Dr Stevienna de Saille

Phd, University of Leeds

School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Lecturer in Sociology

Research Fellow (iHuman) (She/her)

s.desaille@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave

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Dr Stevienna de Saille
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
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Stevies research interests lie in the nexus of science and technology studies, social movement theory and heterodox economics, all through an intersectional lens. Her MA looked at women's adaptation of the architecture of Livejournal.com to maintain pre-existing online networks and question racial exclusion within the science fiction community. Her PhD, completed at the end of 2012, was a case study of knowledge production in the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE), which led her to larger questions about the global bioeconomy, and the governance of emergent technologies.

As a postdoctoral researcher at Sheffield, she worked with Prof. Paul Martin investigating 'Publics and the Making of Responsible Innovation' as part of the Leverhulme Trust Research Programme 'Making Science Public' and was involved in research on diversity in the biomedical system along with colleagues from ScHARR, as part of a Wellcome Trust project led by Prof. James Wilsdon.

Stevie is currently leading the 'Human Futures' theme in iHuman, where she has developed the Robots in a Human Future research programme and continues to pursue her interests in reprogenetic technologies and responsible innovation. She has been PI on several multidisciplinary projects looking at autonomous systems, and has recently completed a UKRI-TAS pump priming project on 'Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care'. She is on the Executive of iHuman and AsSIST-UK and is a founder of the Fourth Quadrant Research Network on responsible stagnation, which takes a growth-agnostic approach to maintaining social prosperity via innovation. Stevie is also a certified facilitator in LEGO簧 Serious Play簧, which she uses for research, teaching, and as a consultant on embedding responsible research and innovation into science and engineering projects.  

Stevie has been chosen as a  for 2024-25, looking at policy for automation in social care.

Research interests
  • TAS-UKRI, "Imagining Robotic Care: Identifying conflict and confluence in stakeholder imaginaries of autonomous care systems" (Co-I, Research Lead), 2021-22
  • Research England/FOSS, "Improving Inclusivity in Robotic Design" (PI), Phase I 2020, Phase II 2021
  • Independent Social Research Foundation, The Fourth Quadrant: Exploring Responsible Innovation in a Steady State (PI), 2016-2018.
  • Wellcome Trust, Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research (Co-I), 2016.
Publications

Books

  • de Saille S, Medvecky F, van Oudheusden M, Albertson K, Amanatidou E, Birabi T & Pansera M (2020) . Bristol University Press.
  • de Saille S, Medvecky F, van Oudheusden M, Albertson K, Amanatidou E, Birabi T & Pansera M (2020) . Bristol University Press.
  • de Saille S, Medvecky F, van Oudheusden M, Albertson K, Amanatidou E, Birabi T & Pansera M (2020) . Bristol University Press.
  • de Saille S, Medvecky F, van Oudheusden M, Albertson K, Amanatidou E, Birabi T & Pansera M (2020) RESPONSIBILITY BEYOND GROWTH: A Case for Responsible Stagnation.
  • de Saille S (2017) . London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited books

  • (Ed.) (2022) BEING HUMAN DURING COVID- 19..

Journal articles

  • Cameron D, Collins EC, de Saille S, Eimontaite I, Greenwood A & Law J (2024) . International Journal of Social Robotics, 16(6), 1405-1418.
  • Stahl BC, Aicardi C, Brooks L, Craigon PJ, Cunden M, Burton SD, Heaver MD, Saille SD, Dolby S, Dowthwaite L , Eke D et al (2023) . Journal of Responsible Technology, 16, 100063-100063.
  • de Saille S, Greenwood A, Law J, Ball M, Levine M, Vallejos EP, Ritchie C & Cameron D (2022) . Journal of Responsible Technology, 12.
  • Kipnis E, McLeay F, Grimes A, de Saille S & Potter S (2022) . Journal of Service Research, 25(4), 667-685.
  • de Saille S, Kipnis E, Potter S, Cameron D, Webb CJR, Winter P, ONeill P, Gold R, Halliwell K, Alboul L , Bell AJ et al (2022) . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9.
  • de Saille S (2022) . Journal of Responsible Innovation, 9(1), 138-142.
  • Martin P, De Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Introduction. Being Human During Covid 19, 1-9.
  • Albertson K, de Saille S, Pandey P, Amanatidou E, Arthur KNA, Van Oudheusden M & Medvecky F (2021) . Journal of Responsible Innovation, 8(2), 292-299.
  • Goddard M, Davies Z, Guenat S, Ferguson M, Fisher J, Akanni A, Ahjokoski T, Anderson P, Angeoletto F, Antoniou C , Bates A et al (2021) . Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(2), 219-230.
  • Cameron D, de Saille S, Collins EC, Aitken JM, Cheung H, Chua A, Loh EJ & Law J (2021) . Computers in Human Behavior, 114, 106561-106561.
  • Martin P, Morrison M, Turkmendag I, Nerlich B, McMahon A, de Saille S & Bartlett A (2020) . New Genetics and Society, 39(2), 219-242.
  • Morrison M & de Saille S (2019) . Palgrave Communications, 5.
  • McLeod C, de Saille S & Nerlich B (2018) . EMBO reports, 19(7).
  • de Saille S & Medvecky F (2016) . Economy and Society, 45(1), 1-23.
  • de Saille S (2015) . Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2(2), 152-168.
  • de Saille S (2015) . Science as Culture, 24(1), 99-107.
  • de Saille S (2014) . Sociological Research Online, 19(3).

