
Angela is a Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Exeter. Following an undergraduate training in zoology, she migrated disciplines as a postgraduate and now works across the history and social studies of science and medicine. Her research interests encompass public knowledge controversies; science, expertise and policy; interdisciplinarity; animal health and environmental social science. Her research explores how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, interpreted and contested across the wider public sphere, particularly during controversies. She has investigated this process case studies, including the history of UK debates over bovine TB and badger culling; ‘One Health’ (the convergence of human and animal health); food risk; and popular evolutionary psychology.