Stevienna de Saille

Dr Stevienna de Saille

Small Group Project 2017-18

The Fourth Quadrant Research Project (4QRP): What can heterodox economic theory contribute to Responsible Innovation?

The neoclassical model of growth suggests that developed economies may have reached a state in which ever-increasing input achieves less and less growth, accelerating the demand for 'disruptive' technologies to stimulate GDP. Responsible (Research and) Innovation (RI) was originally conceived as a way of shaping innovation towards filling real social needs rather than merely generating profit (Owen, Macnaghten, & Stilgoe 2012), however, it has increasingly been used to strengthen the same growth paradigm it was meant to challenge.

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Research outcomes

Albertson, K., de Saille, S., Pandey, P., Amanatidou, E., Arthur, K. N. A., Van Oudheusden, M., & Medvecky, F. (2021).

An RRI for the present moment: relational and ‘well-up’ innovation. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 8(2), 292–299.

Areas of interest

Science & Technology Studies Social Movements Heterodox Economics Bioeconomies Emerging Technologies Robotics

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FG3

Biography

Stevienna de Saille is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests lie in the nexus of science and technology studies, social movement theory and heterodox economics, all through an intersectional lens. Her MA looked at women's adaptation of the architecture of Livejournal.com to maintain pre-existing online networks and question racial exclusion within the science fiction community. Her PhD, completed at the end of 2012, was a case study of knowledge production in the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE), which led her to larger questions about the global bioeconomy, and the governance of emergent technologies.

Biographical details correct as of 06.09.26