Brian Wynne is Professor of Science Studies at CSEC and at the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen).

His education includes MA (Natural Sciences, Cambridge 1968), PhD (Materials Science, Cambridge 1971), MPhil (Sociology of Science, Edinburgh 1977). His work has covered technology and risk assessment, public risk perceptions, and public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making. He was an Inaugural Member of the Management Board and Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, (EEA), (1994-2000) and a Special Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000). He is also a member of the London Royal Society's Committee on Science in Society.

• Technology and risk assessment
• Public risk perceptions
• Public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making

Selected publications

B.Wynne, 'Reflexing Complexity: Post-Genomic Knowledge and Reductionist Returns in Public Science', Theory Culture and Society, Vol. 22, Number 5 October 2005.

B. Wynne, "Risky Delusions: How GM Science has imagined - and provoked - its publics", Iain Taylor and Katherine Barrett (Eds) Genetically Engineered Crops: Decision-making under Uncertainty, UBC Press, Canada

B. Wynne, James Wilsdon and Jack Stilgoe, (2005), The Public Value of Science, London, Demos. Copy pdf available at Demos website.

P. Macnaghten, M. Kearnes and B. Wynne (2005) "Nanotechnology, Governance and Public Deliberation: What Role for the Social Sciences?", Science Communication, Vol 27: 2. Copy pdf available at Sage Journals online.

D. Winickoff, S. Jasanoff, L. Busch, R. Grove-White and B. Wynne (2005) "Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk and Democracy in World Trade Law", The Yale Journal of International Law, Vol 30:81. Copy available by subscription at The Yale Journal website.

Kamara, M. and Coff, C. (with B. Wynne) (2006) "GMOs and Sustainability - Contested Visions, Routes and Drivers" Final report prepared for the Danish Council of Ethics, Copenhagen, August 2006.

M. Kearnes, P. Macnaghten and J. Wilsdon (with Afterward by B. Wynne) (2006) "Governing at the Nanoscale: People, Policies and Emerging Technologies", London, Demos. Copy pdf available at Demos website.

B. Wynne (2006) "Public Engagement as a Means of Restoring Public Trust in Science - Hitting the Notes, but Missing the Music?". Community Genetics, Vol 9: 3, pp 211-220. Pay per view online access at Karger website.

B. Wynne (2007) "Risky Delusions: Misunderstanding Science and Misperforming Publics in the GE Crops Issue" in (I. E. P. Taylor ed.) Genetically Engineered Crops: Interim Policies, Uncertain Legislation, Haworth Press.

Wynne, B. and Felt, U. (2007) Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously, Chair and Rapporteur, Expert Group on Science and Governance, Brussels, European Commission D-G Research, Science Economy and Society Directorate. EUR 22700.