Joseph Murphy
  • Home
  • CV
  • Projects
  • Topics
    • Learning lessons from natural resource conflicts
    • Improving dialogue between science and society
    • Using policy to shape social and technical innovation
    • Governing when power and authority are dispersed
    • Changing consumption patterns in affluent societies
    • Research methodologies and political action
    • Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
  • Books
    • Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation
    • Ecological Modernisation, a special issue of Geoforum
    • Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences
    • Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology
    • Governing Technology for Sustainability
    • At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland
  • All Publications
  • Contact Me

Improving dialogue between science and society

The relationship between science and society is two-way and dynamic. Applied scientists, for example, invent new products and conduct risk assessments to determine if they are safe. At the same time, however, political, commercial and other factors, shape the research they do. I analyse these interactions in areas like genetically modified crops/foods, synthetic biology and geo-engineering. My aim is to reveal how science and society interact and to identify ways of making such interactions more constructive and effective particularly in relation to environmental problems.

Hartley, S., Pearce, W., McLeod, C., Gibbs, B., Connelly, S., Couto, J., Moreira, T., Murphy, J., Smith, R., Staykova, M. and​ Walls, J. (2016) The TERRAIN tool for teaching responsible research and innovation. Report. University of Nottingham. http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/104570/.

Murphy, J., Parry, S., and Walls, J. (2016) The EPSRC’s policy of responsible innovation from a trading zones perspective, Minerva, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 151-174.

Levidow, L., Murphy, J. and Carr, S. (2007) Recasting “substantial equivalence”: transatlantic governance of GM food, Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 26-64.

Murphy, J., Levidow, L. and Carr, S. (2006) Regulatory standards for environmental risks: understanding the US-EU conflict over GM crops, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 133-160.

Murphy, J. and Levidow, L. (2006) Governing the Transatlantic Conflict Over Agricultural Biotechnology: Contending Coalitions, Trade Liberalisation and Standard Setting, Routledge, London.​
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • CV
  • Projects
  • Topics
    • Learning lessons from natural resource conflicts
    • Improving dialogue between science and society
    • Using policy to shape social and technical innovation
    • Governing when power and authority are dispersed
    • Changing consumption patterns in affluent societies
    • Research methodologies and political action
    • Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
  • Books
    • Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation
    • Ecological Modernisation, a special issue of Geoforum
    • Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences
    • Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology
    • Governing Technology for Sustainability
    • At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland
  • All Publications
  • Contact Me