School of Social and Political Science

Profile

Director of Online Learning Strategy & Development

I am Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies and Turing Inaugural Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where I research and teach in the sociology of data science. In my research I empirically focused on ICT market intermediaries (salespeople, global IT vendors, industry analysts & management consultants) and their interaction with clients and user organisations (click the publications tab above for my latest papers). When business turned heavily to analytics, I became interested in 'data science' applications with a view on how 'big data' is made visible and turned into pictures. I recently completed a ten year-long research programme on the sociology of business knowledge applying a mixed methods approach (including micro-empirical, computational and sequence analysis) to identify the dynamics of expertise in Information Technology markets. The picture below is the cover of my latest book that summarises this programme.