Dr Dana Wilson-Kovacs
BA (Bucharest) MPhil (Exeter) PhD (Exeter)
Extension: 5156
Telephone: 01392 725156
Research and Teaching Fellow
My PhD research examined the ways in which material and symbolic resources are mobilised in the construction and staging of intimate encounters. The sociological interest in gendered and classed identities, consumerism and the organisation of experience continued with work on Fair-Trade and grew further in my collaboration with the Glass Cliff project, for which I developed a qualitative study on the career advancement of individuals from minority and marginalised groups.
Most of my research since has focused on the social, cultural and regulatory transformations brought about by biomedical and biotechnological innovations. As a Research Fellow in Egenis I conducted an examination of professional dynamics in stem cell research, and was part of the ESRC-funded Stem Cell Research in Context project, which looked at how the infrastructure of stem cell science, its research questions, objects and routines have been shaped by national and international governance, ethical discourses and science policies. My current project examines the development, implementation and uses of new forensic DNA technologies in police practice.
I am also the module co-ordinator of two third-year options in the Department: Gender and Society: Body and Sexuality in Contemporary Perspectives and Media in Society.
