John Gillott is a PhD researcher at Innogen – the Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics, based at the Open University. His research focuses on the changing governance of science, which he has explored through a study of human embryo and human tissue research in the UK. He is also coauthor (with Manjit Kumar) of the book Science and the Retreat from Reason, and he has a degree in Mathematics.