Education
Stephen Woolgar holds a Bachelor (First Class Honours) in engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology, both at the University of Cambridge.
sociologist university professor
Stephen Woolgar holds a Bachelor (First Class Honours) in engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology, both at the University of Cambridge.
He has worked closely with Bruno Latour, with whom he wrote Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts (1979). He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He holds the Chair of Sociology and Marketing and is a professor of marketing at the University of Oxford and a fellow at Green Templeton College.
He is also director of Science and Technology Studies within Oxford"s Institute for Science, Innovation and Society.
He is an important contributor in the fields of science studies, sociology of scientific knowledge (social security) and the science and technology studies (STS) (especially on the topic of sociology of machines).