Deputy Director, Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science and the Public, University of Cambridge

Richard Milne is Deputy Director of the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public at the University of Cambridge and Head of Research and Dialogue at Wellcome Connecting Science, part of the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Richard is a sociologist of science, technology and medicine whose research interests are in the interface between science and the public, particularly around how scientists and members of the public engage with new and emerging areas of science, particularly in medicine and the life sciences.

Richard has a long-held commitment to interdisciplinary research and collaboration, exploring how the social sciences can cast light on the interconnections of science and social life. This includes a focus on the relationship between science and the public in the context of emergent social and ethical challenges associated with scientific advance. He has explored this in relation to biotechnology, ageing and dementia, and latterly genomics, data science and medical applications of artificial intelligence. His research, drawing on qualitative, ethnographic and quantitative approaches, has been published widely.