Francis Lee 

Research interests

My research interest centers on the intertwining of the epistemic, technological, and the social. I have explored these questions in different manners in relation to the both the life-sciences and educational technology. My theoretical and empirical point of departure is primarily from the field of science, and technology studies (STS). Some key interests at the moment is the commercialization of the biosciences, genomic and proteomic mapping, research design, and biomarkers.

Trials of value: on the design of medical trials

The Trials of value project is a collaborative project with CF Helgesson.

In this project we focus how scientists in practice answer the question "What knowledge is worth pursuing?". The purpose of this project is to investigate the practices of research design in biomedical experiments to understand how the economic, scientific, and medical are intertwined in research design. Here we wish to examine the economic as an important part of determining what questions can, and cannot, be addressed in subsequent experiments.,My focus will be on the design of biomarker experiments in commercial and non-commercial settings. 

Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

The research political laboratory

In The research political laboratory I explore, with Mats Benner, Sven Widmalm, and Anna Tunlid the co-production of science-policy and science. My sub-project focuses on the negotiations leading up to the financing of a large scale protein mapping project – the Human Protein Atlas and the effects of commercialization on the problem space of bioscientific research. 

Funded by Vetenskapsrådet. 

Publications

Full CV available here. 

Lee, Francis. "Translating Educational Economy into Epistemic Atomism: Learning Object Standards in Education." Science as Culture 20, no 4 (2011): 513-533.

Åsberg, Cecilia, Martin Hultman, and Francis Lee, eds. Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter: materiell semiotik. Lund: Studentlitteratur, Forthcoming, 2011.

———. "Den posthumanistiska utmaningen." In Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter: Materiell-semiotik. Lund: Studentlitteratur, Forthcoming, 2011.

———. "Posthumanistisk ordlista." In Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter: materiell-semiotik. Lund: Studentlitteratur, Forthcoming, 2011.

Lee, Francis. "Annemarie Mol: en praktikfilosof med fokus på objektens multiplicitet." In Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter: materiell~semiotik. Lund: Studentlitteratur, Forthcoming, 2011.

———. "Michel Callon: en av aktör-nätverksteorins skapare." In Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter: materiell~semiotik. Lund: Studentlitteratur, Forthcoming, 2011.

———. "Adaptiva lärsystem: massindividualiseringens teknologier." In Kunskapsens nya världar: Uppsala learning lab och hur teknik och pedagogik kan mötas. Uppsala: Uppsala Learning Lab, 2011.

Gyberg, Per, and Francis Lee. "The construction of facts: preconditions for meaning in teaching energy in Swedish classrooms." International Journal of Science Education 32, no. 9 (2010): 1173-1189.

Lee, Francis. "Learning in Nowhere: Individualism in Correspondence Education in 1938 and 1950." History of Education Review 38, no. 1 (2009): 29-39.

———. "Teknopedagogik: Vad har teknik och pedagogik för relation egentligen?" In Världens gång: teknikens utveckling, edited by Per Gyberg and Jonas Hallström, 355-368. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2009.

———. Letters & Bytes: Sociotechnical Studies of Distance Education. Linköping: LiU Press, 2009.

———. "Technopedagogies of Mass-Individualization: Correspondence Education in the Mid 20th Century." History and Technology 24, no. 3 (2008): 239–253.

Lee, Francis. "Joe Moran: Interdisciplinarity." Utbildning och Demokrati 15, no. 3 (2006): 123-125.

———. "David L Kirp: Shakespeare, Einstein, and the bottomline - the marketing of higher education." Utbildning och Demokrati 15, no. 2 (2006): 132-134.

Background

• PhD Dept. of Technology and social change, 2009

• Visiting PhD student Royal Institute of Technology, 2009