Emma Frow
Biographic Data
| ID | 241573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Frow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Frow |
| SIGNATURE | FROW E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8067-7182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From "Experiments of Concern" to "Groups of Concern: Constructing and Containing Citizens in Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology represents a recent and explicit attempt to make biology easier to engineer, and through this to open up the design space of genetic engineering to a wider range of practitioners (including, but not limited to, engineers). Proponents of this approach emphasize the standardization of practices as key to successful biological engineering; yet, meaningful transatlantic differences are emerging with respect to the constitution of ke…
Mapping research and governance needs for gene drives’
KEYWORDS: Gene drivebiotechnologysynthetic biologygenetic pest managementgovernance of emerging technologies
Governing citizen use of brain stimulation technologies: What role for scientists
Colton Smith’s 2017 essay provides an informative history of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and its use in research and clinical settings. More importantly, he also discusses a grow
A roadmap for gene drives: Using institutional analysis and development to frame research needs and governance in a systems context
The deployment of gene drives is emerging as an alternative for protecting endangered species, controlling agricultural pests, and reducing vector-borne diseases. This paper reports on a workshop held in February 2016 to explore the complex intersection of political, economic, ethical, and ecological risk issues associated with gene drives. Workshop participants were encouraged to use systems thinking and mapping to describe the connections among…
Five rules of thumb for post-Elsi interdisciplinary collaborations
In this paper we identify five rules of thumb for interdisciplinary collaboration across the natural and social sciences. We link these to efforts to move away from the ‘ethical, legal and social issues’ framework of interdisciplinarity and towards a post-ELSI collaborative space. It is in trying to open up such a space that we identify the need for: collaborative experimentation, taking risks, collaborative reflexivity, opening-up discussions of…
Taking Roles in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Reflections on Working in Post-Elsi Spaces in the UK Synthetic Biology Community
Based on criticism of the “ethical, legal and social implications” (ELSI) paradigm, researchers in science and technology studies (STS) have begun to create and move into “post-ELSI” spaces. In this paper, we pool our experiences of working towards collaborative practices with colleagues in engineering and science disciplines in the field of synthetic biology. We identify a number of different roles that we have taken, been assumed to take, or ha…
Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: Tensões, Paradoxos E Possibilidades
Este artigo explora as tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades da inovação responsável em contextos transnacionais. Argumenta-se que a inovação responsável, embora apresente um potencial transformador, enfrenta desafios significativos quando aplicada em diferentes culturas e sistemas de governança. O artigo destaca a importância de considerar as especificidades locais e a necessidade de abordagens flexíveis e adaptativas para promover a inovação resp…
Responsible innovation across borders: Tensions, paradoxes and possibilities
In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’. In this Perspective we describe key reflections and observations from the workshop discussions, paying particular attention to the discourse of responsible innovation from a cross-cultural perspectiv…
Making big promises come true? Articulating and realizing value in synthetic biology
Bigger, faster, better? Rhetorics and practices of large-scale research in contemporary bioscience
Can simple biological systems be built from standardized interchangeable parts?’ Negotiating biology and engineering in a synthetic biology competition
Synthetic biology represents a recent attempt to bring engineering principles and practices to working with biology. In practice, the nature of the relationship between engineering and biology in synthetic biology is a subject of ongoing debate. The disciplines of biology and engineering are typically seen to involve different ways of knowing and doing, and to embody different assumptions and objectives. Tensions between these approaches are play…
Opening up the future(s) of synthetic biology
Classifying, Constructing, and Identifying Life: Standards as Transformations of “The Biological
Recent accounts of "the biological" emphasize its thoroughgoing transformation. Accounts of biomedicalization, biotechnology, biopower, biocapital, and bioeconomy tend to agree that twentieth- and twenty-first-century life sciences transform the object of biology, the biological. Amidst so much transformation, we explore attempts to stabilize the biological through standards. We ask: how do standards handle the biological in transformation? Based…
Drawing a line: Setting guidelines for digital image processing in scientific journal articles
The widespread use of digital image-processing software to prepare images for publication is a matter of growing unease among journal editors, particularly in the biosciences. Concerned not so much with intentional fraud, but rather with routine and ‘innocent’ yet inappropriate alteration of digital images, several high-profile science journals have recently introduced guidelines for authors regarding image manipulation, and are implementing in-h…
Drawing a line: Setting guidelines for digital image processing in scientific journal articles
The widespread use of digital image-processing software to prepare images for publication is a matter of growing unease among journal editors, particularly in the biosciences. Concerned not so much with intentional fraud, but rather with routine and ‘innocent’ yet inappropriate alteration of digital images, several high-profile science journals have recently introduced guidelines for authors regarding image manipulation, and are implementing in-h…
Opening up the future(s) of synthetic biology
Can simple biological systems be built from standardized interchangeable parts?’ Negotiating biology and engineering in a synthetic biology competition
Synthetic biology represents a recent attempt to bring engineering principles and practices to working with biology. In practice, the nature of the relationship between engineering and biology in synthetic biology is a subject of ongoing debate. The disciplines of biology and engineering are typically seen to involve different ways of knowing and doing, and to embody different assumptions and objectives. Tensions between these approaches are play…
