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Alison Anderson
Professor Alison Anderson
- Job title: Professor, School of Social Science and Social Work (Faculty of Health, Education and Society)
- Address: Room 108, 10 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
- Email: A.Anderson@plymouth.ac.uk
Role
Professor of Sociology
Director of the Centre for Community, Culture and Society, Institute of Health and Community
Qualifications & background
Alison Anderson graduated from the University of York in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in Sociology. Following this she spent a couple of years working as a research assistant on an ESRC project, 'Crime, Law and Justice and the Media 'at the University of Greenwich, and then became a postgraduate student. She joined the University of Plymouth in 1991 and gained her PhD in 1993. Professional membership
Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA)
Member of European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Member of European Sociological Association Research Group on Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (SoRU)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture. Roles on external bodies
1996-2000 Book Review Editor for Sociology, journal of the British Sociological Association.
2006-2010 Editorial Board Member of Sociological Research Online.
2008-2011 Associate Board member of Sociology.
2011-present Editorial Board Member of Sociology.
2009- present Editorial Board Member of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
2009- present Associate Editor, International Journal of Technoethics
2011- Member of International Adviisory Board, International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. Teaching interests
Alison's main interests are in the field of Mass Media; Environmental Issues; Biotechnology; Nanotechnology; New Genetics; Social Movements; Science Communication.
She currently co-ordinates the following modules:
SOC3502 Media, State and Society
SOC2503 Knowing the Social World
SOC1502 Britain in a Changing World
She also contributes to a varierty of other modules. At Masters level she teaches on MSR503 and MSR511 and supervises MPhil and PhD students.
Alison welcomes enquiries from future PhD students, particularly in the following broad areas: - Media reporting of environmental issues
- Sociology of journalism and news production
- Media reporting of crime, law and justice
- War reporting
- Health communication and risk
Recent PhD supervisions include: - ‘Sustainable Development: The Reflexive Governance of Risk' (Dr Gregory Borne)
- 'The Distribution of Attitudinal Attachment to the Male Breadwinner Role: A quantitative study of the Plymouth travel to work area.' (Dr Suzanne Chamberlain)
- 'Managerial Decision Making: A Discursive Analysis' (Dr Teri McConville)
- 'An Exploration into how Students with Dyslexia identify with their Condition, with Particular Reference to the Tensions which Surround Public and Private Perceptions of Dyslexia’ (Dr Deborah Shenton)
Staff serving as external examiners
PhD (2006) ' Contesting Wilderness: Media, Movement and Environmental Conflict in Tasmania', Libby Lester, University of Melbourne, Australia.
MA (2008) ' A Comparative Analaysis of the Press Coverage of the Whaling Conflict in Australia and Japan', Mitsuru Kudo, University of Tasmania, New Zealand.
MA (2009) 'Health Risk Communication: Reporting the Avian Influenza in New Zealand Newspapers’ , Brenda Mackie, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Research interests
Mass Media; Risk; Genetics; Nanotechnologies; Environmental Sustainability; Marine Pollution; Social Movements; Science Communication
UoP Research group membership Centre for Culture, Community and Society (CCCS) Centre for Marine and Coastal Policy Research (MarCoPol) Centre for Methodological Innovations (CMI) Cultural Industries Health Sustainability, Society and Health Other research
Recently conducted an ESRC funded project (with Alan Petersen, Stuart Allan and Clare Wilkinson) on 'Nanotechnology and News Production: Scientists', Journalists' and Editors' Views.' Currently conducting research with Alan Petersen on 'Striking a Balance? How Scientists and Policymakers Portray the Benefits and Risks of Nanotechnologies as Applied to Medical and Environmental Sustainability' - funded by the British Academy.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Teresa McConville PhD 2000
Suzanne Chamberlain PhD 2004
Gregory Borne PhD 2006
Deborah Shenton, PhD 2010 Grants & contracts
1999 - awarded a start-up grant of £20,000 by the European Science Foundation (with colleagues in the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy).
March 2004 - Principal Applicant 'Nanotechnology and News Production: Scientists', Journalists' and Editors' Views.' ESRC grant of £48,000 (with Alan Petersen and Stuart Allan).
