Project Staff
Dr. Bob Simpson - Durham
Bob Simpson is a social anthropologist whose current research interests focus on Bioethics and Biotechnologies in developing world contexts. One of the main research settings in which he has explored the encounter between challenging technological developments and local systems of values and beliefs is Sri Lanka. Between 2002-04 he held a Wellcome Biomedical Ethics Fellowship which enabled him to carry out research into the reception of new reproductive and genetic technologies.
Dr. Robin Humphrey - Newcastle
Robin Humphrey is the Director of the Postgraduate Research Training Program at the University of Newcastle, UK. His current work includes, Biographical Research on Post-Socialist Space: Ten Years After The Centre for Independent Social Research, St Petersburg, 15-17 December, 2006, Biographical Perspectives on European Societies Research Network, of the European Sociological Association, and The Centre for Independent Social Research, St Petersburg
Ms. Rachel Douglas-Jones - Durham
Rachel is PhD student on the International Science and Bioethics Collaborations Project, coordinated by the Universities of Cambridge, Durham and Sussex.
Her research Interests include: Bioethics and the State; research governance and regulation; Legal anthropology, mechanisms of capacity building; Sri Lanka ; Melanesia; Comparison; Organisations ; Transnational knowledge flows; Collaborations; STS.