From "Experiments of Concern" to "Groups of Concern: Constructing and Containing Citizens in Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology represents a recent and explicit attempt to make biology easier to engineer, and through this to open up the design space of genetic engineering to a wider range of practitioners (including, but not limited to, engineers). Proponents of this approach emphasize the standardization of practices as key to successful biological engineering; yet, meaningful transatlantic differences are emerging with respect to the constitution of ke…
Classifying, Constructing, and Identifying Life: Standards as Transformations of “The Biological
Recent accounts of "the biological" emphasize its thoroughgoing transformation. Accounts of biomedicalization, biotechnology, biopower, biocapital, and bioeconomy tend to agree that twentieth- and twenty-first-century life sciences transform the object of biology, the biological. Amidst so much transformation, we explore attempts to stabilize the biological through standards. We ask: how do standards handle the biological in transformation? Based…
Drawing a line: Setting guidelines for digital image processing in scientific journal articles
The widespread use of digital image-processing software to prepare images for publication is a matter of growing unease among journal editors, particularly in the biosciences. Concerned not so much with intentional fraud, but rather with routine and ‘innocent’ yet inappropriate alteration of digital images, several high-profile science journals have recently introduced guidelines for authors regarding image manipulation, and are implementing in-h…
Making big promises come true? Articulating and realizing value in synthetic biology
Bigger, faster, better? Rhetorics and practices of large-scale research in contemporary bioscience
Can simple biological systems be built from standardized interchangeable parts?’ Negotiating biology and engineering in a synthetic biology competition
Synthetic biology represents a recent attempt to bring engineering principles and practices to working with biology. In practice, the nature of the relationship between engineering and biology in synthetic biology is a subject of ongoing debate. The disciplines of biology and engineering are typically seen to involve different ways of knowing and doing, and to embody different assumptions and objectives. Tensions between these approaches are play…
Opening up the future(s) of synthetic biology
Classifying, Constructing, and Identifying Life: Standards as Transformations of “The Biological
Recent accounts of "the biological" emphasize its thoroughgoing transformation. Accounts of biomedicalization, biotechnology, biopower, biocapital, and bioeconomy tend to agree that twentieth- and twenty-first-century life sciences transform the object of biology, the biological. Amidst so much transformation, we explore attempts to stabilize the biological through standards. We ask: how do standards handle the biological in transformation? Based…
Responsible innovation across borders: Tensions, paradoxes and possibilities
In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’. In this Perspective we describe key reflections and observations from the workshop discussions, paying particular attention to the discourse of responsible innovation from a cross-cultural perspectiv…
Taking Roles in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Reflections on Working in Post-Elsi Spaces in the UK Synthetic Biology Community
Based on criticism of the “ethical, legal and social implications” (ELSI) paradigm, researchers in science and technology studies (STS) have begun to create and move into “post-ELSI” spaces. In this paper, we pool our experiences of working towards collaborative practices with colleagues in engineering and science disciplines in the field of synthetic biology. We identify a number of different roles that we have taken, been assumed to take, or ha…
Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: Tensões, Paradoxos E Possibilidades
Este artigo explora as tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades da inovação responsável em contextos transnacionais. Argumenta-se que a inovação responsável, embora apresente um potencial transformador, enfrenta desafios significativos quando aplicada em diferentes culturas e sistemas de governança. O artigo destaca a importância de considerar as especificidades locais e a necessidade de abordagens flexíveis e adaptativas para promover a inovação resp…
Five rules of thumb for post-Elsi interdisciplinary collaborations
In this paper we identify five rules of thumb for interdisciplinary collaboration across the natural and social sciences. We link these to efforts to move away from the ‘ethical, legal and social issues’ framework of interdisciplinarity and towards a post-ELSI collaborative space. It is in trying to open up such a space that we identify the need for: collaborative experimentation, taking risks, collaborative reflexivity, opening-up discussions of…
Governing citizen use of brain stimulation technologies: What role for scientists
Colton Smith’s 2017 essay provides an informative history of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and its use in research and clinical settings. More importantly, he also discusses a grow
A roadmap for gene drives: Using institutional analysis and development to frame research needs and governance in a systems context
The deployment of gene drives is emerging as an alternative for protecting endangered species, controlling agricultural pests, and reducing vector-borne diseases. This paper reports on a workshop held in February 2016 to explore the complex intersection of political, economic, ethical, and ecological risk issues associated with gene drives. Workshop participants were encouraged to use systems thinking and mapping to describe the connections among…
Mapping research and governance needs for gene drives’
KEYWORDS: Gene drivebiotechnologysynthetic biologygenetic pest managementgovernance of emerging technologies
From "Experiments of Concern" to "Groups of Concern: Constructing and Containing Citizens in Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology represents a recent and explicit attempt to make biology easier to engineer, and through this to open up the design space of genetic engineering to a wider range of practitioners (including, but not limited to, engineers). Proponents of this approach emphasize the standardization of practices as key to successful biological engineering; yet, meaningful transatlantic differences are emerging with respect to the constitution of ke…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Engineering ethics (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 works) · Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Cell Image Analysis Techniques (4 works)