Institute for Science, Innovation and Society: People

Steve Rayner - Director

Steve Rayner is James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. He describes himself as an 'undisciplined' scholar, committed to changing the world through social science, and was listed by Wired Magazine on the 2008 smart list as one of the 15 people the next President should listen to.

Javier Lezaun - Deputy Director

Javier Lezaun is James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Deputy Director of InSIS and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University, and joined InSIS in 2008 after stints at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Amherst College.

Esther Vicente - Institute Manager

Esther Vicente is the Institute Manager. Her role includes support for a variety of events and activities. Esther is the first point of contact for any Institute queries.

Michele Acuto - Research Fellow

Michele Acuto is the Stephen Barter Research Fellow for the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. He is also a CPD Fellow of the University of Southern California's Centre on Public Diplomacy, and a Contributing Editor for the Diplomatic Courier.

Idalina Baptista - Research Fellow

Idalina Baptista is the Sir Nigel Mobbs Research Fellow for the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. She holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Idalina’s main research interests focus on the theoretical and practical challenges of contemporary urban governance, with a wide geographical focus.

Lucy Bartlett - DPhil Student

Lucy Bartlett began her DPhil studies in Management Research at Saïd Business School in 2009. Part of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) group at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) she is under the supervision of Steve Woolgar, after finishing her MSc in the same discipline the year before.

Alysia Garmulewicz - DPhil Student

Alysia Garmulewicz is a DPhil student at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and is supervised by Professor Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization and Director, Institute for Science, Innovation & Society.

Clare Heyward - Research Fellow

Clare joined InSIS in April 2011 as a James Martin Fellow on the Oxford Geoengineering Programme. She also works at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Clare's primary research interests are the ethics and governance issues raised by the prospect of using geoengineering as a response to climate change.

Amy Hinterberger - Research Fellow

Amy is a Research Fellow in BioProperty at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS). She completed her PhD in 2010 at the BIOS Centre and the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Catherine Montgomery - Research Fellow

Catherine Montgomery is a Research Fellow in Bioproperty at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. In 2010 she completed her PhD entitled ‘The Co-production of Gender & Technology in HIV Prevention Research’ at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She then held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Science & Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) at the University of York.

Chandrika Parmar - DPhil Student

Chandrika Parmar is a DPhil student at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Her research interests include anthropology of knowledge, social justice and sustainable human development.

Natalie Porter - Research Fellow

Natalie Porter is a Research Fellow in Bioproperty at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. She completed her PhD in anthropology in 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Tanja Schneider - Research Fellow

Tanja Schneider is a Research Fellow in Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS). Before joining the Institute Tanja completed her PhD at The University of Sydney, Australia, and worked as a Research Associate at the Science Studies Programme at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Ebru Soytemel - Research Fellow

Ebru Soytemel is a James Martin Research Fellow for the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. She was trained as a sociologist (B.A and M.A) at Mimar Sinan University and finished her second M.A. in History at Bogazici University in Istanbul. In 2011 she received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester.

Allison Stewart - DPhil Student

Allison Stewart is a DPhil student at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and is supervised by Professor Steve Rayner and Professor Bent Flyvbjerg of the BT Centre for Major Programme Management.

Chris Sugden - DPhil Student

Chris Sugden is a DPhil candidate in Management Studies at the Saïd Business School. Chris' research focuses on contemporary ideas of novelty and innovation; in particular, the practices through which patent systems determine whether something is indeed new, and through which 'new' is rendered a practicable category within those systems.

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