Dr Martin W Bauer

Biography

I was educated in Psychology and Economic History [Lic. Phil. Hist. Bern & Zurich] and Social Psychology [PhD, LSE]. A former Research Fellow in 'Public Understanding of Science' [Science Museum London] I was academic visitor to the Maison Des Sciences de l'Homme and SciencePo (Paris) and teach regularly in Brazil (UFRGS & PUC-RS, Porto Alegre).

I joined the LSE staff in September 1994 where I am closely involved with Social Psychology, the Methodology Insitute and BIOS. Currently directing the MSc programme Social and Public Communication, I convene several option courses: PS439 Science, Technology and Resistance; Mi454 Qualitative Research: Interview, Text and Image, and contribute to others (PS400, PS404, PS410, PS429, Mi453, BIOS).

Research interests and selected publications

My research is on science and technology in the public sphere (STEPS): resistance in social processes, social representations, attitudes to science and technology, in particular modern biotechnology. The key question of the STEPS group is: how does Public Opinion impact socio-technical developments? STEPS hosts the monthly London Public Understanding of Science Seminar.

I retain an active interest in 'Work & Organisation’ including job design, emotion, and stress, action theory, resistance & organisational learning, and in Methodology with issues of case study research, content analysis, corpus construction, computer-assisted text analysis, and continuous observation.

Recent funded projects include:

• Biotechnology and the Public, 1973-2002 [funding: EC 1994-2003],
• Perceptions of BSE/CJD risk 1985-1999 [funding: WHO/EC 1999-2002],
• Science in the British Press, 1946-1995 [funding: Wellcome Trust / Science Museum].

1. Books

Journalism, Science & Society: Science Communication between news making and public relations, (London, Routledge, 2007, with M Bucci (eds)).

Biotechnology - the making of a global controversy (Cambridge, CUP, 2002, with G Gaskell)

Pesquisa qualitativa con texto, imagem e som, (Petropolis Brazil, Editora VOZES, 2002, with G Gaskell)

Biotechnology 1996-2000 - the years of controversy (London, Science Museum, 2001, with G Gaskell)

Qualitative researching with text, image and sound - a practical handbook (London, Sage, 2000, with G Gaskell)

Biotechnology in Public - A European source book (London, Science Museum, 1998; with J Durant & G Gaskell)

Resistance to new Technology - nuclear power, information technology and biotechnology (Cambridge, CUP, 1995)

2. Papers and book chapters

2007

Bauer MW (2007) Le fait accompli et son influence sociale, DIOGENE, 217 (January), 79-101. [Special issue: persuasion et influence sociale] UNESCO, Paris

Bauer MW (2007) Media monitoring (section 2.3.2), in: WHO Europe (ed) Risk perception and communication; setting the agenda for the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, 2009; report of a WHO expert meeting, Venice, San Servolo, 29030 May 2006, p20-21. http://www.euro.who.int/envhearlth/media/20070123 1.

Bauer MW (2007) The public career of ‘genes’ – trends in public sentiment from 1946 to 2002, New Genetics and Society, 26,1, 29-45.

Bauer MW, N Allum, and S Miller (2007) What have we learnt from 25 years of PUS research – liberating and widening the agenda, Public Understanding of Science, 15,1, 1-17.

2006

Bauer MW (2006) The vicissitudes of Public Understanding of Science: from literacy to Science in Society, Science Popularisation (China), 10, 14-22. (reprint C40 of 2004)

Bauer MW (2006) Come I media hanno alimentato la distinzione tra biotechnologie rosse e verdi, in: M Bucchi & F Neresini (eds) Cellule e Cittadini: biotechnologie nello spazio pubblico, Milano, Sironi Editore, p 123-140 [Italian translation of P20].

Bauer MW (2006) Garantindo os beneficios de uma moratoria. Lavouras transgenicas no Brasil – espicalmente a de soja (1995-2004), Plenarium – Camara dos Deputados, 3, no3 (September), 216-243. [http://www2.camara.gov.br/publicacoes/edicoes/plenarium3]

Bauer MW, Petkova K, P Boyadjieva, G Gornev (2006) Long-term trends in the representations of science across the iron curtain: Britain and Bulgaria, 1946-95, Social Studies of Science, 36, 1, 97-129

2005

Bauer MW (2005) The mass media and the biotechnology controversy, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 17 (1), 5-22 [special issue]

Bauer MW (2005) Distinguishing GREEN from RED biotechnology - cultivation effects of the elite press, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 17 (1), 63-89.

Bauer MW, S Howard, V Hagenhoff, G Gasperoni & Maria Rusanen (2005) The BSE and CJD crisis in the press, in: C Dora (ed) Health, Hazard and Public Debate: Lessons for Risk Communication from the BSE/CJD saga, Geneva, WHO, 125-164 [chapter 6].

Dowler E, J Green, MW Bauer, G Gasperoni (2005) Assessing public perceptions: issues and methods, in: C Dora (ed) Health, Hazard and Public Debate: Lessons for Risk Communication from the BSE/CJD saga, Geneva, WHO, 40-60 [chapter 3]

2004

Bauer MW (2004) Long-term trends in public sensitivities about genetic identification: 1973-2002, in: Gardar Árnason and Salvör Nordal (eds) Blood and Data - Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Human Genetic Databases, Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press 2004, p143-161 (chapter 16).

Bauer MW (2004) The vicissitudes of 'public understanding of science': from 'literacy' to 'science in society', in: Science meets Society, Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation, p37-63.

U Flick & M Bauer (2004) Teaching qualitative research, in: Flick U, E vonKardoff & I Steinke (eds) A Companion to Qualitative Research, London, Sage, 340-49 [translation from German 2000].

