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Title: Professor Job Title: Cesagen Associate Director Tel: 01524 510839 Fax: Email: b.wynne@lancaster.ac.uk Building: Institute for Advanced Studies Room Number: D11
Brian Wynne is Associate Director of CESAGen in Lancaster. He is a Professor of Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) at Lancaster. He was Principal Investigator on two CESAGen Phase 1 Flagship Projects, Plant Genomics and Indigenous Peoples. He is the Theme Leader for Theme 3: Bioknowledge Economies and sustainable Innovations.
His education includes MA (Natural Sciences, Cambridge 1968), PhD (Materials Science, Cambridge 1971), MPhil (Sociology of Science, Edinburgh 1977). His work has covered technology and risk assessment, public risk perceptions, and public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making. He was an Inaugural Member of the Management Board and Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, (EEA), (1994-2000) and a Special Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000). He is also a member of the London Royal Society's Committee on Science in Society.
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