Are you a sociologist or STS researcher thinking of turning your thesis into a book? Or starting a new research project that you would like to publish as a book? Wondering how to develop your proposal, how to approach an editor, and how to choose a publisher? How do you know if you have a book idea or if your work is best published as a series of articles? And what are the benefits of publishing in a book series? Organised by the BSA STS Study Group, this panel will feature STS book series editors who will introduce their series, offer tips on how to approach editors, write book proposals, and common mistakes to avoid.
Dr Amy Hinterberger is Associate Professor in Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London. Amy is a qualitative sociologist who conducts multi-sited research into the governance and practices of biomedical research (primarily in Europe and North America). She currently holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences for the project Biomedical Research and the Politics of the Human. She co-edits the series ‘Inscriptions: writing the social studies of science’ at Manchester University Press.
Dr Des Fitzgerald is Professor of Medical Humanities & Social Sciences at University College Cork. He is a sociologist of science and medicine, with particular interests in the psychological and brain sciences. His most recent book is “The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City” (with Nikolas Rose, Princeton University Press). He co-edits the series ‘Inscriptions: writing the social studies of science’ at Manchester University Press.
Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya is Principal Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and founding director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos). Dr Hamati-Ataya’s research lies at the intersection(s) of world politics, global/world history, social theory, natural and historical epistemology, and the anthropology, history, and sociology of knowledge, science, and technology. She is the founding editor of the book series ‘Global Epistemics’ at Rowman & Littlefield International, and co-editor, with Arlene B Tickner and David L Blaney, of the Routledge book series ‘Worlding Beyond the West’.
Professor Mike Michael is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Exeter. His research interests include: the relation of everyday life to technoscience; biotechnological and biomedical innovation and culture; the public understanding of/engagement with science; and process methodology. He edits the ‘Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS’ series at Bristol University Press.
Dr Alex Wilkie is Reader in Design and Social Science and Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP) at Goldsmiths. His work combines aspects of social research, notably Science and Technology Studies (STS), with experimental design research in studies on energy and the environment, healthcare, human-computer interaction, amongst other interests. He edits the ‘Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS’ series at Bristol University Press.
Dr Tara Mahfoud is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her work explores the cultural, social, and political contexts and implications of developments in the neurosciences. Tara co-convenes the BSA STS Study Group with Dr Alina Geampana (Durham University), Dr Julia Swallow (University of Edinburgh) and Yuhan Wang (University of Bristol).
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