WTMC is very pleased to announce that Susan Leigh Star, President of the International Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), will be the anchor teacher for the Summer School in 2006 from 4 – 8 September. Susan Leigh Star is a senior scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society and visiting professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University. Her research has been in the sociology of science and technology, especially concerned with new information technologies and life sciences. Her interests include ethics in engineering, qualitative research, information systems and medicine and technology. She has analyzed work practices and knowledge production in a range of venues, including museums, laboratories, hospitals, libraries and high-tech research and development sites. In her work, she has drawn attention to the important role of boundary objects and invisible work. Her analytic approach draws on symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and feminist theory. She has published amongst others the following books: [with Geoffrey Bowker] Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (MIT Press, 1999) and Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty (Stanford University Press, 1989); and was editor of The Cultures of Computing (Blackwell, 1995) and Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology (SUNY Press, 1995).

Further details of the programme will be posted here as soon as they are available.