Jane Calvert

Biographic Data

ID77666
NAMEJane Calvert
GIVEN NAMESJane
FAMILY NAMECalvert
SIGNATURECALVERT J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0001-7204-9805
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS107
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Welcome toトピアTopia

    Open AccessErika Amethyst Szymanski, Erika Szymanski et al.ARTICLEEast Asian Science Technology and…2026

    We have written the introduction to this special issue on responsible research and innovation (RRI) in the UK and Japan as a visitor's guide to an imaginary island holiday park to emphasize how we have centered the situatedness of practices that contribute to responsibility in science and technology. Our overarching argument is that RRI cannot be discussed as a program without foregrounding its location, and that RRI therefore needs “alternative …

  • Two Tales of Long-term Collaboration: Social Scientific Involvement in Artificial Intelligence in Japan and Synthetic Biology in the UK

    Open AccessArisa Ema, Jane CalvertARTICLEEast Asian Science Technology and…2026

    Researchers in science and technology studies (STS) are increasingly being called upon to contribute to research programs in the natural sciences and engineering, often under the heading of ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI), or more recently, responsible research and innovation (RRI). There has been little work to date that compares these experiences across countries and contexts. In this paper, we present two accounts of STS involvement—in…

  • The Soba Restaurant and the Oyster Bar: Peripheral Spaces for Responsible Research and Innovation

    Open AccessRobert Smith, Ken Kawamura et al.ARTICLEEast Asian Science Technology and…2025

    As STS researchers working closely with scientists and engineers, we have been invited into, created, reluctantly entered, and stumbled upon many kinds of spaces, some of which might be considered spaces for responsible research and innovation. Here we discuss a selection of these spaces, drawing on our work in synthetic biology in the UK and molecular robotics in Japan. They include a multidisciplinary workshop, a public engagement event, an art…

  • The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty

    Open AccessJane Calvert, Jane E CalvertARTICLEJournal of American History2024

  • Responsible research and innovation meets multispecies studies: Why RRI needs to be a more-than-human exercise

    Open AccessErika Amethyst Szymanski, R Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Responsible Innovation2021

    We offer an argument for why responsible research and innovation should be in conversation with multispecies studies. We suggest that RRI can learn from multispecies studies to expand definitions of stakeholders and responsibilities, thereby including other creatures in conversations and frameworks where they are currently missing. In addition, the RRI community might benefit from exploring conceptual overlaps between RRI and multispecies studies…

  • A feeling for the (micro)organism? Yeastiness, organism agnosticism and whole genome synthesis

    Open AccessJane Calvert, Erika Amethyst Szymanski et al.ARTICLENew Genetics and Society2020

    Synthetic biologists attempt to apply engineering principles to biological systems. This involves treating organisms as “chassis” – neutral frames into which synthetic constructs can be inserted, rather than living entities with distinctive features. Here we focus on a particularly charismatic organism – Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) – and the attempt to make a synthetic version of its genome. We argue that the “personality” of the ye…

  • Science and Technology Studies in Policy: The UK Synthetic Biology Roadmap

    Open AccessClaire Marris, Jane CalvertARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2020Cited by: 1References: 22

    In this paper, we reflect on our experience as science and technology studies (STS) researchers who were members of the working group that produced A Synthetic Biology Roadmap for the UK in 2012. We explore how this initiative sought to govern an uncertain future and describe how it was successfully used to mobilize public funds for synthetic biology from the UK government. We discuss our attempts to incorporate the insights and sensibilities of …

  • “Things Can Be Done Here That Cannot So Easily Be Done Elsewhere”: Jane Calvert Talks with Arie Rip

    Open AccessJane Calvert, Arie RipARTICLEEngaging Science Technology and…2018

    In this interview, Arie Rip talks to Jane Calvert about his life in STS and the history and future of the field. He begins in the late 1960s, when he started teaching a course in “chemistry and society.” He then gives a first-hand account of the formation of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and the growth of research in the “melting pot” that STS becam…

  • Data-centric biology: A philosophical study

    Open AccessJane CalvertREVIEWNew Genetics and Society2017

    With the rise of “big data,” we are seeing an increase in data-centrism across many fields of human endeavor, including the life sciences. How should we make sense of these developments? And how sh

