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Hartley S, Stelmach A, Delborne JA, Barnhill-Dilling SK 2023 Moving beyond narrow definitions of gene drive: Diverse perspectives and frames enable substantive dialogue among science and humanities teachers in the US and UK Public Understanding of Science

Hartley S, Kokotovich A, Devos Y and Mumford J 2023 Engagement on risk assessment for gene drive mosquitoes by EFSA and Target Malaria Environmental Science and Policy

Connolly JB, Mumford JD, Glandorf B, Hartley S, Lewis OT, Turner G, Beech C, Sykes N, Coulibaly M, Romeis J, Teem J, Tonui W, Evans SW, Lovett B, Mankad A, Mnzava A, Fuchs S, Hackett T, Landis W, Marshall J, Aboagye Antwi F 2022 Recommendations for environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications for malaria vector control Malaria Journal 21: 152

Hartley S, Taitingfong R and Fidelman P 2022 The principles driving gene drives for conservation Environmental Science and Policy 135: 36-45

Ledingham K, Opesen C and Hartley S (R&R) The role of social scientists in gene drive research in Uganda and Mali Journal of Responsible Innovation

Backus GA & Delborne JA 2019 Threshold-dependent gene drives in the wild: spread, controllability and ecological uncertainty BioScience 69(11) 900–907

Barnhill‐Dilling SK & Delborne JA 2021 Whose intentions? What consequences? Interrogating 'intended consequences' for conservation with environmental biotechnology Conservation Science and Practice 3(4) e406

De Campos A, Hartley S, de Koning C, Lezaun J & Velho L 2017 Responsible Innovation and political accountability: genetically modified mosquitoes in Brazil Journal of Responsible Innovation, 4(1), 5–23

De Graeff N, Jongsma KR, Johnston J, Hartley S & Bredenoord AL 2019 The ethics of genome editing in non-human animals: A systematic review of reasons reported in the academic literature Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1772). Download PDF: De Graeff et al (2019) The ethics of genome editing in non-human animals

Delborne JA, Binde AR, Rivers, L, Cavin Barnes J, Barnhill-Dilling K, George D … Sudweeks J 2018 Biotechnology, the American chestnut tree, and public engagement: Workshop report

Delborne JA, Kokotovich AE & Lunshof JE 2020 Social license and synthetic biology: the trouble with mining terms Journal of Responsible Innovation 7(3) 280–297

Delborne JA, Kuzma J, Gould F, Frow E, Leitschuh C & Sudweeks J (Eds) 2018 Special Issue: Roadmap to gene drives: research and governance needs in social, political and ecological context: vol. 5 (sup1) Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

Farooque M, Barnhill-Dilling SK, Shapiro J & Delborne J 2019 Exploring stakeholder perspectives on the development of a gene drive mouse for biodiversity protection on islands [Workshop Report] Genetic Engineering and Society Center.

George DR, Kuiken T & Delborne JA 2019 Articulating “free, prior and informed consent” (FPIC) for engineered gene drives Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(20191484)

Godwin J, Serr M, Barnhill-Dilling SK, Blondel DV, Brown PR, Campbell K, Delborne J, Lloyd AL, Oh KP, Prowse TAA, Saah R & Thomas P 2019 Rodent gene drives for conservation: opportunities and data needs Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1917) 20191606

Hartley S & Kokotovich A 2018 Disentangling risk assessment: new roles for experts and publics. In B. Nerlich, S. Hartley, S. Raman & A. Smith (Eds), Science and the Politics of Openness: Here be monsters (pp. 176–194). Manchester: Manchester University Press

Hartley, Sarah 2016 Policy masquerading as science: an examination of non-state actor involvement in European risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals Journal of European Public Policy, 23(2), 276–295 

Hartley S, Thizy D, Ledingham K, Coulibaly M, Diabaté A, Dicko B, … Toé LP 2019 Knowledge engagement in gene drive research for malaria control PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(4), 1–5 Download PDF: Hartley et al 2019 Knowledge engagement in gene drive research for malaria control

