ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis)
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Department Name: Sociology and Philosophy
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Alison Kraft (Author)
(2011)
The blood stem cell : concept, entity, enigma
Ankeny R
(2011)
What's so special about model organisms?
in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
Ankeny RA
(2011)
Bioethics authorship in context: how trends in biomedicine challenge bioethics.
in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Author)
(2011)
Science and fiction : on the reference of models
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Author)
(2011)
Science and fiction : on the reference of models
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Author)
(2012)
The scientification of scent : contemporary issues in olfaction theory
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Author)
(2010)
Leibniz-Forschungsstelle der Universitat Munster (Hrsg.) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : philosophischer briefwechsel, bd. 1: 1663-1685, bd. 2: 1686-1694
in Zeitschrift für Germanistik
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Author)
(2012)
Get a whiff of this! : modelling the mechanism of primary odor recognition
Anna Harris (Author)
(2011)
Health-e skepticism? : trust in the age of the internet
Anna Harris (Author)
(2012)
Finding participants: How research methodologies define 'users'
Anna Harris (Author)
(2011)
Molecular debates : mapping controversies about schizophrenia genetics on the internet
Bapteste E
(2013)
Towards a processual microbial ontology.
in Biology & philosophy
Bapteste E
(2009)
Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things.
in Biology direct
Barnes Barry
(2008)
Genomes and What to Make of Them
Barry Barnes (Speaker)
(2010)
Understanding risk
Barwich A
(2013)
A Pluralist Approach to Extension: The Role of Materiality in Scientific Practice for the Reference of Natural Kind Terms
in Biological Theory
Berris Charnley (Author)
(2012)
Otto Frankel and the Institutional Context of Agricultural Genetics in New Zealand, 1927-1951
Bezuidenhout L
(2013)
Data sharing and dual-use issues.
in Science and engineering ethics
Bezuidenhout L
(2012)
Research infrastructures, policies and the 'web of prevention': the ethical implications of inadequate research environments.
in Medicine, conflict, and survival
Bonaccorsi A
(2011)
From protecting texts to protecting objects in biotechnology and software: a tale of changes of ontological assumptions in intellectual property protection
in Economy and Society
Description | Please see final report to ESRC. |
Exploitation Route | Please see final report. |
Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Healthcare,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Description | "From the Mendelian Gene to the Dynamic Genome", public lecture at Butler University, Indianapolis, United States |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The talk sparked questions and discussions. The talk addressed matters of considerable public interest (e.g. the role of genetics in understanding human nature, race, gender, etc.) and members of the audience stated that they had been stimulated to rethink their understanding of these issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://news.butler.edu/blog/2014/07/woods14/ |
Description | A call for transparency in the politics of DTC testing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | A coming revolution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Article in 'The gen' - The newsletter of the ESRC Genomics Network |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/media/thegen_0911[1].pdf |
Description | A philosophical history of microbiology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presented to the Doolittle, Roger, Archibald and Gray labs plus associates. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | A philosophical perspective on NIPD : disability and normality |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Symposium presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | A philosophical perspective on data-intensive biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited Lecture at Annual Meeting of the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and Its Applications (EXISTA), University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | ALSPAC and the social determinates of autism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Appearance in NF1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Appointments : John Dupré |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | An expert in the interpretation of Darwinian theory has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. John Dupre is professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Exeter and director of Egenis, an Economic and Social Research Council Genomics Network project that researches the social impact of developments in genomic science. He was elected to the AAAS for his contribution to the history and philosophy of science, especially the interpretation of Darwinism. He said he had always aimed to oppose the dogmatic way that evolutionary theory is often presented and insisted that Darwinism remains a rapidly developing area of science. "Darwin was a brilliant scientist, but we have moved beyond him," he said. "I believe that this perspective is essential if Darwin is to be given proper credit as a scientist: science is about the progressive improvement of understanding, not rigid doctrine." Professor Dupre received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and went on to work as a junior research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford for two years. He then moved to Stanford University, where he remained until 1996. He returned to the UK to become professor of philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and senior research Fellow at Exeter, where he was appointed professor in 2000. Times higher education supplement |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=415403 |
Description | Architectures of participation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Architectures of participation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Keynote speech at international open source biotech workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Are there limits to Darwinian world view |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Contribution to Lecture series and Master class |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Artifical pancreas and a genetic ISO |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview exploring BMJ editorial |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://elo-cdn.podcasts.bmj.com/themes/bmj/mp3/bmj-podcast-artificial-pancreas-genetic-iso.mp3 |
Description | Artificial life : promises and pitfalls |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | http://syntheticlife.eventbrite.com/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://syntheticlife.eventbrite.com/ |
Description | Artificial pancreas and a genetic ISO |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview exploring BMJ editorial |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://elo-cdn.podcasts.bmj.com/themes/bmj/mp3/bmj-podcast-artificial-pancreas-genetic-iso.mp3 |
Description | Assessing the impact of bio-ontologies on biological research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture and follow up seminar for doctoral students in Philosophy of Biology |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Audience invited to debate Keira's emotive film |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Regional local newspaper article Exeter Express & Echo |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Audience-invited-debate-Keira-s-emotive-film/article-3242538-deta... |
