Dr David Skinner's research activity


Books

Identity Politics After DNA: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging edited with Katharina Schramm and Richard Rottenburg (Berghahn 2011)

With J McLaughlin et al, Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture and Change, Routledge (1999)

With T. Bilton et al, Introductory Sociology, Palgrave: Macmillan (1996 and 2002)
Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

'Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data' in Rottenburg, Schramm and Skinner (eds) Identity Politics After DNA: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging (Berghahn 2011)

(With Richard Rottenburg and Katharina Schramm) 'Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity After DNA' in Rottenburg, Schramm and Skinner (eds) Identity Politics After DNA: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging (Berghahn 2011)

'What Can Critical Race Theory Tell Us About Racial Categorisation?' in Atlantic Crossings: International Dialogues on Critical Race Theory, edited by Kevin Hylton, Andrew Pilkington, Paul Warmington, Shirin Housee (C-SAP 2011)

'Powerful or Powerless? Theorising the Changing Public Role of the Sociology of Race and Racism' in Transitions in Theorising "Race" in Education edited by A Pilkington, (C-SAP 2009)

'Groundhog day? The Strange Case of Sociology, Science and Race', 40th Anniversary special edition of Sociology 41(5) (2007)

(With P Rosen) 'Hell is Other Cyclists: Rethinking Transport and Identity' in D Horton, P Rosen, and P Cox (eds) Cycling and Society, (Ashgate 2007)

'Racialized Futures: Biologism and the Changing Politics of Identity' Social Studies of Science 36(3) (2006)

'Rethinking 'race' and science: teaching the biological and the social' in M Farrar and M Todd (eds) Teaching 'Race' in Social Sciences: New Contexts, New Approaches, (C-SAP Monograph Series 2006)

Joint editor of a special issue of Science as Culture on Racialised Science and Technology (2001)

(With Paul Rosen) 'Opening the White Box: the Politics of Racialised Science and Technology', Science as Culture 10(3) (2001)
Public Engagement

Panel member Cambridge Wireless Debate "Knowing almost everything: friend or foe?" TechWorld, London (2011)

Organised JACRU public events including Genetics and Ethnic Identity; International Terrorism: Is There a Solution?; Human Rights: Why Should I Care? Life After Capitalism (2008-2010)

Organised and contributed to research symposium: Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security and Digital Culture held at Anglia Ruskin University (2009)

Organised and contributed to Cambridge Festival of Ideas event on Privacy in a Digital Age (2009)
Selected Presentations

'Topologies of Race: Doing territory, population and identity in Europe' with Amade M'charek and Katharina Schramm Workshop: Technologies of Belonging: Biology, Race and Ethnicity in Europe, University of Amsterdam (2011)

'Private faces, public spaces? Rethinking Surveillance, Transparency and Accountability' Presentation at Cambridge Wireless event Location Based Systems/Services SIG, Who goes where? Privacy for Location Based Services (2011)

'Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data' paper presented to Research Program Group Health, Care and the Body, University of Amsterdam (November 2010)

'What Can Critical Race Theory Tell Us About Racial Categorisation?' Critical Race Theory: What is to be Learnt? What is to be Done? C-SAP London (2009)

'DNA and the Politics of Race Categories', Ethnic Visibility/Invisibility in the English Speaker Area, University Denis-Diderot, Paris (2009)

'DNA and the Shifting Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Racism', Policy Groups and Populations in a Genomic Era, CRASSH University of Cambridge (2009)

'Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: DNA and the Changing Politics of Racialised Knowledge', Race in the Modern World, Goldsmiths (2009)

'Sociology, Race and "Science" ', Invited Participant: Genetic Admixture and Identity Workshop, UCL London (2009)

'Life Science, Social Science and "The Public": Shifting Debates About Race and Biology', Contribution to Symposium: The Biological Challenge to the Social Sciences, British Sociological Association, University of Warwick (2008)

'Powerful or Powerless? The Changing Public Role of the Sociology of Race and Racism', C-SAP Conference: Transitions in Race Theory, University of Northampton (2008)

Invited discussant at launch of Wellcome Trust research report on Race/ethnicity and Genetics in Science and Health, Goodenough College, London (2007)

'The Problem with Categories: Life Science, Social Science and "The Public" ', Invited speaker and workshop participant 'Race, Ethnicity, Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging', International Graduate School Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems at the Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (2007)

Transport Rhetoric, Modal Choice and User Identities (with Paul Rosen), British Sociological Association, University of East London (2007)

'Sociologists Know Best? Race Categories in the Natural and Social Sciences', British Sociological Association, University of East London (2007)

Invited speaker and webcast participant 'The Science of Race', Dana Centre (Science Museum), London (2006)

'Ordered and Disordered Bodies: Sociology, Science and Racial Categorisation', British Sociological Association, Harrogate (2006)

'Rethinking 'Race' and Science: Teaching the Biological and the Social', C-SAP/BSA Event: Learning, Teaching and Assessment of 'Race' and Ethnicity in the Higher Education Curriculum, Birmingham (2004)

'The Strange Case of Sociology, Science and Race', British Sociological Association, York (2004)

'The Dance of Nature and Culture: Understanding the New Biopolitics of 'Race' ', European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Paris (2004)



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