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Principal Investigators

Robert Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences. His research addresses the relationship between science and public participation in policy, focusing on the single european currency and the medical application of genetics. In addition, theoretical work on the nature of expertise and the possibilities and potential limits of participation has been published as 'The Third Wave of Science Studies' (Social Studies of Science, 2002, 32/2: 235-296).

Ian Welsh is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He has held positions at Lancashire, Sheffield and Humberside Polytechnics and the University of the West of England, Bristol before joining Cardiff University in 1995 where his research focuses on risk and the environment in the context of globalisation. He is interested in public uptake of genetics issues and has written on xenotransplantation. He is author of Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment and edited Environment and Society in Eastern Europe (with Dr A. Tickle).

Research Associate

Alex Plows graduated in 1991 with a B.A. (Hons) in English Literature from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. She spent several years as an environmental activist before taking an MA in social research methods at the University of Wales, Bangor. This was followed by her PhD on UK environmental social movement networks and mobilisations in the 1990’s. During her PhD she also worked as a research assistant on a project examining activist identities and networks, as part of the ESRC 'Democracy and Participation' programme. She was subsequently employed on a Welsh Assembly/ ERDF funded research project evaluating sustainable development before joining CESAGen. Her research interests include the social, ethical and political implications of human genetic technologies, social movement theory and ethnography, the epistemology and practise of qualitative research including participant observation, ‘green’ politics, feminist theory, globalisation/ neoLiberalism, Welsh rurality and identity issues, and sustainable development, and she has published several book chapters and papers in these fields.

 

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