Hartley S, Ledingham K, Owen R, Leonelli S, Diarra S & Diop S (2021) Experimenting with co-development: a qualitative study of gene drive research for malaria control in Mali Social Science and Medicine, 276(113850) Download PDF: Hartley et al 2021 Experimenting with co-development. A qualitative study of gene drive research for malaria control in Mali

Hartley S, Kokotovich A, Opesen C, Habtewold T, Ledingham K, Raymond B & Rwabukwali C 2021 Ugandan stakeholder hopes and concerns about gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control: new directions for gene drive risk governance Malaria Journal, 20(149), 1–13 Download PDF: Hartley et al 2021 Ugandan stakeholder hopes and concerns about gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control. new directions for gene drive risk governance

Hartley S, Kokotovich A and McCalman C 2022 Engagement in risk assessment: Prescription and practice in the international development of gene drive risk assessment guidelines (2014-2020) Regulation and Governance

Jones MS, Delborne JA, Elsensohn J, Mitchell PD & Brown ZS 2019 Does the U.S. public support using gene drives in agriculture? And what do they want to know? Science Advances 5(9) eaau8462

Kofler N and Taitingfong R 2020 Advances in genetic engineering test democracy's capacity for good decision-making The Boston Globe.  

Kokotovich AE, Delborne JA, Elsensohn J & Burrack H 2020 Emerging technologies for invasive insects: the role of engagement Annals of the Entomological Society of America 113(4) 266–279

Ledingham K & Hartley S 2020 Transformation and slippage in co-production ambitions for global technology development: The case of gene drive Environmental Science and Policy, 116 (October 2020), 78–85 Download PDF: Ledingham K and Hartley S 2020 Transformation and slippage in co-production ambitions for global technology development. The case of gene drive

Long KC, Alphey L, Annas GJ, Bloss CS, Campbell KJ, Champer J … Akbari OS 2021 Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms Science, 370(6523), 1417–1419 Download PDF: Long KC, Alphey L, Annas GJ, Bloss CS, Campbell KJ, Champer J ... & Akbari OS 2020 Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms

Nerlich B and Stelmach A 2022 Gene drive communication: Exploring experts’ lived experience of metaphor use. New Genetics and Society

Russell A W, Stelmach A, Hartley S, Carter L, & Raman S (2022) Opening up, closing down, or leaving ajar? How applications are used in engaging with publics about gene drive. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1-22

Schairer CE, Taitingfong R, Akbari OS, Bloss CS 2019 A typology of community and stakeholder engagement based on documented examples in the field of novel vector control PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(11): e0007863

Stelmach A, Nerlich B and Hartley S 2022 Gene drives in the UK, US and Australian press, (2015-2019): How a new focus on responsibility is shaping science communication. Science Communication

Stirling A, Hayes KR & Delborne J 2018 Towards inclusive social appraisal: risk, participation and democracy in governance of synthetic biology BMC Proceedings 12(8) 15

Taitingfong R 2020 Islands as laboratories: indigenous knowledge and gene drives in the Pacific Human Biology 91(3):179-188

Taitingfong R L, Triplett C, Vásquez V N, Rajagopalan R, Raban R, Roberts A, … Smith R, ... & Bloss, C. S. (2022). Exploring the value of a global gene drive project registry. Nature Biotechnology

Thizy D, Emerson C, Gibbs J, Hartley S, Kapiriri L, Lavery J, … Robinson B 2019 Guidance on stakeholder engagement practices to inform the development of area-wide vector control methods PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(4), 1–11 Download PDF: Thizy et al 2019 Guidance on stakeholder engagement practices to inform the development of area-wide vector control methods

Thizy D, Pare Toe L, Mbogo C, Matoke-Muhia D, Alibu VP, Barnhill-Dilling SK … Tountas KH 2021 Proceedings of an expert workshop on community agreement for gene drive research in Africa - co-organised by KEMRI, PAMCA and Target Malaria Gates Open Research 5, 1–15

Zhou L, Alphey N, Walker AS, Travers L, Morrison NI, Bonsall MB, Raymond B 2018 The application of self-limiting transgenic insects in managing resistance in experimental metapopulations Journal of Applied Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13298

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