  • Roundtable

    Open AccessJane Calvert, Jane E CalvertARTICLEQuaker Studies2016

  • Five rules of thumb for post-Elsi interdisciplinary collaborations

    Open AccessAndrew Balmer, Jane Calvert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Responsible Innovation2016

    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…

  • What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’

    Open AccessJane Calvert, Pablo SchyfterARTICLESocial Studies of Science2016Cited by: 10References: 11

    In this paper we reflect on a project called 'Synthetic Aesthetics', which brought together synthetic biologists with artists and designers in paired exchanges. We - the STS researchers on the project - were quickly struck by the similarities between our objectives and those of the artists and designers. We shared interests in forging new collaborations with synthetic biologists, 'opening up' the science by exploring implicit assumptions, and int…

  • Taking Roles in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Reflections on Working in Post-Elsi Spaces in the UK Synthetic Biology Community

    Open AccessAndrew S Balmer, Andrew Balmer et al.ARTICLEScience & Technology Studies2015

    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…

  • Intentions, Expectations and Institutions: Engineering the Future of Synthetic Biology in the USA and the UK

    Pablo Schyfter, Jane CalvertARTICLEScience as Culture2015Cited by: 10References: 3

    Synthetic biology is a field in-the-making: a loosely defined amalgamation of diverse disciplines, institutions and practices. Where some practitioners identify as scientists, others consider themselves engineers; while some extol the simplicity of standardised biology, others dismiss it as counterproductive. Three different communities in synthetic biology (epistemics, sceptical constructors and committed engineers) can be distinguished by way o…

  • Governing in the Context of Uncertainty

    Open AccessJane CalvertARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2014

    Kaebnick, Gusmano, and Murray tackle some important issues raised by the emerging field of synthetic biology. Many of these issues arise pre­cisely because synthetic biology is still emerging, making it hard, if not impossible, to predict how the technology will pan out. In the context of this uncertainty, Kaebnick, Gusmano, and Murray imply, we may have to change our familiar patterns of thinking and governing. It is this point that I elaborate …

  • Engineering Biology and Society: Reflections on Synthetic Biology

    Open AccessJane CalvertARTICLEScience Technology and Society2013

    Synthetic biology, according to some definitions, is the attempt to make biology into an engineering discipline. I ask what is meant by this objective, which seems to have excited and energised many people and encouraged them to start working in the field. I show how synthetic biologists make a point of distinguishing their work from previous genetic ‘engineering’, which is described as bespoke and artisan. I examine synthetic biologists’ account…

  • Systems biology, big science and grand challenges

    Open AccessJane CalvertARTICLEBioSocieties2013

  • Can simple biological systems be built from standardized interchangeable parts?’ Negotiating biology and engineering in a synthetic biology competition

    Emma Frow, Jane CalvertARTICLEEngineering Studies2013Cited by: 4References: 5

    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

    Open AccessEmma Frow, Jane CalvertARTICLEFutures2013Cited by: 7References: 19

  • Patrick M. Erben. A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

    Jane Calvert, J E CalvertARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    The historiography on early Pennsylvania is polarized in an interesting way. On the one hand, explains Patrick M. Erben, “the utopianism of Pennsylvania's founding has become such a cliché that its explanatory power has waned” (p. 46). On the other hand, historians seeking to challenge the seemingly mythical depiction of peace and harmony in the colony have often focused on the conflict and acrimony in Quaker politics or other ways the “holy expe…

  • Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic

    Jane Calvert, J E CalvertARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    Journal Article Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic Get access Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic. By Mark David Hall. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 224 pp. $45.00.) Jane E. Calvert Jane E. Calvert University of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 3, December…

  • Systems biology, synthetic biology and data-driven research: A commentary on Krohs, Callebaut, and O’Malley and Soyer

    Open AccessJane CalvertARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2012

  • Ownership and sharing in synthetic biology: A ‘diverse ecology’ of the open and the proprietary

    Open AccessJane CalvertARTICLEBioSocieties2012Cited by: 10References: 11

  • Calculating life? Duelling discourses in interdisciplinary systems biology

    Open AccessJane Calvert, Joan H FujimuraARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2011Cited by: 12References: 5

  • Response to Review by Barry Levy

    Open AccessJane Calvert, Jane E CalvertARTICLELaw and History Review2011

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