Director: Professor Steven Miller
Coordinator: Declan Fahy
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London
London WC1E 6BT
e-mail:declan.fahy@esconet.org
University College London
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Key Personnel
Prof. Steve Miller, Head of Department
Dr. Jane Gregory, Lecturer in Science Communication
Dr. Brian Balmer, Senior Lecturer in Science Policy
Ms. Norma Morris, Senior Research Fellow in Social Studies of Science
Ms. Melanie Smallman, ENSCOT Co-ordinator
Institutional profile
University College London is London’s oldest university, founded in 1826, with a radical and liberal tradition. The Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) was founded in 1923 as the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. It changed its name in 1994, when science communication and science policy staff were appointed and its competence expanded into these areas.
STS is the only university department in the U.K. to offer full undergraduate degree programmes in history and philosophy of science, in social studies of science and in science communication and policy. As well as catering for its 70 “home” students, STS also teaches option courses to large numbers of science students. UCL pioneered the teaching of science communication at university level in the U.K.
STS has a three-person Science Communication Team and hosts the UCL Centre for Biosciences and Society (chair, Dr. Balmer).
Its relevant research interests cover the history of science in public, science communication
and public scientists, policy issues in the biosciences and the public understanding of science,
social studies of responses to new medical technology, and the ethics of scientific research.
The Department co-ordinated the European Network of Science Communication Teachers (ENSCOT), the prototype for ESCW.
Selected Publications
Gregory Jane and Miller Steve, Science in Public: communication, culture and credibility, Plenum, New York, 1998.
Turney Jon, Frankenstein’s Footsteps: science genetics and popular culture, Yale University Press, 1998.
Balmer Brian, Britain and Biological Warfare, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001.
University College London is London’s oldest university, founded in 1826, with a radical and liberal tradition. The Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) was founded in 1923 as the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. It changed its name in 1994, when science communication and science policy staff were appointed and its competence expanded into these areas. STS is the only university department in the U.K. to offer full undergraduate degree programmes in history and philosophy of science, in social studies of science and in science communication and policy. As well as catering for its 70 “home” students, STS also teaches option courses to large numbers of science students. UCL pioneered the teaching of science communication at university level in the U.K. STS has a three-person Science Communication Team and hosts the UCL Centre for Biosciences and Society (chair, Dr. Balmer). Its relevant research interests cover the history of science in public, science communication and public scientists, policy issues in the biosciences and the public understanding of science, social studies of responses to new medical technology, and the ethics of scientific research. The Department co-ordinated the European Network of Science Communication Teachers (ENSCOT), the prototype for ESCW.
Selected Publications
Gregory Jane and Miller Steve, Science in Public: communication, culture and credibility, Plenum, New York, 1998.
Turney Jon, Frankenstein’s Footsteps: science genetics and popular culture, Yale University Press, 1998.
Balmer Brian, Britain and Biological Warfare, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001.
Gregory Jane and Miller Steve, Science in Public: communication, culture and credibility, Plenum, New York, 1998.
Turney Jon, Frankenstein’s Footsteps: science genetics and popular culture, Yale University Press, 1998.
Balmer Brian, Britain and Biological Warfare, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001.