STS Talks archive
- 26 September 2011
REMEDiE: the boundaries and mobilities of regenerative medicine
- 23 June 2011
ADAPTING PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF DISRUPTION: CREATING TEMPORARY NORMALS
- 20 June 2011
Young People's 'Disruptive' Use of Technology and the Responsibility of the ICT Sector - **Rescheduled from 23 May**
- 16 June 2011
Making family carers visible in ICT and long term care policy: creating evidence for innovation and evidence for care
- 6 June 2011
Ecological Governance of Nanotechnologies: Risk, Ethics & The Role of Public Engagement
- 20 May 2011
The role of management consultants in long-term ERP customization trajectories: a case from the Italian Local Government
- 5 May 2011
Sketches of Another Future: Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000
- 4 May 2011
Food Portfolios, Resilient Food Systems and Food Security
- 11 April 2011
Socio-ethical aspects of IVF-stem cell interface: the case of 'egg sharing' for somatic cell nuclear transfer
- 14 March 2011
The Challenges of Interdisciplinarity
- 14 Feburary 2011
Regulatory frameworks in support of emerging healthcare technologies
- 17 January 2011
Key Challenges in Innovation Governance: direction, diversity and power in sustainable energy transitions.
- 10 December 2010
Engagement, Interaction and Influence: Developing an agenda for the Sustainable Practices Research Group
- 22 November 2010
The Changing Role of the State in Innovation: Global Climate Change, 'Peak Oil', and Biofuels
- 11 November 2010
Between Edinburgh and Egypt: How the Pyramids Transformed Scottish Astronomy
- 25 October 2010
Knowledge management as a precondition of life sciences innovation
- 30 August 2010
Complexity and Contingency in Technological Innovation: Making Jet Propulsion Work
- 15 July 2010
The Black, the White and the Grey Areas - Bias and misconduct across disciplines and countries, and what to do a
- 10 June 2010
How Galileo Copied the Telescope: Technology Transfer in Baroque Venice
- 9 June 2010
Science, Legitimacy, and “Folk Epistemology” in Medicine and Law: Parallels between Legal Reforms to the Admissibility of Expert Evidence and Evide
- 24 May 2010
Tech Talk: Investigating the Emergence of New Actors through New Media in Technology Innovation Discourse
- 19 May 2010
The Case of the Disappearing Ox
- 3 May 2010
'The organising of clinical trials and the reliability of knowledge'
- 26 April 2010
Towards a co-evolutionary theory of industrial change: Technology, markets, civil society and polity
- 29 March 2010
A Moving Periphery: the triennial meetings of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World *CANCELLED*
- 22 Feburary 2010
'A short walk with civil servants: of pigs, horses and other animals'- 8 Feburary 2010
"What we are busy doing...": Idiocy and Public Engagement with Science- 21 January 2010
The Real ‘Star Wars’: the Technology and Politics of the US Ballistic Missile Defence- 14 December 2009
Postgenomic Darwinism and Human Nature- 19 November 2009
A Theory of Digital Objects- 9 November 2009
The "impact wars": what attempts to assess research impact tell us about relations between science, the state and citizens in the UK today- 4 November 2009
Work In Progress: Communication and Innovation - an underestimated relationship- 26 October 2009
"Forms of Economization in a Global Market" AND "Taking measures to measure: On the metrology of CO2 emissions"- 1 October 2009
RECONSTRUCTIONS: a workshop at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh- 28 September 2009
When Policy Meets Practice: Colliding Logics and the Challenges of 'Mode 2' Initiatives in the Translation of Genetics Science- 17 September 2009
The Tools of Terror: Technologies of Terrorism from the Scottish Maiden to the Glasgow Car Bomb- 14 September 2009
Negotiated Arrangements and Technological Reasoning: Information Infrastructures in US Policing- 7 September 2009
Alice Stewart and Sir Richard Doll: Science for industry, science for society?- 18 August 2009
Joint Seminar: visiting PhD students from China- 15 July 2009
Visuality/Materiality and the Medical Image- 2 July 2009
What is 'Civic Translational Science' and How is it More Readily Achieved?- 21 May 2009
In Search of Best Practice: Enduring Ideas in Strategy, Innovation, and Technology Management- 15 May 2009
Risk and Drug Regulation: the Transforming Osteoarthritis in Taiwan- 14 May 2009
Winston Churchill as Inventor and Product Champion- 27 April 2009
Financing High Tech Small Firms- 5 March 2009
‘To encourage such as would travel a little, to travel more’: Trains, Planes, Cars, History and the Future of Mobility- 25 Feburary 2009
What do genetics and human rights have to do with one another?- 22 January 2009
Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunication, Locality and Work in West Britain, 1870-1918- 19 January 2009
On the stage division mechanism in pharmaceuticals development processes- 13 January 2009
The use of analysis of material institutions to account for socio-technical transition in the case of different renewable electricity technologies- 17 December 2008