Book chapters

  • Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) (pp. 147-155). Bristol University Press
  • Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 1-10). Bristol University Press
  • Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 147-155). Policy Press
  • Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 147-155). Bristol University Press
  • Arthur KNA, Amanatidou E, de Saille S, Birabi T & Pandey P (2022) , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 117-123). Bristol University Press
  • Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Human Futures, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 115-115).
  • Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Biosocial Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 83-83).
  • Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 Introduction, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 1-9).
  • Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Marginalized Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 51-51).
  • Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Knowing Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 11-11).
  • Saille SD, Medvecky F & van Oudheusden M (2020) , Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 129-142). Bristol University Press
  • Saille SD (2020) , Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 3-20). Bristol University Press
  • (2020) , Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. iv-iv). Bristol University Press
  • (2020) , Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. xiii-xiv). Bristol University Press
  • de Saille S (2020) , Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 3-20). Policy Press
  • de Saille S, Medvecky F & van Oudheusden M (2020) , Responsibility Beyond Growth (pp. 129-142). Policy Press
  • de Saille S & Martin P (2018) , Science and the politics of openness Manchester University Press
  • De Saille S & Martin P (2018) Monstrous regiment versus Monsters Inc.: Competing imaginaries of science and social order in responsible (research and) innovation, Science and the Politics of Openness (pp. 148-166).

Book reviews

  • de Saille S (2021) . Science and Engineering Ethics, 27(3).
  • de Saille S (2014) . Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1(1), 142-145.

Conference proceedings

  • de Saille S, Cameron D & Sharkey A (2022) . CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (pp 1-7). New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022 - 29 April 2022.
  • de Saille S (2006) A cyberian in the multiverse: towards a feminist subject position for cyberspace. Proccedings of Thinking Gender the NEXT Generation. University of Leeds, UK, 21 June 2006 - 21 June 2006.

Reports

  • Chambers D, Preston L, Salway S, De Saille S, Topakas A, Booth A, Dawson J & Wilsdon JR (2017) The Diversity Dividend: does a more diverse and inclusive research community produce better biomedical and health research?

Digital content

  • de Saille S & Matanle PC (2016) Fukushima - The Triple Disaster and Its Triple Lessons: What can be learned about regulation, planning, and communication in an unfolding emergency?. Retrieved from
  • de Saille S Duesberg, Mbeki, and AZT: Contentious science meets contentious politics.
  • Buklijas T & de Saille S "Roundup Ready?": Regulating glyphosates amidst health, economic, and public concerns about Genetic Modification.
  • de Saille S On being a Science Public.

Theses

  • de Saille S (2012) From Death of the Female to Life Itself: A Socio-historic Examination of FINRRAGE. University of Leeds.

Working papers

  • Chambers D, Preston L, Topakas A, de Saille S, Salway S, Booth A, Dawson J & Wilsdon J (2017) Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research.
  • Raman S, Clifford M, de Saille S, Gent D, Hartley S, Mohr A & Sesan T (2014) Responsive research: putting the innovative back into agendas for innovation.
  • de Saille S (2013) Innovating Innovation: RRI as a Guiding Principle in the ERA.
  • de Saille S & Medvecky F () . SSRN Electronic Journal.

Dictionary or encyclopaedia entries

  • de Saille S L'emergence de la 竄 Recherche et de linnovation responsables 罈 dans la politique de lUnion europ矇enne. In Encyclop矇die dhistoire num矇rique de leurope.

Preprints

  • de Saille S () .
Grants

Stevie is PI for 'Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care' (MapRAS), funded by TAS-UKRI, 23-24.

Teaching activities

Stevie currently teaches the following undergraduate modules:

SCS3047 Protest, Movements and Social Change  

SCS3034 What it means to be human