ResIST vaccine research attracts interest from policy and practice
The work of Dan Neyland on accountability issues in vaccine development and use, under work package 3 of ResIST, is exciting interest in Europe, North America and Africa from research funders, public-private partnerships and scientific institutes. Organisations such as the Gates Foundation, the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, the South African TB Vaccine Initiative, Oxford University Nuffield Centre for for Clinical Vaccinology and the Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics see the research as raising issues important to their strategic choices over the next five years.
Dan's vaccine work, carried out in Oxford with Steve Woolgar, is part of a wider programme of work on accountability and governance issues in mundane,or everyday, technologies. Dan will be working on two other cases under ResIST: on textiles and electronic waste. He will be examining to what extent accountability processes are in place which reflect the interests of all those who may be involved in production and trading of these technologies as they pass through many countries in the course of their life cycle, and what scope there may be for more equitable and inclusive accountability mechanisms.
Dan's recent work for other funders includes research on airport security systems and on speed cameras on Britain's roads. The speed camera work, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has recently attracted UK press interest.
Vaccine research - Dan's latest working paper (all comments welcome) 
Speed camera research - Guardian newspaper story