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Selected recent publications 

Books

  • Neyland, D. and Goold, B. (eds) (forthcoming 2009) Surveillance, Identity and the Future of Privacy in the Twenty-First Century (Willan Publishing, Devon)
  • Woolgar, S. and Neyland, D. (forthcoming) Mundane Governance: objects, technology and accountability
  • Healey, P. and Rayner, S. (eds) (2008 forthcoming) Unnatural Selection: the Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow’s People (London, Earthscan Books)
  • Neyland, D. (2008) Organizational Ethnography (Sage, London)
  • Neyland, D. (2006) Privacy, Surveillance and Public Trust (Palgrave-Macmillan, London)

Journal articles, papers and chapters

2009

  • Woolgar, S., Coopmans, C. and Neyland, D. (2009) ‘Does STS Mean Business?’ – editorial essay 1-32 in Woolgar et al (2009)
  • Woolgar, S., Coopmans, C. and Neyland, D. (eds) (2009) ‘Does STS Mean Business?’ special issue of Organisation 16 (1)

2008

  • Lezaun, J. (2008) ‘Self-contained Bioethics and the Politics of Legal Prohibition’, Law, Culture and the Humanities 4: 323-338.
  • Simakova, E. and Neyland, D. (2008) Marketing Mobile Futures: Assembling Constituencies and Narrating Compelling Stories for an Emerging Technology Marketing Theory, Vol 8(1): 91-116
  • Woolgar, S. (2008) ‘Acting with mundane technologies’ Presidential plenary 4S/EASST, Rotterdam, August
  • Woolgar, S., Cheniti, T., Lezaun, J., Neyland, D., Sugden, C. and Toennesen, C. (2008) ‘A turn to ontology in STS?’ Paper presented to STS workshop, June
  • Woolgar, S. and Neyland, D. (2008) ‘Disruption, breakdown and resistance: technologies of mundane governance’ Paper presented at EGOS, Amsterdam, July.
  • Woolgar, S., Simakova, E. and Coenen, C. (2008) ‘The ontological politics of convergence’ Paper presented to 4S/EASST, Rotterdam, August.

2007

  • Healey, P., Horst, M., Irwin, A. and Hagendijk, R.  (2007) ‘European scientific governance in a global context: resonances, implications and reflections.’ IDS Bulletin, 38, 5, 6-20
  • Lezaun, J. (2007) ‘A Market of Opinions: The Political Epistemology of Focus Groups’ Sociological Review, Volume 55, Supplement 2, October, pp. 130-151.
  • Lezaun, J. and Soneryd, L. (2007) ‘Consulting Citizens: Technologies of Elicitation and he Mobility of Publics’ Public Understanding of Science 16 (3), pp. 279-297.
  • Neyland, D. (2007) Achieving Transparency: The visible, invisible and divisible in academic accountability networks Organization, Vol 14 (4), pp 499-516
  • Neyland, D., Woolgar, S., Nunes, J., Matias, M., Neves, D., and Hagendijk, R. (2007) ‘Articulating new accountability systems: a preliminary integrated framework’ ResIST Research Summary 4, April

2006

  • Lezaun, J. (2006) ‘Creating a New Object of Government: Making Genetically Modified Organisms Traceable’ Social Studies of Science Vol. 36(4) 499-531.
  • Lezaun, J. and Groenleer, M. (2006) ‘Food Control Emergencies and the Territorialization of the European Union’ Journal of European Integration Vol 28(5) 437-455.
  • Lezaun, J. and Millo, Y. (2006) Regulatory Experiments: GM Crops and Financial Derivatives on Trial’ Science and Public Policy 33(3) 179-190.
  • Neyland, D. (2006) Moving Images: The Mobility and Immobility of ‘Kids Standing Still’ Sociological Review, Vol 54 (2), pp 363-81
  • Neyland, D. (2006) The Accomplishment of Spatial Adequacy Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 24 (4) pp 599-613
  • Neyland, D. (2006) Dismissed Content and Discontent: An Analysis of the Strategic Aspects of Actor-Network Theory Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol 31 (1), pp 29-51
  • Woolgar, S. and Coopmans, C. (2006) ‘Virtual witnessing in a virtual age: a prospectus for social studies of eScience’ in C.Hine (ed) New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: understanding e-Science (London: Idea Group Press) 1-25

2005

  • Healey, P., Hagendijk, R., Horst, M. and Irwin, A. and (2005) ‘Science, Technology and Governance in Europe: Challenges of Public Engagement’.  STAGE (contract HPSE-CT2001-50003) Final Report to the European Commission, February
  • Woolgar, S. (2005) ‘Ontological disobedience  - definitely! {maybe}’ in Stephen P. Turner and Alan Sica (eds) A Disobedient Generation (University of Chicago Press) 309-324
  • Woolgar, S. (2005) ‘Mobile back to front: uncertainty and danger in the theory-technology relationship’ in R.Ling and P.E.Pedersen (eds) Mobile Communications: re-negotiation of the social sphere (Springer-Verlag, London) 23-43
  • Woolgar, S. (2005) encyclopedia entries: ‘Technology and Society: an overview’ xviii-xx; ‘Technological Systems: computers’ 73-76; and ‘Perspectives on Technology and Society’ 387-395, in Sal Restivo (ed) Science, Technology and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

2004

  • Healey, P. and Glimell, H. (2004)  Report on the workshop ‘The Social and Economic Impact of Research on Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences’, May.  Brussels:  European Commission, Research Directorate-General, Directorate G – Industrial Technologies, Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies.
  • Healey, P. (2004) ‘Scientific Connoisseurs and other Intermediaries: Mavens, Pundits and Critics’. Report of a Workshop for the ESRC Science in Society Programme. Oxford: ESRC Science in Society Programme, April
  • Neyland, D. (2004) Moving Images: The Story of Mr. B and CCTV Information, Communication and Society, Vol 7 (2), pp. 252-271
  • Woolgar, S. (2004) ‘Reflexive Internet? - the British experience of new electronic technologies’ 125-142 in Manuel Castells (ed) The Network Society: a cross cultural perspective (Edward Elgar); also published in Spanish in Manuel Castells (ed) La sociedad red: una perspectiva intercultural (Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2005)                     
  • Woolgar, S. (2004) ‘Marketing ideas’ Economy and Society 33 (4) (November) 448-462
  • Woolgar, S. (2004) ‘What happened to provocation in Science and Technology Studies?’ History and Technology 20 (4) (December) 339-349
  • Woolgar, S. and Pawluch, D. (2004) ‘Ontological gerrymandering: the anatomy of social problems explanations’ 45-61 in A. Kathryn Stout, Richard A. Dello Buono and William J. Chambliss (eds) Social Problems, Law, and Society (Rowman and Littlefield)