Steven Yearley Explained

Steven Yearley
Birth Date:	1956 9, df=yes
Birth Place:	Walthamstow, London, England
Doctoral Advisor:	Michael Mulkay
Discipline:	Sociology
Sub Discipline:	Sociology of scientific knowledge

Steve Yearley (born 6 September 1956)^[1] is a British sociologist. He is Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh, a post he has held since 2005.^[2] He has been designated a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is currently Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

Career

Yearley was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow, and studied natural sciences and then social and political sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He completed a PhD in sociology, supervised by Michael Mulkay, at the University of York from 1978 to 1981. H began to concentrate on environmental issues in 1983 while at Queen's University Belfast and was closely associated with Friends of the Earth, the Ulster Wildlife Trust and Northern Ireland Environment Link.

He became the first Professor of Sociology at the University of Ulster in 1992.

In 2006, Yearley became director of the Genomics Forum, a research institute funded by the ESRC. At the Forum, he focused primarily on environmental aspects, such as issues regarding synthetic biology, and on new ventures in public engagement with the science and technologies of genomics.^[3]

In 2010, Yearley was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[4]

Yearley is on the editorial boards of the journals Social Studies of Science and Nature and Culture,^{[5] [6]} and he co-edited The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology.

Books

• Book: Yearley, Steven . Science and sociological practice . . Milton Keynes . 1984 . 9780335105816 .
• Book: Yearley, Steven . Science, technology, and social change . . London Boston . 1988 . 9780043012598 . registration .
• Book: Yearley . Steven . Varcoe . Ian . McNeil . Maureen . Deciphering science and technology: the social relations of expertise . . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire . 1990 . 9780333465554 . registration .
• Book: Yearley . Steven . Varcoe . Ian . McNeil . Maureen . The new reproductive technologies . St. Martin's Press . New York . 1990 . 9780312035990 .
• Book: Yearley, Steven . The green case: a sociology of environmental issues, arguments and politics . Routledge . London New York . 1992 . 9780415083812 .
• Book: Yearley . Steven . Baker . Susan . Milton . Kay . Protecting the periphery: environmental policy in peripheral regions of the European Union . Frank Cass . Ilford . 1994 . 9780714645841 .
• Book: Yearley, Steven . Sociology, environmentalism, globalization reinventing the globe . registration . . London Thousand Oaks California . 1996 . 9780803975170 .
• Book: Yearley, Steven . Making sense of science: understanding the social study of science . . London . 2005 . 9781412933896 .
• Book: Yearley, Steven . Cultures of environmentalism: empirical studies in environmental sociology . . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York . 2005 . 9781403901200 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yearley, Steven . Library of Congress . 15 February 2015 . data sheet (b. 9/6/56) .
2. Web site: Steven Yearley Sociology Staff Profiles . www.sps.ed.ac.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080217034106/http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/yearley_steven . 2008-02-17.
3. Web site: ESRC Evaluation, Strategy and Analysis team. 2014. Genomics Network Evaluation Executive Summary. ESRC - UKRI.
4. Web site: RSE Fellows. Royal Society of Edinburgh. 7 September 2014.
5. Web site: Social Studies of Science. SAGE Publications. 7 September 2014.
6. Web site: Editorial Board: Nature and Culture. Berghahn Books. 7 September 2014.