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Prof Nik Brown
Head of Department, Sociology

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Biography

  • PhD (Lancaster)
  • MA (Lancaster)
  • BA (Liverpool)

Nik Brown is Professor in Sociology and Head of Department at the University of York working across Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Sociology of Health and Illness (SHI).

His research is primarily focussed on biopolitics of the biosciences in the contexts of:

  • The sociology of immunity.
  • The biopolitics and legal regulation of biotechnology, transplantation and xenotransplantation.
  • The politics of embryo research and trans-species embryos.
  • Blood, stem cell banks and umbilical cord blood banking.
  • Infections, antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance.
  • Healthcare architectures and infection control.


He has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Wellcome Trust Centre for Future Health, the Medical Research Council, and the Swedish Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies.

He has published widely on the biopolitics of immunity including his most recent monograph (‘Immunitary Life: The biopolitics of Immunity’, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019).

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Professor Nik Brown
Head of Department, Department of Sociology LMB/102E
University of York
YO10 5GD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 4741