Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Research

The Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School offers a home for cross-disciplinary research on many aspects of science and technology in contemporary societies. For more information, please follow the links below.

Publications

Books that have developed out of research by affiliates of the Program on Science, Technology and Society.

Policy Reports and Commentaries

A list of recent policy report and commentaries authored or co-authored by people associated with the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School.

• U. Felt and B. Wynne (with S. Jasanoff et al.), Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously, Report of the Expert Group on Science and Governance to the Science, Economy and Society Directorate, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission (2007), http://www.bmbf.de/pub/EuropeanKnowledge(6).pdf.
• S. Jasanoff and D. Winickoff, “Hard Facts and Soft Law: Iraq, Bush, and the Case for Multilateralism,” Opendemocracy.com, November 18, 2002, http://www.opendemocracy.net/theme_9-wmd/article_762.jsp.
• S. Jasanoff, Comment on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Proposed Bulletin on Peer Review and Information Quality, December 2003, http://www.progressiveregulation.org/articles/peer/Jasanoff_PR_Comments.pdf.
• D. Winickoff, S. Jasanoff, L. Busch, R. Grove-White, B. Wynne, “The Academic Experts Brief for the WTO GMO Dispute” (2004), http://csec.lancs.ac.uk/wtoamicus/index.htm.
• S. Jasanoff and S. Sperling (with S-H Kim), “Engineering Animals: Ethical Issues and Deliberative Institutions,” prepared for Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, September 2005 (available on request).

Projects

A partial list of past and current projects conducted under the auspices of the Program on Science, Technology and Society:

• Evidence Observed: Daubert‘s Impact on Science and Justice.
• Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Science and Technology Policy:
  A Cross-National Comparison.
• Constituting Nature and Society in the Global Environment.
• Reframing Rights: Constitutional Implications of Technological Change.

Research Platforms

Interactive research platforms offers an introduction to key theoretical concepts developed in the Program on Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Harvard Kennedy School:

• The Sociotechnical Imaginaries Project

These platforms are a new part of the website, and a work in progress. Please feel free to send feedback to the site administrator with any thoughts or comments you may have about them, or if you find them useful.