2003

Bauer MW (2003) O dominio publico da DNA: tendencies a longo prazo, Ciencia & Ambiente, (UFSM, Rio Grande do Sul) Maio, 129-140.

2002

Bauer MW (2002) Arenas, platforms and the biotechnology movement, Science Communication, 24, 144-161.

Bauer MW (2002) Controversial medical and agri-food biotechnology: a cultivation analysis, Public Understanding of Science, 2, 11, 1-19.

Bauer MW and G Gaskell (2002) The biotechnology movement, in: Bauer MW & G Gaskell (eds) Biotechnology - the making of a global controversy, Cambridge, CUP, 379-404.

Bauer MW & H Bonfadelli (2002) Controversy, media coverage and public knowledge, in: Bauer, MW & G Gaskell (eds) Biotechnology - the making of a global controversy, Cambridge, CUP

with S Howard (2001) Psychology in the Press, 1988 to 1999, The Psychologist, 14 (12), 632-636 [BPS centenary 1901-2001, special media watch].

Bauer MW, M Kohring, J Gutteling & A Allansdottir (2001) The dramatisation of biotechnology in the elite mass media, in: G Gaskell & MW Bauer (eds) Biotechnology 1996-2000 - the years of controversy, London, Science Museum, 35-52.

Bauer MW (2001) Biotechnology: Ethical Framing in the Elite Press, Noticie di Politeia, 17 (63), 51-66 [ISSN 1128-2401].

Bauer MW (2001) "Risiko oder Ethik? Vergleichendes zur Öffentlichkeit der Gentechnik." In: M Weber und P Hoyningen-Huene (Hg.), Ethische Probleme in den Biowissenschaften. Heidelberg, Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag, 149-168.

2000

With Gaskell, N Allum, J Durant et al (2000) Biotechnology and the European Public, Nature Biotechnology, Sept, Vol 18, 935-38.

Bauer MW, Petkova K, P Boyadjjewa (2000) Public knowledge of and attitudes to science - alternative measures, Science, Technology and Human Values, 25, 1, 30-51.

Bauer MW & B Aarts (2000) Corpus construction: a principle for qualitative data collection, in: Bauer M & G Gaskell (eds) Qualitative researching with text, image and sound: a practical handbook, London, Sage, 19-37

Bauer MW (2000) Analysing noise and music as social data, in: Bauer MW & G Gaskell (eds) Qualitative researching with text, image and sound: a practical handbook, London, Sage, 263-280.

MW Bauer (2000) Classic content analysis: a review, in: Bauer MW & G Gaskell (eds) Qualitative researching with text, image and sound: a practical handbook, London, Sage, 131-151.

Bauer MW (2000) 'Science in the media' as cultural indicator: contextualising surveys with media analysis, in: Dierkes M and C von Grote (eds) Between understanding and trust: the public, science and technology, Reading, Harwood Academics Publisher, 157-178.

1999

Bauer M W and G Gaskell (1999) Towards a paradigm for research on social representations, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 29 (2), 163-186.

With G Gaskell, J Durant, NC Allum (1999) Worlds apart? The reception of genetically modified food in Europe and the United States, Science, 285, July 15, 1-4 [retracted 9th June 2000].

1998

Bauer M (1998) The medicalisation of science news: from the 'rocket-scalpel' to the 'gene-meteorite' complex, Social Science Information, 37, 731-751. [ISSN 0539-0184]

Bauer M (1998) Die moderne Gentechnik und die oeffentliche Meinung, Civitas, 53, 3/4, 48-55

Bauer M (1998) La longue duree of popular science, 1830-present, In Deveze-Berthet D (ed) La promotion de la culture scientifique et technique: ses acteur et leurs logic, Actes du colloque des 12 et 13 decembre 1996, 75-92.[ISBN 2-7442-0021-2]

1997

Bauer M & J Durant (1997) Astrology in present day Britain: an approach from the sociology of knowledge, Cosmos and Culture - Journal of the History of Astrology and Cultural Astronomy, 1, 1-17

With G Gaskell & J Durant et al. (1997) Europe ambivalent on biotechnology, Nature, 387, 345-347 (June)

1996

Bauer M and H Joffe (1996) The `I don't know' response in social research - meanings of self-attributed ignorance, Social Science Information, 35,1, 6-13 [editorial to special issue]

Bauer M (1996) Socio-economic correlates of DK-responses in knowledge surveys, Social Science Information, 35,1, 39-68

Durant, J; A Hansen, and M Bauer (1996) Public understanding of human genetics; in: T Marteau and M Richards (eds) The troubled helix: social and psychological implications of the new human genetics, Cambridge University Press, 235-248.

1995

Bauer, M (1995) Technophobia: a misleading conception of resistance to new technology; in: Bauer, M. (ed) Resistance to new technology - nuclear power, information technology, biotechnology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 97-124.

Bauer, M (1995) Towards a functional analysis of resistance; in: Bauer, M. (ed) Resistance to new technology - nuclear power, information technology, biotechnology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 393-418.

1994

Bauer M, J Durant and G Evans (1994) European public perceptions of science, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 6, 2, 163-186

Bauer M (1994) Science and Technology in the British Press, 1946-1986, in: B Schiele, M Amyot and C Benoit (eds) When Science becomes Culture, Boucherville, University of Ottawa Press - vol II, [ISBN-2-921146-18-15].

1993

Bauer, M and I Schoon (1993a) Mapping variety in Public Understanding of Science, Public Understanding of Science, 2, 2, 141-155.

1991

Bauer, M. (1991) Resistance to change - a monitor of new technology, Systems Practice, 4, 3, 181-196

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