Steven Yearley
Professor
School of Social and Political Science
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Steven Yearley FRSE Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Science Technology and Innovation Studies School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh Steve Yearley joined Edinburgh in 2005 as Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. He is primarily interested in social studies of science and in environmental sociology. Steve is particularly concerned with areas where these specialisms overlap: for example in environmental controversies with a pronounced scientific element (such as with recent disputes over the safety or otherwise of GMOs) or, for example, in attempts to foster public engagement in technical decision-making in environmental areas (for instance, through his work on citizen engagement in urban air-quality issues and his work on public engagement with biodiversity issues in zoos and marine parks).
Research Interest
Environment citizen science Justice and environment Environmental Sociology Sociology of knowledge and science Sustainability Sociology of Climate Change
Publications
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‘Understanding responses to the environmental and ethical aspects of innovative technologies: the case of synthetic biology’, in Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges ed M Groß and H Heinrichs (Berlin: Springer, 2010) 97-108
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with Emma Frow ‘People, policy and plant genomics’ Principles and Practices of Plant Genomics – Volume 3, Advanced Genomics, ed C Kole and A Abbott (Enfield, NH: Science Publishers, 2010) 528-570
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Citizen engagement with the politics of air quality: lessons for social theory, science studies and environmental sociology’, in Governing the Air ed R Lidskog and G Sundqvist (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2011) forthcoming
