Research
Situating Emerging Science, Medicine, and Technology
Our research brings together diverse theoretical and methodological disciplinary expertise. Research topics have focused on the听relational and material aspects of human and non-human encounters听in the regulation of emerging therapeutic and food products (eg. GMOs), pharmaceuticals, biologics, and vaccines.
Research at TRRU extends far beyond our physical Canadian offices. We regularly conduct multi-sited ethnographic projects on听a听global scale. Wherever our research interests may be, TRRU finds a way to be there too.
Fieldwork sites for our research include:听
- 听 听 听 听Clinical trial sites
- 听 听 听 听Pharmaceutical, biologic and vaccine manufacturers
- 听 听 听 听Agri-biotech laboratories
- 听 听 听 听Expert advisory committees
- 听 听 听 听Regulatory agencies
- 听 听 听 听Health technology assessment agencies
- 听 听 听 听Policy development and implementation settings
- 听 听 听 听Patient activists organizations
- 听 听 听 听Multilateral organizations
- 听 听 听 听Communities affected by products of bioscience
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Recent Research Goals and Accomplishments
Currently, we are working several CIHR-funded projects, including听Global Vaccine Logics, which seeks to garner a better understanding of the decision-making practices and experiences of all involved in the roll-out of the Ebola vaccine and clinical trials in West Africa.
Completed projects:
- 听 听 听 Articulating Standards
- 听 听 听 Constituting Commercialization听
- 听 听 听 Risks & Regulation
- 听 听 听 Vaccines of the 21st听Century
- 听 听 听 Immunizing Health Care Workers