Indigenous Peoples and Globalisation of Genomics in Amazonia - Flagship Project
The Research Team
Principal Investigator
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.
Research Associate
Paul Oldham is a social anthropologist specialising in issues surrounding the human rights of indigenous peoples and biodiversity. Paul has carried out extensive fieldwork with the Piaroa (Wothïha) in the Venezuelan Amazon and in 1993 worked to establish the Regional Organisation of Indigenous Peoples of Amazonas (ORPIA) for whom he continues to serve as an independent adviser. Paul's research interests principally focus on the rights of indigenous peoples and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Paul is a regular participant in events under the Convention and serves on the Advisory Board of the International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in relation to this issue.
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