Brian Wynne
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British academic in the field of Science and Technology Studies
Brian Wynne's Degrees
- Masters Sociology University of Sussex
- Bachelors Sociology University of Sussex
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brian Wynne is Professor Emeritus of Science Studies and a former Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change at the Lancaster University. His education includes an MA , PhD , MPhil . His work has covered technology and risk assessment, public risk perceptions, and public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making.
Brian Wynne's Published Works
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Published Works
- Misunderstood misunderstanding: social identities and public uptake of science (1992) (1615)
- May the sheep safely graze? A reflexive view of the expert-lay knowledge divide. (2004) (1407)
- Misunderstanding science? : the public reconstruction of science and technology (1997) (1253)
- Uncertainty and environmental learning: reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm. (1992) (1060)
- Public Engagement as a Means of Restoring Public Trust in Science – Hitting the Notes, but Missing the Music? (2006) (830)
- Knowledges in Context (1991) (659)
- Creating Public Alienation: Expert Cultures of Risk and Ethics on GMOs (2001) (562)
- Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology (1996) (538)
- Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority (1996) (496)
- Nanotechnology, Governance, and Public Deliberation: What Role for the Social Sciences? (2005) (433)
- Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement (2006) (425)
- Changing the intellectual climate (2014) (408)
- Seasick on the Third Wave? Subverting the Hegemony of Propositionalism (2003) (381)
- TAKING EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY SERIOUSLY Report of the Expert Group on Science and Governance to the Science, Economy and Society Directorate, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission (2007) (365)
- Sheepfarming after Chernobyl: A Case Study in Communicating Scientific Information (1989) (360)
- Public Participation in Science and Technology: Performing and Obscuring a Political–Conceptual Category Mistake (2007) (344)
- Risk and Environment as Legitimatory Discourses of Technology: Reflexivity Inside Out? (2002) (331)
- Public uptake of science: a case for institutional reflexivity (1993) (320)
- Unruly Technology: Practical Rules, Impractical Discourses and Public Understanding (1988) (315)
- Uncertainty, Complexity and Concepts of Good Science in Climate Change Modelling: Are GCMs the Best Tools? (1998) (257)
- Anchoring Devices in Science for Policy (1998) (218)
- Misunderstanding science?: Misunderstood misunderstandings: social identities and public uptake of science (1996) (213)
- The Public Value of Science: Or How to Ensure That Science Really Matters (2005) (202)
- Rationality and ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and nuclear decisions in Britain (1982) (197)
- Conservation policy: Listen to the voices of experience (2012) (188)
- Public Perceptions of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Europe: Report of the PABE project funded by the European Commission, DG Research (contract number: FAIR CT98-3844 (DG12 - SSMI) (2001) (181)
- Risk As Globalising "Democratic" Discourse? Framing Subjects And Citizens (2006) (176)
- Science and Decisionmaking (1998) (162)
- Risk Communication: Paradigm and Paradox (1989) (155)
- Science, Scientism and Imaginaries of Publics in the UK: Passive Objects, Incipient Threats (2013) (155)
- No scientific consensus on GMO safety (2015) (152)
- Global Climate Change: the Mutual Construction of an Emergent Science-Policy Domain (1995) (146)
- Public Perceptions of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Europe (PABE) (2001) (146)
- Strange Weather, Again (2010) (143)
- Responsible innovation across borders: tensions, paradoxes and possibilities (2014) (141)
- The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century : Late Lessons from Early Warnings (2002) (140)
- Risk Management and Hazardous Waste: Implementation and the Dialectics of Credibility (1987) (140)
- Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law. (2005) (136)
- Elephants in the rooms where publics encounter “science”?: A response to Darrin Durant, “Accounting for expertise: Wynne and the autonomy of the lay public” (2008) (133)
- Can focus groups access community views (1998) (129)
- Wising up : the public and new technologies (2000) (124)
- INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGES FOR CLIMATE-CHANGE - PYRAMIDS, NETS AND UNCERTAINTIES (1995) (122)
- From Bio to Nano: Learning Lessons from the UK Agricultural Biotechnology Controversy (2006) (121)
- Risk Management and Hazardous Waste (1987) (120)
- Reflexing Complexity (2005) (112)
- SSK's Identity Parade: Signing-Up, Off-and-On (1996) (98)
- In risk assessment, one has to admit ignorance (2002) (93)
