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Senior Lecturer, iHuman and Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield

Warren’s research explores how science is used in public debates about politics and policy, with a current focus on three areas:

- the use of scientific evidence, advice and assessment in policy work
- how digital platforms are changing experts and expertise
- the role of images in online science communication

He has researched these themes extensively through a series of journal articles examining the public life of climate change. He has also published research on other prominent cases such as plant genome editing, autism, responsible innovation and the use of randomised controlled trials in policy. Warren employs interpretive, digital and comparative research methods, collaborating with information designers to rethink approaches to visualisation for interpretive research. He has published in a wide range of high-impact academic journals across the natural, social and health sciences such as Nature, Nature Climate Change, Public Understanding of Science, Environmental Communication, PLOS-ONE, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Policy Sciences and Policy & Politics.

Experience

  • 2016–present
    Dr, University of Sheffield