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Prof. Steve Woolgar
Saïd Business School, Oxford
Professor Steve Woolgar is a Sociologist who holds the Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, and is a Professorial Fellow of Green College, University of Oxford.
He was formerly Professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He took his BA (First Class Honours), MA and PhD from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He has since held Visiting Appointments at McGill University (Sociology '79-81), MIT (Program in Science Technology and Society, '83-84), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, '88-89) and UC San Diego (Sociology, '95-96). He is the winner of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, and an ESRC Senior Research Fellowship. From 1997-2002 he was Director of the ESRC Programme Virtual Society? - the social science of electronic technologies comprising 22 research projects throughout the UK.
He has published widely in social studies of science and technology, social problems and social theory. His books include Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts (with B Latour, Princeton, 1986); Science: the Very Idea (Routledge, 1988); Knowledge and Reflexivity (Sage, 1988); The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science (with S.Fuller and M.de Mey, Kluwer, 1989); Representation in Scientific Practice (with M. Lynch, MIT, 1990); The Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work (with K.Grint, Polity, 1996) and Virtual Society? Technology, cyberbole, reality (Oxford University Press, 2002). His work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
His main current research projects include governance and accountability relations in mundane technical solutions to public problems; the social dynamics of provocation; the value of radical academic ideas for business and management. He additionally works on technology and organisational change, branding and brand development, public service management, marketing in practice, the social and organizational dimensions of futuring, the rise of ethics in organizations, social theory, and visualization and evidence in eScience.
He has served on the EC (VALUE) Think Tank charged with devising strategy for "Interfaces between research and society"; on two UK government Foresight Panels (Information Technology, Electronics and Communications; and Leisure and Learning); on two Ministerial Advisory Groups: E-Commerce and Consumer Affairs; as advisor to the Cabinet Office "Better Government" team; to the POST “Electronic Government” initiative; and on several ESRC Programme Commissioning Panels. He is a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, the UK Cabinet Office think tank on Public Service Management. He has also been an advisor to the Research Councils of Denmark, Netherlands and Norway. He was a member of the HEFCE RAE Sociology Panel (1996 and 2001). He is a member of Council of Which? (the Consumer’s Association) www.which.co.uk , and Chair of Auditory Verbal UK www.auditoryverbal.org.uk, the charity which enables speech and language in hearing impaired children.
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/faculty/Woolgar+Steve/Woolgar+Steve.htm
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