Professor Sarah Hartley
Associate Professor, Director of Postgraduate Research Students
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Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK
Sarah Hartley joined the Business school in 2016 as Senior Lecturer in Management. Sarah is an interdisciplinary social scientist working closely with natural scientists, engineers, regulators and policy-makers. Her research and teaching revolves around the responsible governance of science, technology and innovation as it moves from the lab to commercialisation. She takes a qualitative methodological approach to understand the factors that shape the innovation process for emerging technologies, particularly the biotechnologies including GM insects, gene drive, and genome-editing. In addition, Sarah explores responsible research and innovation at a policy and institutional level. Sarah has advised the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology on GM insects, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on genome-editing, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council on stakeholder engagement.
Sarah obtained a PhD in Politics and Environmental Studies with a specialisation in Public Policy from the University of Toronto in 2005. She has an MSc (distinction) in European Social Policy Analysis and a BSc (first class) in Environmental Management and Policy. After her PhD, Sarah took up a professional position at Genome British Columbia, a Canadian funding agency where she established an interdisciplinary social science research programme in genomics and engaged policy-makers, industry and other stakeholders to explore the role of genomics in addressing societal challenges.
Administrative responsibilities
- Discipline Director of Postgraduate Research, Department of Science, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship
- Member, University of Exeter Public Engagement Strategic Advisory Group
- Member, University of Exeter Global Challenges Research Fund Strategy Group
Research interests
Addressing global and societal challenges with science and technology has become a significant priority for European and North American funding organisations and governments. My research focuses on science and technology governance as a means to address these challenges with a focus on the actors, ideas and institutions in innovation systems. I investigate two research themes through cases of controversial emerging biotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) innovations: 1] factors that shape innovation trajectories and their impact; and 2] risk regulatory decisions as critical junctures in technology development and the tensions that exist between scientific excellence and efforts to open up risk decisions to a broader range of actors. I work in the UK, USA, Mali, Uganda, Australia, Norway, Brazil and Canada.
Research projects
Principal Investigator, The Wellcome Trust (2019) Talking about gene drive: An exploration of language to enable understanding and deliberation in Africa, Europe, North America and Australasia
Co-Investigator, UK Research and Innovation AI CDT Call (2018) Environmental Intelligence: AI & Data Science for Sustainable Futures, PI - Gavin Shaddick (Mathematics)
Principal Investigator, British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Call (2018) Co-developing risk assessment across disciplines and borders: Gene drive mosquito field trials in Uganda
Principal Investigator, British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Call (2017) Co-producing Knowledge Co-production across disciplines and borders: The case of gene drive mosquitoes in the UK and Mali.
Collaborator, Research Council of Norway Forskerprosjekt - SAMKUL (2017) ReWrite: New knowledge to navigate the rewriting of human/nature relations through genome editing in the search for sustainable food, PI - Fern Wickson (GenØk Center for Biosafety, Tromso, Norway),
PhD Supervision
Josep Pinyol From words to deeds, the impact of the political discourse on the circular economy on environmental policymaking. 2019. Funded through the ReTRaCE Marie Curie Training Network with ABIS (Academy of Business in Society) as an external collaborating partner
EPSRC and Dyson iCASE PhD studentship(2019) Ethics and AI: Understanding privacy in private spaces
Completed supervisions:
2014-2018 Dr Joanne Gardener, Drugs and the socioeconomic costs of an environmental conscience
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External positions
- Member, International Advisory Panel, Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, CSIRO, Australia
- Member, UK BBSRC Working Group on Gene Drive
- Chair, Maximising Impact Science Advisory Sub-Committee, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s federal agency responsible for scientific research
Teaching
University of Exeter, Research-Inspired Teaching Award for BEM3055 Ethics and Responsible Innovation, 2018
I lead, teach and support responsible innovation for the School of Biosciences’ Exeter iGEM Teams.
iGEM is an International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition held in Boston, USA for undergraduates where teams build and test biological systems in living cells and are evaluated on the societal impact of their work.
Visiting lecturer at the University of Oslo’s Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies. Taught: : Responsible Research and Innovation, 2017
Funding
Principle Investigator, University of Nottingham Science, Technology and Society Priority Group Award (2015) RRI tools for teaching responsible research and innovation
Modules
2019/20
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