Home page: http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/nanotechnology
September 2006 - Co-investigator with Alan Petersen on British Academy study, 'Striking a Balance? How Scientists and Policymakers Portray the Benefits and Risks of Nanotechnologies as Applied to Medical and Environmental Sustainability'.
January 2011 - June 2013 'What is Revalidation in Practice? Shaping the Futute Development of Revalidation', Health Foundation grant of £80,000 (with Julian Archer and Sam Regan de Bere).
January 2011 - July 2011 'A Toolkit for Embedding Methods Teaching within a Sociology Fieldtrip' (with Carole Surron). C-SAP, £14,120 (including matched funding). Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Anderson, A. (forthcoming 2012) Media, Environment and the Network Society. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills.
Anderson, A. (2010) Special Issue of Journal of Risk Research, (13) 1.
Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Wilkinson, C. and Allan, S. (2009) Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills
Ettorre, E. and Anderson, A. (2007) Special Issue of Sociological Research Online, 12 (2).
Petersen, A., Anderson, A., Wilkinson, C and Allan, S. (2007) Special Issue of Health, Risk and Society, 9 (2).
Anderson, A. and Ettorre, E. (2007) Special Issue of Sociological Research Online, 11 (2).
Meethan, K., Anderson, A., Miles, S. (eds.) (2006) Tourism, Consumption and Representation. Wallingford:CAB International.
Ettorre, E., Anderson, A., David, M. and Wilkinson, I (2002) Special Issue of New Genetics and Society, 21, (3).
Miles, S., Anderson, A., Meethan, K. (eds.) (2001) The Changing Consumer: Markets and Meanings. London: Routledge.
Anderson, A. (1997) Media, Culture and the Environment. London:UCL
Book Chapters
Anderson, A. (2010) 'Communicating Chemical Risks: Beyond the Risk Society'. In Eriksson, J., Gilek, M. and Ruden, C. (eds) Regulating Chemical Risks: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on European and Global Challenges. Springer.
Anderson, A., Allan, S., Petersen, A and Wilkinson, C. (2008) 'Nanoethics: news media and the shaping of public agendas'. In Luppicini, R. & Adell, R. (eds) Handbook of Research on Technoethics, Idea Group.
Anderson, A. (2007) 'Spinning the Rural Agenda' . In Giarchi, G. (ed.) Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside. Oxford: Blackwell.
Anderson, A. (2006) 'Media and Risk'. In Walklate, S. & Mythen, G. (eds.) Beyond the Risk Society. Open University/McGraw Hill.
Allan, S., Anderson, A. and Petersen, A. (2005) ‘Reporting Risk: Science Journalism and the Prospect of Human Cloning’. In Watson, S. and Moran, A. (eds.) Risk, Trust and Uncertainty. London: Palgrave.
Anderson, A., Petersen, A. and David, M. (2005) 'Communication or Spin? Source -Media Relations in Science Journalism'. In S. Allan (ed) Journalism: Critical Issues. Buckingham: OUP.
Anderson, A. (2004) 'Media Analysis'. In M. David and C. Sutton (eds.) Social Research: The Basics. London: Sage.
Anderson, A. (2004) 'Risk, Terrorism and the Internet'. In Clarke, D. (ed.) Technology and Terrorism (pp 155-66). London: Transaction.
Anderson, A. (2003) 'Environmental Activism and News Sources'. In S. Cottle (ed.) News, Public Relations and Power. London: Sage.
Anderson, A. (2001) 'News Media Representations of Environmental Issues.' In The Role of the Mass Media in Environmental Education, Environmental Studies Information Centre (CEIA), Catalan Institute of Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Anderson, A. (1999) 'Environmental Pressure Politics and the 'Risk Society'' In S. Allan, B. Adam & C. Carter (Eds.) Environmental Risks and the Media. London: Routledge.
Anderson, A. & S. Miles (1999) 'Just Do It?' Young People, the Global Media and the Construction of Consumer Meanings. In S. Ralph, J. Langham-Brown & T. Lees (eds.) Youth and the Global Media. Current Debates in Broadcasting 5, University of Luton Press, 105-112.
