History
CBAS was originally founded in May 2007 at King’s College London with the appointment of two Professors (Williams & Wainwright). In September 2007 they appointed a Senior Lecturer (Prainsack) and a Professor (Salter). The trio of Williams, Wainwright & Prainsack designed and taught the four core modules of a joint MSc/intercalated BSc on Medicine, Science & Society.
Following the appointment of three Professors (Prainsack, Wainwright & Williams) to the Department of Sociology & Communications, School of Social Sciences, CBAS is now based at Brunel University London. CBAS is a dynamic, diverse and expanding research and teaching group and we are delighted that other social science academics with interests in science studies, medical sociology and the history of social science have become part of a transformed CBAS here at Brunel.
CBAS combines and reanimates two earlier Brunel research groups: the Centre for the Study of Health & Illness (CSHI), and the Centre for Research on Innovation, Culture & Technology (CRICT). Professors - including Ronnie Frankenburg, Alan Irwin, Jenny Kitzinger, Mike Lynch, Ian Robinson, Nikolas Rose, Clive Seale, Roger Silverstone, Cathy Waldby and Steve Woolgar - spent formative parts of their careers at Brunel. CBAS therefore builds on this distinguished history of sociology of science, technology and health at Brunel University London.
