Andrew Bartlett
Biographic Data
| ID | 297224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Bartlett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartlett |
| SIGNATURE | BARTLETT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6927-0899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Readiness’ as a model to explain the differing adoption rates of gene editing technology in the laboratory and industrial manufacturing sites
Advanced therapies utilise cells or tissues of genetic modification for therapeutic effect. ‘Institutional Readiness’ (IR) is a sociologically-informed model of technology adoption developed to assess the degree of ‘fit’ between advanced therapies and a clinical environment. In its current formulation, IR assesses ‘readiness’ of hospital sites to deliver finished (i.e. ready to use) advanced therapy products, using eight orthogonal categories. Th…
The Shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims
Bigfoot exists. If not as a biological creature, then as a cultural object about which people know with a high degree of stability. It also exists as an object which some people organise their lives around. Those who collect evidence of Bigfoot's existence as a biological creature are known as Bigfooters. Among the most persuasive forms of evidence that they collect are witness accounts of encounters with Bigfoot. Since the 1960s, there have been…
From the tobacco industry's uses of science for public relations purposes to the alcohol industry: Tobacco industry documents study
Constructing public–private partnerships to undermine the public interest: Critical discourse analysis of Working Together published by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking
BACKGROUND: The global burden of alcohol harm has increased and is forecast to grow further without effective policy implementation. Public-private partnerships aiming to address global health, and other societal challenges, are a burgeoning feature of neoliberal governance. Rhetorically distancing themselves from tobacco, the major alcohol companies are committed to tackling 'harmful drinking' and have created a distinct type of public relations…
Alcohol policy framing in South Africa during the early stages of Covid-19: Using extraordinary times to make an argument for a new normal
Crisis conditions can provide new openings for public health (and industry) actors to make salient particular features of alcohol and alcohol policy evidence
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science
Who is licensed to make knowledge claims about society? A more diffuse group of individuals are afforded the status of legitimate speakers on society in the public sphere than is the case when the questions relate to the expertise of the natural sciences. We draw on the concept of the ‘locus of legitimate interpretation’ and the sensibilities of Collins and Evans’ Studies of Expertise and Experience programme to help make sense of these issues. T…
Doing violence to evidence on violence? How the alcohol industry created doubt in order to influence policy
Making translational value: Identifying ‘good targets’ for clinical research on gene editing and induced pluripotent stem cell technologies
Biomedical translational researchers aim to develop knowledge and techniques arising from research in the life sciences into clinical applications. Using the examples of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and gene editing, this paper examines how translational researchers identify and justify which particular conditions or patient populations make ‘good targets’ for translational research with particular technologies. Drawing on empirical data…
Genome editing: The dynamics of continuity, convergence, and change in the engineering of life
Genome editing enables very accurate alterations to DNA. It promises profound and potentially disruptive changes in healthcare, agriculture, industry, and the environment. This paper presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the contemporary development of genome editing and the tension between continuity and change. It draws on the idea that actors involved in innovation are guided by “sociotechnical regimes” composed of practices, institutions, …
The locus of legitimate interpretation in Big Data sciences: Lessons for computational social science from -omic biology and high-energy physics
This paper argues that analyses of the ways in which Big Data has been enacted in other academic disciplines can provide us with concepts that will help understand the application of Big Data to social questions. We use examples drawn from our Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses of -omic biology and high energy physics to demonstrate the utility of three theoretical concepts: (i) primary and secondary inscriptions, (ii) crafted and foun…
Generations of interdisciplinarity in bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, a specialism propelled into relevance by the Human Genome Project and the subsequent -omic turn in the life science, is an interdisciplinary field of research. Qualitative work on the disciplinary identities of bioinformaticians has revealed the tensions involved in work in this "borderland." As part of our ongoing work on the emergence of bioinformatics, between 2010 and 2011, we conducted a survey of United Kingdom-based academi…
Hidden in the Middle: Culture, Value and Reward in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics - the so-called shotgun marriage between biology and computer science - is an interdiscipline. Despite interdisciplinarity being seen as a virtue, for having the capacity to solve complex problems and foster innovation, it has the potential to place projects and people in anomalous categories. For example, valorised 'outputs' in academia are often defined and rewarded by discipline. Bioinformatics, as an interdisciplinary bricolage…
How UK psychiatric geneticists understand and talk about engaging the public