Description | Autobiologies on YouTube: New contexts for storytelling about genetics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper deliverd at Maastrucht University workshop Genetics goes online |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Autobiologies on YouTube: New contexts for storytelling about genetics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper delviered at Department of Health Care Governance seminar, Erasmus University, Rotterdam |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Basic concepts in acdemic publishing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk given to postgraduate 'publishing' day Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Bending molecules or bending the rules? : contemporary issues in olfaction theory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at 7th annual integrated HPS workshop, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/engage_academics/conferences/ihpsw2012 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Bending molecules or bending the rules? : contemporary issues in olfaction theory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation to the 7th annual integrated HPS workshop, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies, June 2012. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Big, open, free : data and digital rights for social good |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview and discussion on community radio station Phonic FM |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Bioproperty: Animal Encounters |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at Oxford University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Causality and the limits of observational data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Children with autism and ADHD : a comparative follow-up study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk at the UK Centre for Social Policy, Fellows meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Choosing not to choose : reproductive responses of parents of children affected by a genetic condition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Classificatory theory in experimental biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Claude Levi-Strauss on race, history and genetics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Man and her Genes- Seminar in Science Studies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Commentary on genetic variation in health and illness |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Human Nature Workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Communicating Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Session at EGN conference 2013 Global Challenges Around Life Sciences Session at 2013 EGN conference on 'The Impact Agenda' Session at 2013 EGN conference on 'The Impact Agenda' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Creating futures? : the philosophy of genomics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at Culture and Creativity Network and the Stapledone Philosophy lecture series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Crossing spaces-fetal cell microchimerism and stem cell science |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Cellular Spaces: A CBAR workshop on cells |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Current issues in autism and ADHD research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation to ASD and ADHD adult diagnostic services, Devon Partnership NHS Trust. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Data integration and community data sharing : three types of integrative efforts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at University of Sydney |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Data integration and the management of information in contemporary biology. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Keynote Lecture at the 5th Workshop in the Philosophy of Information, University of Hertfordshire |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Data sharing in model organism research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | BBSRC workshop ' Data Sharing in the BioMedical Sciences' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Diagnosing autism spectrum disorders : dilemmas for parents |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorders- Dilemmas for parents. Exeter Cafe Scientifique, Nov 2011, Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Diagnosis as justification for intervention : a case study of childhood short stature |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Dual-use and the life sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Dual-use and the life sciences in developing countries |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Egenis response to the Nuffield Council Consultation on Biofuels |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Consultation response |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Ethical and social aspects of intellectual property rights |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop on IP |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Ethical issues in agriculture : genetically modified crops and the organic movement : response to Paul Thompson |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Ethics in science : dual-use and the life sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Everything is everywhere : but the environment selects : microbial biogeography, past and present |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation to scientists. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Evolution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Radio interview |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Evolution, gender and sexuality |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public discussion event Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Evolutionary systems as improvisation scores |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Film and talk Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Exeter University researchers to get £5 million to expand knowledge on human health, life and space |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Article in Exeter Express & Echo newspaper on ERC grant awards to University of Exeter researchers including John Dupre Exeter Express & Echo |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/Exeter-University-researchers-5-million-expand/story-18182438-detail/s... |
Description | Festival's science forum to discuss stem cell research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Weekly local newspaper article Exmouth Journal |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | From "desperate measure" to "curative intent" : bone marrow transplantation, c. 1957-1977 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | From "desperate measure" to "curative intent" : bone marrow transplantation, c. 1957-1977 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | From commonplace book to index cards : Linnaues at work 1727-1767 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Departmental Colloquium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Gebt den Seidenraupen Brennnesseln |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper quoting the work of Dr Sabina Leonelli Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.faz.net/ |
