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Harry Collins

Professor of Social Science, Cardiff University

Professor of Social Science, Cardiff University Harry Collins is a British sociologist of science at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His best known book is The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science (1993). While at the University of Bath Professor Collins developed the Bath School approach to the sociology of scientific knowledge. Research interests: The Nature of Scientific Knowledge and knowledge in general; Public Understanding of Science; The Nature of Skills and Expertise; Artificial Intelligence and the relationship between humans and machines; Medical Knowledge and Skills; Science Education; A long term project on the detection of cosmic gravitational radiation.