STEPS Centre directors and members

Directors and members

STEPS organogram (pdf 50kb)

Directors

Melissa Leach, STEPS Director & IDS Professorial Fellow. Melissa is a social anthropologist specialising in environmental and science-society issues. Research interests include social and institutional dimensions of environmental and technological change, and issues of knowledge, power and citizen engagement.Melissa's CV (pdf 138kb) / Melissa's profile / email: m.leach@ids.ac.uk

Ian Scoones, STEPS Co-director & IDS Professorial Fellow. Ian is an agricultural ecologist whose research links natural and social sciences, focusing on relationships between science and technology, local knowledge and livelihoods and the politics of agricultural, environment and development policy processes.Ian's CV (pdf 39kb) / Ian's profile /
email: i.scoones@ids.ac.uk

Andy Stirling, STEPS Co-director, SPRU Science Director and Professorial Fellow.
Andy trained in astrophysics, archaeology and anthropology, later working for Greenpeace International before research in technology policy. He focuses especially on questions over uncertainty, participation, diversity and sustainability in the governance of science and innovation.Andy's profile /
email: a.c.stirling@sussex.ac.uk

MEMBERS

Gerry Bloom, IDS Research Fellow & STEPS Health and Disease Domain Convenor. Gerry is a physician and health system analyst who leads the health/disease programme at STEPS. His special interest is health system transition in rapidly changing contexts. Gerry's profile /
email: g.bloom@ids.ac.uk

Julia Day, Communications Officer. Julia is a journalist who joined STEPS from the Guardian where she worked for six years as reporter and assistant editor on MediaGuardian.co.uk, and previously wrote for various business magazines. Before becoming a journalist she worked in publishing and marketing. j.day@ids.ac.uk

Adrian Ely, SPRU Research Fellow profile
Adrian's areas of interest include environmental impacts of GM crops, frameworks for biotechnology regulation, risk and uncertainty in policy-making around new technologies and innovation for sustainable development. Adrian's profile /
email: a.v.ely@sussex.ac.uk

Harriet Le Bris, Administrative Coordinator
Harriet became interested in international development, and particularly corporate governance issues, during her MBA studies. She worked at the Overseas Development Institute as a research assistant and with the Aga Kahn Development Network before joining the STEPS Centre team.h.lebris@ids.ac.uk

Hayley MacGregor, IDS Research Fellow.
Hayley is a medical doctor and social anthropologist whose areas of research include mental health and disability, human rights discourses and health citizenship, and the regulation of and responses to medical technologies.Hayley's CV /
email: h.macgregor@ids.ac.uk

Fiona Marshall, SPRU Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer. Fiona is an tropical agricultural ecologist/environmental scientist specialising in interdisciplinary initiatives to understand and address the impacts of environmental change on the livelihoods of the poor. f.marshall@sussex.ac.uk

Lyla Mehta, IDS Research Fellow and STEPS Water and Sanitation Domain Convenor. Lyla is a sociologist whose work has largely focused on issues concerning knowledge, power, rights and access in natural resource management, addressed through the case of water. Research areas include global and local responses to water scarcity and , more recently, community-led total sanitation. Lyla's profile / email:l.mehta@ids.ac.uk

Erik Millstone, SPRU professor of science policy & STEPS Food and Agriculture Domain Co-convenor Erik trained as a physicist and philosopher, but now works on science and public health policy; his interests include public and environmental health protection policies, the interactions between scientific and policy considerations in both risk assessment and risk management, BSE, GM crops and obesity policy.Erik's profile / email: e.p.millstone@sussex.ac.uk

Paul Nightingale, SPRU Research Fellow
Paul is a chemist whose research addresses technical change, innovation, and biosecurity. He has worked extensively on genetics in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, finance and the relationship between science and technology.Paul's profile / email:p.nightingale@sussex.ac.uk

Esha Shah, IDS Research Fellow
Esha is an environmental engineer turned social scientist whose work involves anthropology and history of science and technology with special reference to agrarian development in India and risk and vulnerability of emerging, new technologies in developing societies. Esha's profile / email: e.shah@ids.ac.uk

Adrian Smith, SPRU Research Fellow
Adrian specialises in critical analysis of environmental policy processes; and research into relationships between technology, society and sustainable development. Adrian's profile / email:
a.g.smith@sussex.ac.uk

Sigrid Stagl, SPRU Senior Research Fellow
Sigrid is an evolutionary/institutional economist who works in the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics whose research areas include sustainability appraisal, energy systems.
Sigrid's profile / email: s.stagl@sussex.ac.uk

John Thompson, IDS Research Fellow and STEPS Food and Agriculture Domain Co-convenor. John is a resource geographer specialising in political ecology and governance of agri-food systems, community-based natural resource management and water-environment-health interactions. John's profile / email:j.thompson@ids.ac.uk

Linda Waldman, IDS Research Fellow
Linda is a social anthropologist whose research areas include indigenous identity and nationalism, environmental pollution, asbestos disease and its socio-cultural ramifications. Linda's profile / email:
l.waldman@ids.ac.uk

Patrick Van Zwanenberg, SPRU Research Fellow Patrick trained as an environmental scientist before working in science and technology policy. His research has focused on the relationship between scientific knowledge and policy decision-making processes. Paddy's profile / email:
P.F.Van-Zwanenberg@sussex.ac.uk