Description | Genetic discrimination : lessons from the history of genetics and eugenics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation to public policy meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.hgc.gov.uk/UploadDocs/DocPub/Document/Staffan%20Mueller-Wille%2028_01_10.ppt |
Description | Genetic medalling |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Panel discussion about genetics and sport, for general public organised by the PET Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Genetics Education |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Keynote speaker, conference on Genetics Education, Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at Utrecht University http://www.cancergenomics.nl/UserFiles/File/2012/Announcement_web.pdf |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Genetics and nurture : understanding the interactions between genetics and the environment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Prof Dupre was invited to take part in the inaugural Nobel Week Dialogue as a particpant in discussion panels http://www.nobelweekdialogue.org/ Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Genomes and what to make of them |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Charalambos P. Kyriacou reviewed a book by the directors of Egenis. Times Higher Education |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
URL | http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404612 |
Description | Genomics and the politics of identity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Get a whiff of this! : modelling the mechanism of primary odor recognition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at 'Models and Simulations 5', University of Helsinki The aim of this paper is to explore a contemporary controversy in olfaction theory. Orthodox opinion about primary odor recognition takes shape to be the underlying key feature. However, this account faces several experimental problems and still lacks conclusive demonstration. An alternative account, referring instead to molecular vibration in the infra_red range, has been widely disregarded, though it has not been rejected on experimental grounds. By contrasting the two accounts this paper reconstructs the different strategies of modelling facts, conducting and interpreting experiments implicit in the competing theories. This comparison will be used to explore the extent to which experimental practice must be bound to existing epistemic assumptions in order to be accepted as 'evidential'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Health and disease in the light of evolution - or WHO needs Darwin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Health care professional responses to emerging prenatal genetic diagnostic technologies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | History and philosophy of biology : new perspectives? : "on the operational character of concepts in the life sciences : historical and philosophical perspectives" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | How does man conceptualise models of human disease in the context of changing ethical and legal frameworks concerning animals in experimentation? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at workshop Animal Models, Model Animals? Meaning and Practices in the History of the Biomedical Sciences at the University of Manchester |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | How should (direct-to-consumer) genetic testing be regulated? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Human evolution : where have we been and where are we going? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Prof Dupré was an invited participant in the inaugural Nobel Week Dialogue, 'The Genetic Revolution and its Impact on Society' http://www.nobelweekdialogue.org/ Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Humans and the boundaries of life |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Teaching at postgraduate summer school |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | IP, exclusion and open source |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Identity depends on recognition : Judith Butler's theory of the subject |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Policing genes: Ethnicity in medicine, immigration and the census workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Integrating Data to Acquire New Knowledge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited Lecture at British Society for the Philosophy of Science http://www.thebsps.org/society/bsps/events.html |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Intersecting determinisms: Genetics goes online |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper delivered at Genomics Forum workshop Challenges to Researching, Engaging and Governing the Messiness of Convergence |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Interview with Professor John Dupre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Podcast by Human Genetics Commission |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.hgc.gov.uk/UploadDocs/Contents/mp3/HGC_Podcasts/johndupre.mp3 |
Description | Investigating attitudes, viewpoints and identities using Q-methodology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk given at Business School, University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Is earlier always better in the diagnosis of autism? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has risen steeply over the last thirty years, and the clinical trend has been to diagnose younger and younger children. But is younger always better? Ginny will describe her PhD work analysing data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children to examine outcomes in adolescent participants with autism. The research suggests that a proportion of children who have severe autistictype difficulties early on may catch up over a period of years without intervention, throwing into question the current drive to diagnose ASD early. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Is easier always better? Thoughts on the development and implementation of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing and future reproduction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Public lecture at Vanderbilt University Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Issue 12 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Newsletter involving work from various initiatives. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/media/GN%20Newsletter%20Issue%2012%20Web.pdf |
Description | Issue 13 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Newsletter involving work from various initiatives. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/media/gen_march11_web.pdf |
Description | Just how far should we go with 'Frankenbunny' medicine? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Feature article in regional newspaper the Western Morning News Western Morning News |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Just-far-Frankenbunny-medicine/story-15978787-detail/story.html |
