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Reader in Sociology, University of Kent

Joy Y. Zhang is the Founding Director of the Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice at the University of Kent. Originally trained as a medical doctor, her research investigates the transnational governance of scientific uncertainty, with a focus on the Sino-European context. She is particularly interested in how actors in non-Western societies capitalise on the concept of global risk and how this gives rise to new modes of social intervention. She has an outstanding track record of consistently delivering high quality, high impact research.She is the author of three academic monographs: The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China (2012), Green Politics in China: Environmental Governance and State-Society Relations (2013), and The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance (2022).

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent

Education

  • 2010 
    London School of Economics, Sociology