School of Social and Political Science

Dr Reuben Message

Research Fellow

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rmessage@ed.ac.uk
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/reuben-message
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkedin.com/in/reuben-m-b3901628/
Chisholm House
1 Surgeons Square
Edinburgh
EH1 1LZ

Research interests

Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine Innovation in life sciences (agriculture, food and health) Science, knowledge and policy Social studies of biology and medicine Studies of the life sciences


Current and recent projects

  • Engineered Genetic Control Circuits for Advanced Therapeutics (Responsible Research and Innovation) [2024 -, BBSRC/UKRI Mission Award]
  • Engineering Biology for Cell and Gene Therapy (Responsible Research and Innovation) [2022 - 2024, EPSRC/UKRI Transition Award]
  • Time pressures in academic-industry collaborations in mammalian engineering biology  [2023, BBSRC/UKRI Transition Award Flexible Funding]
  • Survey of resources: History of Aquaculture [2023, SRSF/University of Edinburgh]
  • The Animal Research Nexus [2017 - 2022, Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award]
  • 'Suffer the Little Fishes?' Exploring UK biologists perceptions of the controversy about fish pain [2019 - 2020, Fell Fund Award, University of Oxford]

    See my Orcid and Pure profiles for more.

Background

I studied Sociology at the Universities of Cape Town and Literature at the University of York, before completing an MSc in Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society at the London School of Economics. I then worked for two years at the research and advisory group Counterpoint in London, before beginning PhD studies, again at the LSE. I followed this up with a postdoctoral position at the Department of Geography, University of Oxford. I began at Edinburgh in September 2022.

Works within

Reuben Message's Research Explorer profile