Dr Kevin Burchell
BSc, MSc, PhD (all LSE)
Senior Research Fellow CHARM project - Full Time
Strategy, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Room 315 Kingston Business School
Kingston University
Kingston Hill
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey
KT2 7LB
Phone: 020 8417 9000 Ext: 65270
K.Burchell@kingston.ac.uk
Biography
Research Interests
Experience
BSc, MSc, PhD (all LSE)
Senior Research Fellow CHARM project - Full Time
Strategy, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Room 315 Kingston Business School
Kingston University
Kingston Hill
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey
KT2 7LB
Phone: 020 8417 9000 Ext: 65270 K.Burchell@kingston.ac.ukBiography
Kevin joined the three-year, ESPRC-funded CHARM project in September 2009 as Senior Research Fellow. This project investigates the potential for feedback about individual and peer group environmental and health-related behaviour to influence individuals’ behaviour. Prior to this, Kevin was a Research Fellow in BIOS (Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society) at London School of Economics (LSE), where he conceived and managed the three-year, Wellcome Trust-funded ScoPE project (Scientists on public engagement: from communication to deliberation?). This is the first sociological study to specifically investigate and evaluate the burgeoning public engagement with science and technology policy agenda from the perspectives of scientists themselves. Kevin studied for his PhD (2005), on agbiotech scientists’ perceptions of relationships between agbiotech and the public, in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE.
Research Interests
Kevin employs broad-based, qualitative and interpretative sociological approaches to produce academically-rigorous and policy-relevant research in two key areas.
1. Environmental and health-related behaviour change. Kevin is interested in understanding the role of social norms in environmental and health-related behaviour change. In particular, Kevin’s work focuses on the potential for feedback about individual and peer group environmental and health-related behaviour to influence individuals’ behaviour. Here, Kevin’s work particularly draws on relevant work in sociology, social psychology and marketing studies.
2. Science and Society. Kevin specialises in understanding emerging institutional and governmental models of – and interventions in – science and society relations, such as public engagement and public dialogue. In addition to straightforward policy analysis, Kevin’s work aims to understand, evaluate and contribute to these policy trajectories from the perspective of scientists themselves. Here, Kevin’s work particularly draws upon approaches from science and technology studies (STS), cultural studies of science and critical public understanding of science (cPUS).
1. Environmental and health-related behaviour change. Kevin is interested in understanding the role of social norms in environmental and health-related behaviour change. In particular, Kevin’s work focuses on the potential for feedback about individual and peer group environmental and health-related behaviour to influence individuals’ behaviour. Here, Kevin’s work particularly draws on relevant work in sociology, social psychology and marketing studies.
2. Science and Society. Kevin specialises in understanding emerging institutional and governmental models of – and interventions in – science and society relations, such as public engagement and public dialogue. In addition to straightforward policy analysis, Kevin’s work aims to understand, evaluate and contribute to these policy trajectories from the perspective of scientists themselves. Here, Kevin’s work particularly draws upon approaches from science and technology studies (STS), cultural studies of science and critical public understanding of science (cPUS).
Experience
Advisory Experience
Sciencewise-Expert Resource Centre, on the ‘use of experts in public dialogue’.
National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement, on academics and public engagement.
Sciencewise-Expert Resource Centre, on the ‘use of experts in public dialogue’.
National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement, on academics and public engagement.
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