Science, Technology and Society
Lines of Research
The research activities of the group have been concentrated on five main lines:

- the co-production of knowledge and society in the new life sciences and its implications for public health and other public policies, such as in the relation between science, society and the law, in forensic science, or in the relation between health and human rights;

- the emergence of public risks, in particular health and environmental risks related to territorial policies as well as to emergent technologies, social vulnerability, decision-making processes and the role of expert advice;

- the governance of research, including studies of scientific research, development of technological innovations, related policies, controversies and impacts;

- democracy, public participation and multiple forms of engagement in science, technology and public health as social and political technologies, with a focus on public debates on emergent technologies, on the emergence of new collective actors in the health domain, and on new forms of expertise;

- epistemological debates in North and South, and the global governance of knowledge.