Robin Williams (social scientist)

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Robin A Williams (born November 13, 1952 ) is Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh , Great Britain, and Head of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation. In the course of his interdisciplinary research on the development and implementation of various technologies, he has contributed a lot to the knowledge in the area of ​​'Social Shaping of Technology'.

biography

Williams received his doctorate in 1980 from Aston University in Birmingham, UK, and then continued research as a research assistant in the Technology Policy Unit there. In 1986 he moved to the Research Center for Social Sciences (RCSS) at the University of Edinburgh to head the Edinburgh PICT Center. This research institute was one of a total of six research centers that were funded under the ESRC Program on Information and Communications Technologies (1986–1995). As a result of this program, Robin and his colleagues at the Edinburgh PICT Center carried out and published extensive research on social, economic and political aspects of development and implementation. Robin and his colleague David Edge summarized the research results of a decade in the widely recognized publication 'Social Shaping of Technology'. He took over the management of the RCSS in 1997.

In 2001 he founded the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI). The research institute brings together research groups and individuals from various disciplines at the University of Edinburgh who research, teach or share knowledge about the social and political aspects of science, technology and innovation. Robin has also led the Scottish Universities Policy Research and Advice Network and is currently a director of Innogen - a research center on innovation in life sciences.

Williams has built several institutional networks in and to the UK, Europe and Asia. He headed the UK Association for Studies in Innovation Science and Technology (AsSIST), represented Great Britain in the 'COST A4 ​​European Research Collaboration Initiative on the Social Shaping of Technology' and coordinated the CHINA-EU Information Technology Standards Research Project (2008-2010) .

Books

  • Software and Organizations: The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System - Or how SAP Conquered the World (2009), Routledge, with Neil Pollock
  • Social Learning in Multimedia (2005), Edward Elgar, with James Stewart and Roger Slack.
  • Policies for Cleaner Technology: A New Agenda for Government and Industry (1999), Earthscan, with Clayton and Spinardi.
  • The Social Shaping of Information Superhighways: European and American Roads to the Information Society (1997), Campus Verlag, co-author with Kubicek and Dutton.
  • Expertise and innovation: Information technology strategies in the financial services sector (1994), Clarendon Press, Oxford, with Fincham, Fleck, Proctor, Scarbrough and Tierney.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Staff Profiles . University of Edinburgh. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
  2. ^ Melody, William H (1987). "Innovative research in support of more informed decision making", Aslib Proceedings , 39 (6)
  3. ↑ Williams, Robin, and David Edge (1996). "The social shaping of technology", Research policy , 25 (6)
  4. ↑ ISSTI - About the Institute . University of Edinburgh. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ SUPRA (Scottish Universities Policy Research and Advice Network) . University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on July 26, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.supra.ed.ac.uk
  6. ↑ Innogen . Genomics Network. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
  7. ↑ Assist Home Page . University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rcss.ed.ac.uk
  8. ↑ RCSS Home Page . University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rcss.ed.ac.uk
  9. ↑ China - European Union Standards . University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on January 12, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.china-eu-standards.org
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Robin A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1952