Professor Mike Michael

BA PhD

m.michael (@gold.ac.uk)

Research Interests

My research covers a number of more or less loosely connected areas: public understanding of science; sociology of mundane technologies; sociology of biomedical innovation and culture; sociology of everyday life; animals and society; materiality and sociality. My main research activities at the moment include a continuing analysis of data from the Economic and Social Research Council funded project 'Mapping Stem Cell Innovation in Action' (with Clare Williams, Steven Wainwright, Alan Cribb, Bobbie Farsides), and a longer term exploration of the relations between design and social science disciplines.

Recent Publications

Books

1. (2007) With L. Birke and A. Arluke, The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People
2. (2006) Technoscience and Everyday Life; Maidenhead, Berks: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill
3. (2003) with A. Irwin, Science, Social Theory and Public Knowledge, Maidenhead, Berkshire :Open University Press/McGraw-Hill.
4. (2000). Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity. London: Routledge.

Recent Journal articles and chapters

(2010) with Rosengarten, M. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) the complexities of biomedical prevention: ontological openness and the prevention assemblage.  In M. Davis and C. Squire (eds).  HIV, technology and subjectivity: international cases studies of HIV treatment and prevention. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

(2009). Publics Performing Publics: Of PiGs, PiPs and Politics. Public Understanding of Science, 18, 617-631.

(2009) with Gaver. W. Home beyond home: Dwelling with threshold devices. Space and Culture, 12, 359-370.

(2009) with Rosengarten, M.  The performative function of expectations in translating treatment to prevention: the case of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP. Social Science & Medicine, 69, 1049-1055.

(2009) with Wilkie, A.  Expectation and Mobilisation: Enacting Future Users. Science, Technology and Human Values, 34, 502-522.

(2009) with Rosengarten, M.  Rethinking the bioethical enactment of drugged bodies: On the paradoxes of using anti-HIV drug therapy as a technology for prevention. Science as Culture, 18, 183–99.

(2009). Temporality, topology and sociology. In G. Ascione, C. Massip and J. Perello, Cultures of Change: Social Atoms and Electronic Lives (pp.94-95). Barcelona: Actar and Arts Santa Monica

(2009) Engaging with Engagement: The complexity of material beliefs. In J. Beaver, T. Kerridge and S. Pennington (eds), Material Beliefs (pp. 3-6). London: Goldsmiths.

(2009) with Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. &.Cribb, A.  Stem cells, translational research and the sociology of science.   In  Atkinson, P. Glasner, P. & Lock, M. (Eds) Handbook of Genetics & Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era. London: Routledge.

(2009). ‘The-Cellphone-In-The-Countryside’: On Some Ironic Spatialities Of Technonature.  In  Damian White And Chris Wilbert (eds). Technonatures (pp. 85-104). Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press.

(2008) with Cribb, A., Wainwright, S.. Williams, C., Farsides, B. Towards the applied: the construction of ethical positions in stem cell translational research. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 11(3), 351-61.

(2008) with Wainwright, S. and Williams, C. Shifting paradigms?  Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals. Sociology of Health and Illness , 30 (6), 959-974.

(2008) with Halewood, M.  Being a Sociologist and Becoming a Whiteheadian: Concrescing Methodological Tactics  Theory, Culture and Society, 25 (4), 31-56

(2008) with Rosengarten, M., Mykhalovskiy, E. and Imrie, J. (2008). Dealing with the challenges of technological innovation in HIV prevention and treatment.  The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9636, Pages 357 - 358.

(2006) With S. Williams Wainwright, A. Cribb and B. Farsides, Ethical Boundary-work in the Stem Cell Laboratory, Sociology of Health and Illness, 28 (6), pp. 732-748

(2006) With S. Williams Wainwright, A. Cribb and B. Farsides, From Bench to Bedside? Biomedical Scientists' Expectations of Stem Cell Science as a Future Therapy for Diabetes, Social Science and Medicine, 63, pp. 2052-2064

(2005) with N. Brown, ‘Scientific citizenships: self-representations of xenotransplantation’s publics, Science as Culture, vol.14, No.1, pp. 38-57

(2004) Roadkill: Between Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Technologies, Society and Animals, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 277-298

(2004). with N. Brown, Risky Creatures: institutional species boundary change in biotechnology regulation, Health, Risk and Society, vol. 6, No.3, pp. 207-222

(2004) with N. Brown, The Meat of the Matter: Grasping and Judging Xenotransplantation, Public Understanding of Science, vol. 13, pp. 379-397

(2004) On Making Data Social: Heterogeneity in Sociological Practice, Qualitative Research , Vol.4, No.1, pp 5-23