David Castle is a Canadian philosopher and bioethicist.[1] He is a professor in Public Administration and Business at the University of Victoria (UVic). He had previously served as Vice-President of Research at UVic from 2014 to 2019.[2] Prior to his appointment at UVic, he was a Professor and the Chair of Innovations in the Life Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he investigated how to get others to innovate. From 2006 to 2010, he served as Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa, where he developed ideas leading to the creation of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy.[3]
He received his B.Sc. and B.A. from the University of Alberta, M.A. from McMaster University, and Ph.D. from the University of Guelph, supervised by Michael Ruse.
His research focuses on social issues and government policy relating to biotechnology, especially nutrigenomics.
On June 1, 2016, Castle was appointed Chair of the Steering Committee of Research Data Canada, an organization supported by CANARIE.[4]
Selected contributions
edit- Science, Society, and the Supermarket: The Opportunities and Challenges of Nutrigenomics (2006) ISBN 0-471-77000-0
- Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology (2002) ISBN 1-57392-996-4
- "A semantic view of ecological theories" Dialectica (2001)
References
edit- ^ "Notes on Contributors". Isis. 93 (4). The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society: 772–779. December 2002. doi:10.1086/376096. JSTOR 10.1086/376096.
- ^ "New vice-president research named". 18 February 2014. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Annual Report 2010-2011" (PDF).
- ^ "Research Data Canada Appoints New Chair". Archived from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
External links
edit- VP Research, University of Victoria
- Profile at Valgen Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
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