Jane Calvert

Jane Calvert is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She studied Human Sciences at the University of Sussex and earned an MSc in the History and Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics before completing doctoral research on “basic research” at the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit. She subsequently worked as a research fellow at the University of Exeter’s ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society and joined the University of Edinburgh in 2007.

Calvert’s research focuses on science and technology studies, the life sciences, synthetic biology, science policy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She is the author of A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration (MIT Press, 2024) and co-author of Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature (MIT Press, 2014).