Andy Miah, BA, MPhil, PhD, FRSA

I am Professor of Ethics & Emerging Technologies at the

University of the West of Scotland, Fellow at FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, and Fellow in Visions of Utopia and Dystopia for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.  From time to time I write an ethics column for The Guardian.

My research is informed by an interest in applied philosophy, technology, and culture and I write broadly about emerging technological cultures. This includes the implications of pervasive wireless connectivity and the convergence of technological systems and the modification of biological matter through nanotechnology and gene transfer. Many of these studies are increasingly transdisciplinary and being characterised as NBIC (nano-bio-info-cognitive) inquiries.

My work draws from literature in a range of areas, including law, philosophy, art, cultural studies, sociology and a range of sciences. Within my files, I try to keep abreast of around 200 academic journals. To some extent, I have endeavoured to publish in each of these areas, though I do not consider myself a specialist in all of them. Nevertheless, I have given lectures for lawyers, scientists, artists, sociologists and philosophers, among others.

I have published over 100 academic articles in refereed journals, books, e-zines, and national media press on the subjects of cyberculture, medicine, technology, and the Olympics. Recent publications include the Journal of Medical Ethics, CTHEORY, Culture Machine and Research in Philosophy, Technology. I have also written for leading newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Huffington Post,  The Observer, Le Monde, the Times Higher Education Supplement.

I have refereed book proposals for Routledge, Polity, Wiley and journal articles for Cultural Politics, Theory, Culture Society, Research in Philosophy and Technology and I am an Associate Editor for ‘Studies in Ethics, Law & Technology’ (BEPress) and Editorial Board Member for ‘Genomics, Society & Policy and Health Care Analysis (Springer) . I have also refereed submissions for the AHRC and The Wellcome Trust along with some other 15 journals including the Journal of Medical Ethics, Cultural Politics, Bioethics, and Public Understanding of Science.

My major publications are ‘The Medicalization of Cyberspace (with Emma Rich, Routledge  2008) and ‘Genetically Modified Athletes’ (Routledge, 2004) and Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (2008, Liverpool University Press).

I am frequently invited to speak about the implications of new technologies for humanity (the individual) and society (the collective). I am also involved with various projects that stud various non-sporting aspects of the Olympic movement and have been working in this area for 10 years.In relation to this, I am also co-editor of the online, academic serial ‘Culture at the Olympics’.

I am a member of various academic associations and working groups, including the Royal Institution of Great Britian, Yale University Bioethics working group, the Society of Applied Philosophy, the British Society for Ethical Theory, the International Association of Bioethics, and the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association, the Society for Social Studies of Science.

IF you are thinking about doing a PhD in areas of my expertise, please feel welcome to get in touch. The University has a bursary scheme and provides various other privileges for full-time PhD students.

my emergent concepts: posthumanism, biocultural capital, ambush media.

Address:

Faculty of Business and Creative Industries

University of the West of Scotland

Ayr Campus, KA8 0SR

Scotland, UK

[m] +44 7891 850 497 (direct)

[t] +44 1292 886388 (school reception)

[f] +44 1292 886371

[e] email@andymiah.net (your best bet)