The paper examines how leading UK psychiatric geneticists talk about public engagement. Scientific fields have distinctive publics, with specific goals for, concerns with, and obstacles to engagement. In psychiatric genetics these publics include people with psychiatric disorders, policymakers, and even medics. We found that psychiatric geneticists justify public engagement by using the language of ‘stigma’ in multiple ways. There is a belief in …
The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods
We describe the Imitation Game, a new research method that collects both qualitative and quantitative data, and which can be used as a mixed methods procedure in many disciplines. Drawing on two projects, one investigating gender, the other sexuality, we show that the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Game combine in four different ways, from more quantitative to more qualitative, involving increasing cultural understanding by the resea…
What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference
Sociological Ambivalence and the Order of Scientific Knowledge
Merton's early work on the ambivalence of scientists illustrates the productivity of importing a psychological concept to sociology. For commentators on the experience of modern societies, ambivalence describes the contradictory affective dimension of late modernity. In this article, our aim is to understand the extent to which sociological ambivalence reveals the contradictory relations between two orders of scientific knowledge: the epistemic a…
Inscribing a discipline: Tensions in the field of bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, the application of computer science to biological problems, is a central feature of post-genomic science which grew rapidly during the 1990s and 2000s. Post-genomic science is often high-throughput, involving the mass production of inscriptions [Latour and Woolgar (1986), Laboratory Life: the Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press]. In order to render these mass inscriptions comprehensible, bio…
Complexity and accountability: The witches’ brew of psychiatric genetics
This paper examines the role of complexity in descriptions of the aetiology of common psychiatric disorders. While scientists attest to the discovery of an underlying reality of complex inheritance — the so-called ‘witches’ brew’ of genetic and non-genetic factors — we argue that ‘complexity’ also performs rhetorical work. In our analysis of scientific review papers (1999—2008), we find a relatively stable genre of accountability in which descrip…
The Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats had maintained a presence in the Senate since 1977, but the 2007 election threatened to end their representation for good. Their efforts to retain seats proved to be in vain
No more adoption rates! Looking for empowerment in agricultural development programmes
The Plant Protection Department has responded to these developments by \norganising workshops for Farmer Trainers. This has led to further initiatives by \nIPM farmers. Mr Neupane and Mrs Bimauli are now members of the Jhapa \nIPM Association, an organisation that is run by farmers and which is linking up \nwith similar associations in other Districts. The association in Jhapa plans and \norganises its own training activities, and negotiates the …
Anzus? ANZ who
History and Memory in African-American Culture
Andrew Bartlett; History and Memory in African-American Culture. Edited by Geneviève Fabre and Robert O’Meally. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Pres
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era
In 1974, the academy award-winning film The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by The Entertainer, one of the most popular pieces of the mid-1970s, a revival of his music resulted in events unprecedented in American musical history. Never before had any composer's music been so acclaimed by both the popular and classical music worlds. While reaching a Top Ten position in the pop charts, Jo…
Tools for change and progress
No abstract available
Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip Hop Sample: Contexts and African American Musical Aesthetics
What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference
The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods
We describe the Imitation Game, a new research method that collects both qualitative and quantitative data, and which can be used as a mixed methods procedure in many disciplines. Drawing on two projects, one investigating gender, the other sexuality, we show that the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Game combine in four different ways, from more quantitative to more qualitative, involving increasing cultural understanding by the resea…
Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip Hop Sample: Contexts and African American Musical Aesthetics
Sociological Ambivalence and the Order of Scientific Knowledge
Merton's early work on the ambivalence of scientists illustrates the productivity of importing a psychological concept to sociology. For commentators on the experience of modern societies, ambivalence describes the contradictory affective dimension of late modernity. In this article, our aim is to understand the extent to which sociological ambivalence reveals the contradictory relations between two orders of scientific knowledge: the epistemic a…
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science
Who is licensed to make knowledge claims about society? A more diffuse group of individuals are afforded the status of legitimate speakers on society in the public sphere than is the case when the questions relate to the expertise of the natural sciences. We draw on the concept of the ‘locus of legitimate interpretation’ and the sensibilities of Collins and Evans’ Studies of Expertise and Experience programme to help make sense of these issues. T…
