ESRC Seminar Series on Synthetic Biology and the Social Sciences

 

The aims of this ESRC seminar series are:

• To catalyse the development of a community of UK social scientists who are critically engaged in synthetic biology;

• to explore the possibility of developing a 'post-ELSI' interdisciplinary research agenda for the analysis of this emerging field.

Investigators:

Jane Calvert - ESRC Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh

Adrian MacKenzie - ESRC Cesagen Centre, University of Lancaster

Claire Marris - BIOS, London School of Economics

Matt Kearnes - Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, University of Durham

Paul Martin - Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham

Co-organisers:

Andrew Balmer - Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield

Emma Frow - ESRC Genomics Forum, University of Edinburgh

Susan Molyneux-Hodgson - Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield

Institutions involved