Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

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Professor Mike Michael

Professor (Anthropology and Sociology)

M.Michael@exeter.ac.uk

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01392 722845

Amory 347

Overview

Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology. He joined SPA in 2017, having previously worked at Lancaster University, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Sydney.  His research interests have included: the relation of everyday life to technoscience; biotechnological and biomedical innovation and culture; the public understanding of/engagement with science; and process methodology. His teaching has covered such areas as social theory, microsociology, environmental sociology, science and society, animals and society, sociologies of everyday life, and qualitative methodology. 

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Research

Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology. His research interests have included: the relation of everyday life to technoscience; biotechnological and biomedical innovation and culture; the public understanding of/engagement with science; and process methodology. His most recent projects have addressed the complexities of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis clinical trials (with Marsha Rosengarten), the interdisciplinary use of sociological and speculative design techniques to engage with energy demand reduction (with Bill Gaver and Jennifer Gabrys). His current research explores the role of aesthetics  and affect in the co-emergence of technologies and publics, and the development of speculative methods. He is also working with Deborah Lupton on the project 'Living with Personal Data', funded by the Australian Research Council. 

 

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Supervision

 Mike Michael has successfully supervised over 30 PhD students. He has supervised studies on numerous topics ranging from institutional design processes to dog hip dysplasia, from risk and masculinity to the identification of distinctly Scottish species, and from xenotransplantation and biobanking to the spatialities of Everton F.C. He is happy to consider students with an interest in any of the following fields: science and technology studies; environmental sociology; sociologies of everyday life; design and sociology; and process methodological innovation. 

Research students

 Current PhD Students: Tridibesh Dey; Kris Hill; Lexie Onofrei; Ana Lucia Estrada Jaramillo

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Publications

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2018

  • Wilkie A, Michael M. (2018) Designing and Doing: Enacting Energy-and-Community, Inventing the Social, 125-147.
  • Wainwright S, Michael M, Williams C. (2018) Performing Risk and Ethics in Clinicians’ Accounts of Stem Cell Liver Therapies, Philosophies and Sociologies of Bioethics, Springer, 149-169.
  • Michael M. (2018) Compromising, Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods.
  • Michael M. (2018) Valuing and Validating: On the ‘Success’ of Interdisciplinary Research, Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods.
  • Lury C, Fensham R, Heller-Nicholas A, Lammes S, Last A, Michael M, Uprichard E. (2018) Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods.
  • Michael M, Wilkie A, Ovalle L. (2018) Aesthetics and Affect: Engaging Energy Communities, Science as Culture, volume 27, no. 4, pages 439-463, DOI:10.1080/09505431.2018.1490709.
  • Michael M. (2018) On “Aesthetic Publics”: The Case of VANTAblack®, Science Technology and Human Values, volume 43, no. 6, pages 1098-1121, DOI:10.1177/0162243918775217.
  • Boucher A, Gaver W, Kerridge T, Michael M, Ovalle L, Plummer-Fernandez M, Wilkie A. (2018) Energy Babble, MatteringPress.
  • Michael M. (2018) Destroying iPhones: Feral science and the antithetical citizen, Public Understanding of Science, volume 27, no. 6, pages 731-744, DOI:10.1177/0963662517738149.
  • Michael M. (2018) Design, Death, and Energy, Design Issues, volume 34, no. 1, pages 15-28, DOI:10.1162/desi_a_00473. [PDF]

2017

2016

  • Michael M. (2016) Speculative Design and Digital Materialities: Idiocy, Threat and Com-promise. In Elisenda, Sarah and Debora (eds). (pp.99-113). London:, Digital Materialities: Design and Anthropology, Bloomsbury, 99-113.
  • Michael M. (2016) Notes toward a speculative methodology of everyday life, Qualitative Research, volume 16, no. 6, pages 646-660, DOI:10.1177/1468794115626245. [PDF]

2015

  • Michael M. (2015) Ignorance and the Eventuation of Method, The International Handbook of Ignorance,, Routledge, 84-91.
  • Wilkie A, Michael M. (2015) The Design Studio as a Centre of Synthesis, Studio Studies, Routledge and CRESC, 25-39.
  • Michael M. (2015) Afterword - Studio Studies: Scenarios, Supplements, Scope. In I. Farias and A. Wilkie (eds). (pp.208-217). London: Routledge and CRESC, Studio Studies, Routledge, 208-217.
  • Michael M. (2015) Engaging the Mundane: Complexity and Speculation in Everyday Technoscience. . London: Earthscan-Routledge, Remaking Participation: Science, Democracy and Emergent Publics, Routledge-Earthscan, 81-98.
  • Michael M, Lupton D. (2015) Toward a manifesto for the ‘public understanding of big data’, Public Understanding of Science, volume 25, no. 1, pages 104-116, DOI:10.1177/0963662515609005. [PDF]
  • Wilkie A, Michael M, Plummer-Fernandez M. (2015) Speculative Method and Twitter: Bots, Energy and Three Conceptual Characters, The Sociological Review, volume 63, no. 1, pages 79-101, DOI:10.1111/1467-954x.12168. [PDF]

2014

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