Hidden in the Middle: Culture, Value and Reward in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics - the so-called shotgun marriage between biology and computer science - is an interdiscipline. Despite interdisciplinarity being seen as a virtue, for having the capacity to solve complex problems and foster innovation, it has the potential to place projects and people in anomalous categories. For example, valorised 'outputs' in academia are often defined and rewarded by discipline. Bioinformatics, as an interdisciplinary bricolage…
The Shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims
Bigfoot exists. If not as a biological creature, then as a cultural object about which people know with a high degree of stability. It also exists as an object which some people organise their lives around. Those who collect evidence of Bigfoot's existence as a biological creature are known as Bigfooters. Among the most persuasive forms of evidence that they collect are witness accounts of encounters with Bigfoot. Since the 1960s, there have been…
The locus of legitimate interpretation in Big Data sciences: Lessons for computational social science from -omic biology and high-energy physics
This paper argues that analyses of the ways in which Big Data has been enacted in other academic disciplines can provide us with concepts that will help understand the application of Big Data to social questions. We use examples drawn from our Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses of -omic biology and high energy physics to demonstrate the utility of three theoretical concepts: (i) primary and secondary inscriptions, (ii) crafted and foun…
No more adoption rates! Looking for empowerment in agricultural development programmes
The Plant Protection Department has responded to these developments by \norganising workshops for Farmer Trainers. This has led to further initiatives by \nIPM farmers. Mr Neupane and Mrs Bimauli are now members of the Jhapa \nIPM Association, an organisation that is run by farmers and which is linking up \nwith similar associations in other Districts. The association in Jhapa plans and \norganises its own training activities, and negotiates the …
Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip Hop Sample: Contexts and African American Musical Aesthetics
Tools for change and progress
No abstract available
History and Memory in African-American Culture
Andrew Bartlett; History and Memory in African-American Culture. Edited by Geneviève Fabre and Robert O’Meally. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Pres
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era
In 1974, the academy award-winning film The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by The Entertainer, one of the most popular pieces of the mid-1970s, a revival of his music resulted in events unprecedented in American musical history. Never before had any composer's music been so acclaimed by both the popular and classical music worlds. While reaching a Top Ten position in the pop charts, Jo…
Anzus? ANZ who
No more adoption rates! Looking for empowerment in agricultural development programmes
The Plant Protection Department has responded to these developments by \norganising workshops for Farmer Trainers. This has led to further initiatives by \nIPM farmers. Mr Neupane and Mrs Bimauli are now members of the Jhapa \nIPM Association, an organisation that is run by farmers and which is linking up \nwith similar associations in other Districts. The association in Jhapa plans and \norganises its own training activities, and negotiates the …
The Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats had maintained a presence in the Senate since 1977, but the 2007 election threatened to end their representation for good. Their efforts to retain seats proved to be in vain
Complexity and accountability: The witches’ brew of psychiatric genetics
This paper examines the role of complexity in descriptions of the aetiology of common psychiatric disorders. While scientists attest to the discovery of an underlying reality of complex inheritance — the so-called ‘witches’ brew’ of genetic and non-genetic factors — we argue that ‘complexity’ also performs rhetorical work. In our analysis of scientific review papers (1999—2008), we find a relatively stable genre of accountability in which descrip…
Inscribing a discipline: Tensions in the field of bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, the application of computer science to biological problems, is a central feature of post-genomic science which grew rapidly during the 1990s and 2000s. Post-genomic science is often high-throughput, involving the mass production of inscriptions [Latour and Woolgar (1986), Laboratory Life: the Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press]. In order to render these mass inscriptions comprehensible, bio…
What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference
Sociological Ambivalence and the Order of Scientific Knowledge
Merton's early work on the ambivalence of scientists illustrates the productivity of importing a psychological concept to sociology. For commentators on the experience of modern societies, ambivalence describes the contradictory affective dimension of late modernity. In this article, our aim is to understand the extent to which sociological ambivalence reveals the contradictory relations between two orders of scientific knowledge: the epistemic a…
How UK psychiatric geneticists understand and talk about engaging the public
The paper examines how leading UK psychiatric geneticists talk about public engagement. Scientific fields have distinctive publics, with specific goals for, concerns with, and obstacles to engagement. In psychiatric genetics these publics include people with psychiatric disorders, policymakers, and even medics. We found that psychiatric geneticists justify public engagement by using the language of ‘stigma’ in multiple ways. There is a belief in …
The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods
We describe the Imitation Game, a new research method that collects both qualitative and quantitative data, and which can be used as a mixed methods procedure in many disciplines. Drawing on two projects, one investigating gender, the other sexuality, we show that the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Game combine in four different ways, from more quantitative to more qualitative, involving increasing cultural understanding by the resea…
Generations of interdisciplinarity in bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, a specialism propelled into relevance by the Human Genome Project and the subsequent -omic turn in the life science, is an interdisciplinary field of research. Qualitative work on the disciplinary identities of bioinformaticians has revealed the tensions involved in work in this "borderland." As part of our ongoing work on the emergence of bioinformatics, between 2010 and 2011, we conducted a survey of United Kingdom-based academi…
Hidden in the Middle: Culture, Value and Reward in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics - the so-called shotgun marriage between biology and computer science - is an interdiscipline. Despite interdisciplinarity being seen as a virtue, for having the capacity to solve complex problems and foster innovation, it has the potential to place projects and people in anomalous categories. For example, valorised 'outputs' in academia are often defined and rewarded by discipline. Bioinformatics, as an interdisciplinary bricolage…
The locus of legitimate interpretation in Big Data sciences: Lessons for computational social science from -omic biology and high-energy physics
This paper argues that analyses of the ways in which Big Data has been enacted in other academic disciplines can provide us with concepts that will help understand the application of Big Data to social questions. We use examples drawn from our Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses of -omic biology and high energy physics to demonstrate the utility of three theoretical concepts: (i) primary and secondary inscriptions, (ii) crafted and foun…
Genome editing: The dynamics of continuity, convergence, and change in the engineering of life
Genome editing enables very accurate alterations to DNA. It promises profound and potentially disruptive changes in healthcare, agriculture, industry, and the environment. This paper presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the contemporary development of genome editing and the tension between continuity and change. It draws on the idea that actors involved in innovation are guided by “sociotechnical regimes” composed of practices, institutions, …
Doing violence to evidence on violence? How the alcohol industry created doubt in order to influence policy
Making translational value: Identifying ‘good targets’ for clinical research on gene editing and induced pluripotent stem cell technologies
Biomedical translational researchers aim to develop knowledge and techniques arising from research in the life sciences into clinical applications. Using the examples of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and gene editing, this paper examines how translational researchers identify and justify which particular conditions or patient populations make ‘good targets’ for translational research with particular technologies. Drawing on empirical data…
From the tobacco industry's uses of science for public relations purposes to the alcohol industry: Tobacco industry documents study
Constructing public–private partnerships to undermine the public interest: Critical discourse analysis of Working Together published by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking
BACKGROUND: The global burden of alcohol harm has increased and is forecast to grow further without effective policy implementation. Public-private partnerships aiming to address global health, and other societal challenges, are a burgeoning feature of neoliberal governance. Rhetorically distancing themselves from tobacco, the major alcohol companies are committed to tackling 'harmful drinking' and have created a distinct type of public relations…
Alcohol policy framing in South Africa during the early stages of Covid-19: Using extraordinary times to make an argument for a new normal
Crisis conditions can provide new openings for public health (and industry) actors to make salient particular features of alcohol and alcohol policy evidence
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science
Who is licensed to make knowledge claims about society? A more diffuse group of individuals are afforded the status of legitimate speakers on society in the public sphere than is the case when the questions relate to the expertise of the natural sciences. We draw on the concept of the ‘locus of legitimate interpretation’ and the sensibilities of Collins and Evans’ Studies of Expertise and Experience programme to help make sense of these issues. T…
The Shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims
Bigfoot exists. If not as a biological creature, then as a cultural object about which people know with a high degree of stability. It also exists as an object which some people organise their lives around. Those who collect evidence of Bigfoot's existence as a biological creature are known as Bigfooters. Among the most persuasive forms of evidence that they collect are witness accounts of encounters with Bigfoot. Since the 1960s, there have been…
Readiness’ as a model to explain the differing adoption rates of gene editing technology in the laboratory and industrial manufacturing sites
Advanced therapies utilise cells or tissues of genetic modification for therapeutic effect. ‘Institutional Readiness’ (IR) is a sociologically-informed model of technology adoption developed to assess the degree of ‘fit’ between advanced therapies and a clinical environment. In its current formulation, IR assesses ‘readiness’ of hospital sites to deliver finished (i.e. ready to use) advanced therapy products, using eight orthogonal categories. Th…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Data science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Business (5 works)