“One of the ironies of the twenty-first century… is that the demands of computer literacy… are heralding a second age of craft, at the very time that management writers speak of ‘the knowledge economy’ as the decline of so-called ‘manual’ work.”
Gristock 2002:29
publications
The Health Benefits of Three Wheels, British Medical Journal, 2 Jan 2019
Achieving Growth in a Wider Europe: Understanding the Emergence of Industrial Networks, ESRC Policy Report for the ESRC project ‘The emerging industrial architecture of the wider Europe’, University of Sussex, March 2003 (see project team on ResearchGate)
‘Where Knowledge Management meets the Virtual Organisation’, Ch 3 in R.E. Mansell Inside the Communication Revolution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, p85-109, 2002
‘Organisational virtuality: a conceptual framework for communication in shared virtual environments’, paper presented at MIT’s First International Conference on Presence, BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK, 10-11 June 1998.
‘Science journalism and innovation’, Vetenskap & Allmänhets-dagen 2005 om Vetenskap & Media, Radiohuset, Stockholm, 9 November 2005.
‘Innovation UK: science, wealth creation and social well-being in Britain’, Manchester, November 2001
‘Systems of innovation are systems of mediation: a discussion of the critical role of science communication in innovation and knowledge-based development’, working paper, July 2000.
‘Patients: a real virtue in biomedical innovation’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 April 1998.
teaching
Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Systems, Department of Economics, University of Sussex 2007-2008
qualifications
Systems of Innovation are Systems of Mediation: Organisational virtuality in the UK Newspaper Industry [which traced the emergence of social media in UK regional news, as it happened] doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, Brighton, September 2001 [extract]
awards
UKRC Woman of Achievement 2009
NESTA Crucible Awardee 2004
Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement 2000
‘Whether the medium be speech or writing or painting or technological design, whether we mean it or not, every single thing we design and make will have some kind of subjective impact, for good or bad, over and above its overt rational purpose’
Gordon 1978:24