- The institutional context of science, models, and policy: The IIASA energy study (1984) (89)
- Adjusting to Policy Expectations in Climate Change Modeling (1999) (87)
- Expert Evidence: Interpreting Science in the Law (1989) (83)
- Technical analysis of IIASA energy scenarios (1984) (82)
- On Nanotechnology and Ambivalence: The Politics of Enthusiasm (2007) (79)
- The ethics of ‘public understanding of ethics’—why and how bioethics expertise should include public and patients’ voices (2011) (77)
- Public understanding of science: from contents to processes (1988) (77)
- Further disorientation in the hall of mirrors (2014) (76)
- How science fails the environment. (1993) (71)
- Science and Governance: taking European Knowledge Society Seriously (2007) (71)
- Imagine complexity : The past, present and future potential of complex thinking. (1996) (69)
- Dazzled by the Mirage of Influence? (2007) (68)
- Lab Work Goes Social, and Vice Versa: Strategising Public Engagement Processes (2011) (67)
- Public Perception of Risks Associated with Major Accident Hazards (1998) (65)
- Redefining the issues of risk and public acceptance: The social viability of technology (1983) (64)
- Public Understanding of Science (1995) (63)
- Introduction: Ecology, Realism and the Social Sciences (1998) (61)
- 'Between Democracy and Expertise? Citizens' Participation and Environmental Integrated Assessment in Venice (Italy) and St.Helens (UK) (1999) (59)
- Towards a "folk integrated assessment" of climate change? (1999) (55)
- The rhetoric of consensus politics: a critical review of technology assessment (1993) (50)
- Expert discourses of risk and ethics on genetically manipulated organisms: the weaving of public alienation. (2001) (48)
- Responsible Care:trust, credibility and environmental management (1993) (47)
- Risk communication, public participation and the Seveso II directive (1999) (47)
- Public Perceptions of Risk (1984) (47)
- The anglerfish deception (2012) (47)
- “Wrong, but Useful”: Negotiating Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Modelling (2013) (45)
- Institutional Mythologies and Dual Societies in the Management of Risk (1982) (44)
- Rationality and Ritual: Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear Decision-Making (2010) (44)
- Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency. (2004) (44)
- Global Warming Potentials: ambiguity or precision as an aid to policy? (1997) (43)
- Introduction: Science, Citizenship And Globalization (2005) (41)
- Cultures of Uncertainty – Transboundary Risks and BSE in Europe (2010) (38)
- Ready to put metadata on the post-2015 development agenda? Linking data publications to responsible innovation and science diplomacy. (2014) (37)
- Barcoding Nature: Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss (2013) (37)
- Book Reviews: public perceptions and sustainability in Lancashire: indicators, institutions, participation. (1995) (37)
- Regulating Environmental Risks: A Comparative Perspective (1987) (36)
- The toxic waste trade: International regulatory issues and options (1989) (35)
- Ethics of Science for Policy in the Environmental Governance of Biotechnology: MON810 Maize in Europe (2012) (34)
- One world or two? Science–policy interactions in the climate field (2018) (34)
- Carving Out Science (and Politics) in the Regulatory Jungle (1992) (33)
- 17 Public Understanding of Science (1995) (31)
- Taxonomy, biodiversity and their publics in twenty-first-century DNA barcoding (2010) (31)
- Uncertainties in the governance of animal disease: an interdisciplinary framework for analysis (2011) (30)
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, POWER AND MANAGERS (1983) (29)
- Public Perceptions and the Nuclear Industry in West Cumbria (2007) (28)
- Building the European Union: science and the cultural dimensions of environmental policy. (1996) (28)
- Implementation of greenhouse gas reductions in the European Community: Institutional and cultural factors☆ (1993) (28)
- Genetic fallout in bio-cultural landscapes: Molecular imperialism and the cultural politics of (not) seeing transgenes in Mexico (2014) (28)
- Technoscience, imagined publics and public imaginations (2017) (27)
- Classifying, Constructing, and Identifying Life (2013) (27)
- When doubt becomes a weapon (2010) (27)
- Public Participation in Sustainability Science: Contexts of citizen participation (2003) (26)
- Scientific Knowledge and the Global Environment (2013) (26)
- MTBE in petrol as a substitute for lead (2002) (25)
- Nuclear Futures: Assessing Public Attitudes to New Nuclear Power (2006) (24)
- Risk Perception, Decision Analysis, and the Public Acceptance Problem (1987) (24)
- Can Policy Be Risk-Based? The Cultural Theory of Risk and the Case of Livestock Disease Containment (2015) (23)
- Despotism and Democracy in the United Kingdom: Experiments in Reframing Citizenship (2011) (23)
- Environmental models: truth machines of social heuristics? (1994) (23)
- Socio-economic research on genetically modified crops: a study of the literature (2018) (23)
