Sociomics Core Facility

Sub-Theme Leaders: Ruth McNally and Paul Oldham

At Cesagen we:

• explore the entanglements and convergences between the post-genomic biosciences and the social sciences and humanities.
• explore the possibilities and implications of this for social science analysis and explanation.
• combine IT expertise with social science and humanities research questions.
• analyse shifts towards data-intensive research and also seeks ways to critically channel freely accessible digital data to make new tools for social, economic and policy analysis of the contemporary life sciences, e.g. Research Desktop.
• explore the potential of digital methods to promote collaborative research with developing countries, civil society organisations and indigenous peoples in and around the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and access and fair and equitable benefit-sharing for genetic resources.

Biopiracy in Peru: Tracing Biopiracies, Theft, Loss & Traditional Knowledge (PhD Thesis)
Jodie Chapell

Data flows in genomic and environmental science: Replication, durability and metrology
Ruth McNally, Adrian Mackenzie

Feminism and Critique
Maureen McNeil

ICT Ethics
Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir, Paul McCarthy, Ruth Chadwick

Research Desktop
Paul Oldham, Stephen Hall

Standards: Recipes for Reality
Professor Lawrence Busch