Professor Joanna Chataway

Development Policy and Practice
Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Phone number: + 44 (0)1908 655119
Fax number: + 44 (0) 1908 654825
Email: Joanna Chataway

Position: Professor of Biotechnology and Development

Biography:

Joanna’s research and consultancy experience includes work on science & technology capacity building, North-South Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), innovation and development. She has carried out several studies looking at these issues in relation to agricultural and health related biotechnology and has also researched risk regulation, perception and management of risk of biotechnology. She has worked in Central America, India, Southern Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Joanna is Co-Director of the ESRC Innogen Centre for research on innovation in the life sciences, which conducts research on the social and economic aspects of life science innovation. She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for two INNOGEN centre projects investigating technology and knowledge flows in biotechnology and genomics between North and South and PI for another project funded by the ESRC Science in Society Programme looking at capacities to manage risks of agricultural biotechnology in several African countries.

Research Interests:

Exploring the possibilities and limitations of new types of engagement between private and public sectors in bridging the divide between modern science and technology, innovation and the majority of the world's population. Currently involved in a range of research projects looking at the relationships between biotechnology and genomics north-south public private partnerships (PPPs), S&T capacity building, innovation and development more generally.

Teaching Interests: Joanna’s teaching activity has spanned the range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses that DPP produces. She is currently deputy chair of TU875 War, Intervention and Development.

Publications and Conference Presentations

For recent publications please go to http://oro.open.ac.uk and search for Joanna Chataway http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/jcc2.html

For selected recent conference presentations please go to my academia.edu page at http://open.academia.edu/joannachataway