Professor Brian Bloomfield
Emeritus ProfessorResearch Interests
The sociology of science and technology. Issues of power and knowledge in relation to the development and use of information technology. Problems of order/disorder and technology. Technology, time and narrative. The modernisation of public services.
Current Teaching
Undergraduate:
OWT.326 Organising in the Digital Age: Power, technology & identity
OWT.327 Technology and Organisation: Society and risk
Postgraduate:
M.Sc. Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change:
- ITO.001 Interpretations of Information, Technology and Organisations
- ITO.005 Social Aspects of the Digital Age
MA Human Resource and Knowledge Management:
- OWT.508 Research in Organisational Settings
Qualifications
BSc (Lancaster), PhD (Open)
PhD Supervision Interests
I would be interested in supervising topics in the following areas: the social imaginaries that inform and motivate the deployment of new technologies in addressing problems of organisation/organising and social ordering more generally. Debates about human enhancement technologies, particularly in relation to the workplace.
Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement in the Workplace
01/09/2017 → 28/02/2018
Research
International Journal of Work Innovation (Journal)
Editorial activity
Organization Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
- Centre for Science Studies
- Centre for Technological Futures
- Technology, Systems and Organisation
