Professor Brian Bloomfield
Professor
Organisation Work and Technology
Charles Carter BuildingLancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4YX
Other affiliations: Centre for the Study of Technology & Organisation, Centre for Science Studies
Current Teaching
Undergraduate:
OWT.326 Organising in the Digital Age: Power, technology & identity
OWT.327 Technology and Organisation: Society and risk
Postgraduate:
M.Sc. Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change:
- ITO.001 Interpretations of Information, Technology and Organisations
- ITO.005 Social Aspects of the Digital Age
MA Human Resource and Knowledge Management:
- OWT.508 Research in Organisational Settings
Qualifications
BSc (Lancaster), PhD (Open)
Research Interests
The sociology of science and technology. Issues of power and knowledge in relation to the development and use of information technology. Problems of order/disorder and technology. Technology, time and narrative. The modernisation of public services.
Recent publications
- Imagination and technoscientific innovations: governance of transgenic cows in New Zealand
Bloomfield, B P. & Doolin, B. 2011 In: Social Studies of Science. 40, 1, p. 59-83. 25 p.
Journal article - Bodies, technologies and action possibilities: when is an affordance?
Bloomfield, B P., Latham, Y. & Vurdubakis, T. 06/2010 In: Sociology. 44, 3, p. 415-433. 19 p.
Journal article - Power and organizational transformation through technology: hybrids of electronic government
Bloomfield, B P. & Hayes, N. 2009 In: Organization Studies. 30, 5, p. 461-487. 27 p.
Journal article - When is an Affordance?
Bodies, Technologies and Action Possibilities
Bloomfield, B P., Latham, Y. & Vurdubakis, T. 2009 Lancaster : Lancaster University, (Organisation, Work and Technology Working Paper Series)
Working paper - IBM's chess players: on artificial intelligence and its supplements
Bloomfield, B P. & Vurdubakis, T. 2008 In: The Information Society. 24, 2, p. 69-82. 14 p.
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