Chris Sugden
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. His other academic interests include the social dimensions of synthetic biology, discourse and textual analytic methods, ethnomethodology, ethics, the philosophy of social science, reflexivity and the sociology of theory.
For his DPhil research, Chris holds an ESRC studentship and Worcester College's Martin Senior Scholarship. His earlier degrees were also taken at the University of Oxford: an MSc in Management Research and a BA Joint Honours in Mathematics and Philosophy (First Class). He is supervised by Professor Steve Woolgar.
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