Mike Michael BA PhD
Position held:
Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology and Director, Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7706
Email:
m.michael (@gold.ac.uk)
Sociology of science and technology; public understanding of science; sociology of everyday life; animals and society; materiality and culture; design and social science.
I joined the Department in 1998 from Lancaster University where I had been Deputy Director of the Centre for Science Studies and Science Policy. I have a BA in Experimental Psychology from University of Oxford and PhD in Social Psychology from University of Durham. Despite this background in psychology I have managed to transform myself into a sociologist of sorts, even going so far as to serve as Head of the Sociology Department 2001-2004.
Teaching
My teaching reflects my interests in microsociology, qualitative methods and recent theoretical perspectives on materiality. I have offered options in Science and Society, Animals and Society, and Sociologies of Everyday Life.
Areas of supervision
Sociology of science and technology; public understanding of science; sociology of the environment; sociology of everyday life; animals and society; social theory and materiality; sociology and design; biomedicine, biotechnology and culture.
I have successfully supervised over 25 PhD theses. The most recent include:
- Simon Kiilerich Madsen (Graduated 2007, co-supervised with Finn Olesen, University of Aarhus) Title: Investment Machines: An STS Study of a Decision Support System in a Retail Bank.
- Paul Stronge (Graduated 2009, co-supervised with Monica Greco). Title: Open to Suggestion: Ordering, Risk and Invention in Community Mental Health Work
- Alex Wilkie (Graduated 2010, co-supervised with Bill Gaver) Title: Turning people into silicon: an ethnography of users and user-centered design
Grants & awards
|
Awarding Body |
Value |
Period |
Purpose |
|
Economic and Social Research Council |
~£125k |
2001-2003 |
Xenotransplantation: Risk identities and the human/nonhuman interface (with Nik Brown, University of York) |
|
Economic and Social Research Council |
~£142k |
2004-2006 |
Mapping stem cell innovation in action (with Clare Williams Alan Cribb, Bobbie Farsides, Nigel Heaton, Steve Wainwright, King’s College London). |
|
EUROPEAN COMMISSION 6th Framework Programme |
~151K EURO |
2007-2009 |
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Fellow, Dr Noortje Marres. |
|
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award |
~£800K |
2009 -2014 |
LABTEC - The London & Brighton Translational Ethics Centre. (with Clare Williams and others). |
|
RCUK Energy Research Programme |
~£974K |
2011-2014 |
Sustainability Invention and Energy Demand Reduction: Co-designing communities and practice (with Bill Gaver and Jennifer Gabrys). |