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Professor Bryan Wynne

• Scientific knowledge in public debates on risk, and innovation;
• Techno-scientific and policy imaginations and performance of 'publics';
• Public understandings of and responses to the social and political dimensions of contemporary techno-science;
• Social and political dimensions of ethics as a regulatory tool for technoscientific developments.

• the governance of GM food and crops
• public participation in science and technology policy
• social theory, theology and technological change

Dr. Adrian Mackenzie

• Social and philosophical implications of convergences between life sciences and information technologies
• Media analysis of genomics and biotechnologies
• Political events, processes and publics in science and technology

• cultural studies of science and technology;
• politics, theory and
• popular representations of reproduction;
• feminist technoscience studies.

• Indigenous peoples and  human rights;
• biodiversity policy;
• intellectual property and patent indicators in biosciences, synthetic biology

•  political economy and STS (Science and Technology Studies) approaches to the production, governance and contestation of agricultural biotechnologies in particular;
• cultural politics of technology, innovation and environmentalism.

• Animal ethics.
• The social and ethical implications of animal agricultural biotechnologies. 

• Social Movements, Environment and Science.
• Globalisation and Complexity Theory.