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David Dickson is the founding
director of SciDev.Net (the Science and Development
Network).
A graduate in mathematics from
Cambridge University, he worked as executive secretary of
the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science
before joining the staff of the Times Higher Education
Supplement in 1973.
He subsequently worked as
Washington correspondent for Nature (1977-1982), as
European correspondent for Science (1982-1989), and as
both news editor and editor of New Scientist. He rejoined
Nature as its news editor in 1993, and left to set up
SciDev.Net in 2001.
Dickson is the author of
Alternative Technology and the Politics of Technical
Change (Fontana, London, 1973) and The New Politics of
Science (University of Chicago Press, 1986). He has
published widely on the relationships between science and
society, is currently an honorary research fellow,
Department of Science and Technology Studies, University
College, London, and is the Recorder (Chair) of the
General Section of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science.
In 2006 he was presented with
the annual "Award for Meritorious Achievement" by the
US-based Council of Scientific Editors. |
