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Broader Significance
Conceptual
- Ethnographic analysis of emergent social movement mobilisation and
development of proto-politics of genetics, i.e. how techno-scientific
innovations in genetics come to be defined as problematic or not
- Examination of heterogeneous social networks that develop around specific
technologies and the ambiguous and complex engagement that is associated
with such debates
- Analysis of the ways in which social movements across UK and Europe
are consolidating efforts on key applications of medical genetics
Methodological
- Participatory and ethnographic research of emerging, and thus partly
invisible, social movement organisation
- Experimentation with methods to intervene in debates and then track
the diffusion of these interventions
Policy
- Enriched understanding of understandings of genetics within engaged
social movement groups and their respective structures and dynamics
- Understanding of the role of ambiguity about risks and benefits of
genomics and thus the need to avoid polarising debates as either 'for'
or 'against'
- Explore and suggest alternative regimes of public and expert engagement
so as to improve democratic scrutiny and accountability of the regulation
and conduct of bio-medical innovation.
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