Activities

Talks in 2010

  • Comment at Modelling in the Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Comparison at the Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 17.-18.6.2010
  • Talk at an event on Applying Academic Funding with the Cambridge University Research office, 4.3.2010
  • Lecture on ‘Sociological perspectives on Evidence-Based Medicine’ at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London. 25.2.2010

Workshop 2010

In May 2010 I will organise a workshop on Modelling for Policies: cases from climate research and public health at CRASSH, University of Cambridge
For more information, please follow the link.

Talks in 2009

  • Lecture on ‘Explorations in the history, philosophy and sociology of modelling’ at COMPLEX, University College London. 14.10.2009
  • ‘Silence of evidence in pandemic risk assessment’ in Ignorance and Unknowing in Anthropology, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. 22.9.2009
  • ‘Ignorance in the life-cycles of evidence: the case of pandemic influenza’ in Vital Politics III, BIOS, LSE. 18.9.2009
  • ‘Predicting the future by modelling the past: How do public health decision-makers use model-based evidence?’ at the British Sociological Association annual conference in Cardiff, Wales. 16 April 2009.
  • ‘On model-based evidence in the case of pandemic influenzae’ at Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. 10 March 2009.
  • ‘Predicting the future by modelling the past: How is model-based evidence utilised in public health decision-making processes?’ at London International Development Centre (LIDC). 25 February 2009.

Writings and interviews

Interview in Britain in 2010 magazine: ‘Epidemics: combatting the thread’. (Download article)

On swine flu: Informed prediction, not wild speculation

Talking point in Risk and Regulation magazine: ‘Avoidable Catastrophes?’

Workshop 2008

In March 2008, as a part of the Leverhulme Trust/ ESRC funded ‘Nature of Evidence: How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel Project’, I organised an international workshop:
Life Histories of Facts: Biographies, Cycles and Metamorphoses

We explored how scientific facts “live their lives” – How are facts born, how do they mature, lead independent lives, reproduce themselves and pass away in natural and medical sciences?

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

I am a member and treasurer of the EASST Council.