A Sociology of Public Demonstrations of Technology- 8 December 2008
From Anti Tradition to Anti Pseudo Science: Science, 'Chinese Scientism' and Traditional Medicine in Modern China- 24 November 2008
Seeking energy security - the implications of future energy scenarios for a small island developing state: the case of Jamaica- 17 November 2008
Technical standards, regulation and governance in stem cell science: contingency and pragmatics- 13 November 2008
Professor Wilson's Map of Technology- 30 October 2008
Towards Post Carbon Societies?- 16 October 2008
Research by design workshop: Placem(R)king: Brands v. Tags- 13 October 2008
Why do Pharmacists need Ethics? Governing Innovations in Pharmacy Technologies- 2 October 2008
The Quest for Green Knowledge: Mixing Science and Politics in Environmental Governance- 1 October 2008
Hubris and Hybrids- 18 September 2008
How Does an Aircraft Wing Work? British Physicists versus German Engineers, 1909-1926- 8 September 2008
(Un)making pharmaceutical futures: why we need to reimagine the drug innovation process- 29 August 2008
Genetically modified crops for Switzerland: defining the politically and socially acceptable GM plant- 10 July 2008
In the Moog: the Social Construction of the Electronic Music Synthesizer- 1 July 2008
Public Talk: MASHUPS AND MOSHES: STUDYING DIGITAL MUSIC COMPETITIONS AS A WAY OF STUDYING ON-LINE INTERACTION- 30 June 2008
Where is the Goffman of the Internet?- 20 June 2008
Perspectives on the empirical study of organizational routines- 19 June 2008
PUBLIC LECTURE: Organizational Routines: Generative systems, networked narratives and design- 26 May 2008
The Politics of Medical Disaster: The contaminated Blood Scandal in France- 14 April 2008
Can big pharma survive new biology?- 25 Feburary 2008
Driving cross-disciplinary working: the UKERC Energy 2050 Project- 15 Feburary 2008
THE NEW ICT ECOSYSTEM AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPE: How knowledge is endogenously created- 11 Feburary 2008
Simulating nature - Computer-simulation uncertainties and their role in climate science and policy advice- 10 January 2008
Engineering Katrina: A Tall Tale of Short Sheeting in New Orleans- 10 December 2007
"Denaturalizing the public domain: How to use science studies to rethink IP" and "Public experiments and the trials of social order"- 3 December 2007
Alfred Marshall on Management, Innovation, and Innovation Systems- 29 November 2007
Geographies of promissory economy - locating tensions and strains in the bio-economies of stem cell innovation- 19 November 2007
Low and Zero Carbon Products and Systems –consumer adoption, effective use and innovation- 12 November 2007
Artificial Insemination and Eugenics: celibate motherhood, eutelegenesis and germinal choice- 1 November 2007
Making GM Canola - Making Controversy- 22 October 2007
Actor-Strategies & Actor-Constellations in the Nanotech Risk Debate- 9 October 2007
Scenario Planning, Backcasting, and Transition Management for Sustainable Development- 8 October 2007
"A personal narrative of travels through the Genomic Continent"- 25 September 2007
"Data in context: the vicissitudes of vaccine innovation"- 24 September 2007
"Balancing Local Knowledge Within Global Organisations through Computer-based Systems: An Activity Theory Approach"- 5 July 2007
GOD TALK IN AMERICAN PUBLIC DEBATES ABOUT GENETICS: WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC THINK?- 17 May 2007
Nuclear Terror: How Can it Happen, and How Can it be Deterred?- 7 May 2007
"Beyond validity and utility: thinking sociologically about the usefulness of genetic tests"- 1 May 2007
Speaking Precision to Power: Commensuration and Social Policy in the Modern World- 23 April 2007
Tangible Affinities? Exploring Real Life Kinship- 5 April 2007
A framework for using genome wide scanning in drug development: the right drug for the right patient at the right dose (Please note change of location- 2 April 2007
"CoPS revisited: ten years of the ESRC's Complex Product Systems Innovation Centre"- 20 March 2007
'Questioning the Social Implications of Genomics'- 19 March 2007
Men and their machines: notes on the machinalisation of masculinity and masculinisation of technology- 7 March 2007
Models and Markets: Option Theory and the Construction of Derivatives Markets- 5 March 2007
“UK DonorLink Register Two Years on – Using DNA to link adults genetically related through donor conception”- 16 Feburary 2007
Seminar: Second Life for learning and teaching- 12 Feburary 2007
Technologies Of Learning: Circulating Objects- 5 Feburary 2007
"Why are biological objects so hard to define?"- 8 January 2007
BiDil, subgroup analyses, and the limits of evidence-based medicine- 11 December 2006
Public Views on Biotechnology Applications in China- 8 December 2006
Diffusion and Generation: The Institutionalisation of the East German History of Science as a Generational Conflict- 4 December 2006
Activity theory and Science and Technology Studies- 23 November 2006
