Dr Stevienna de Saille
Phd, University of Leeds
Department of Sociological Studies
Lecturer in Sociology
Research Fellow (iHuman) (She/her)
Full contact details
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
葫芦影业
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Stevie鈥檚 research interests lie in the nexus of science and technology studies, social movement theory and heterodox economics, all through an intersectional lens. Her MA looked at women's adaptation of the architecture of Livejournal.com to maintain pre-existing online networks and question racial exclusion within the science fiction community. Her PhD, completed at the end of 2012, was a case study of knowledge production in the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE), which led her to larger questions about the global bioeconomy, and the governance of emergent technologies.
As a postdoctoral researcher at 葫芦影业, she worked with Prof. Paul Martin investigating 'Publics and the Making of Responsible Innovation' as part of the Leverhulme Trust Research Programme 'Making Science Public' and was involved in research on diversity in the biomedical system along with colleagues from ScHARR, as part of a Wellcome Trust project led by Prof. James Wilsdon.
Stevie is currently leading the 'Human Futures' theme in iHuman, where she has developed the Robots in a Human Future research programme and continues to pursue her interests in reprogenetic technologies and responsible innovation. She has been PI on several multidisciplinary projects looking at autonomous systems, and has recently completed a UKRI-TAS pump priming project on 'Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care'. She is on the Executive of iHuman and AsSIST-UK and is a founder of the Fourth Quadrant Research Network on responsible stagnation, which takes a growth-agnostic approach to maintaining social prosperity via innovation. Stevie is also a certified facilitator in LEGO庐 Serious Play庐, which she uses for research, teaching, and as a consultant on embedding responsible research and innovation into science and engineering projects.Stevie has been chosen as a for 2024-25, looking at policy for automation in social care.
- Research interests
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- TAS-UKRI, "Imagining Robotic Care: Identifying conflict and confluence in stakeholder imaginaries of autonomous care systems" (Co-I, Research Lead), 2021-22
- Research England/FOSS, "Improving Inclusivity in Robotic Design" (PI), Phase I 2020, Phase II 2021
- Independent Social Research Foundation, 鈥淭he Fourth Quadrant: Exploring Responsible Innovation in a Steady State鈥 (PI), 2016-2018.
- Wellcome Trust, Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research (Co-I), 2016.
- Publications
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Books
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- Grants
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Stevie is PI for 'Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care' (MapRAS), funded by TAS-UKRI, 23-24.
- Teaching activities
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Stevie currently teaches the following undergraduate modules:
SCS3047 Protest, Movements and Social Change
SCS3034 What it means to be human