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Governance, regulation and public interest is one of four EGN research programmes designed to present scientifically informed and policy-relevant research to key UK and international audiences. This theme focuses on the novel regulatory and governance issues associated with developments in contemporary life science. For example, today’s research means that people can find out more about their ancestry and identity through genetic tests, many of which can be purchased over the Internet. People may even be able to find out information about their partners, children, friends or business associates in similar ways. How should such novel opportunities – and the myriad others associated with life-science research – be managed, legally regulated and overseen?

Project Topics include:

Public Engagement as a new component of governance.

Media and Cultural Representations of genomics, governance and the public interest.

Governance of Innovation in the Life Sciences including multi-level governance, the evolution of regulatory regimes, and new approaches to citizen and customer engagement.

Bioinformatics and Forensic Uses of DNA – how do forensic uses of life-science techniques benefit the public interest and how is the use of biological information governed?

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21st Century Healthcare: Challenges and Paradigms in Biomedical Research Governance
Shawn H.E. Harmon, Emma King, Kwan-Hsu

A Cultural History of Heredity (2004-2010)
Staffan Mueller-Wille

Accomplishing mapping the human genome: Big Science & technology (PhD Thesis)
Andrew Bartlett

Assessing Democratic Governance of Genomics
Theo Papaioannou

Bio-knowledge economies, publics, and sustainable innovation
Theme leader: Brian Wynne and Co-leader: Ruth McNally

Bringing Standards to Life in Contemporary Biology
Adrian Mackenzie, Rebecca Ellis, Claire Waterton, Ruth McNally

Cardiff sciSCREEN
Katie Featherstone, Jamie Lewis, Andy Bartlett

Care Home Organisations Implementing Cultures for Excellence (CHOICE)
Martin O'Neill

Cesagen Stem Cell Capacity Building and Awareness Raising Project
Prof. Ruth Chadwick

Co-operative Management of Intellectual Property Rights (2004-2006)
Jane Calvert

Co-operative Management of Intellectual Property Rights
Jane Calvert (Egenis)

Consequences, Opportunities and Challenges of Modern Biotechnology for Europe (BIO4EU)
Joyce Tait, Ann Bruce, Catherine Lyall

Criminal Genes and Public Policy
Mairi Levitt

Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases Foresight project
Joyce Tait

Emerging Politics of New Genetic Technologies
Robert Evans, Ian Welsh

Ethical Legal Aspects of Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joanna Chataway

Farmers' Understandings of Genetically Modified Crops within Local Communities
Sue Oreszczyn

Genetic Databases
Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt, Paul Fernhead

Genetic Technologies and the Development of Chinese Agriculture Chinese Rice
Xiaobai Shen

Genomics and Biosecurity
Jonathan Suk

Genomics and Intellectual Property
Nadja Kanellopoulou

GM Crops – Shaping the Regional Policy Stance
Joyce Tait and Shefaly Yogendra

Governance of New and Emerging Science and Technology in China
Xiaobai Shen & Robin Williams

Governing Emerging Technologies: Social Values & Stem Cell Regulation in Argentina
Shawn H.E. Harmon

Indigenous Peoples and the Globalization of Genomics in Amazonia
Brian Wynne, Phil Macnaghten

Intellectual Property in the New Life Sciences
Jane Calvert

Interdisciplinary Research Processes and Practices
Catherine Lyall

Interests and Values in Risk-Related Stakeholder Interactions
Ann Bruce

Legal and Bioethical Regulatory Mechanisms
Shawn H.E. Harmon

Local Cells, Global Science
Peter Glasner

Mechanisms of Fraud in Biomedical Research (2008-10)
Christine Hauskeller

Media, Culture and Genomics
Jenny Kitzinger, Maureen McNeil

Mitigating the environmental impact of cattle and sheep: animal genetics and farmers’ readiness for uptake
Ann Bruce

Organisational Culture in the NHS: A feasability study to measure the impact on older people
Win Tadd, Sinead O'Mahoney

Patenting and Genomics (2002-2007)
Jane Calvert

Philosophy, Law and Social Sciences in Genomics Policy Making
Almut Caspary

Popular Memoirs and Genomics
Maureen McNeil

Programme for Impact and Engagement Research (PIER)
Dr Richard Watermeyer

Public-Private Collaboration in Genomics and Biotechnology
Theo Papaioannou

Quantifying Objectivity in the Natural and Social Sciences
Daniele Fanelli

QUEST: Capturing Lessons for Interdisciplinarity
Catherine Lyall, Ann Bruce, Wendy Marsden

Regulatory Practices and Challenges of the African Crop Biotechnology Sector
Seife Ayele

Riskbridge (Building robust, integrative inter-disciplinary governance models for emerging and existing risks)
James Mittra and Joyce Tait

03 December 2007 - Second EGN meeting held in Xishuangbanna, China

Second ESRC Genomics Network / National Natural Science Foundation of China Expert Meeting
Steve Sturdy

Standards: Recipes for Reality
Professor Lawrence Busch

TARGET: Targeted R&D Policy
Alessandro Rosiello

The Construction of Economic Agents
Donald MacKenzie

The Drivers of Biotechnology Firm Innovative Performance in the Health Care Sector
Alessandro Rosiello

The Emerging Politics of Human Genetic Technologies
Ian Welsh

The National and International Policy Environment for Genomics
Catherine Lyall

The Protection of Traditional Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Critical Ethnography of Capital Expansion (PhD Thesis)
Nina Moeller

The Regulatory Role of Bioinformatics: A Case of Soft Governance (2008-2011)
Sabina Leonelli

The relationships between theories of group membership and inter-group attitude (2004-2006)
Thomas Morton

The Social Dynamics of Public Engagement in Stem Cell Research
Fiona Harris, Stephen Bates, Nicola Marks

The use of forensic DNA technologies in police practice
Dana Wilson-Kovacs and Christine Hauskeller

The Use of Placement Fellowships in Knowledge Exchange
Ann Bruce

Under the Microscope: Stem Cells
Nadja Kanellopolou

Understanding the Information Needs and Uses of Life Science Researchers
Robin Williams, Wendy Marsden, Ann Bruce and Jane Calvert

Witnessing Genomics: The design, facilitation, and evaluation of inclusive deliberative public consultation about biobanking in British Columbia (PhD Thesis)
Heather Walmsley

Accounting for Knowledge of Genetics and Cloning in Mass Observation
Joan Haran

Bias, misconduct and the Hierarchy of the Sciences: towards a unified science of scientific objectivity
Daniele Fanelli

Genetic Fictions: Genes, Gender and Genre
Joan Haran

Globalising European Bioethics Education (GLEUBE)
Choon Key Chekar

Implanted Smart Technologies
Shawn H.E. Harmon

Intellectual Property
Paul Oldham and Stephen Hall

Investigating the benefits, costs and barriers to uptake of field diagnostics within the Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate
Ann Bruce

PROTEE: Evaluation of an STS approach to real-time, reflexive management and analysis of innovation projects
Ruth McNally

Public Discourses around Stem Cell Research
Jenny Kitzinger

Standardisation and improvement of generic pre-analytical tools and procedures for in-vitro diagnostics (SPIDIA)
Ruth Chadwick

The HFEA, ART Markets and Public Consultation
Joan Haran

The Imagined Transition to a Green Capitalism
Bronislaw Szerszynski and Larry Reynolds

The Publics of Bioscience
Joan Haran; Maureen McNeil

Trust in the System: An ethnographic exploration of Research Ethics Committees
Adam Hedgecoe