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Andrew J Webster Annual Lecture on Science, Technology and Society

To commemorate the life and work of Professor Andrew Webster, the Department of Sociology and SATSU established an annual lecture series that will showcase research in the broadly conceived area of science, technology and society. 

Professor in the Sociology of Science at the University of York since 1999, Andrew was the founder and director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit, which he established originally at Anglia Ruskin University in 1988. 

He was Head of the Department of Sociology at York between 2004-2009 and then the Dean of Social Sciences. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in 2007. 

Read more about Andrew’s career and his huge impact on the academic community and beyond. 

Andrew Webster

What’s really driving the UK’s nuclear strategy?

The 2026 Andrew J Webster lecture

Speaker: Professor Andrew Stirling, University of Sussex

Date: Thursday 17 September 2026

This lecture will apply key approaches from science and technology studies to illuminate hidden drivers of energy policy in the UK and other countries. These methods will be used to examine how powerful interests are (in their own words) “masking” costs of expensive military nuclear activities behind flows of funding for a ‘civil’ “nuclear industrial base”. 

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