Professor Paul Martin

Professor of Sociology, (BA (Hons), MSc, DPhil)
Director of Research

Academic Profile

Research

Recent Funded Research Projects
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Teaching

I convene:

• SCS1017 Science, Technology and Society
• SCS3034 What it means to be Human

Postgraduate Supervision

To find out more about our PhD programmes, go to:
Studying for a PhD in Sociology

Publications since 2005

Pickersgill, M.D., Martin, P.A. and Cunningham-Burley, S. (2011 - forthcoming) ‘Constituting Neurologic Subjects: Neuroscience, Subjectivity, and the Mundane Significance of the Brain’, Subjectivity. (For special issue on ‘Neuroscience and Subjectivity’)

Williams, S. J., Martin, P. and Gabe, J. (2011 – online early), The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33: doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01320.x

Plagnol, A.C., Rowley, E., Martin, P. and Livesey, F. (2009) Industry perceptions of barriers to commercialization of regenerative medicine products in the UK. Regenerative Medicine 4(4):549-559 [Cit: 4]

Calvert, J. And Martin, P. (2009) The role of social science in synthetic biology. EMBO Reports, 10(3):201-204. [Cit: 10]

England, T.J, Martin, P., and Bath, P.M.W. (2009) Stem cells for enhancing recovery after stroke: a review. International Journal of Stroke 4:101-110 [Cit: 9]

Coveney, C.M., Nerlich, B., and Martin, P.A. (2009) Modafinil in the media: metaphors, medicalisation and the body. Social Science and Medicine. 68(3):487-95 [Cit: 8]

Williams, S. and Martin, P.A. (2009) Drug induced cognitive enhancement and society. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 3(1)

Martin, P.A.,  and Balmer, A.  (2008) Synthetic Biology: Social and Ethical Challenges. September 2008. Available from http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/organisation/policies/reviews/scientific-areas/0806-synthetic-biology.aspx

Tutton R, Smart A, Martin P.A., Ashcroft R, Ellison GTH. (2008) Genotyping the future: scientists' expectations about race/ethnicity after BiDil®. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (3) 464-470 [Cit: 8]

Martin, P., Brown, N., and Turner, A. (2008) Capitalising hope: the commercial development of umbilical cord blood stem cell banking. New Genetics and Society. 27(2): 127-143 [Cit: 4]

Weiner, K. and Martin, P.A. (2008) A genetic future for coronary heart disease. Sociology of Health and Illness. 30 (3): 380-395. [Cit: 10]

Ellison GTH, Tutton R, Outram SM, Martin P., Ashcroft R, Smart A. (2008) An interdisciplinary perspective on the impact of genomics on the meaning of 'race', and the future role of racial categories in biomedical research. NTM Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 16: 378-386. [Cit: 1]

Ellison, G.T.H., Kaufman, J.S., Head, R.F., Martin, P.A. and Kahn, J.D. (2008) Flaws in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Rationale for Supporting the Development and Approval of BiDil as a Treatment for Heart Failure Only in Black Patients. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. 36(3): 449-457 [Cit: 7]

Smart, A., Tutton, R., Ashcroft, R., Martin, P.A., Balmer, A., Elliot, R. and G.T.H. Ellison (2008) Social Inclusivity vs. Analytical Acuity? A Qualitative Study of UK Researchers Regarding the Inclusion of Minority Racial/Ethnic Groups in Biobanks. Medical Law International, 9(2): 169-190 [Cit: 2]

Martin, P.A., Brown, N and Kraft, A. (2008) From bedside to bench? Communities of Promise, Translational Research and the Making of Blood Stem Cells. Science as Culture. 17(1):29-42. [Cit: 10]

Smart, A., Tutton, R., Martin, P.A., Ellison, G. T. H. and Ashcroft, R. (2008) The Standardisation of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Science Editorial and UK Biobanks. Social Studies of Science. 38(3): 407-423 [Cit: 15]

Ellison, G.T.H., Smart, A., Tutton, R., Outram, S.M., Ashcroft, R. and Martin, P. (2007) Racial categories in medicine: a failure of evidence-based practice? PLoS 4(9): 1434-1436 [Cit: 21]

Hopkins, MH., Martin, PA., Nightingale, P., Kraft, A. and Mahdi, S. (2007) The Myth of the Biotech Revolution: An assessment of technological, clinical and organisational change. Research Policy 36(4): 566-589 [Cit: 67]

Hopkins, M.M. and Martin, P.A. (2006) Role of pharmacogenetics in the use of CNS drugs: from drug pipeline to primary care? (editorial). Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics 6(12):1765-1767 [Cit: 1]

Martin, PA., Coveny, C., Kraft, A., Brown, N and Bath, P (2006) The commercial development of stem cell technology: lessons from the past, strategies for the future. Regenerative Medicine 1(6): 801-807 [Cit: 11]

Smart, A.; Tutton, R., Ashcroft, R., Martin, P.A. and Ellison, G.T.H. (2006) Can Science Alone Improve the Measurement and Communication of Race and Ethnicity in Genetic Research? Exploring the Strategies Proposed by Nature Genetics. BioSocieties 1(3):313-324 [Cit: 11]

Brown, N., Kraft, A. and Martin. P. (2006) The Promissory Pasts of Blood Stem Cells. BioSocieties. 1(3):329-348 [Cit: 7]

Hopkins, MM., Ibarreta, D., Gaisser, S., Enzing, CM., Ryan, J., Martin, PA., Lewis, G., Detmar, S., van den Akker-van Marle, ME., Hedgecoe, AM., Nightingale, P., Dreiling, M., Hartig, KJ., Vullings, W. and Forde, T. (2006) Putting pharmacogenetics into practice. Nature Biotechnology 24 (April): 403-410 [Cit: 52]

Smart, A. and Martin, P.A. (2006) The promise of pharmacogenetics: Assessing the prospects for disease and patient stratification. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 37(3):583-601 [Cit: 6]

Busby, H. and Martin, P.A. (2006) Biobanks, national identity and imagined genetic communities: the case of UK biobank. Science as Culture. 15(3):237-251. [Cit: 16]

Martin, P (2005) The paradox of race/ ethnicity (response to Ellison). Critical Public Health. 15(1): 77-78 [Cit: 3]

A full list of publications can be downloaded by clicking the link on the right of this page.