Professor Sarah Hartley (UK)
Affiliations
Associate Professor, Department of Science, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship, University of Exeter Business School
Assistant Director (Engagement) Global Systems Institute
Associate Editor Journal of Responsible Innovation
Honorary Principal Fellow Centre for Policy Futures University of Queensland
Biography
I lead a number of research projects on the politics of biotechnology with a focus on gene drive governance. Over the last 15 years, I’ve worked on gene drive and GM mosquitoes and other insects, gene drive and GM animals and GM crops.
I employ qualitative methods and an interpretive approach to understand the way in which we govern emerging technologies in Europe, Africa, North and South America, and Australasia.
I work closely with a broad range of stakeholders including natural scientists, NGOs, regulators and policymakers.
I’m funded by the British Academy, Wellcome, UKRI and GCRF.
Expertise
Gene drive, governance, emerging technologies, regulation, knowledge co-production.
Key Publication References
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
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
Hartley S, Smith RDJ, Kokotovich A, Opesen C, Habtewold T, Ledingham K, Raymond B, Rwabukwali CB 2021 Ugandan stakeholder hopes and concerns about gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control: new directions for gene drive risk governance Malaria Journal 20
Long KC, Alphey L, Annas GJ, Bloss CS, Campbell KJ, Champer J, Chen C-H, Choudhary A, Church GM, Collins JP, et al 2020 Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms Science 370(6523) 1417-1419
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
Thizy D, Emerson C, Gibbs J, Hartley S, Kapiriri L, Lavery J, Lunshof J, Ramsey J, Shapiro J, Singh J, et al 2019 Guidance on stakeholder engagement practices to inform the development of area-wide vector control methods. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Hartley S, Thizy D, Ledingham K, Coulibaly M, Diabaté A, Dicko D, Diop S, Kayondo J, Namukwaya A, Nourou B, et al 2019 Knowledge engagement in gene drive research for malaria control PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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)
Ribeiro B, Hartley S, Nerlich B, Jaspal R 2018 Media coverage of the Zika crisis in Brazil: the construction of a ‘war’ frame that masked social and gender inequalities Social Science & Medicine 200, 137-144
Hartley S and Kokotovich A 2018 Disentangling risk assessment: New roles for experts and publics in Nerlich B, Hartley S, Raman S, and Smith A (eds) Science and the Politics of Openness: Here be monsters, Manchester: Manchester University Press
de Campos A, Hartley S, de Koning C, Lezaun J and Velho L 2017 Political responsibility and innovation: Genetically modified mosquitoes in Brazil Journal of Responsible Innovation 4(1) pp5-23
Helliwell R, Hartley S, Pearce W and O’Neill L 2017 Why are NGOs sceptical of genome editing? EMBO Reports 18 pp2090–2093
Hartley S 2016 Policy masquerading as science: An examination of non-state actor involvement in risk assessment policy for genetically modified animals. Journal of European Public Policy 23(2) pp276-295
Macnaghten P et al 2014 Responsible innovation across borders: Tensions, paradoxes and possibilities Journal of Responsible Innovation 1(2) pp191-199