Sudeepa Abeysinghe is a Lecturer in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses upon the relationship between knowledge and policy in the global management of risk.
Roland Bal is the Chair of the Health Care Governance group at the Institute of Health Policy & Management at Erasmus University. The focus of his teaching and research is on science-policy-practice relations, quality of care policies and the development and use of ICTs in healthcare settings.
Filippo Bertoni trained as an anthropologist and works in the interstices between science studies and anthropology. In his PhD, he attended to earthworms to rearticulate the scientific and the political in the question of how to live together. He just completed his postdoctoral work in the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) group, where he explored the deep historical traffic between mining and the idiom of resources in current biogeochemical notions of the planetary in the copper mine and Mars analog of Rio Tinto, Spain.
Tineke Broer is a Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh, working on a Wellcome Trust-funded project investigating the impact of post-genomic research on cancer patienthood.
Greg Hollin is a Lecturer in Social Theory at the University of Leeds. His research is largely concerned with the sociology of science and medicine and has been published in History of the Human Sciences, Social Science and Medicine, Theory, Culture and Society and elsewhere.
Catherine M. Montgomery is a medical sociologist, specialising in the sociology of science and technology in health intervention research. Her interests lie at the intersection of the social and biomedical sciences, and have focused to date on the ways in which the design of clinical research produces particular configurations of knowledge, sociality and change. She has held fellowships at the Universities of Oxford and York in the UK and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where the research for this paper was conducted.
Vincent Mosco (www.vincentmosco.com) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University, Canada where he held the Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and is Distinguished Professor of Communication, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Stuart J. Murray is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric & Ethics in the Department of English Language & Literature and the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Martyn Pickersgill is Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of Biomedicine at The University of Edinburgh. He currently holds a Wellcome Trust University Award, concerned with diagnostic innovation in psychiatry.
Johan Söderberg is Associate Professor in Theory of Science at Göteborg University, Sweden. In his research he does theory development relating to misuses of technology. For more information, please visit his website: www.johansoderberg.net.
Matthew C. Watson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. He has published on cosmopolitics and the history of Maya studies in journals that include American Anthropologist, Social Studies of Science, Cultural Critique, and Theory, Culture & Society. He is currently completing an experimental book manuscript on Maya hieroglyphic decipherment as an assemblage of spiritual and aesthetic practices.