Anderson, A. (1993) 'Source-media Relations: The Production of the Environmental Agenda'. In A. Hansen (ed.) The Mass Media and Environmental Issues. Leicester: Leicester University Press
Refereed Articles
Anderson, A. (2011) ' Sources, Media and Modes of Climate Change Communication: The Role of Celebrities. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2 (4): 535-46. Anderson, A. (2010) Editorial - 'Mediating Risk: Towards a New Research Agenda', Special Issue of Journal of Risk Research, 13 (1) 1-3.
Allan, S., Anderson, A. & Petersen, A. (2010) 'Framing Risk: Nanotechnologies in the News', Journal of Risk Research, 13 (1) 29-44.
Anderson, A. and Petersen, A. (2010) 'Shaping the ethics of an emergent field: scientists’ and policymakers’ representations of nanotechnologies,' Special Issue of International Journal of Technoethics, 1 (1): 32-44. Winner of IGI Global’s ‘Fourth Annual Excellence in Research Journal Awards,’ celebrating the best articles from the 2010 volume year.
Anderson, A. (2005) Book review of Gold, J.R. (2004) 'Representing the Environment', Journal of Rural Studies, July.
Anderson, A. (2006) Book review of Tumber,H. & Palmer, J. (2004) Media at War: The Iraq Crisis. London: Sage, War and the Media Network.
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/warandmedia/ publications/reviews/Palmer_tumber.html
Anderson, A. (2007) Book review of Berube, D. (2006) 'Nano-hype', Health, Risk and Society, 9, (2).
Anderson, A. (2011) Book review of Mario Pagliaro (2010) 'Nano Age: How nanotechnology Changes our Future', Journal of Applied Organometallic Chemistry.
Reports & invited lectures
2011 Anderson, A. Invited Speaker. Panel 4:What would be the consequences and limits, in terms of the project and social-economic impact, of integrating ethics within emerging technology development? EGAIS Final Conference 'The ethics of the future: co-responsible implementation of governance approaches in technological projects', Brussels, 23rd January.
2011 Anderson, A. and Sutton, C. 'Embedding a Methods Toolkit within a Sociology Field-trip'. Presentation at CSAP Showcase Event, Birmingham, 24th October.
2011 Anderson, A. 'Commodifying Nature: Celebrity News as a Vehicle for Social Change?'. Invited Plenary Speaker, Third International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21-22 July.
2011 Anderson, A. 'The Globalisation of News and the Changing Politics of Risk', Fourth International Conference on Global Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-20 July.
2011 Anderson, A. ‘Environmental Communication in the Network Society’, Invited speaker, School of Social Sciences Wageningen University communication science seminar series, 19 May.
2010 Anderson, A. and Petersen, P. 'Framing Nano: Scientists' and Policymaker's Representations of Ethical Questions', EASST, Trento, Italy, September 2-4.
2009 Anderson, A. 'Media, Stigma and Risk: Will Nanotech be the Next GM?, School of Social and Political Inquiry Research Seminar, Monash University, Australia, April 15.
2008 Anderson, A. Invited speaker 'Environmental Communication Research: Towards a New Era', Panel on forming an international environmental communication organisation, ECREA, Barcelona, November.
2008 Anderson, A. ' "There's No Global Warming - I Want My Money Back": The Media Politics of Climate Change', All Our Futures, University of Plymouth, September.
2007 Anderson, A. Keynote speaker 'Regulating Chemical Risks: Beyond the Risk Society', Regulating Chemical Risks: Science, Politics and the Media International Conference, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, August 15-17.
2006 Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. 'Nanofutures: Press Framing of Emerging Technologies in a Risk Society', International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, 23-28th July.
2006 Anderson, A. Invited speaker 'The News Media and Risk: Beyond the ‘Risk Society’', BSA Health, Risk and Society Conference, University of Kent, 3-5 September.
2006 Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. ' Framing Emergent Health Risks in the Press: Scientists' and Journalists' Views on the Coverage of Nanotechnologies,' BSA Medical Sociology 38th Annual Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 14-16 September.
