John Gillott

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.

Related Sessions
Sunday 21 October 2012, 12.15pm Frobisher Auditorium 2

Publications

Science and the Retreat from Reason (Monthly Review Press, 1997)

Middle East revolutions: hopes and fears?

"The Battle of Ideas is a weekend like no other. I found the 2011 festival immensely stimulating. It gave me a great deal to think about, and a whole new list of books to read - from Virgil to Vygotsky. On to greater battles in 2012!"
Ken Macleod, award-winning science fiction writer; author, The Restoration Game and Intrusion

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