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Marks, Nicola J. Dr

Senior Lecturer

  • Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
  • School of Humanities and Social Inquiry

Top Publications

    Year Title
    2012 Cyborg stem cells in public: deconstructing and taking responsibility for categorizations
    Published in   New Genetics and Society
    2010 Defining stem cells? Scientists and their classifications of nature
    Published in   The Sociological Review
    2014 Speech acts and performances of scientific citizenship: examining how scientists talk about therapeutic cloning
    Published in   Public Understanding of Science

Research Overview

  • My research focuses on the social dimensions of science, technology and medicine. I have a background in Genetics (MA Cambridge, MSc Edinburgh) and in Sociology of Science (PhD Edinburgh). I try to understand how innovations and practices in health can be for the benefit of the wider population.

    Current research includes an ARC-funded project with UOW colleagues Vera Mackie and Sarah Ferber on IVF, and collaborations with science communicators and policy makers about precision medicine.

Selected Publications

Potential Supervision Topics

  • - Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine
    - Science and Technology Studies (STS)
    - Social aspects of reproductive technologies
    - Social aspects of euthanasia, stem cell research, cloning, and other areas of technoscience
    - Public engagement in science
    - Public understanding of science
    - Expertise
    - Controversies in science
    - Gender and science
    - Medicalization and biomedicalization
    - Care in technoscience and medicine

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy Analysing the conflict between biomedicine and homoeopathy
    Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated) Mapping/ Setting the boundaries of Australian psychotherapy as practice and profession Johnson-Newell, Timothy
    Doctor of Philosophy Prenatal testing and boundary objects: How professionals make sense of genetic diagnosis and screening Barker, Zoe

Top Publications

    Year Title
    2012 Cyborg stem cells in public: deconstructing and taking responsibility for categorizations
    Published in   New Genetics and Society
    2010 Defining stem cells? Scientists and their classifications of nature
    Published in   The Sociological Review
    2014 Speech acts and performances of scientific citizenship: examining how scientists talk about therapeutic cloning
    Published in   Public Understanding of Science

Research Overview

  • My research focuses on the social dimensions of science, technology and medicine. I have a background in Genetics (MA Cambridge, MSc Edinburgh) and in Sociology of Science (PhD Edinburgh). I try to understand how innovations and practices in health can be for the benefit of the wider population.

    Current research includes an ARC-funded project with UOW colleagues Vera Mackie and Sarah Ferber on IVF, and collaborations with science communicators and policy makers about precision medicine.

Selected Publications

Potential Supervision Topics

  • - Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine
    - Science and Technology Studies (STS)
    - Social aspects of reproductive technologies
    - Social aspects of euthanasia, stem cell research, cloning, and other areas of technoscience
    - Public engagement in science
    - Public understanding of science
    - Expertise
    - Controversies in science
    - Gender and science
    - Medicalization and biomedicalization
    - Care in technoscience and medicine

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy Analysing the conflict between biomedicine and homoeopathy
    Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated) Mapping/ Setting the boundaries of Australian psychotherapy as practice and profession Johnson-Newell, Timothy
    Doctor of Philosophy Prenatal testing and boundary objects: How professionals make sense of genetic diagnosis and screening Barker, Zoe
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