Description | Law, biology and culture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Lehrman's dictum : information and explanation in biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Developmental psychobiologist Daniel S. Lehrman wrote that, "although the idea that behavior patterns are 'blueprinted' or 'encoded' in the genome is a perfectly appropriate and instructive way of talking about certain problems of genetics and evolution, it does not in any way deal with the kinds of questions about behavioral development to which it is so often applied." (Lehrman, 1970: 35). According to Lehrman, it is legitimate to regard the genome as a means for the transmission of information from parent to offspring, but not to explain the development of phenotypic traits as the expression of genetic information. There is something prima facie puzzling about this claim- if the reason offspring resemble their parents is the transmission of information, then surely that information explains the development of the trait in the offspring? Lehrman's dictum has recently been challenged by philosopher of biology Nicholas Shea, who argues that the information transmitted from parent to offspring in the genome is 'read in development' and that the inheritance of this information explains developmental outcomes (Shea 2007, In Press). Shea's application of 'infotel semantics' is a significant advance on previous attempts to use the idea of information to analyse the relationship between evolutionary and developmental explanations. It identifies a class of questions which have been neglected in previous accounts of explanation in biology. But it does not support the idea that inherited information is 'read in development'. In an important sense, Lehrman is still right. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Life as a Process |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk given to University of Sydney Department of History and Philosophy of Science |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Life in the Digital Age |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited Lecture at STS Seminar, University of Edinburgh |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Life in the Digital Age: The Impact of Open Science and Digital Technologies on Biological Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at STS Seminar, London, 12 November 2012 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Making Open Science Possible |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | http://science.okfn.org/2012/11/28/making-open-science-possible-global-young-academy-statement-on-open-science/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Making open science possible |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog post on Open Science blog of Open Science Foundation http://science.okfn.org/2012/11/28/making-open-science-possible-global-young-academy-statement-on-open-science/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Making sense of smell : models in olfaction theory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the 'Second European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences: In Vivo, ex Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico: Models in the Life Sciences', Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Making sense of smell : models in olfaction theory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation at 'Second European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences: In Vivo, ex Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico: Models in the Life Sciences' - Brocher Foundation Geneva http://www.brocher.ch/mobile/event/second-european-advanced-seminar-in-the-philosophy-of-the-life-sciences-in-vivo-ex-vivo-in-vitro-in-silico-models-in-the-life-sciences/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Market not giving off clear signals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Weekly national newspaper Farmers Guardian |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/livestock/livestock-news/market-not-giving-off-clear-signals/329... |
Description | Maternal-fetal cell transfer science : problems at the maternal-fetal boundary |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Fragmented bodies: Women, technologies, economies seminar series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Mechanism and Causation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop organised by Egenis at the University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Medicine, evolution and virulence : linking concepts and practices in 20th century life sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Mental health and well-being |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at launch of HaSS Strategy, University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Model choice and method selection in molecular evolution : comment and discussion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Commentator to keynote speaker Michael R. Dietrich at Second European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences: In Vivo, ex Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico: Models in the Life Sciences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Model organisms in biology and medicine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Second European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences: In Vivo, ex Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico: Models in the Life Sciences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Model organisms in biology and medicine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presented at Second European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Models in vivo, in vitro, in silico |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of Biology, Brocher Foundation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | NIPD : social science and policy implications |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Symposium presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Natural kinds in philosophy and in the life sciences : scholastic twilight or new dawn? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) : family experiences and healthcare management |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Next generation sequencing and its applications |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation to the Human Genetics Commission |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis : querying the role of risk in the organization of prenatal diagnostic testing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Notes on the impact of local elements on scientific practice(s) from the perspectives of a social scientist and an artist |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at public workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Open data and privacy concerns in biomedical research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog post on Open Science blog of the Open Science Foundation; http://science.okfn.org/2012/11/19/open-data-and-privacy-concerns-in-biomedical-research-guest-post/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Outcomes for children with autism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation, Centre for Social Policy. Fellows meeting, Dartington, Devon. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Parents' experiences and changing perspectives on ASD and ADHD |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation to Special Neeeds Research Group, University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Philosophical approaches to child welfare |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Philosophy, the life sciences and society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Keynote public lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Process and Mechanism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper deliverd at Mechanism and Causation workshop, University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Process and pluralism in microbial ontology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation at workshop on the epistemology of biology |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Professor gets US fellowship |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Regional daily newspaper article Exeter Express & Echo |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Professor-gets-fellowship/article-3127584-detail/article.html |
