Prior to joining SoGE, Steve was Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, where he was co-director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environment of Health. He was formerly Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Geography at the Open University, and has held posts at the Universities of Keele and Cambridge. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has served on the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Exotic Diseases, and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Science Advisory Group’s (DEFRA) Social Science Expert Group. He currently sits on OFFLU’s Applied Epidemiology Working Group and recently advised the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group (SPI-B), a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
Steve’s books include the monograph Pathological Lives (Wiley Blackwell) and he has published widely on One Health, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Biosecurity, and human-nonhuman relations. Ongoing funded research includes political ecologies of AMR in Tanzania, bio-social securities in the UK, Bangladesh and South Africa, and developing just approaches to environmental issues that are characterised by multiple normativities. He is about to commence a European Research Council Advanced project on biosocial security, which aims to develop alternative approaches to securing human and nonhuman animal health.