Plant Genomics, Commercialization and Environmental Knowledge: Shifting Cultures of Scientific Research - Flagship Project
The Research Team
Principal Investigators
Brian Wynne is Professor of Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) at Lancaster. His education includes MA (Natural Sciences, Cambridge 1968), PhD (Materials Science, Cambridge 1971), MPhil (Sociology of Science, Edinburgh 1977). His work has covered technology and risk assessment, public risk perceptions, and public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making. He was an Inaugural Member of the Management Board and Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, (EEA), (1994-2000) and a Special Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000). He is also a member of the London Royal Society's Committee on Science in Society.
Claire Waterton is a lecturer in Environmental and Social Policy in the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) within the Institute for Environment Philosophy and Public Policy (IEPPP) at Lancaster. Her research contributes to the sociology of scientific knowledge, with an emphasis on the making of environmental knowledge and its relationship and contribution to environmental policymaking. Themes within this include: sociology of classifications and databases; public perceptions of environmental issues and environmental risks; analysis of deliberative mechanisms and participatory processes. Present research concerns the making of environmental databases and their implicit policy and public dimensions. She is co-author, with Bron Szerszynski and Wallace Heim of Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003).
Jane Taylor is a senior lecturer at biological sciences, Lancaster University. Her research interests centre on the molecular changes that underpin plant responses to environmental stress. These can be divided into three areas: Signalling in response to biotic attack; Growth and development and science policy. Jane has published widely in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is a member of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Council, Plant Section Committee, and the Education and Public Affairs Committee; member of Biosciences Federation Education Committee; editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Experimental Botany; and member of the American Society of Plant Biology.
Research Associates
Katrina Stengel studied Classics and History at Keele University before going on to complete an MA in Modern Social History at Lancaster University. She completed her PhD, 'A case study in efforts to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: continuity and specificity of practice', in 2001. Before joining CESAGen Lancaster, she was a Research Associate in the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University. She worked on two projects: Evaluation of Lancaster Mental Health Advocacy Service; and Revising the Cumbria Teenage Pregnancy and Teenage Parenthood Strategy 2001 – 2010.
Mercy Kamara has a Master of Science in Technological and Socio-Economic Planning; and a PhD degree in social science at the Department of Environment, Technology and Social Studies, Roskilde University Denmark. Her research focus is the complex and symbiotic relationship between science, scientific knowledge and politics—with particular reference to genomics and post-genomic biology, the so-called systems biology. She has researched and published on regulatory and public perceptions issues around modern biotechnology.
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