‘In search of a useful theory of design-use relationship in health technology’- 20 November 2006
Replacing the RAE with metrics – is this the way forward?- 16 November 2006
‘Fluid standards. A case study of a Norwegian standard for mobile content services’- 25 October 2006
Researching Surveillance and Other Information Practices- 19 October 2006
OVER THE COUNTER GENETIC TESTS - REGULATION IN THE U.K.- 16 October 2006
“Genetics and the Division of Semantic Labour”- 5 October 2006
THE RACE MYTH: MORE SINCERE FICTIONS IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS- 5 October 2006
"Some experiments on the nature of expertise"- 29 September 2006
"Disasters Evermore? US Vulnerability to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters." Seminar by Professor Charles Perrow- 21 September 2006
Engendering trust or engineering consent?: "public engagement" in recent biobank developments- 15 September 2006
'The Governance of Social Science and Everyday Epistemology'- 14 September 2006
IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF GENETICS?- 7 September 2006
THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF EMERGENT GENETIC BIOTECHNOLOGIES: CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE AND EXCLUSION- 5 September 2006
Innogen Conference 2006 5th - 6th September 2006- 4 September 2006
VI Computer Law World Conference- 18 August 2006
GENE BANKS AND COMMERCIALISATION OF GENETIC RESEARCH - CURRENT CHALLENGES- 10 July 2006
Technology Roadmapping in Developing Countries- 19 June 2006
The Adventures of a Cyborg Fish- 16 June 2006
Expertise and public decision making in the Risk Society- 7 June 2006
CANCELLED Tangible Affinities? Exploring Real Life Kinship- 31 May 2006
Public Trust, Intellectual Property and Human Genetic Databanking- 26 May 2006
Conference: "Common Sense Science: The influence of Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense in 19th century science"- 18 May 2006
THE NATURE OF NORTH-SOUTH PARTNERSHIP IN BIOPROSPECTING AND IMPACT ON CAPABILITIES AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS. CASE STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA- 15 May 2006
The materials and technologies of material culture- 8 May 2006
"Patients, Profits and Values: Genzyme and the Creation of Informed Consumers of Potential Innovations"- 12 April 2006
Culture, Nature, Future? Perspectives on Science and Development in Africa 12 - 13 April 2006- 4 April 2006
The Fable of the Commons: Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights and the Construction of the Commons- 3 April 2006
The Marketing of Genetic Identity- 27 March 2006
STS Lunch Time Seminar Series- 22 March 2006
4th e-learning @ edinburgh conference- 14 March 2006
ISSTI retreat- 13 March 2006
Genes as Optional Extras: an intriguing case for a finitist sociology of knowledge- 9 March 2006
Integrated Health Care Records Workshop- 3 March 2006
Soil and Blood: Domestication and the Origin of Species- 3 March 2006
"On Craftsmanship"- 2 March 2006
The Coral of Life: Geological Metaphors of Creation and Extinction in Nineteenth-Century Great Britain- 2 March 2006
European patent claim interpretation and the doctrine of equivalence- 21 Feburary 2006
PRACTICAL ETHICS IN ASSISTED CONCEPTION: MORAL THINKING, CODIFCIATION AND REGULATION POSTPONED- 20 Feburary 2006
STS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar- 16 Feburary 2006
ECLIPSE OF THE GENE AND THE RETURN OF DIVINATION- 14 Feburary 2006
INAUGURAL LECTURE: Professor Andy Clark (Chair of Logic and Metaphysics)- 14 Feburary 2006
GRAPPLING WITH A SHAPE-SHIFTER: THE APOE GENE AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE- 9 Feburary 2006
Final Non-Place Workshop- 7 Feburary 2006
The Ordnance Survey, Copyright and Public Sector Information- 1 Feburary 2006
Air-Quality Modelling and Local Understandings of Air Pollution: Credibility, Legitimacy and Participation- 1 Feburary 2006
'Telecentres and Transformations: Modernizing Tanzania Through the Internet'- 24 January 2006
The IEE/BCS Turing Lecture 2006: "Lifestyle Access for the Disabled - Adding Positive Drift to the Random Walk with Technology"- 23 January 2006
Transforming Biorisks and the Commercialization of Human Genetic Testing- 20 January 2006
Accommodating risk: women's perceptions of their risks of developing cancer- 19 January 2006
PUBLIC LECTURE: Cells From Cloned Human Embryos In Research And Therapy- 18 January 2006
The return of nuclear power: does the current law constrain or promote its use?- 16 January 2006
The conflictive dimension of technology practice: a case study of the Construction of Combined Heat- 13 January 2006
From Safe Harbor to the Rough Sea? Privacy and the Problem of Transatlantic- 12 January 2006
Criticial Infrastructure Protection in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Y2K- 15 December 2005
Incorporating Patient Issues Into Health Technology Assessment- 15 December 2005
Constructing the Moral Arena in Focus Group Discussions About Genetics - 5 May 2011
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