Erik Fisher is an associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Responsible Innovation published by Taylor & Francis and directs the international program on Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) as well as the Center for Responsible Innovation.
Professor Fisher's work has appeared in numerous journals including Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, Science and Engineering Ethics and Nature.
Fisher has been a visiting professor at Delft Technical University (2019), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2018), the Norwegian University of Technology in Norway (2018, 2016), and the University of Twente in the Netherlands (2015).
Fisher studies the politics and policy of science and technology, including the multi-level governance of emerging technologies from the lab to the legislature. Building upon historical and conceptual understandings of changing relationships between science and society, he studies public policy demands for and practitioner responses to interdisciplinary collaborations between science and the humanities for the sake of enhanced societal responsiveness.
Fisher directs the STIR Cities project (NSF #1535120), which explores how interdisciplinary collaboration between scientific experts and “embedded humanists” can support responsible innovation within laboratories and various organizations working on energy innovations across university, industrial, governmental and non-governmental sectors. The project examines the effects of socio-technical collaborations with technical experts working on “smart” energy technologies in both Phoenix, Arizona and Portland, Oregon.
The project builds on Fisher’s Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) project (NSF #0849101), which demonstrated that incorporating societal and ethical reflection into laboratory research on nanotechnology, synthetic biology, biotechnology and neurotechnology can have synergistic effects and support learning, deliberation and practical adjustments to the research. The STIR project studied the effects of semi-structured dialogue and real-time reflection on decision-making in 30 laboratories across a dozen nations. The STIR approach has since been taken up in over three-dozen laboratories across North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia.
Fisher also developed the conceptual framework of Midstream Modulation to help understand how technical decision-making may be productively broadened to take into account public values and concerns. His ideas and techniques have played a central role in forming the scholarly frameworks of Anticipatory Governance and of Responsible Innovation.
Refereed Publications
Non-Refereed Journal Editorials and Commentaries
Non-Refereed Published Conference Proceedings
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Miscellaneous Publications
White Papers and Published Reports
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
FIS 308 | Politics, Markets, and Innovat |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PIT 501 | Prin PublicInterest Technology |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
FIS 308 | Politics, Markets, and Innovat |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
FIS 308 | Politics, Markets, and Innovat |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSD 540 | Responsible Innovation & Rsrch |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSD 590 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 592 | Research |
HSD 599 | Thesis |
HSD 692 | Research |
HSD 784 | Internship |
HSD 790 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 792 | Research |
HSD 795 | Continuing Registration |
HSD 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSD 590 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 591 | Seminar |
HSD 592 | Research |
HSD 602 | HSD II:Science Power&Politics |
POS 672 | HSD II:Science Power&Politics |
HSD 692 | Research |
HSD 784 | Internship |
HSD 790 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 792 | Research |
HSD 795 | Continuing Registration |
HSD 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSD 590 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 591 | Seminar |
HSD 592 | Research |
HSD 601 | HSD I:Human Dimension Sci Tech |
POS 671 | HSD I:Human Dimension Sci Tech |
HSD 692 | Research |
HSD 784 | Internship |
HSD 790 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 792 | Research |
POS 792 | Research |
HSD 795 | Continuing Registration |
HSD 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSD 590 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 592 | Research |
HSD 599 | Thesis |
HSD 692 | Research |
HSD 784 | Internship |
HSD 790 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 792 | Research |
HSD 795 | Continuing Registration |
HSD 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSD 590 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 591 | Seminar |
HSD 592 | Research |
HSD 602 | HSD II:Science Power&Politics |
POS 672 | HSD II:Science Power&Politics |
HSD 692 | Research |
HSD 784 | Internship |
HSD 790 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 792 | Research |
HSD 795 | Continuing Registration |
HSD 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
FIS 308 | Politics, Markets, and Innovat |
HSD 590 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 591 | Seminar |
HSD 592 | Research |
HSD 601 | HSD I:Human Dimension Sci Tech |
POS 671 | HSD I:Human Dimension Sci Tech |
HSD 692 | Research |
HSD 784 | Internship |
HSD 790 | Reading and Conference |
HSD 792 | Research |
HSD 795 | Continuing Registration |
HSD 799 | Dissertation |