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Ian Barns
BSc(Hons) MEd Melbourne, PhD Murdoch
email: [email protected]
Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy
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After completing a chemistry degree at the University of Western Australia, he completed postgraduate studies in education at the University of Melbourne and then a PhD in the social studies of science at Murdoch University. Ian has taught extensively in a range of interdisciplinary units, both at Murdoch and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, particularly in the area of the ethics and social studies of science and technology.
Chair:Integrated Masters Degree
Teaching areas: Unit co-ordinator for Science and Technology in a Policy Context, Ethics, Technology and Policy; Science, Technology and Society (u/grad).
Research interests: public attitudes to developments in biotechnology; the cultural meanings of the human genome project; Christian responses to a changing public culture.
Recent publications include: "The Human Genome Project and the Self" Soundings 78; "Environment, Democracy and Community" in Environment and Democracy (ed.) Freya Mathews (forthcoming); "Lesslie Newbigin's response to pluralism" St Mark's Review, 158; "Sex, God and Public Policy" St Mark's Review, 156; "The Earth Charter and the Ethics of Sustainable Development" Current Affairs Bulletin,; "Post-Fordist People? Cultural Meanings of the New Production Systems" Futures.
"Another City": A paper by Ian Barns
These details taken from the
ISTP Web Site at Murdoch University