Crossing Boundaries Social Science in the Policy Room
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Webster (0000-0002-5782-0793, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 458-478 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243907301004 |
| OpenAlex | W2077966292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article discusses the relationship between a deconstructivist method in science and technology studies (STS) and the more recent moves towards a reconstructivist engagement with science and science policy making. Drawing on examples from the author's own research, the article identifies three forms of engagement and their relative utility and limitations. The article argues that these are typical of STS work that seeks direct engagement with science policy making and which could form the basis for a more "serviceable STS" that retains its critical and independent perspective on science. The paper concludes by arguing that the analysis has important implications for the ways in which STS expertise can articulate with science policy making
Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Policy making · Political science · Public engagement · Public relations · Science policy · Science studies · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Public Administration
From “More Innovation” to “Better Innovation”
Dissolving Boundaries in the Policy System
If Intervention Is Method, What Are We Learning
Have STS fallen into a political void? Depoliticisation and engagement in the case of nanotechnologies
Bringing converging technologies closer to civil society
Making an Issue out of a Standard
Evolving Collaborations
How to? Co-productionist relational engagement in European Union energy projects
Universities in contentious energy debates—Science, democracy and coal seam gas in Australia
Integrating and Enacting ‘Social and Ethical Issues’ in Nanotechnology Practices
Nanoethics—A Collaboration Across Disciplines
Transition towards a new global change science
Plasmids, patents and the historian
What role for social scientists in risk expertise
Reflexive Engagement? Actors, Learning, and Reflexivity in Public Dialogue on Science and Technology
Partisan Scholarship in Technoscientific Controversies
Lost in Translation? The Need for ‘Upstream Engagement’ with Nanotechnology on Trial
A studio approach to teaching biosocial convergence science
Alter-ontologies
Caring for nanotechnology? Being an integrated social scientist
Governing Science
Science as a Vacation
Engaging Boundary Objects in OMS and STS? Exploring the Subtleties of Layered Engagement
Engaging With Strangers and Brief Encounters
The new spirit of technoscience
The clothes of the emperor. An essay on RRI in and around Brussels
Assigning meaning to Nest by technology futures
Understanding 'anticipatory governance
The politics of care in technoscience
Representing and intervening
The Rise of Public Engagement in Japan and the UK
The Science Policy Script, Revised
All We Want, Is to Get Rid of the Straw”
Systems biology, big science and grand challenges
Acting on uncertainty
How do we collaborate? Social science researchers’ experience of multidisciplinarity in biomedical settings
Before Laboratory Life
Continuous Variations
Fixing Technology with Society
Insurrection training for post-human politics
Hemoglobin A1c as a Diagnostic Tool
Analytical categories to describe imaginations about the collective futures
A Sociology of Treason
Science and Technology Studies in Policy
Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places
Locating Excellence and Enacting Locality
Reflections on Reflexive Engagement
Improving Legitimacy in Nanotechnology Policy Development Through Stakeholder and Community Engagement
Epistemic Communities Facing a New Type of Agora? Centres of Science, Technology and Innovation as Defining the New Research Landscape in Finland
Un espace d'engagement citoyen
Public engagement in biosciences and biotechnologies
Re-Thinking Science
The new production of knowledge
Between Politics and Science
Democratising expertise and socially robust knowledge
The past and future of constructive technology assessment
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Translations of risk
Report on an International Workshop
Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology
Risk Versus Risk
Breaking the Waves in Science Studies
Science and Technology Studies on Trial
The Third Wave of Science Studies
What is the Problem with Experts
King Canute Meets the Beach Boys
Science Studies and Activism
Technologies of Humility
Science for the post-normal age
Boundary Variations
Beyond Empiricism
The Politics of Technology
Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
Captives of Controversy
A Game of Cat's Cradle
Caught between the Cartographic and the Ethnographic Imagination
Public Sociologies
The Body Multiple
Risk and Environment as Legitimatory Discourses of Technology
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,68 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |