Harry Collins

Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) at Cardiff University and is a past President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Prizes include the 1997 Bernal prize for social studies of science and the 1995 ASA Merton book prize. He has published sixteen books, most with major university presses, and more than 150 papers. The topics are sociology of scientific knowledge, artificial intelligence and, more recently, expertise and tacit knowledge, now supported by a major European Research Council Advanced Grant.

KES
The Glamorgan Building
King Edward VIIth Ave
CARDIFF
CF10 3WT
United Kingdom

Email: collinshm@cf.ac.uk
Web: http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/expertise