Description | Prospective parents, potential parents, and reproductive responsibility |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Public consultation workshop on synthetic biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Expert witness, BBSRC-sponsored public consultation workshop on synthetic biology |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Pugwash and the politics of fallout : a British perspective |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper given at the 'Writing Pugwash Histories' workshop in Vienna |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Rational design in synthetic biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Panel debate at science festival |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.nanoinfobio.org/Alife/Artificial_Life__Promises_and_Pitfalls/Alife.html |
Description | Re-writing the system of nature : serial knowledge production in Linnaean prints and manuscripts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seriality and Scientific Objects in an Age of Revolution workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Reading group on the work of John Dupré |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop on the work of the Egenis Director |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Reflections on C.P. snow's 'two cultures' - 50 years on |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Keynote lecture for conference on 'Two Cultures- 50 years on' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Representing knowledge : on the epistemic condition of reference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Research News |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | University newsletter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/webteam/shared/pdfs/researchnews/issue6.pdf |
Description | Research and clinical contexts of incidental findings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Incidental findings arising from clinical genetic testing: An expert workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Respect for epistemic diversity : a guiding principle for biological cyberinfrastructures |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Responsibility in the life sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Savants and Stereotypes: Barry Levinson's Rain Man |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public lecture to accompany film screening as part of the 'Sickness on Screen' series Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Science and pseudoscience |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Royal Institute of Philosophy sponsored lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Scientific tales about human nature |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Symposium speaker for 'Science for Sale' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Scientist joins global team to highlight issues |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Newspaper article about selection of Egenis academic for Global Young Academy Exeter Express and Echo |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/Scientist-joins-global-team-highlight-issues/story-15108598-detail/sto... |
Description | Self-administered diagnostic and risk assessment tests |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Selling genetics online - DTC genetic testing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop for A-level biology students delivered at the King's School, Ottery St Mary |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Selling genetics online, and the questions this raises |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Consumers can now shop online in a diverse and growing genetic testing marketplace. Users of this service post a sample of their saliva to internet-based companies in order to discover genetic information about themselves concerning ancestry, paternity, disease and other quirks. In this seminar I will discuss a project concerning direct-to-consumer genetic testing for psychiatric illness, undertaken with Susan Kelly (Egenis, Exeter) and Sally Wyatt (e-Humanities Group, Amsterdam). I present initial findings from our analysis of company websites, concerning issues such as representation of genetic counselling, involvement of users in research and relations of trust. This analysis has raised many questions, and as we move into the second phase of our study, involving interviews and focus groups with potential users, we bring several of these questions to the seminar for discussion: What do we mean when we talk about users of direct-to-consumer genetic testing? Many researchers, like us, want to find and study users. Often we rely upon studies of potential users, acknowledging the discrepancy between what actors say they would do and actual practice. As we design our own study of potential user groups, we consider accounts about, and by, those identified as 'users' of genetic tests, from sociological questionnaires, hypothetical studies, YouTube diaries, autobiographies and authoethnographies. In doing so we question what it means to be a user, while considering what these accounts have to tell us about genetic understandings of the self. Are users the same as consumers? Who do we understand to be consumers? Our own definition of consumers of direct-to-consumer genetic testing includes the pre-symptomatic individual, patients and their families, and physicians. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Shifting scientific norms in the digital age |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper delivered as part of the meeting, 'Revaluing Science in the Digital Age' at the Royal Society. The meeting explored the challenges of managing 'big data' for science and society, and particularly the extent to which science itself is changing with the introduction of new data-intensive methods. Dr Leonelli, whose talk was entitled 'Shifting scientific norms in the digital age', contributed to an ICSU Advisory Note, Revaluing Science in the Digital Age, due be released shortly, which recommends strongly that investment is directed to the curation of data (not just their long-term storage). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Should we be worried by Britain's move to legalise "three parent" IVF treatment? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Article in free London daily newspaper City AM |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.cityam.com/debate/should-we-be-worried-britain-s-move-legalise-three-parent-ivf-treatment |
Description | Stem cell meeting aimed at layman not scientist |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Weekly local newspaper article Exmouth Journal |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Stem cells in medicine : scientific, ethical and economic issues |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Public discussion forum |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | SuchThatCast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Podcast of a discussion with John Dupre, part of a series of philsophy podcasts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://suchthatcast.com/ |
