DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES STS Research Day 2015
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Date: May 20 , 2015
Location: Roberts G08 Sir David Davies LT, UCL
Programme
9.50 – Introduction from Simon Werrett
Session 1: Chair – Karen Bultitude (STS Staff)
10.00 - Andrew Gregory (STS staff), “Early Greek Investigation of Nature.”
10.20 - Alex Spelling (STS staff), “Cold War contexts: reassessing the role of
disarmament through the Biological Weapons Convention.”
10.40 - Norma Morris (STS staff), “The PAN project: patient and professional perceptions of
recruitment to clinical research studies in a leading teaching hospital.”
11.00 – coffee
Session 2: Chair – Frank James (STS Staff)
11.20 - Emma Tobin (STS staff), “Mechanism and Natural Kinds.”
11.40 - Steve Miller (STS staff), “Mauna Kea: boundary work or boundary object.”
12.00 - Jenny Wilson (STS PhD), “Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971): Her Early
Career in X-Ray Crystallography.”
12.15 – LUNCH – participants should make their own arrangements for lunch
Session 3: Chair – Elizabeth Jones (STS PhD)
1.15 - Roland Jackson (STS Visiting Fellow), “The contingency of science and scientific
reputation: John Tyndall and the theory of magnetism.”
1.30 - Magali Krasny (STS PhD), “Economic Festivals.”
1.45 - Harry Quinn Schone (STS PhD), “Disease definitions and the case of Morgellons.”
2.00 - Alberto Aparicio (STS PhD), "Understanding the potential of Xenobiology through the
lens of sociotechnical imaginaries."
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2.15 – Harriet Lloyd (STS PhD), “Humphry Davy’s Instruments of War: Science and
Patriotism in the Press, 1801-1812.”
2.30 - Erika Jones (STS PhD), “Moorings and Mobility: Following the Challenger Expedition
Beyond the Sea.”
2.45 – TEA
Session 4: Chair – Raquel Velho (STS PhD)
3.00 - Alan Bates (HRA), “London's New Age hospitals, 1890-1935.”
3.20 - Martin Savransky (STS Staff), “What is a Problem? On Problematic Sociology.”
3.40 – Robert Bud (HRA), “Framing science as part of the public sphere: histories of
concepts of science.”
4.00 – short break
Session 5: Chair - Erman Sözüdoğru (STS PhD)
4.15 – Emily Dawson (STS Staff), “How to lose publics and alienate people: Reproducing
patterns of privilege through science engagement practices."
4.35 – Jon Agar (STS Staff), “The politics of Star Wars: Thatcher and the Strategic Defense
Initiative."
4.55 – General discussion of research
5.15 – Finish
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