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School of Media
Language & Music
University of the
West of Scotland
Ayr Campus
KA8 OSR
Scotland, UK

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Affiliations

This page provides current and recent information related to my professional affiliations. Full details can be found on my cv.



primary academic post //


University of the West of Scotland
Reader in New Media & Bioethics
(2002-present)

fellowships //

Foundation for Art and Creative TechnologyFACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
(2008-pres) Fellow

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2005-pres) Fellow in Visions of Utopia and Dystopia

past positions //

University of Glasgow (2002-2005)
Tutor in Ethics of Science and Medicine


The Hastings Center
(2002)
International Visiting Scholar

memberships //

grant funding //

The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2008)
Grant for researchat the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

The British Academy (2006)
Grant for research into Torino and Beijing Olympic media structures.

The British Academy (2004)
Grant for research into the non-accredited media at the Athens Olympic Games

The British Academy (2003)
Conference Grant for International Olympic Committee Olympic World Congress of Sport Science

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2002)
Funding for research related to 'Genetically Modified Athletes',

listservs

ETHICS-ED@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
LTSN Bioscience Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students

E-SCIENCE-MEDICALETHICS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Discussion about the implications of e-science for ethics

GLOBALFORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Discussion board for ethics and genetics

MERSENNE Science Studies list

BIOMED-L list on bioethics

Public Understanding of Science
PSCI-COM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Bio Life Sciences News newsletter@bio.com

CTHEORY
ctheory@concordia.ca

World Transhumanists Association

British Academy
bulletin@britac.ac.uk

Digital Games Research Association GAMESNETWORK@uta.fi

International Game Developers' Association info@igda.org

Olympic Scholars Network olympism@jiscmail.ac.uk

British Society for Ethical Theory bset@maillists.keele.ac.uk

SAGE Contents Alerting Service
NMS-L@SCAS.SAGEPUB.CO.UK

Times higher Education Supplement webmaster@TSL.ruk1.com

The American Journal of Bioethics weeklynews@bioethics.net

NetFuture: Technology and Human Responsibility NETFUTURE
@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU

Human Genetics Alert
info@hgalert.org

The New York Times
nytdirect@nytimes.com

Sp!ked Online
spiked-central@spiked-online.com

Institute of Ideas
info@instituteofideas.com

Cyber Society Live
CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Cyberspace and Society
CYBERSPACE-AND-SOCIETY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

SARA Journal Alert
sara@metapress.com

Virtual Methods
VIRTUAL-METHODS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Sport Culture Society
SPORT-CULTURE-SOCIETY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

International Association of Bioethics
bioethics-international@kssp.upd.edu.ph

Computer Ethics
COMPUTER-ETHICS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Postgraduate Forum for Genetics in Society
pfgs@nottingham.ac.uk

BioNews
BioNews@lists.progress.org.uk

Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
MECCSA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

ESRC Seminar Series
BSS-ANNOUNCE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Kluwer Academic Publishers
Kluwer@Kluwer.m0.net

Art Technology
ART-TECHNOLOGY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Genetic study of behaviours
BEHAVIOUR-GENETICS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

BioMedia
biomedia@listserv.cddc.vt.edu

Genome News Network
GNN@tcag.org

Barcelona 2004 Forum
suggeriments@list.barcelona2004.org

PHILOS-L@liverpool.ac.uk

British Medical Journal
bmjjournals-mailer@liontamer.stanford.edu

Sports Engineering
SPORTS-ENGINEERING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Nature

Science

Sports Law
SPORTS-LAW@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Scottish Pop Academic Network
SPAN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Scottish Cultural Resources Network
SCRAN-USERS@jiscmail.ac.uk

Scottish Postgraduate Philosophy Association
SCOT-PG-PHIL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute
PEALS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

The International Association for Media in Science
IAMS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Gender,human-computer interaction and the computer interface
GENDER-HCI@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Digital Culture
DIGITAL-CULTURE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

 

resarch interests

art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology

just published

Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454, in press.

Miah, A. (2008) Paralympics 2.0, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center.

Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

my next event

Glasgow, Scotland i (30 Sept, 2008)
Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support New Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland [abstract]

Beijing, China c (Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics, International Symposium on Olympic Research, Beijing National University and University of Western Ontario [outline].

Olympia, Greece i (July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].

in press

Miah, A. (2008) Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital. In: Wint, S. Ethical Futures. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London.

Miah, A. (2008) Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess . Open Court Press.

Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.

Miah, A. (2008) 'Blessed are the Forgetful': The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press.
 

just published

Zwart, N. H. (2007). "Genomics and self-knowledge: implications for societal research and debate." New Genetics and Society 26(2): 181-202.

Mitchell, C. B., E. D. Pellegrino, et al. (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC., Georgetown University Press.

Peters, H. P., J. T. Lang, et al. (2007). "Culture and Technological Innovation: Impact of Institutional Trust and Appreciation of Nature on Attitudes towards Food Biotechnology in the USA and Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(2): 191-220.

House of Commons Select Committee, Science And Technology (2007) Report on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.

Koolstra CM, Bos MJW, Vermeulen IE. Through which medium should science information professionals communicate with the public: television or the internet? Journal of Science Communication 2006;5(3):1-8.

   

interviews

May, 2008
The technological enhancement of man, Danish Broadcasting Corporation

April, 2008
Evening Standard
Beijing 2008 Olympics and Protest

March, 2008
The Sports Factor, ABC Radio, Blogging at the Beijing Olympics

Feb, 2008
ESPN Magazine

flashback

 
recent places
         
Brussels, Belgium i (May, 2008)
The ethical and philosophical aspects of enhancement medicine. 		  London, UK i (May, 2008)
New Media and the Olympics, Olympic legacy conference, University of Greenwich.		   Liverpool, UK i (April, 2008)
The Future of the Mind,
FACT Human Futures.
         
Oxford, UK a (Mar, 2008)
Olympic Legacies, St Anthony's College, Oxford University.		   London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, Lecture for Design Interactions, Emerging Cultures of Nanotechnology		   London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, AHRC Seminar on Art & Design in Human Enhancement [brief].
         
Liverpool, UK a (Feb, 2008)
SK-interfaces conference, FACT. 		  Liverpool, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Human Futures: What is the future of the body? Artists' seminar in advance of the SK-interfaces meet, @ FACT. 		  London, UK i (Jan, 2008)
London Metropolitan University, New Media @ the Olympics.
 
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