University of Edinburgh | School of Social and Political Science

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The Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) is a research network established in 2001 by Professor Robin Williams to bring together groups of academics and individual researchers across the University of Edinburgh who are involved in research, teaching and knowledge transfer on social and policy aspects of science, technology and innovation. Since 2022, ISSTI is co-directed by Dr Matjaz Vidmar, in the School of Engineering.

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Research

A focus on Life Science Innovation; Information and Communication Technologies; Energy Technologies and Environmental Innovation; and, the Historical Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine.

People

A range of colleagues from specialist centres around The University of Edinburgh.

Resources

Newsletters, working papers, briefing notes and more.

01/08/2021

Carson Prize 2021: Laura Watts

We are delighted to announce that the 2021 Rachel Carson Prize goes to Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga (MIT Press, 2019) by Laura Watts.

STIS/ISSTI special lecture

Knut H Sørensen (NTNU) and Sharon Traweek (UCLA) will be discussing their book:

Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities

Tuesday, October 11, 17:00
Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI map)
High School Yards
Edinburgh EH1 1LZ

Refreshments will be served in the Foyer of ECCI (17:00-17:30)
The lecture and discussion will be in the ECCI Conference Room (G.04). (17:30-19:00)

All welcome. No charge.

Sørensen & Traweek seminar: Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities

Having just completed the REF2021 exercise, the University of Edinburgh community may find Sørensen and Traweek's analysis salient to our own questing for excellence within externally applied neoliberal constraints.

29 July 2019

15:30 - 16:30