2005 Petersen, A. Anderson, A. Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. 'A fantastic voyage?: the making of news on nano-medicine', British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Study Group Annual Conference, York, UK, 15-17 September.
2005 Petersen, A., Anderson, A., Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. 'Nanotechnology and news production: a report of key findings', Nanotechnologies, Media and Public Engagement One-Day Workshop, Watershed, Bristol, 13 September.
2005 Anderson, A., Petersen, A., Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. Invited speaker 'Framing Environmental Risk: UK Press Reporting on Nanotechnologies, ISA Conference, 'Environment, Knowledge and Democracy', July, Marseille, France.
2005 Anderson, A., Allan, S. Petersen, A., Wilkinson, C., ‘Textual representations of nanotechnology in the UK’, American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 17-21 February, Washington, DC, USA.
2005 Petersen,A., Anderson, A. and Allan,S., ‘Representing risk: the news media politics of nanotechnology’, Learning about risk, SCARR (Social Contexts and Responses to Risk) Launch Conference, 28-29 January, University of Kent, Canterbury.
2005 Petersen, A. Anderson, A. Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. 'A fantastic voyage?: the making of news on nano-medicine', British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Study Group Annual Conference, York, UK, 15-17 September.
2005 Petersen, A., Anderson, A., Allan, S. and Wilkinson, C. 'Nanotechnology and news production: a report of key findings', Watershed, Bristol, 13 September.
2004 Anderson, A., Allan, S. and Petersen,A. 'Pictoral and Textual Representations of Nanotechnology in the UK Press, University of South Carolina, Columbia, March.
2004 Anderson, A. 'West Devon Environmental Network and Community Environmental Action', ESRC Citizenship & the Environment Seminar Series, 29-30 April, Open University, Milton Keynes.
2004 Petersen, A., Anderson, A. and Allan, A. ‘Designer babies and manufactured risks: medical genetics in the print news media’, British Sociological Association Risk and Society Study Group, ‘Taking Stock of Risk’, University of Nottingham, 6-7 September.
2004 Petersen, A., Anderson, A. and Allan, S. ‘Designer genes hit the headlines: how the press may heighten publics’ perceptions of risk in its reporting of medical genetics issues’, Cesagen, Genomics and Society, 2-3 March, Carlton House Terrace, London.
2004 Anderson, A. Petersen, A., & Allan, S. ‘Nanotechnology in the news: representing risk’, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), 25-28 August, Paris.
2004 Allan, S., Anderson, A. and Petersen, A.‘Defining Risk: British Press Reporting on Nanotechnology,’ Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 25-30 July.
2003 Anderson, A. 'News Media Organisations and Oil Spill Coverage'. Invited speaker at International Oil Spill Conference, Vancouver, Canada, April.
2001 Anderson, A. ‘The Media Politics of Oil Spills’, Invited paper presented to the First International Conference on Marine Environmental Challenges, Beyond Crisis Science and Emergency Legislation: What do we Really Know?, University of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Mass. USA, February.
2001 Anderson, A. ‘Articulating Nature: The Construction of Nature and the Environment in Television Advertising in the UK, Germany and Denmark’, European Association for Consumer Research, Berlin, June.
2001 Anderson, A. ‘Mediating the Environment’. Invited speaker at Royal Society of Arts Special Session on Communicating Science, Science Festival, Glasgow, September.
Conferences organised
1st International Conference on Consumption and Representation, University of Plymouth, September 1999.
British Sociological Association Conference, 'Sociological Challenges: Conflict, Anxiety and Discontent', University of York, March 2004.
Other academic activities
Consultant for Australian Federal Government Report on ‘The Social and Economic Impacts of Nanotechnologies: A Review of the Literature’ .
http://www.innovation.gov.au/Section/Innovation/Pages/AustralianOfficeofNanotechnology.aspx
Visiting Scholar at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (School of Social and Political Inquiry).
Additional information
Links
ESRC project on Nanotechnology and News Production Home Page: http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/nanotechnology
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