Description | Teaching ethics relating to research with human participants |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Teen-text : an intervention in development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation given to the Child health group, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The Bioeconomy of Assisted Reproduction and Regenerative Medicine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper deliverd at workshop Exploring the Bioeconomies of Assisted Reproduction and Regenerative Medicine in Spain and the UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The Decline of Neo-Darwinism and Evolutionary Psychology: Implications for Science and Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at the School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, USA |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Descent of Scent: Model Thinking in Olfaction Theory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar given at the University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The Disorder of Things 20 Years On |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Impact of Open Science on Biological Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at Annual Meeting of the Global Young Academy, Leopoldina, Halle-Saale (Germany), |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Metaphysical Disunity of Science |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | One of the annual Linus Pauling Memorial Lectures |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Metaphysical Disunity of Science |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | One of the Linus Pauling Memorial lectures in Portland, Oregon |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Trouble with Rogues: a new theoretical map of Mendelian plant breeding, 1900-1930 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper presented at workshop 'The many ways of integrating HPS' at UCL. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The developmental trajectory of prosocial behaviour for autistic children enrolled in the ALSPAC cohort |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Public engagement seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The epistemic impact of data-intensive methods in biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The human genome project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Inaugural event for Cafe Scientifique at this venue |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
Description | The inherent normativity of biosciences, commentary on Adam Bostanci |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Human Nature and Variation workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The interlinked declines of neo-Darwinism and evolutionary psychology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Despite a number of powerful critiques, evolutionary psychologists continue successfully to popularise the view that there is a universal human nature to be discovered through reflection on our evolutionary origins. One central and perhaps insufficiently noted problem with evolutionary psychology is the extent to which it is based on an increasingly obsolete and indefensible understanding of the evolutionary process. Reflection on recent insights from disparate fields including genomics, epigenetics, and developmental systems theory not only highlights these weaknesses in neo-Darwinism and, consequently, evolutionary psychology, but also offers some suggestions as to a more sophisticated understanding of the relation between evolution and human nature. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The limits of science |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview on Radio Slovenia |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The new philosophy of nature |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Mangoletsi lectures (4 lectures) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | The past 12 years : plasticity and the nature of the stem cell |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | The role of behaviour in evolution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public discussion event Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Towards an epistemology of e-biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Trace and contamination in UK crime scene investigation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation at Egenis postgraduate day Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Understanding life in the digital age : towards a philosophy of data-intensive biology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited seminar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Understanding the science behind big-data production: epistemological assumptions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at workshop 'Quality and accuracy of genetic data and knowledge produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS)', Institut Curie, Paris |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | University awarded £5m European funding |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | News article in Western Morning News daily newspaper quoting John Dupre on new ERC grant. Western Morning News |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/University-awarded-pound-5m-European-funding/story-18190267-detail/stor... |
Description | Varieties of living things : life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Philosophie de la biologie seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Visual representations of smokers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | From Ethno-methodology to Cyborg Sociology - Discussing qualitative methods to grasp material/human performance ( workshop) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | What counts as the context of scientific inquiry? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Keynote Lecture at conference 'Crossing the Divides: Exploring Boundaries and Overlaps Between Sociology and Philosophy of Science and Bioethics', Brunel University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | What do we talk about when we talk about life? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Public lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | What is Genetic Identity? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper delivered at anthropology workshop 'Anthropology of Kinship(s)' at the University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | What is an Organism? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at Department of Philosophy, Portland State University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | What is natural about human nature |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited keynote |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | When HPS critiques science : an achievement or a problem? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Why didn't an equivalent to the US Plant Patent Act of 1930 emerge in Britain? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Why didn't an equivalent to the US Plant Patent Act of 1930 emerge in Britain? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Paper presented at 'IP and Food Symposium', Brisbane Australia ' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Why didn't an equivalent to the US Plant Patent Act of 1930 emerge in Britain? : historicising the boundaries of un-patentable innovation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presentation given at IP and Food Workshop at Griffith, the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Why should we worry about genes (if there are any)? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | PHG Foundation seminar series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |