Dr Stevienna de Saille

Phd, University of Leeds

Department of Sociological Studies

Lecturer in Sociology

Research Fellow (iHuman) (She/her)

s.desaille@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Stevienna de Saille
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Profile

Stevie’s research interests lie in the nexus of science and technology studies, social movement theory and heterodox economics, all through an intersectional lens. Her MA looked at women's adaptation of the architecture of Livejournal.com to maintain pre-existing online networks and question racial exclusion within the science fiction community. Her PhD, completed at the end of 2012, was a case study of knowledge production in the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE), which led her to larger questions about the global bioeconomy, and the governance of emergent technologies.

As a postdoctoral researcher at Sheffield, she worked with Prof. Paul Martin investigating 'Publics and the Making of Responsible Innovation' as part of the Leverhulme Trust Research Programme 'Making Science Public' and was involved in research on diversity in the biomedical system along with colleagues from ScHARR, as part of a Wellcome Trust project led by Prof. James Wilsdon.

Stevie is currently leading the 'Human Futures' theme in iHuman, where she has developed the Robots in a Human Future research programme and continues to pursue her interests in reprogenetic technologies and responsible innovation. She has been PI on several multidisciplinary projects looking at autonomous systems, and has recently completed a UKRI-TAS pump priming project on 'Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care'. She is on the Executive of iHuman and AsSIST-UK and is a founder of the Fourth Quadrant Research Network on responsible stagnation, which takes a growth-agnostic approach to maintaining social prosperity via innovation. Stevie is also a certified facilitator in LEGO® Serious Play®, which she uses for research, teaching, and as a consultant on embedding responsible research and innovation into science and engineering projects.

Stevie has been chosen as a Reform Scholar for 2024-25, looking at policy for automation in social care.

Research interests

TAS-UKRI, "Imagining Robotic Care: Identifying conflict and confluence in stakeholder imaginaries of autonomous care systems" (Co-I, Research Lead), 2021-22
Research England/FOSS, "Improving Inclusivity in Robotic Design" (PI), Phase I 2020, Phase II 2021
Independent Social Research Foundation, “The Fourth Quadrant: Exploring Responsible Innovation in a Steady State” (PI), 2016-2018.
Wellcome Trust, Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research (Co-I), 2016.

Publications

Books

de Saille S, Medvecky F, van Oudheusden M, Albertson K, Amanatidou E, Birabi T & Pansera M (2020) Responsibility Beyond Growth. Bristol University Press.
de Saille S, Medvecky F, van Oudheusden M, Albertson K, Amanatidou E, Birabi T & Pansera M (2020) Responsibility Beyond Growth. Bristol University Press.
de Saille S, Medvecky F, van Oudheusden M, Albertson K, Amanatidou E, Birabi T & Pansera M (2020) Responsibility Beyond Growth. Bristol University Press.
de Saille S (2017) Knowledge as Resistance: The Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Edited books

Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (Eds.) (2022) Being Human During Covid-19. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Journal articles

Cameron D, Collins EC, de Saille S, Eimontaite I, Greenwood A & Law J (2023) The social triad model: considering the deployer in a novel approach to trust in human–robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics.
Stahl BC, Aicardi C, Brooks L, Craigon PJ, Cunden M, Burton SD, Heaver MD, Saille SD, Dolby S, Dowthwaite L , Eke D et al (2023) Assessing responsible innovation training. Journal of Responsible Technology, 100063-100063.
de Saille S, Greenwood A, Law J, Ball M, Levine M, Vallejos EP, Ritchie C & Cameron D (2022) Using LEGO® SERIOUS® Play with stakeholders for RRI. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, 100055-100055.
de Saille S, Kipnis E, Potter S, Cameron D, Webb CJR, Winter P, O’Neill P, Gold R, Halliwell K, Alboul L , Bell AJ et al (2022) Improving inclusivity in robotics design : an exploration of methods for upstream co-creation. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9.
de Saille S (2022) New horizons, old friends: taking an ‘ARIA in six keys’ approach to the future of R(R)I. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 9(1), 138-142.
Albertson K, de Saille S, Pandey P, Amanatidou E, Arthur KNA, Van Oudheusden M & Medvecky F (2021) An RRI for the present moment: relational and ‘well-up’ innovation. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 8(2), 292-299. View this article in WRRO
Cameron D, de Saille S, Collins EC, Aitken JM, Cheung H, Chua A, Loh EJ & Law J (2021) The effect of social-cognitive recovery strategies on likability, capability and trust in social robots. Computers in Human Behavior, 114, 106561-106561. View this article in WRRO
Martin P, Morrison M, Turkmendag I, Nerlich B, McMahon A, de Saille S & Bartlett A (2020) Genome editing: the dynamics of continuity, convergence and change in the engineering of life. New Genetics and Society. View this article in WRRO
Morrison M & de Saille S (2019) CRISPR in context : towards a socially responsible debate on embryo editing. Palgrave Communications, 5. View this article in WRRO
McLeod C, de Saille S & Nerlich B (2018) Risk in synthetic biology—views from the lab. EMBO reports, 19(7). View this article in WRRO
de Saille S & Medvecky F (2016) Innovation for a steady state: a case for responsible stagnation. Economy and Society, 45(1), 1-23. View this article in WRRO
de Saille S (2015) Innovating innovation policy: the emergence of ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2(2), 152-168. View this article in WRRO
de Saille S (2014) Dis-inviting the Unruly Public. Science as Culture, 24(1), 99-107. View this article in WRRO
de Saille S (2014) 'Fighting Science with Social Science: Activist Scholarship in an International Resistance Project'. Sociological Research Online, 19(3). View this article in WRRO
Kipnis E, McLeay F, Grimes A, de Saille S & Potter S () Service Robots in Long-Term Care: A Consumer-Centric View. Journal of Service Research.

Chapters

Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Conclusion: Thinking about ‘the Human’ during COVID-19 Times (pp. 147-155). Bristol University Press
Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Introduction, Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 1-10). Bristol University Press
Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Conclusion: Thinking about ‘the Human’ during COVID-19 Times, Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 147-155). Policy Press
Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Conclusion: Thinking about ‘the Human’ during COVID-19 Times, Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 147-155). Bristol University Press
Arthur KNA, Amanatidou E, de Saille S, Birabi T & Pandey P (2022) Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human?, Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 117-123). Bristol University Press
Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Human Futures, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 115-115).
Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Biosocial Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 83-83).
Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 Introduction, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 1-9).
Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Marginalized Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 51-51).
Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Knowing Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 11-11).
Saille SD, Medvecky F & van Oudheusden M (2020) Conclusion: The Scope of Responsible Stagnation, Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 129-142). Bristol University Press
Saille SD (2020) Introducing Responsible Stagnation as the ‘Fourth Quadrant’, Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 3-20). Bristol University Press
(2020) List of Figures and Tables, Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. iv-iv). Bristol University Press
(2020) Preface, Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. xiii-xiv). Bristol University Press
de Saille S (2020) Introducing Responsible Stagnation as the ‘Fourth Quadrant’, Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 3-20). Policy Press
de Saille S, Medvecky F & van Oudheusden M (2020) Conclusion: The Scope of Responsible Stagnation, Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 129-142). Policy Press
de Saille S & Martin P (2018) Monstrous regiment versus Monsters Inc., Science and the politics of openness Manchester University Press
de Saille S & Martin P (2018) Monstrous regiment versus Monsters Inc.: Competing imaginaries of science and social order in Responsible (Research and) Innovation In Nerlich B, Hartley S, Raman S & Smith A (Ed.), Science and the politics of openness: Here be monsters Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Book reviews

de Saille S (2021) Looking Back at Ten Years of RRI: Review of R. von Schomberg and J. Hankins (eds): International Handbook on Responsible Innovation: A Global Resource. Science and Engineering Ethics, 27(3).
de Saille S (2014) Fixed: the science/fiction of human enhancement. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1(1), 142-145. View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings papers

de Saille S, Cameron D & Sharkey A (2022) LEGO® Serious Play® in HRI research: results of a pilot imagining robotic care. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

Reports

Chambers D, Preston L, Salway S, De Saille S, Topakas A, Booth A, Dawson J & Wilsdon JR (2017) The Diversity Dividend: does a more diverse and inclusive research community produce better biomedical and health research? View this article in WRRO

Website content

de Saille S Duesberg, Mbeki, and AZT: Contentious science meets contentious politics.
Buklijas T & de Saille S "Roundup Ready?": Regulating glyphosates amidst health, economic, and public concerns about Genetic Modification.
de Saille S & Matanle PC Fukushima - The Triple Disaster and Its Triple Lessons: What can be learned about regulation, planning, and communication in an unfolding emergency?. View this article in WRRO
de Saille S On being a Science Public.

Theses / Dissertations

de Saille S (2012) From ‘Death of the Female’ to ‘Life Itself’: A Socio-historic Examination of FINRRAGE. University of Leeds.

Working papers

Chambers D, Preston L, Topakas A, de Saille S, Salway S, Booth A, Dawson J & Wilsdon J (2017) Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research. View this article in WRRO
Raman S, Clifford M, de Saille S, Gent D, Hartley S, Mohr A & Sesan T (2014) Responsive research: putting the innovative back into agendas for innovation.
de Saille S (2013) Innovating Innovation: RRI as a Guiding Principle in the ERA. Making Science Public, 3.
de Saille S & Medvecky F () Innovation for a Steady State: A Case for Responsible Stagnation. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries

de Saille S L'emergence de la « Recherche et de l’innovation responsables » dans la politique de l’Union européenne. In Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’europe.

Preprints

de Saille S () Innovating Innovation: RRI as a Guiding Principle in the ERA.

Grants: Stevie is PI for 'Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care' (MapRAS), funded by TAS-UKRI, 23-24.

Teaching activities

Stevie currently teaches the following undergraduate modules:

SCS3047 Protest, Movements and Social Change

SCS3034 What it means to be human