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  • Professor Brian Wynne

    Associate Director

    Cesagen

    As well as his role at Cesagen, Brian is a Professor of Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) at Lancaster. He was Principal Investigator on two CESAGen Phase 1 Flagship Projects, plant genomics and indigenous peoples. He has an MA in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge and an MPhil in the Sociology of Science from Edinburgh. His work has covered technology and risk assessment, public risk perceptions, and public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making. He was an Inaugural Member of the Management Board and Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, (EEA), (1994-2000) and a Special Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000). He is also a member of the London Royal Society’s Committee on Science in Society.

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DEBATE: Organic food

Qualifying Round: Blackburn 2009/10

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