- School of Environmental Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich
- NR4 7TJ
- UK
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
Email: t.rogers-hayden“at“uea.ac.uk
My work focuses on science-society relationships, and the notion of ‘risk’ is helpful in conceptualising key aspects of these. I am interested in the way risks/risk issues are defined/negotiated/re-defined and re-negotiated between various actors, and the effects of this. My work has included a number of risk issues including; genetically modified foods, HIV and AIDS, nanotechnologies and climate change.
In 2007 I was awarded a five year RCUK fellowship, and am using this to help me pursue my interest in science-society relationships in a number of projects, including two major projects. The first involves analysing the (re)framing of the UK energy debate in light of climate change and energy security pressures – and the relationship between this and the nuclear new-build. This is part of a four year Leverhulme Trust funded study called‘Understanding Risk: Climate Change and Energy Choices’. The second involves analysing the way risks and governance of nanotechnologies are conceptualised by members of the UK and US public when discussing health and human enhancement, or energy futures and climate change. A large part of my work on this study has been dedicated to developing the notion and practice of ‘upstream’ engagement – which involes working with the public and stakeholders before the R&D trajectories become ‘locked-in’(National Science Foundation grant to the Centre for Nanotechnology in Society University of California Santa Barbara through Cardiff University).
Significant Publications
Rogers-Hayden, T. & Pidgeon, N. 2008. Developments in Public Participation in Nanotechnology: towards Sustainability. In H Kastenholz and A Helland (eds.) Nanotechnology Development in Light of Sustainability. Special Issue of Journal of Cleaner Production. 16, 1010–1013.
Rogers-Hayden, T., Mohr, A., And Pidgeon, N. (eds). (2007). Introduction: Engaging with Nanotechnologies-Engaging Differently? In T. Rogers-Hayden, A. Mohr, and N. Pidgeon (eds). Special Collection in NanoEthics 1 (2) pp.123–130.
Pidgeon, N. & Rogers-Hayden, T. 2007. Opening up Nanotechnology Dialogue with the Publics: Moving Beyond Risk Debates to ‘Upstream Engagement’. In A. Anderson, A. Petersen, S. Allan and C Wilkinson (eds.) Special Issue Health Risk and Society.9, 191–210.
Rogers-Hayden, T. & Pidgeon, N. 2006 Reflecting upon the UK’s Citizens’ Jury on Nanotechnologies: Nano Jury UK. Nanotechnology Law and Business. 2, (3) 167–178.
Walls, J., Rogers-Hayden, T., Mohr, A. & O’Riordan, T. 2005 Seeking Citizens’ Views on GM Crops: Experiences from the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Environment. September 2005, 22–36.
Rogers-Hayden, T. & Campbell, J. R. 2003 ‘Moving Beyond Science? Environmentalists’ Submissions to New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Genetic Modification’. Environmental Values. 12(4) 515–534.