- CHAPTER 8 – Uncertainty—Technical and Social (1987) (22)
- Representing Policy Constructions and Interests in SSK (1992) (21)
- Risky delusions:misunderstanding science and misperforming publics in the GE crops issue (2007) (21)
- METHODOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS : Value as seen from the risk field (1997) (15)
- A framework for a European network for a systematic environmental impact assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMO) (2012) (14)
- Institutional cultures and the management of global environmental risks in the UK (2001) (13)
- Participatory Mass Observation and Citizen Science (2011) (12)
- Erratum to: The ethics of ‘public understanding of ethics’—why and how bioethics expertise should include public and patients’ voices (2012) (12)
- GMO regulations and their interpretation: how EFSA’s guidance on risk assessments of GMOs is bound to fail (2020) (12)
- Transporting Waste in the European Community: A Free Market? (1989) (12)
- Balancing scientific tensions. (2014) (12)
- Policy, practice and decision making for zoonotic disease management: water and Cryptosporidium. (2012) (11)
- Plant Sciences and the Public Good (2009) (11)
- Twelve late lessons (2002) (11)
- Uncertainty, precaution and decision making : the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment. (1996) (11)
- Scientists reflect on science : scientists' perspectives on contemporary science and environmental policy. (2001) (10)
- The Making of Power Shortage: The Sociotechnical Imaginary of Nationalist High Modernism and Its Pragmatic Rationality in Electricity Planning in Taiwan (2018) (9)
- Misunderstanding science?: Conclusions (1996) (9)
- Science-based risk assessment requires careful evaluation of all studies (2013) (9)
- Misunderstanding science?: Select bibliography (1996) (9)
- Working responsibly across boundaries? Some practical and theoretical lessons (2019) (8)
- Shaping blue growth:Social sciences at the nexus between marine renewables and energy policy (2018) (8)
- Risk Assessment of Technological Systems — Dimensions of Uncertainty (1984) (7)
- Public perceptions and the nuclear industry in West Cumbria - report to Cumbria County Council (1993) (7)
- An Interdisciplinary Study of Flux Adjustments in Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models (1999) (7)
- Reply to Radder (1998) (7)
- Chapter 16 – Social Identities and Public Uptake of Science: Chernobyl, Sellafield, and Environmental Radioactivity Sciences (2013) (7)
- Intolerance: science informs, not defines (2011) (7)
- Patronising Joe public. (1996) (7)
- RISK, ENVIRONMENT AND MODERNITY (2015) (7)
- Between Orthodoxy and Oblivion: The Normalisation of Deviance in Science (1979) (7)
- Hazardous Waste — What Kind of Issue? (1987) (6)
- Science and Technology Studies: Experts and Expertise (2015) (6)
- Understanding Public Risk Perceptions (1989) (6)
- GMOs and sustainability:contested visions, routes and drivers (2006) (6)
- Addressing Socio-Economic and Ethical Considerations in Biotechnology Governance: The Potential of a New Politics of Care (2017) (5)
- Introduction: A Conceptual Overview (1987) (5)
- Models, Muddles and Megapolicies: The IIASA Energy Study as an Example of Science for Public Policy (1983) (5)
- Creating Public Alienation: discourses of risk and ethics on GMO's. (2001) (5)
- Viewpoint: Climatic reductionism: The British character and the greenhouse effect (1994) (5)
- Public information on the environment:the role of the European Environment Agency (1998) (5)
- From public perception of risk to cultural theory of technology (1985) (4)
- Biotagging Manchester: Interdisciplinary Exploration of Biodiversity (2011) (4)
- Public Understanding and the Management of Science (1991) (4)
- Halocarbons, the ozone layer and the precautionary principle (2013) (4)
- Fisheries: taking stock (2013) (3)
- The Magic Key (2013) (3)
- Technology as Cultural Process (1988) (3)
- Reply to J.N. Perry et al (2012) (3)
- Risk communication in Europe: Ways of implementing art. 8 of the post-Seveso directive (1991) (3)
- CHANGE MODELLING : ARE GCMs THE BEST TOOLS ? (3)
- Working paper on EPINET's formal and informal assessment methodologies : disciplinarity and value commitments (2012) (2)
- Public Perceptions of Risk - Interpreting the "Objective versus Perceived Risk" Dichotomy (1983) (2)
- Climatic reductionism: the British character and the greenhouse effect. (1994) (2)
- Decentralized Regulation and Technical Discretion: The UK (1987) (2)
- Assessing Quality of Stakeholder Engagement: From Bureaucracy to Democracy (2017) (2)
- Simon Shackley and Brian Wynne's response to the letters from Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, and Marjolein van Asselt and Jan Rotmans (1995) (2)
- Social imaginaries and ethical issues in deliberative processes:introduction and summary of results (2011) (1)
- Public Perceptions of Risks Associated With Major Industrial Hazard Sites (1997) (1)
- CORINE : databases and nature conservation - the new politics of information in the European Union (1995) (1)
