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Professor Peter Taylor
Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Research Interests and Specialties:
Science, Technology, and Society, Social Analysis of Environmental and Health Research, Reflective Practice
Professor Taylor's research and teaching are concerned with the complexity of social influences shaping science, in particular, environmental and health research, and with ways that citizens, educators, and scientists contribute to scientific and social change. He has published articles in such journals as Science as Culture and Biology & Philosophy, as well as an edited book, Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities with the University of Minnesota Press. His latest work is Unruly Complexity: Ecology, Interpretation, and Engagement from the University of Chicago Press (2005).
Peter Taylor also serves as director of the Program in Science, Technology and Values and the Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking , which trains mid-career students to become constructive, reflective agents of change in their professional practice.
Office Location: Wheatley Hall, 2nd floor, room 143-09
Telephone: 617-287-7636
Email address: peter.taylor@umb.edu
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