Research Profile
Dr Neil Stephens
Position:Cesagen Research Associate
School:Social Sciences
Qualifications
- 1999 BSc Econ Economics and Sociology
- 2000 Postgraduate Diploma in Social Science Research Methods
- 2005 PhD, Cardiff (Why Macroeconomic Orthodoxy Changes So Quickly: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the Phillips Curve')
Research Interests
- Social Studies of Science and Technology
- The Regulation of Stem Cell Science
- Capoeira in the UK
- The Social Construction of Macroeconomic Knowledge
- Qualitative methodology
- Cancer Biobanking
- In Vitro Meat (food grown from stem cells)
Watch Dr Stephens discuss the emergence of a radically new way of making meat - growing muscle tissue from stem cells - to introduce some key questions about how to make sense of this new technology.