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Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming? (2019)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2019). Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?. Palgrave Communications, 5, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0220-2

This paper interrogates the claim that antimicrobial resistant infections are rarely encountered in animal agriculture. This has been widely reiterated by a range of academic, policy and industry stakeholders in the UK. Further support comes from the... Read More about Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?.

Making science public: challenges and opportunities (2019)
Report
Raman, S., Nerlich, B., Cartelet, C., de Saille, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., Hartley, S., …Tsouvalis, J. (2019). Making science public: challenges and opportunities. Leverhulme Trust

This Programme investigated the relationship between science, politics and publics in the aftermath of an influential 2000 UK House of Lords Science and Society report. We conceptualised top-down initiatives promising greater transparency around the... Read More about Making science public: challenges and opportunities.

Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research (2018)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Raman, S., & Seymour, S. (2019). Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research. Sociologia Ruralis, 59(1), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12221

This paper explores a form of knowledge politics played out within and between universities and research institutes as sites of certified disciplinary expertise in the agro-food domain. It investigates the ‘openness’ of this domain to the expertise o... Read More about Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research.

'Opening up' energy transitions research for development (2018)
Book Chapter
Mohr, A. (2018). 'Opening up' energy transitions research for development. In S. Raman, B. Nerlich, S. Hartley, & A. Smith (Eds.), Science and the Politics of Openness: Here Be Monsters, 131-147. Manchester University Press

Beyond counting climate consensus (2017)
Journal Article
Pearce, W., Grundmann, R., Hulme, M., Raman, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., & Tsouvalis, J. (2017). Beyond counting climate consensus. Environmental Communication, 11(6), 723-730. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2017.1333965

Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science as an argument to foster climate policy. Recent efforts to communicate such scientific consensus attained a high public profile but it is doubtful if they can be regarded suc... Read More about Beyond counting climate consensus.

Energy poverty, institutional reform and challenges of sustainable development: the case of India (2017)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Raman, S. (2017). Energy poverty, institutional reform and challenges of sustainable development: the case of India. Progress in Development Studies, 17(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993416688837

This paper assesses recent efforts by the Indian Government to tackle energy poverty and sustainable development. It focuses on the new integrated energy policy, and initiatives to disseminate improved cookstoves and develop energy alternatives for t... Read More about Energy poverty, institutional reform and challenges of sustainable development: the case of India.

How should land be used?: bioenergy and responsible innovation in agricultural systems (2016)
Book Chapter
Mohr, A., Shortall, O., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2016). How should land be used?: bioenergy and responsible innovation in agricultural systems. In I. Gordon, G. Squire, & H. Prins (Eds.), Food Production and Nature Conservation: Conflicts and Solutions. Earthscan (Routledge)

Bioenergy has been proposed as both a problem and a solution for land use conflicts arising at the nexus between food security and environmental conservation. But such assessments need to be considered in light of differences in the way people value... Read More about How should land be used?: bioenergy and responsible innovation in agricultural systems.

Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press (2016)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2016). Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press. Journal of Rural Studies, 45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.003

Despite links to animal disease governance, food and biosecurity, rural studies has neglected consideration of how actors make sense of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and the implications for animal and human health. As antimicrobial re... Read More about Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press.

Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels (2015)
Journal Article
Raman, S., Mohr, A., Helliwell, R., Ribeiro, B., Shortall, O., Smith, R., & Millar, K. (2015). Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels. Biomass and Bioenergy, 82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.04.022

The paper clarifies the social and value dimensions for integrated sustainability assessments of lignocellulosic biofuels. We develop a responsible innovation approach, looking at technology impacts and implementation challenges, assumptions and valu... Read More about Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels.

A social licence for science: capturing the public or co-constructing research? (2014)
Journal Article
Raman, S., & Mohr, A. (2014). A social licence for science: capturing the public or co-constructing research?. Social Epistemology, 28(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2014.922642

The “social licence to operate” has been invoked in science policy discussions including the 2007 Universal Ethical Code for scientists issued by the UK Government Office for Science. Drawing from sociological research on social licence and STS inter... Read More about A social licence for science: capturing the public or co-constructing research?.

Biofuels and the role of space in sustainable innovation journeys (2014)
Journal Article
Raman, S., & Mohr, A. (2014). Biofuels and the role of space in sustainable innovation journeys. Journal of Cleaner Production, 65, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.057

This paper aims to identify the lessons that should be learnt from how biofuels have been envisioned from the aftermath of the oil shocks of the 1970s to the present,and how these visions compare with biofuel production networks emerging in the 2000s... Read More about Biofuels and the role of space in sustainable innovation journeys.

Governing stem cell therapy in India: regulatory vacuum or jurisdictional ambiguity? (2014)
Journal Article
Tiwari, S. S., & Raman, S. (2014). Governing stem cell therapy in India: regulatory vacuum or jurisdictional ambiguity?. New Genetics and Society, 33(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2014.970269

Stem cell treatments are being offered in Indian clinics although preclinical evidence of their efficacy and safety is lacking. This is attributed to a governance vacuum created by the lack of legally binding research guidelines. By contrast, this pa... Read More about Governing stem cell therapy in India: regulatory vacuum or jurisdictional ambiguity?.

Lessons from first generation biofuels and implications for the sustainability appraisal of second generation biofuels (2013)
Journal Article
Mohr, A., & Raman, S. (2013). Lessons from first generation biofuels and implications for the sustainability appraisal of second generation biofuels. Energy Policy, 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.08.033

The emergence of second generation (2G) biofuels is widely seen as a sustainable response to the increasing controversy surrounding the first generation (1G). Yet, sustainability credentials of 2G biofuels are also being questioned. Drawing on work... Read More about Lessons from first generation biofuels and implications for the sustainability appraisal of second generation biofuels.

Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology. (2013)
Book
Mohr, A., Raman, S., & Gibbs, B. (2013). Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology. Sciencewise-ERC

How should we understand ‘the public’ in public dialogue given the dominant assumption within policy-making that the people brought together in these events must constitute a representative sample of the wider population? To improve the prospects for... Read More about Which publics? When? Exploring the policy potential of involving different publics in dialogue around science and technology..