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Georgina Voss

Georgina Voss is co-founder of the research co-operative Strange Telemetry, and a Visiting Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex . On Twitter she is @gsvoss

June 2015

  • LGBT scientists face particular challenges in their careers

    Political science
    Queer Laboratory Life: Recognising the work of LGBT scientists

    With marriage equality in the news, Georgina Voss argues that science institutions need to extend their diversity initiatives to LGBT scientists

April 2015

  • A solar flare captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Science, technology, and fiction have a powerful and complex relationship.

    Political science
    Stories that shape: What are the best novels about the politics of technology?

    Georgina Voss: Which fiction books offer us useful and powerful ways to engage with the politics of science and technology?

December 2014

  • Lockheed Martin's F35 Joint Strike Fighter. The company has begun to extend its research into the energy field. REUTERS/Lockheed Martin/Handout .

    Political science
    Beyond 'naughty or nice': defence research and responsible innovation

    The defence sector’s work on clean energy raises policy questions, Georgina Voss argues, about responsible innovation’s grand challenges

April 2014

  • Signs for Maker Faire Shenzhen

    Political science
    Making in China: Maker Faire Shenzhen highlights the global politics of the 'maker movement'

    Georgina Voss:| MakerFaire embodies grassroots DIY culture; Shenzhen is the world centre of mass manufacture. What happens when they meet?

February 2014

  • People hold Google maps style eviction markers as a Google bus passes on Valencia St, San Francisco.

    Science blog network
    DevArt: Google's powerful new move to arts patronage

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne meets students at the the launch of the 'Year of Code' campaign.

    Political science
    The Year of Code was always going to carry politics

October 2013

  • cartoon of women in science

    Science blog network
    Open-access harassment: science, technology and women

    Georgina Voss and Alice Bell: The working cultures and structures of science and technology may be different, but they both feed sexist myths of meritocracy

July 2013

  • David Cameron and the Google boss Eric Schmidt

    Political science
    An anti-porn hack day, Mr Cameron? Be careful what you wish for

    Georgina Voss: Downing Street wants our 'innovation nation' to work together to solve social problems, but don't assume we all agree on what the problems are, let alone possible solutions

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