Robert Meckin
Presidential Fellow at the University of Manchester
Email: robert.meckin@manchester.ac.uk
Centre Activities
- Researching social, political and technological change that may significantly impact research method development and training
- Supporting NCRM’s training capacity building
Research Interests
- Social dimensions of scientific and technological innovation, especially in the biosciences
- Methods and infrastructures in research
- Interdisciplinarity
- Futures
Recent publications
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Meckin, R. (2019) Changing infrastructural practices: Routine and reproducibility in automated interdisciplinary bioscience. Science, Technology, & Human Values (9th December 2019) Online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919893757. Open access
- Meckin, R. and Soubes, S. (2019) Experimenting with interdisciplinarity: Researcher development and the production of impact potentials. In: Fenby-Hulse, K., Heywood, E. Walker, K. (eds.) Research Impact and the Early Career Researcher: Lived experiences, New Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 81-100. (Joint author)
- Meckin, R. and Balmer, A. (2018) Situating anticipation in everyday life: Using sensory methods to explore public expectations of synthetic biology. Public Understanding of Science 28(3) 290–304 . Open Access
- Meckin, R. and Balmer, A. (2018) Everyday uncertainty work: Making sense of biosynthetic menthol. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 4(2018): 458-484 Open Access.
- Meckin, R. and Balmer, A. (2017) Engaging the senses, understanding publics: Research methods, science engagement, and synthetic biology. Trends in Biotechnology. 35 (11): 1015-1017.