Project Staff
This project is a collaboration between members of the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at UCL.
Dr Norma Morris, Research Fellow (Principal Investigator)
Research Fellow (MA, University College London; PhD, University of Twente), former executive director of the Medical Research Council and chairman of the General Chiropractic Council,with wide experience of public policy-making and government/science relationships in the health sector.
Engaged since the mid-1990s in research on the impacts of science policy on regulatory research and biomedical research in universities, and more recently in studies of widening the role of human volunteers taking part in research.
Head of the Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering at UCL. Research interests include: Optical imaging through turbulent and dense random media; time-of-flight measurement and imaging applications; development and application of Optical Tomography and Topography; medical and astronomical imaging methods and systems.
Dr Brian Balmer
Reader in Science Policy Studies (DPhil and MSc in Science and Technology Policy Studies, University of Sussex), has been a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex.
Research activity includes policies for biotechnology and genetics, the control of biological weapons and the sociology of science:
Ms (now Dr) Megan Clinch held an assistant post in the team from 2007 to 2008. Her background is in medical anthropology and she was concurrently completing her PhD at the London School of Economics..
Dr Victoria Armstrong was a part-time research assistant on the project from 2005 until 2007, when she left to take up the offer of a lectureship elsewhere.
