Author Archives: Oliver Marsh

One of a few upcoming episodes I’m helping to design and put together – so if you have any suggestions for episodes, or want to get involved with the team (who are great) please do get in touch. (As part … Continue reading →

I did a post for the blog of the ‘Researching (with) Social Media’ seminar group. (The group has finished for the term but do keep an eye out for new seminars in October, they’ve been really excellent.) http://www.smhr.sociology.cam.ac.uk/blog/RwSMHristovabyMarsh

This week’s top entry-of-interest into my Twittersphere was this piece on ‘A Disease of Scienceyness: How Misguided Science Fandom Hurts Actual Scientists’ by the blogger Ben Thomas.  The reason it’s of interest to me is simple.  The three key concepts … Continue reading →

Anyone who’s spent much physical or digital time with me picks up that I’m a theatre person – I’ve been acting (in an amateur capacity) for about a decade now, and I’m also becoming a regular at various science stand-up comedy … Continue reading →

In October, to mark the first anniversary of starting my PhD, I decided to write two retrospective posts about being a one-year-old researcher.  The first of these, a post about my specific project, happened.  The second, about my experience of … Continue reading →

Lecture I’m giving tomorrow to first-year STS students. If you want to use it, or any element from it, please contact me in advance.Week 3 Doing a research project step 2_literature reviews

I have now been at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London for one year.  This is a length of time which traditionally provokes retrospection, so I’m going to do a couple of posts reflecting on … Continue reading →

A report I wrote on this massive conference for the UCL STS news site. Thanks to Sara Peres and Raquel Velho for input. “A new formal collaboration in STS begins now”.  So opened the 172-page programme for the inaugural joint meeting … Continue reading →

Cheating on my usual blog. But it was only to write a little report on an event I organised. It was just a one-off and everything will be back to normal and fine after this honest. http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/jul/22/the-politics-of-science-in-social-media

Some slides I used to teach an introductory Science & Technology masterclass to visiting 16-18 year old students.  Feel free to use and disseminate, but please credit me and if you could drop me a note to tell me about … Continue reading →