Projects

‘Technology and Health Information in the New Economy’, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2004-8 (CDN$ 3 million)
http://www.sfu.ca/act4hlth/
‘Presenting and Interpreting Health Risks and Benefits: The Role of the Internet’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Innovative Health Technologies Programme, 2001-3
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/iht/
‘From the Net to the Web and Beyond: Actors and Interests in the Construction of the Internet’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Virtual Society? Programme, 1998-2000
‘Parallel Divergence: Comparison of UK and US Central Government Networking Strategies’, funded by the Joint Committee of the ESRC and SERC, 1990-2
contribution to the IMAGINE project, University of Leiden, funded by ESPRIT, 1991 (my role was to outline the contribution social science theory had made to understanding cooperative work)
‘The use of IT in public services’, funded by NAB, 1988-90
‘Preliminary analysis of 1983 time budget data’, funded by the ESRC, 1984-5
‘Role of patents in multinational corporations’ strategies for growth’, funded by the Institute for Research into Multinationals, 1982-4
‘Innovation and international competitiveness of British industry’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 1980-2

European Commission, DG Research ‘Science & Society’, 2006
Advisor to EU-funded SIGIS research programme (Social Inclusion for Gender in the Information Society), 2002-3
CONVERGE Project, ‘Strategies and policies for systemic interaction and convergence in Europe’, TSER Programme/DGXII, European Commission, 2000
Health Education Authority, London, 1999
European Commission, DGIII, Brussels, 1993-4
UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, New York, 1991
Public Management Division, OECD, Paris, 1990
Technology Division, UNCTAD, Geneva, 1985 and 1990
Centre for Technology and Social Change, University of Wollongong, Australia, 1989
Department for Industrial Promotion, Consultations and Technology, UNIDO, Vienna, 1986-7
Committee on Women’s Employment, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 1985
Global Learning Division, United Nations University, Tokyo, 1985

President, EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology), 2001-5
Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, 1993-94 (invitation of the Dutch Royal Academy)
1986 Quarterly Journal of Social Affairs Medal for J Gershuny et al, ‘Time Budgets: Preliminary Analyses of a National Survey’, Quarterly Journal of Social Affairs 2,1: 13-39
Grace Fairley Trafalgar Scholarship, McGill University, 1976
Ontario Scholarship, Government of Ontario, 1976

Health, Technology and Society, book series, (Palgrave-Macmillan), with Andrew Webster, 2004-cont.
Graduate Journal of Social Science, (London School of Economics/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 2004-cont.
Technology and Ethics, A European Quest for Responsible Engineering, handbook prepared for European Ethics Network, 1998-99 (funded by European Commission, Socrates Programme)
European Guide to Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, 1999 (funded by European Commission, DGXII)
Informatisation and the Public Sector (Elsevier) 1991-4
PICT Policy Research Papers (sole editor) nos.1-8, 1988-9
McGill Journal of Political Economy, 1978-9