STS at Deakin University

This essay provides a finding aid for items related to Deakin University STS in the STS Across Borders Exhibit. 

Deakin University has a long history of innovative scholarship and teaching in Science and Technology Studies (STS). In the 1980s and 1990s, scholars including Helen Verran, David Turnbull, David Wade Chambers and Max Charlesworth developed a distinctive Deakin style of STS that focused on contested knowledge systems and Indigenous knowledges. This STS Across Borders archive includes course curricula and textbooks developed during the 1980s and 1990s at Deakin University, interviews with key Deakin Scholars, and original essays and significant publications from the archives of David Turnbull, David Wade Chambers and Helen Verran. 

After an interval of more than a decade, STS has returned to Deakin through the Deakin Science and Society Network, formed by Emma Kowal in 2016 and based in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. STS scholars at Deakin today include Emma Kowal, Tim Neale, Eben Kirksey, Maurizio Meloni, Radhika Gorur, Yamini Narayan, Christopher Mayes, Billy Griffiths, Will Smith, Linda Hancock, and Natalie Ralph, honorary researchers David Turnbull and Richard Gillespie, and PhD students including Elizabeth Lara, Zoe Coombe, Cameron Allen McKean and Kuai Shen. In addition, Thao Phan, Courtney Addison, Nick Barthel de Weydenthal, David Kelly and Ben Nicoll have all worked with the Science and Society Network.