Dr Wendy Russell (Australia)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Affiliations
Biography
Dr A. Wendy Russell is a transdisciplinary pracademic with experience in academia, policy and practice. She researches responsible innovation and teaches science dialogue at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University.
She is also Director of Double Arrow Consulting, a business specialising in deliberative engagement.
Expertise
Socio-technical integration, public deliberation on science and technology, science dialogue, social dimensions of synthetic biology, transdisciplinarity.
Key Publication References
N Marks and AW Russell 2015 Public engagement in biosciences and biotechnologies: Reflections on the role of sociology and STS Journal of Sociology 51 (1): 97-115
AW Russell 2013 Improving legitimacy in nanotechnology policy development through stakeholder and community engagement: Forging new pathways Review of Policy Research 30 (5):566-587
F Vanclay, AW Russell and J Kimber 2013 Enhancing innovation in agriculture at the policy level: The potential contribution of technology assessment Land Use Policy 31: 406-411
AW Russell, F Vanclay, J Salisbury and H Aslin 2011 Technology assessment in Australia: The case for a formal agency to improve advice to policy makers Policy Sciences 44: 157-177
AW Russell, F Vanclay, H Aslin 2010 Technology Assessment in Social Context: The case for a new framework for assessing and shaping technological developments Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 28 (2): 109 – 14
AW Russell, F Wickson and AL Carew 2008 Transdisciplinarity: context, contradictions and capacity Futures 40 (5): 460-472
AW Russell and Robert Sparrow 2008 The case for regulating intragenic GMOs Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (2): 153-181
AW Russell 2008 GMOs and their contexts: a comparison of potential and actual performance of GM crops in a local agricultural setting Geoforum 39 (1): 213-222
F Wickson, AL Carew and AW Russell 2006 Transdisciplinary Research: characteristics, quandaries and quality Futures 38 (9): 1046-1059
AW Russell 2003 Use of the triple bottom line framework in evaluating social changes associated with the adoption of genetically modified crops in Australia In: Pritchard B, Curtis A, Spriggs J & Le Heron R. Social Dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line in Rural Australia. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, pp 195-208
AW Russell 2001 Gene Technology in R&D Provision to the Australian Sugar Industry: Sweetening up Public Research? Rural Society 11 (3): 163-180