Nick Wright

Contact

• workRoom A58 School Of Veterinary Medicine and Science
  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• work0115 951 6299
• Nick.Wright@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

• In 2004 I was appointed to an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project at The University of Nottingham to explore the role of science and language in the UK foot and mouth disease outbreak of 2001. This was followed by two further ESRC grants which I held with colleagues at Nottingham on 'cleanliness' in the poultry industry and health claims of `probiotic' dairy products. Across the course of this work I became interested in ideas about the control and prevention of disease in animal populations.
• I held a one year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at The University of British Columbia (2005-06) and I first joined the Centre for Applied Bioethics (CAB) in 2008.
• I was appointed as a Research Fellow in Animals, Society and Ethics in 2009.

Research Summary

Early on in my career I became interested in how scientists and the public develop positions and then relate to each other (a subject sometimes known as the 'public understanding of science'). There… read more

Selected Publications

• N. WRIGHT, MEIJBOOM, F.L.B. and SANDØE, P, 2010. Thoughts on the ethics of preventing and controlling epizootic diseases The Veterinary Journal. 186(2), 127-128
• WRIGHT, N. and MURCOTT, A., 2010. Autopsie, coroners et diffusion publique. In: VASSY, C., KELLER, R.C and DINGWALL, R., eds., Enregistrer les morts, identifier les surmortalités: Une comparison Angleterre, États-Unis et France Presses de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique.
• WRIGHT, N. and NERLICH, B., 2009. Rumour: viral cows and viral culture? Towards an explantion of rumour in the 2001 UK outbreak of FMD. In: DORING, M and NERLICH, B, eds., The Social and Cultural Impact of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the UK in 2001 Manchester University Press. (In Press.)
• VASSY, C., DINGWALL, R., FASSIN, D., KELLER, R., MURCOTT, A. and WRIGHT, N, 2007. Des morts inaperçues. L’enregistrement des surmortalités en Angleterre, aux Etats-Unis et en France, Rapport final pour la Mission de la Recherche (MIRE-DRES)

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Current Research

Early on in my career I became interested in how scientists and the public develop positions and then relate to each other (a subject sometimes known as the 'public understanding of science'). There are two strands to my current work:

1. With Dr Millar (Director of the Centre for Applied Bioethics), I am exploring the ethics and the development of transgenic animals. The project is called PEGASUS and is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. We are partnered by twelve institutions including Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the Agri Biotech Foundation in India and the Institute of Food Research in the UK.
2. With Dr Hobson-West (Lecturer in Welfare, Ethics and Society), I am preparing two scoping reports on the sociology of the veterinary profession and social research methods in veterinary science. I was awarded a prize in November 2010 by the School of Biosciences for a poster which described "My Research and Its Impact". More details can be found here.

My research commitments are combined with managing research related activites. This includes overseeing a new system of organising publications in our research team and the design of new website.

• CLOATRE, E and WRIGHT, N, 2012. A Socio-Legal Analysis Of An Actor-World: The Case Of Carbon Trading And The Clean Development Mechanism Journal Of Law And Society. 39(1), 76-92
• WRIGHT, N. and MURCOTT, A., 2010. Autopsie, coroners et diffusion publique. In: VASSY, C., KELLER, R.C and DINGWALL, R., eds., Enregistrer les morts, identifier les surmortalités: Une comparison Angleterre, États-Unis et France Presses de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique.
• N. WRIGHT, MEIJBOOM, F.L.B. and SANDØE, P, 2010. Thoughts on the ethics of preventing and controlling epizootic diseases The Veterinary Journal. 186(2), 127-128
• WRIGHT, N. and NERLICH, B., 2009. Rumour: viral cows and viral culture? Towards an explantion of rumour in the 2001 UK outbreak of FMD. In: DORING, M and NERLICH, B, eds., The Social and Cultural Impact of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the UK in 2001 Manchester University Press. (In Press.)
• NERLICH, B, BROWN, B and WRIGHT, N, 2009. The ‘ins and outs’ of biosecurity: Bird flu in East Anglia and the spatial representation of risk Sociologia Ruralis. 49(4), 344-359
• KOTEYKO, N, NERLICH, B, CRAWFORD, P and WRIGHT, N, 2008. Not Rocket Science Or No Silver Bullet Media And Government Discourses About Mrsa And Cleanliness Applied Linguistics. 29(2), 223-243
• VASSY, C., DINGWALL, R., FASSIN, D., KELLER, R., MURCOTT, A. and WRIGHT, N, 2007. Des morts inaperçues. L’enregistrement des surmortalités en Angleterre, aux Etats-Unis et en France, Rapport final pour la Mission de la Recherche (MIRE-DRES)
• WRIGHT, N. and NERLICH, B., 2006. Use of the deficit model in a shared culture of argumentation: the case of foot and mouth science Public Understanding of Science. 15(3), 331-342
• NERLICH, B. and WRIGHT, N., 2006. Biosecurity and insecurity: the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis Environmental Values. 15(4), 441-462
• NERLICH, B., HILLYARD, S. and WRIGHT, N., 2005. Stress and stereotypes: children's reactions to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2001 Children & Society. 19(5), 348-359
• NERLICH, B. and WRIGHT, N., 2004. 'Silent Springs' of Foot and Mouth Disease, GM Food and Mad Cows Available at: <http://www.rachelcarson.org>