Current Teaching

I teach modules/lectures concerning gender, feminism and society, and science and technology and society, at all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate programme in Sociology.

Undergraduate

GWS 101 Gender and Women's Studies: Identities, Inequalities and Politics (First year course, Director and Lecturer)

SOCL 314 Feminism and Social Change (Third year module, Course convenor and Lecturer)

Masters

SOCL 406 Feminist Technoscience Studies (Course convenor and Lecturer).

SOCL 906 The Social Life of Science and Technology: Theories and Debates (Course convenor and Lecturer)

SOCL 931 Methods in Science and Technology Studies (Lecturer)

Doctoral/Research Student Workshops:

I have taught numerous international and national research student workshops

08/15 ANT, Policy and multiplicity, TANT LAB, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

10/13 Gender, Nature and Society, University of Tampere, Finland.

04/13 An Introduction to Feminist Technoscience Studies of Reproduction, ReACH Midwifery Cluster, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

12-16 Feminist Technoscience Studies Summer School, Lancaster University (Course convenor and Lecturer, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)

03/05 Science Studies School, Science Studies Opens the Black Box, Prague, Czech Republic.

05/04 Research Seminar Series, Department of Midwifery Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

11/03 Medicine, Technologies and Practices, Linköping University, Sweden.

06/02 Bodies, Technologies and Health, Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway.

05/01 Bodies, Medicine and Health, Centre for the Sociology of Innovation, L’Ecole des Mines, Paris, France.

PhD Supervision

I currently supervise 7 PhD students:

Toby Atkinson, Alan Connolly, Aniela Bylinski Gelder, Emily Hoyle, Andy Yuille, Leah de Quattro, Clare Rotherham.

I have supervised 22 PhD students and 2 MPhil students to successful completion.I have worked with 7 visiting research students in recent years and will welcome a further student in 2019.

Post-Doctoral Mentees: I have mentored several researchers in recent years including Dr Yunxia Wu (China Scholarship Council, 2014-15). I will welcome Dr Lisa Linden (Swedish International Visiting Research Grant, 2019-21 ).

Examining Duties

I am External Examiner for the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies MA programmes, University of Edinburgh.

I have examined 28 PhDs: 13 as internal examiner and 15 as external examiner (in UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, Australia).

Past teaching experience

Undergraduate: I have developed and taught a large number of undergraduate courses, including on study skills. I contributed to the Lancaster University Effective Learning Programme for many years.

Postgraduate Teaching: I convened and taught the core module for the Women’s Studies MA programme Doing Feminist Research for many years. I obtained ESRC and AHRC recognition for Women's Studies MA and MRes programmes. I co-developed the long standing MA in Science and Technology Studies and I remain responsible for the core module, Science, Technology and Society.

Research Overview

My current research programme explores Care-in-Practice

As part of this programme I have co-edited a Sociological Review Monograph titled Care and Policy Practices (2017) that explores the following questions:

• How do the practices of policy produce particular subjects and objects?
• How do policy and care, in intimate everyday social-material practices, and across diverse domains, distribute rights and resources?
• How might policy be enacted in ways that are care-full and appreciative of practices and contexts?

The research programme is developing a network of researchers to explore concerns about policy and about care as failing. Policies designed to protect, and to nurture can inadvertently harbour and promote relations of harm. Recent research on care as socio-technical and relational is proving productive in thinking through diverse policy-related domains. In particular the monograph explores how policy could attend to those things often neglected, harmed or made invisible and how to sensitize policy to inevitable incommensurate knowledges and excesses.

My current empirical projects develop this research programme:

Living with Dying explores professional and lay experiences of end of life care in a Hospice and Hospice at home service. The project identifies and promotes improvements that can be made to care practice and articulates practices of good care.

Being a digitised cancer patient explores how care is impacted for patients and practitioners in relation to the introduction of digital patient information. The aim is to articulate the issues and practices that are not picked up with usual forms of evaluation.

Professional affiliations

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Elected member of Council (2015 -)

The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

Association for Studies in Innovation Science and Technology (AsSIST-UK) Member of the Executive Committee and the Strategic Advisory Group (2015-)

Advisory Bodies (recent and current)

2018 Review Panel Member, Academy of Finland.

2018 Ziman Award Committee, EASST (for outstanding public engagement)

2017- External Examiner Science Technology and Innovation Studies MA programmes, University of Edinburgh

2015- Executive Board UK Association for Studies in Innovation, Science and Technology (AsSIST-UK).

2015- Elected member of Council of European Association for the Social Studies of Science and Technology (EASST),

2015- EASST Director of publications

2016 Chair of Ziman Award Committee, EASST (for outstanding public engagement)

2001-07 Project Steering Committee, Women’s Choice and Caesarean Delivery by Maternal Request, Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Editorial Boards

EASST Review (March 2015-)

Science and Technology Studies (March 2015-)

International appointment committees: Copenhagen University, Denmark 6/2014, Aalborg University, Denmark 9/2016.

Regular reviewer of research applications: I receive regular invitations from ERC and ESRC to review applications. Review panel for Academy of Finland Research Project and Fellowship Awards (02/18 and 02/19).

Regular reviewer of papers for academic journals: Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology and Human Values; Social Science and Medicine; Sociology of Health and Illness; Organisation; Environment and Planning D and review book manuscripts (e.g. for Manchester University Press)

PhD Supervision Interests

I welcome research students and have supervised 22 students researching in a range of substantive areas. I am especially interested in students researching how policy is done in locations of practice and also in how care is done in practice. I have worked with several care practitioners seeking research qualifications. I am interested in and have expertise in qualitative research including ethnography, participant observation, interviews, and textual analysis in the form of detailed case studies. I am keen to work with stduents and collaborators to articulate and to appreciate the work of practice of care interventions, programmes, policies, technologies, systems and guidelines.