Science Technology and Innovation Studies
The Science Technology and Innovation Studies subject group, has been formed to bring together the interdisciplinary network of researchers working in these fields. The University of Edinburgh is a leading centre for such research.
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Interdisciplinarity as a political instrument of governance and its consequences for doctoral training
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-21)UK educational policies exploit interdisciplinarity as a marketing tool in a competitive educational world by building images of prosperous futures for society, the economy, and universities. Following this narrative, ... -
Seeing affect: knowledge infrastructures in facial expression recognition systems
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-16)Efforts to process and simulate human affect have come to occupy a prominent role in Human-Computer Interaction as well as developments in machine learning systems. Affective computing applications promise to decode ... -
Mitigating modification: understanding the UK human germline genome-editing debate
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-12)This mixed-method qualitative study examines debates surrounding the socio-ethical implications of human germline genome-editing (hGGE) technologies, focusing on how hybrid elite stakeholders’ discursive and argumentative ... -
Orchestration spaces in inter-organizational developments of information infrastructures: early orchestration of a large-scale regional interoperability infrastructure in NHS England
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)This study addresses the phenomenon of orchestration, defined as the long-term mobilization, convergence, and arrangement of actors in the development of an inter-organizational information system for integrating and sharing ... -
Google search and the mediation of digital health information: a case study on unproven stem cell treatments
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-04-21)Google Search occupies a unique space within broader discussions of direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell treatments in digital spaces. For patients, researchers, regulators, and the wider public, the search platform ... -
Expectations and expertise in artificial intelligence: specialist views and historical perspectives on conceptualisation, promise, and funding
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-13)Artificial intelligence’s (AI) distinctiveness as a technoscientific field that imitates the ability to think went through a resurgence of interest post-2010, attracting a flood of scientific and popular expectations as ... -
Contested environmental futures: rankings, forecasts and indicators as sociotechnical endeavours
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-10)In a world where numbers and science are often taken as the voice of truth and reason, Quantitative Devices (QDs) represent the epitome of policy driven by facts rather than hunches. Despite the scholarly interest in ... -
Internationalisation dynamics in contemporary South American life sciences: the case of zebrafish
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-04)We tend to assume that science is inherently international. Geographical boundaries are not a matter of concern in science, and when they do – e.g. due to the rise of nationalist or populist movements – they are thought ... -
Smart solar futures: politics and instability in off-grid electrification in Odisha, India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis explores the politics and social structures surrounding community-scale, off-grid, solar PV micro-grids in eastern India. It offers a novel, synthetical perspective drawing on a situated, grounded and ... -
Money league, elite men’s football and rankings: an interpretive narrative
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The 2020, 23rd edition of the Deloitte Football Money League (DFML) opened with the headline that 'FC Barcelona reached the top of the money league for the first time and became the first club to break €800m revenue barrier'. ... -
Finding virtue in open science? Biological scientists' constructions of openness in historical, advocacy and policy contexts
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Science has a special relationship with the term “open” and its connotations. A traditional story about scientific openness goes as follows: if scientists share their findings, scientific communities can collectively build ... -
Distributed Infrastructuring and Innovation: an ethnographic enquiry into collaborative modes of work in an internet of things ecosystem
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Emerging low-power wireless networks are being used for a range of data collection systems such as asset tracking, environmental monitoring, smart agriculture and smart city facilities. The relatively low costs of hardware ... -
Interplay of authority and expertise in online self-improvement communities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-06)In online environments, users who wish to learn anything face several problems. Other users are usually anonymous or pseudonymous, information is plentiful and its quality variable, and it can be difficult to discern ... -
Infrastructuring Yachay: contexts in action, temporalities and expectations in Ecuador's 'Yachay the city of knowledge'
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-06)This thesis explores the temporalities involved in the infrastructuring of “Yachay, the city of knowledge” - the most ambitious and controversial public infrastructural project in Ecuador’s history. Yachay, which means ... -
Fabricating Silicon Savannah
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This PhD research thesis offers an historicised account of Silicon Savannah, a digital technology entrepreneurship arena in Nairobi, Kenya. Silicon Savannah is an opportunity to study the appropriation of technology ... -
How co-innovation anticipates scaling: the modulating function of a co-innovation space
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Characterised as a mindset rather than method, co-innovation is a systems-inspired approach to agricultural innovation activity. The application of co-innovation is underpinned by guiding principles of collaboration, ... -
WTO and technological development of transition economies: the 'crucial case' of Kazakhstan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, former communist republics started the process of integration into the global economy by joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO). To become members, transition economies were ... -
Selective citation and the shaping of scientific knowledge: citation network analysis and the diet-heart debate
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Scientific knowledge is based, in part, on empirical evidence. Scientists contribute to a particular evidence-base by publishing the results of their experiments and observations, but in writing their papers they also use ... -
Scottish space sector and innovation: a PERIpatetic study of an emerging innovation system and the roles of innovation intermediaries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This thesis seeks a more effective understanding of Open Innovation (OI) and the available strategies for its development within (geographically–bound) sectoral systems of innovation (GSSIs). Theoretically, it draws upon ... -
How do planets find their way? Laws of nature and the transformations of knowledge in the Scientific Revolution
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-13)Laws of nature are perceived as playing a central role in modern science. This thesis investigates the introduction of laws of nature into natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, from which modern science arguably ...
