Prof Donald MacKenzie

ESRC Professorial Fellow

Sociology

Donald MacKenzie works on the sociology and social history of science and technology, especially those fields that have a major impact on people's lives: the eugenics movement and its effect on science; the development of nuclear weapons; safety-critical and security-critical computer systems. He holds an ESRC Professorial Fellowship in "social studies of finance". His most recent books are Knowing Machines (MIT Press, 1996; publisher's note); The Social Shaping of Technology, edited with Judy Wajcman (Open University Press, second edition, 1999; publisher's note), and Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk and Trust (MIT Press, 2001; publisher's note).

Projects

BTG; COMPLEX; DIRC; GREEN AIR; INDEED; INNOGEN II; Innovation Processes in Life Science Industries; ITSAFE; Radar; Social Studies of Finance; StarWars

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Keywords: Climate Change;Environment;Finance;Innovation;Performativity;Politics of S and T;Science;Sociology of Scientific Knowledge;Weapons/Military