- Summary report of the results from the RAGES project 2016-2019 (2020) (1)
- Case study on in-vitro meat. WP5 policy report, March/April 2015Summary of findings and policy considerations (2015) (1)
- Part 2 - Beyond Risk: Defining The Terrain - Commentary (2005) (1)
- Public perceptions of risks associated with major hazard sites (1997) (1)
- Public perceptions and community issues (2006) (1)
- Hazardous Waste Policy Management - Institutional Dimensions (1984) (1)
- In the eye of the hurricane:knowledge and social order in the European Environment Agency (2004) (1)
- Gadgets on the move and in stasisConsumer and medical electronics, what's the difference?Summary of findings and policy recommendations (2015) (1)
- Methodology and Institutions (1997) (1)
- Hazardous Wastes Risk Management and Environmental Regulation (1987) (1)
- Managing and Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in Public Policy (2011) (1)
- De-reyfing risk: science and social ordering (1994) (1)
- Better safe than sorry Is the precautionary principle a useful guide to action ? (2002) (1)
- Bioscience [symbol for chemical equilibrium] society : report of the Schering Workshop on Bioscience [symbol for chemical equilibrium] Society, Berlin 1990, November 25-30 (1991) (0)
- Plant Genomics, Commercialisation and Scientific Knowledge: Shifting Cultures of Scientific Research (2006) (0)
- Gadgets on the move and in stasis: consumer and medical electronics, what's the difference? (2015) (0)
- Science and Law as Conflict-Resolving Institutions - Informality and Discretion in the Construction of Policy Authority (1983) (0)
- The Rationalities of Problem Definition: The Netherlands and Hazardous Waste Management (1987) (0)
- Biomedical Politics, Institute of Medicine and Bioscience= Society (1994) (0)
- Part 3 - Citizens Engaging With Science: Commentary (2005) (0)
- Breakout Segment #1 - Engaging Industry: Improving Our Collaborative Working Relationships (2016) (0)
- Observations and reflexivity:responsibilising interdisciplinarity and integration (2015) (0)
- Shaping Blue Growth: Social Sciences at the Nexus Between Marine Renewables and Energy Policy (2018) (0)
- Editorial (2017) (0)
- Socio-economic research on genetically modified crops: a study of the literature (2017) (0)
- Uncertainties in the governance of animal disease: an interdisciplinary framework for analysis (2011) (0)
- Characterising uncertainties in energy policy analysis (1985) (0)
- The Social Practices and Culture of Sci Ence (1984) (0)
- Nuclear power in crisis: Politics and Planning for the Nuclear State edited by Andrew Blowers and David Pepper Croom Helm, Beckenham, Kent, UK, 1987, 320 pp, £25.00 hb, £10.95 pb (1988) (0)
- The ethics of ‘public understanding of ethics’—why and how bioethics expertise should include public and patients’ voices (2011) (0)
- Societal aspects of anotechnology: misunderstanding nanoscience? (2004) (0)
- Is the public misunderstanding risk (2000) (0)
- Part 4 - Participation And The Politics Of Engagement: Commentary (2005) (0)
- Sociology of Science - Unit Three (1984) (0)
- Erratum to: The ethics of ‘public understanding of ethics’—why and how bioethics expertise should include public and patients’ voices (2012) (0)
- Hazardous Waste Policy Management - Institutional Dimensions. Chapter 7: Summary, Interpretation and Further Problems (1984) (0)
- Social imaginaries and ethical issues in deliberative processes:biometrics; digital globes; body and mind enhancement (3 reports). (2011) (0)
- The Concept of Physical Law. Norman Swartz (1987) (0)
- Mobile Technologies : Participation and Surveillance (2010) (0)
- Enforcement of Hazardous Waste Legislation in the United Kingdom (1984) (0)
- Hazardous Waste Policy Management - Institutional Dimensions. Chapter 3. Risk Assessment and Regulation for Hazardous Wastes (1984) (0)
- Narrow ‘Scientific’ Indicators as Normative Visions: Analyzing Food Security, Yield and Alternative Criteria (2017) (0)
- Addressing Socio-Economic and Ethical Considerations in Biotechnology Governance: The Potential of a New Politics of Care (2017) (0)
- Public perceptions of risks associated with major technological hazards: a contextual view (1998) (0)
- Useful knowledge, social agency, and legitimation 'Useful'knowledge in this context means valid and socially legitimate, as well as being of more immediate practical relevance and use. It is often found that expert (1996) (0)
- Redefining the Issues of Risk and Public Acceptance (2019) (0)
- Personalised medicine: Policy makers should take citizens' priorities seriously (2008) (0)
- Risk Assessment and Regulation for Hazardous Wastes (1987) (0)
- When to Accept a Funds from the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative Program (1994) (0)
- Sociology of Science - Unit One (1984) (0)
- Risk at global discourse: framing issues and subjects. (2004) (0)
- Correction: “Wrong, but Useful”: Negotiating Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Modelling (2014) (0)
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