Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I welcome PhD project proposals on technology, knowledge production, governance, and ethics, in the domains of criminal justice, surveillance, migration, and health.
Willing to speak to media
How can technology contribute to the 'good society', and what does 'good society’ even mean? I address these questions in my work on studying science and technology as social practices. I am particularly interested in how technologies shape the ways we know and (un)know human beings and relationships, individuals, communities and society. The fields I primarily study this in are security & justice (forensics and biometrics), and human health.
My work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, including BioSocieties, the British Journal for the History of Science, Forensic Science Review, Minerva, Leonardo, New Genetics & Society, Sociology of Health & Illness, and others. I have edited books for Routledge and IOS Press, and regularly peer-review journal articles and grant proposals.
I was part of the multi-national FP7 Network of Excellence EUROFORGEN, and am a founding member of the interdisciplinary scientific initiative on new and emerging forensic genetics technologies WIE-DNA (Germany) and of the global network STS MIGTEC (Science and Technology Studies of Migration and Technologies). I am a member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for Studies of Science and Technology (EASST). Since 2015, I have been building an interdisciplinary and international network for the Social Studies of Forensic Science.
Prior to joining the Centre for Crime and Policing I was Senior Research Associate at the Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University, and previously also worked as researcher at the Universities of Durham and Edinburgh, and King's College London.
I am particularly interested in studying disciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-boundary knowledge production and organisation, their social & ethical aspects, and issues of governance here, in the fields of forensics, biometrics, and health technology and systems.
In my work I draw on frameworks and methods from Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sociology, Anthropology, Sociological/Empirical Ethics, Bioethics, Public Engagement, and Critical Policy Analysis. My work is interdisciplinary and integrates engagement with scientific practitioners, publics & policy-makers.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Sociology, PhD, Newcastle University
Award Date: 31 Jan 2009
Politics, MA (Hons), Leipzig University
Award Date: 31 Aug 2005
Newcastle University
1 Jun 2020 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Wienroth, M. (Organiser) & Granja, R. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Wienroth, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Wienroth, M. (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
Wienroth, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Wienroth, M. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Wienroth, M. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy, law and services, Public discourseand understanding