School of Social and Political Science

Profile

Robert Smith's research examines the social, political and policy dimensions of the life sciences. Robert focuses particularly on how science and technology are made and governed, and how they might be re-made and governed in ways that are more democratic or environmentally beneficial than they are currently. Robert has projects examining the role of funding organisations in governing science, the governance and politics of gene drive technologies, and synthetic biologists’ attempts to ‘engineer’ at the organism scale.