science. | 0203 108 4412 e-mail: t.mata@ucl.ac.uk |
 | Dr Cian O'Donovan Dr Cian听O'Donovan is an expert in the politics of innovation, especially digital transformations in long term care. |
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| Professor Melanie听Smallman Prof Smallman is an expert on science communication and policy, especially in the area of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). | e-mail: m.smallman@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Dr Erman S枚z眉do臒ru 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鈥檚 research focuses on understanding the scientific inquiry in its broader policy context. | 0207 679 2959 email erman.sozudogru@ucl.ac.uk |
 | Professor Jack Stilgoe Prof Stilgoe is an expert in the governance of emerging technologies. | 020 3108 1344 email: j.stilgoe@ucl.ac.uk |
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| 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. | 0207 679 1321 e-mail: e.tobin@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Dr Noemi Tousignant Dr Tousignant is an expert in medical anthropology, studying policy development in subsaharan Africa.听 | e-mail:听n.tousignant@ucl.ac.uk |
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| Dr Cristiano Turbil Dr Cristiano Turbil鈥檚 research explores the relationship between medicine, politics and national identity in modern Europe; he has written on the history of health & science communication; the history of public health in modern Italy, and literature and science. 听 | email: c.turbil@ucl.ac.uk |
 | Dr Michel Wahome Dr. Wahome鈥檚 research examines technological and scientific knowledge production in Africa |
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| Professor Simon Werrett Prof听Werrett is an expert in history of early modern and Enlightenment Science, especially in Europe and Russia.听 | 0207 679 3261 email: s.werrett@ucl.ac.uk |
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 |
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听Reeves Honorary Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies | e-mail: c.reeves |
Honorary Professor in Philosophy of Science and Medicine | e-mail: jon.williamson |