Synthetic biology and the social sciences: making room for collaboration
The 2023 Andrew J Webster Lecture.
Speaker: Professor Jane Calvert, University of Edinburgh
Jane works in the sociology of the life sciences, and her current research focuses on attempts to engineer living things in the emerging field of synthetic biology. She has a long-standing interest in interdisciplinary collaborations of all sorts.
We also had two respondents to Jane's lecture. The first was Dr Ros Williams from the University of Sheffield. Ros’ work spans across Science and Technology Studies (STS), critical media studies, sociologies of race and ethnicity, and of health and illness. The second was Dr Koichi Mikami from Keio University in Japan. Koichi is interested in exploring the role of social sciences and humanities in the governance of science and technology.