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TOPICAL AREA? || DATA SETS? || SOCIAL THEORETICAL QUESTIONS? || WHY NOW? || HOW PREPARED? || BIAS? || FIELDS OF  WORK? || FUNDERS  || Open spaces created by governments and not-for profit organizations to discuss propose and develop Nanotechnology Standards Comparative study between EU and USA. || ANSI Standards development panel European Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection / Annual Nanotechnology Safety for Success Dialogue Workshops Discourse Analysis of Documents from ANSIs proceedings available on the official webpage. Discourse Analysis of Documents from European Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection Workshop Participant Observation at both the panel and the workshop. Interviews with participants/stakeholders and employees || How do neoliberal ideas influence the development of public spheres? How those new public spheres work? Who can participate and who has the power? How processes of policy making are discussed and developed in those public spheres? || Nanotechnology has shown great development but standards have not yet been developed. Fears for environmental and health hazards from the use of nanotech products The creation of new kinds of public spheres by governments and various private organizations. || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry. The last 6 months I have conducted research on the organizations connected to nanotechnology standards (through the internet). I am an International student and because I am an EU citizen it is easy to conduct research in Europe. The past one and a half years I am a graduate student at the STS department RPI and I have taken three courses in social theory. || I am a women middle class European left by birth so I believe that those public spheres are an illusion and a way for the ruling class to maintain their power. Coming from a position of less power my standpoint is driven by the belief that participation has to offer nothing when different approaches aren’t been heard or taken under consideration. || Sociology of Science, Technology, and Policymaking Center for Nanotechnology in Society and Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (Arizona State University & University of California, Santa Barbara) Sociology with a focus in: Environmental Policymaking; Risk and Uncertainty Studies; Department of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies ( [|La Follette School of Public Affairs] ) Sociology with a focus in Standards Development and policymaking (Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan State University ) || NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences Science Technology and Society SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowships HASS || Possible theories that Nanotechnology Standards are going to follow. || ANSI Standards development panel Discourse Analysis of Documents from ANSIs proceedings available on the official webpage. Participant Observation at the panels’ meetings. Interviews with participants/stakeholders || How will standards for novel technoscientific fields be developed? How do neoliberal ideals and deregulation practices affect standardization processes? || Nanotechnology has shown great development but standards have not yet been developed. Fears for environmental and health hazards from the use of nanotech products Neoliberal influence to the standards processes/ privatization of standards || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry. The last 6 months I have conducted research on organizations connected to nanotechnology standards (through the internet). The past one and a half years I am a graduate student at the STS department RPI and I have taken three courses in social theory. || Since I am a woman, middle class European and left in beliefs I think that the privatization of standards which is going to benefit the industry and the open economy is going to be the hegemonic theory that nanotechnology standards are going to follow. || Sociology of Science, Technology, and Policymaking Center for Nanotechnology in Society and Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (Arizona State University & University of California, Santa Barbara) Sociology with a focus in: in Environmental Policymaking; Risk and Uncertainty Studies. At the department of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies ( [|La Follette School of Public Affairs] ) Sociology with a focus in Standards Development and policymaking (Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan State University ) || NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences Science Technology and Society SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants HASS || Frameworks where Green Chemistry flourish. Comparative study between EU and USA. || Green Chemistry Organizations and Programs. Universities that offer various undergraduate and graduate programs in Green Chemistry Participant Observation and Interviews with scientists and professors at University of Massachusetts at Boston-- PhD program in Green Chemistry; University of Leicester--the green chemistry group; Yale’s Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering Interviews with employees and members of EPAs Green Chemistry program and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute (GCI); Royal Society of Chemists—editors of the journal “Green Chemistry.” Discourse Analysis of the “Green Chemistry” journal and documents from RSC, ACS, and EPA || How certain frameworks allow the development of alternative sustainable scientific fields? || There is a shift towards more sustainable scientific practices. Green Chemistry although promises a sustainable future has difficulties in flourishing among other scientific fields and has a few advocates. || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry And in general I have worked on Green Chemistry my first year in RPI. My European citizenship will help me work in Europe. The past one and a half years I am a graduate student at the STS department RPI and I have taken three courses in social theory. || I think that Green Chemistry has no future. || Sociology with a focus in Scientific Knowledge Production and Scientific Shifts Department of History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. (The Chemical Heritage Foundation.) Sociology with a focus in: Environmental Sustainable Design and Development School of Sustainability at the Arizona State University. || NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences Science Technology and Society SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowships HASS || The birth of Green Chemistry: A Social Movement’s result? A result of ecological modernization procedures? Or a combination of the two? || Interviews with Scientists that conduct research on Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts at Boston-- PhD program in Green Chemistry; Yale’s Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering. As well as with scientists members of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute (GCI); the Royal Society of Chemists—editors of the journal “Green Chemistry.” e.g. Paul Anastas John Warner Discourse analysis of documents from those organizations and their journals as well as of books and documents on the history of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation--Upenn. || How do scientific fields in which traditional practices and products pollute the environment change to become more environmental? || With the turn to sustainable practices it is interesting to find out what initiates those shifts. Maybe this will give an answer to the fact that green chemistry is not so popular || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry And in general I have worked on Green Chemistry my first year in RPI The past one and a half years I am a graduate student at the STS department RPI and I have taken three courses in social theory. || I think that Green Chemistry fits in the model of Ecological modernization theory. || Sociology with a focus in: Social Movements, Scientific Knowledge Production and Scientific Shifts Department of History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. (The Chemical Heritage Foundation.) Sociology with a focus in: Environmental Sustainable Development design and policymaking School of Sustainability at the Arizona State University. || NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences Science Technology and Society SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants HASS ||