Dr Richard Milne
Research Associate CONANX Project
Address: 4th Floor, ICoSS Building
Telephone (Internal): 26292
Telephone (UK): 0114 222 6292
Telephone (International): +44 114 222 6292
Email: r.j.milne@sheffield.ac.uk
Richard´s research interests concentrate around the changing publics and places of food, medicine and science. He completed his PhD entitled "No Natural Home? Placing the Promise of Biopharming" at University College London in 2009. Richard´s PhD research brought together work on the geographies of food and those of technoscience with work in the sociology of expectations. It focussed on public and expert understandings of the development of pharmaceutical production in genetically modified crops, a technology which crosses traditional boundaries between food and drugs.
Richard has a longstanding interest in interdisciplinary work, both within the social sciences and between the natural and social sciences. His BSc in Human Sciences (UCL) and MSc in Science and Technology Policy (SPRU, Sussex) were followed by four years of funding from the UCL Institute of Human Genetics and Health. This enabled him to spend time working in research and clinical genetics laboratories in order to foster closer and clearer links between the science and sociology of genetics. He has since lectured on genetics and society and science policy. He is also interested in the development of web resources for teaching and researching in social science.
Current Research
Richard is working on Workpackage Four within the CONANX project, "Consumer understandings of risk, anxiety and trust". His research will focus on emerging debates around date-labelling of food, and on understanding the role of consumers in establishing food safety.
Publications
- Milne, R. (forthcoming) "Drawing Bright Lines: Food and the Futures of Biopharming" in Nature after the Genome, Parry and Dupre (eds) - scheduled for publication in spring 2010.
- Milne, R. 2009 "Public Attitudes to Molecular Farming in the UK" AgBioForum 11 (2) 106-113.
Conference Presentations and Invited Papers
"Placed Expectations: The imagined geographies of biopharming´s future" paper presented at the ESRC Genomics Network conference, Cardiff University, 2009.
"Greenhouses, GURTs and GMP: Controlling Pharmaceutical Producing Plants", paper presented at 2008 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers conference, London.
"Of Greenhouses and GMP: Finding a Space for Molecular Farming", paper given at 2008 4S/EASST conference, Rotterdam.
"Between Red and Green: Placing the Publics of Molecular Farming" invited paper at CESAGen, University of Lancaster, UK, 2008.
"Past, Presents and Projects of Molecular Farming" Paper presented at the 2008 British Sociological Association conference, Warwick, UK.
"Public Attitudes to Molecular Farming in the UK", poster presented at the Plant Based Vaccines and Adjuvants Conference, Verona, Italy, 2007.
"Red, Green, or Inp-between?" Paper presented at the Postgraduate "Science and the Public"conference, Imperial College London, UK, 2006.
"I know it´s only GMO but I like it. A tale of two bipotechnologies and the public" presentation to the Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Network, LSE, UK, 2005.