Dr Aleksandra Stelmach (UK)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Affiliation
Biography
Aleksandra Stelmach’s research is situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and science communication, focusing on the meanings and uses of emerging technologies.
Her current work explores the public communication of gene drive and the emergence and public understanding of epigenetics and developmental origins of health and disease.
Expertise
Science and technology studies, science communication, metaphor and discourse analysis, public understanding of science, emerging biotechnologies.
Key Publication References
Hartley S, Stelmach A, Delborne JA, Barnhill-Dilling SK 2023 Moving beyond narrow definitions of gene drive: Diverse perspectives and frames enable substantive dialogue among science and humanities teachers in the US and UK Public Understanding of Science
Hartley S, Stelmach A, Delborne JA, Barnhill-Dilling SK (forthcoming) Moving beyond narrow definitions of gene drive: Diverse perspectives and frames enable substantive dialogue among science and humanities teachers in the US and UK. Public Understanding of Science.
Stelmach A, Nerlich B and Hartley S 2022 Gene drives in the UK, US and Australian press, (2015-2019): How a new focus on responsibility is shaping science communication. Science Communication.
Russell A W, Stelmach A, Hartley S, Carter L, & Raman S (2022) Opening up, closing down, or leaving ajar? How applications are used in engaging with publics about gene drive. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1-22.
Nerlich B and Stelmach A 2022 Gene drive communication: Exploring experts’ lived experience of metaphor use. New Genetics and Society.
Nerlich B, Stelmach A and Ennis C 2020 How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration Social Science Information 59(1) 59–92
Stelmach A 2019 Inspecting Pandora’s box: Promises and perils of gene drives 20th July 2019. Making Science Public, University of Nottingham blog.
Müller R, Hanson C, Hanson M, Penkler M, Samaras G, Chiapperino L, Dupré J, Kenney M, Kuzawa C, Latimer J, Lloyd S, Lunkes A, Macdonald M, Meloni M, Nerlich B, Panese F, Pickersgill M, Richardson S, Rüegg J, Schmitz S, Stelmach A and Villa P-I (2017) The biosocial genome? Interdisciplinary perspectives on environmental epigenetics, health and society EMBO Reports 18 1677-1682
Stelmach A and Nerlich B 2015 Metaphors in search of a target: the curious case of epigenetics New Genetics and Society 34(2) 196-218