Richard Milne

I currently work as a research associate in the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge. My research focusses on:

• Sociological perspectives on the production, identification and understanding of risk. My current work focusses on issues associated with establishing and communicating risks of developing Alzheimer’s disease and the creation of new ‘pre-disease’ categories and ‘patients in waiting’. Previous work has explored public, scientific and regulatory understandings of the risks associated with the development of new biotechnologies, and scientific and public approaches to food risk.
• Translational research in biomedicine. Drawing on perspectives from sociological and geographical work on science, technology and medicine my work follows the circuitous movement of research between ‘bench to bedside’. I am particularly interested in the articulation and contestation of future visions of science and technology.
• The implications of ‘big data’, with a particular interest in changes in knowledge production, data gathering and the social structures of research and research participation associated with the recombination and reuse of existing studies and the development of new platforms for recruitment.