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Faculty Member, Sociology
Lecturer in Sociology
About
My research explores issues relating to the production of truth, justice and individual identity. Topics that I am interested in and have written about include:
fMRI, neuroimaging, polygraphy, lie detection, synthetic biology, biological anthropology, metaphors, philosophy and sociology of deception, surveillance, and technoscience as legal evidence.
My research aims to delineate the role of lie detectors in the context of political, legal and scientific discourses. STS, socio-legal and social theories are drawn upon to characterize their development and deployment through the history of deceit and its detection. Of particular interest are the polygraph machine and the neuroscientific technologies, previously medical and diagnostic, such as fMRI and EEG, that are being repositioned in legal spaces.
More generally I am interested in neuroscience findings and how they are dispersed throughout society, where they find root and how they change their environment. The proliferation of sub-disciplines reveals fMRI increasingly in cultural contexts where it supplements or supplants previous understandings, e.g. neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, etc.
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I am also interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and have been using synthetic biology as a case study. How do researchers from different epistemological traditions work together? Can social and natural sciences work collaboratively for 'mutual flourishing'? What does it take to be hospitable to another researcher or to their discipline? How can we conceive the ethics in/of interdisciplinarity?
