Alan Irwin has since March 2011 been Acting President and Dean of Research (since 2007) at Copenhagen Business School. Previously he was Professor of Science and Technology Policy, and Dean of Social and Environmental Studies, at the University of Liverpool. His PhD is from the University of Manchester and he has held previous appointments at Manchester and at Brunel University (where he was also Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise). Alan chairs the UK BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Strategy Panel on ‘Bioscience for Society’. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Alan Irwin has published widely on issues of science and technology policy, scientific governance, risk, and science-public relations. His books include Risk and the Control of Technology (1985), Citizen Science (1995), Sociology and the Environment (2001) and (with Mike Michael) Science, Social Theory and Public Knowledge (2003). He was also co-editor (with Brian Wynne) of Misunderstanding Science? (1996). His research has been funded by a variety of bodies including the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, Leverhulme Trust and the European Commission. His most recent research has been on the governance of science – including work with the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on expert advice in the policy process. Collaborating with the think tank Demos, he was one of the authors of ‘The Received Wisdom’ (2006). In 2009 Alan Irwin was awarded the first David Edge prize for the best paper in science and technology studies.

Alan Irwin has been appointed visiting Professor at the Department of Management, University of Glasgow, from 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2015.

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Horst, M. and Irwin, A., ‘Nations at Ease with Radical Knowledge: on consensus, consensusing and false consensusness’. Social Studies of Science Vol. 40(1) 2010 pp105-126.

Hagendijk, R. and Irwin, A., ‘Public deliberation and governance: engaging with science and technology in contemporary Europe’. Minerva Vol. 44(2) 2006 pp167-184.

Irwin, A., 'The politics of talk: coming to terms with the "new" scientific governance.' Social Studies of Science Vol. 36(2) 2006. pp299-320.

 Stilgoe, J., Irwin, A., Jones, K., The Received Wisdom: opening up expert advice. (Demos, London: 2006)

Irwin, A. and Michael, M., Science, Social Theory and Public Knowledge. (Open University Press, Maidenhead; 2003)

Irwin, A., ‘Constructing the scientific citizen: science and democracy in the biosciences’. Public Understanding of Science Vol 10 (1), 2001 pp1-18.

Irwin, A., Sociology and the Environment: a critical introduction to society, nature and knowledge. (Polity, Cambridge; 2001)

 Irwin, A. and Wynne, B., (eds) Misunderstanding Science? the public reconstruction of science and technology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 1996).

 Irwin, A., Citizen Science; a study of people, expertise and sustainable development (Routledge, London; 1995).

 Irwin, A., Risk and the Control of Technology (Manchester University Press; 1985; reprinted as paperback 1987).