I lecture at the Department of Philosophy and Science Studies,
Institute of Science, Innovation and Society, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

snailmail address:
ISIS, Mailbox 77
FNWI, RU Nijmegen, P.O. box 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen
The Netherlands

visiting address:
Fac. of Science, Huygens building
Heyendaalseweg 135, rm 02.822.

Latest

Teaching tools
I have made available some of the tools I use in teaching: spreadsheets to manage grades, hand-outs, checklist, etc. in the new section teaching tools.

Course book environmental expertise
I  have been working on two chapters for a course book by the Dutch Open University, "Course Book Environmental Problems: Crossing Boundaries Between Science, Policy and Society" edited by Willemijn Tuinstra. It should be out soon.
(Oct 2011)

Prize for History of Biology
The Nijmegen biology students awarded me a prize for my course on the history of biology. It's a little silvery cup sitting on my office shelf. I am very chuffed.
(Aug 2011)

Policy workers tinkering with uncertainty
Analysis of how experts deal with uncertainty in policy advice, together with Annick de Vries and Rob Hoppe. Now published in Colebatch et al. Working for Policy, via Amsterdam UP.
(see papers.)
 

The future of chemical regulation in retrospect published
In 1995, Roland Bal and I organised a workshop to try and create a dialogue between regulatory experts and social scientists studying regulatory regimes for chemicals. We tried to identify key tensions in these regimes in order to create possible scenarios for regulatory expertise in Europe. Almost a decade and a half later, we look back at the occasion of a new publication that tries to take stock of the current debate around the regulation of chemical risk in Europe (see papers.)
(Sep 2010)

Research

I study how science and technology are woven through society, a.k.a. Science and Technology Studies (STS). I am particularly fascinated by how knowledge gets certified as 'in/accurate' or 'in/correct' at the fringes of the institutions of science, for example when scientists advise policy makers or when scientists are involved with amateurs. (more in CV)

Teaching

I will be teaching History of Biology and Science and Society courses in Nijmegen (more on the teaching pages, where you will also find the faq on how to write papers).

Phd training

Together with Teun Zuiderent, I coordinate the Phd training of the Dutch  STS graduate school, where Phd students train in a workshop setting.

Currently involved in:

Netherlands graduate school of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture
Science and Democracy Network