Completed PhD projects
2018
Luis Soares - The sociotechnical transformation of the livestock market in Tanzania
Frederick Odhiambo Ajwang - The structure of vertical coordination and regulation systems in the Kenyan fresh fruits and vegetables export value chain
Sara Marcela Valencia Cadavid - A model to study the flow and use of knowledge in outsourced knowledge intensive projects: a multi case study of three vaccine clinical trials in Latin America
Jin Ding - The evolution and dynamics of the Sectoral System of Innovation - A case study of orphan drug innovation in the US
Abel Villa Rodríguez - Global Value Chains (GVC) and Social Learning. Developing Producer Capabilities in Smallholder Farmers. The case of San Francisco Produce/Peninsula Organics (SFP/PO)
2017
Sara Bea - No heroics please: mapping deceased donation practices in a Catalan hospital
Leah Gilman - Qualifying kinship: how do UK gamete donors negotiate identity release donation
Tarmphong Chobisar - Partnership and Biobank Governance
2016
Vera Mugittu - Influencing innovation structures and processes in agro-industries dominated by subsistence providers: the analysis of the rural poultry industry in Tanzania
Malissa Shaw - Embodied Agency and Agentic Bodies: Negotiating Medicalisation in Colombian Assisted Reproduction
2015
Alison Wheatley - Good soldiers, good guys and good parents: the meanings of donation and donbated tissue in the context of the Danish donor sperm industry
Diana Carolina - Velasco Malaver Innovation systems in developing contexts: a top-down and bottom-up approach to the Colombian national system of innovation and the coffee flower and sugarcane production chains
Pattamaporn Prachomrat - Public sector R & D and innovation in an emerging country: An analysis of knowledge flow between public and private sectors in the Thai National System of Innovation
2014
Andrew Agyei-Holmes - Tilling the soil in Tanzania: what the emerging countries have to offer
Richmond Atta-Ankomah - China’s presence in Developing countries technology basket: the case of furniture manufacturing in Kenya
David Botchie - Distinctiveness of Asian driver and western garment technologies Uganda
2013
Shishuri Pradhan - From green revolution to green gold: the evolution of the Indian National Mission on biodiesel
Ali Maleki - Dynamics of Knowledge Base Complexity: an Inquiry into Oil Producing Countries' Struggle to Build Innovation Capabilities
Claudio Velasco - Driving institutional innovation for agricultural innovation through R&D projects
Geoffrey Banda - Financing ARV drug manufacture in Zimbabwe: implications for technological capabilities and innovation of African local pharmaceutical production
John Gillott - The Changing Governance of Science? A critical enquiry into the contemporary politics of governance of natural science research as expected through the human tissue and embryos cases in the UK
Emma King - Blood, Sweat and Tears: A case study of the development of cultured red blood cells for transfusion
Jonathan Suk - Epidemic Communities: Climate change, emerging disease and the governance of science; Emerging governance responses aimed at preventing the spread of infectious diseases
2012
Elisabeth N’gang’a - A Boundary Organisation for the South: the success and challenges of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the developing world, in attaning power for scientists of the south
Heather Lowrie - Emerging technological risks in insurance practices
2011
Ann Bruce - The Textures of Controversy: Values and Interests in Disputes Around Genomics.
Shawn Harmon - Health Research, (Bio) Technology, Regulation and Values: Operationalising Socio-moral values in the Legal Setting
Mary Upton - The Politics of Health: community engagement in South African HIV vaccine clinical trials
Najib Murad - Novel Life Science Business Models: the Strategic Issues in Stem Cell Commercialisation
2010
Caryn Abrahams - Zambia’s Food System: multiple risks of power and intersecting governance
Maurice Bolo - Partners for Learning and Innovation: a Case Study of ‘farmer-exporter’ Partnerships in Kenya
Lillian Jensen - Innovation in Pharma Companies: an Investigation of R&D and External Knowledge Acquisition
2009
Sian Benyon-Jones - Expertise and Scottish Abortion Practice: Understanding Health Care Professionals Accounts
Vikas Chandra - Patents and Publication Networks in Stem Cell Research
Ann Kin’gir’i - An Enquiry into Biosafety Regulation Implementation in Kenya: perspectives and roles of scientists
Tamar Shengelia - The Discourses of the GM Crops Debate
Stuart Parris - Venture Capital in the UK: a Regional Deal?
Maija-Kaisa Hirvonen - The National Mission on Biodiesel: a study of science, development and policy processes in India (MPhil)
2008
Phoebe Cochrane - Community Involvement in Woodlands: governance and social benefits
Pelin Demirel - Firm Growth, Innovation and Implications for Market Selection; the Pharmaceutical Industry
Rebecca Hanlin - Partnerships for Vaccine Development: Building Capacity to Strengthen Developing Country Health and Innovation
Matt Harsh - Living Technology and Development: Agricultural Biotechnology and Civil Society in Kenya
Farah Huzair - Innovative Capabilities of the Agricultural Biotechnology Sector in Hungary
Adele Langlois - The UNESCO Genetics and Bioethics Declarations: Implications for Global Governance
Nicola Marks - Opening Up Spaces for Reflexivity? Scientists and Discourses about Stem Cell Research and Public Engagement
Donna Messner - Fast Track: the Transformation of Drug Approval and Clinical Trial System for Drug Evaluation in the United States
Julius Mugwagwa - Supranational Organisations and Cross-national Policy Convergence: the Cast of Biosafety in Southern Africa
Jennifer Speirs - Secretly Connected: Anonymous Semen Donation, Genetics and Meanings of Kinship
2005
Karin Boschert - Agrawende: Cognitive-normative Approaches to Policy Change in German Agro-biotechnology
Kalpana Chaturvedi - The Dynamics of Technological Innovation in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Dinar Kale - Re-developing Knowledge Creation Capacity in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Catherine Lyall - Concurrent Power: the Role of Policy Networks in the Multi-level Governance of Science and Technology in Scotland
2003
Sarah Parry - Debating Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning: Multiple Meanings, Competing Constructions