Les Levidow

Les Levidow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open University, UK, where he has been studying agri-environmental issues since the 1980s. A long-running case study has been the agbiotech controversy, focusing on the European Union, USA and their trade conflicts. For details, see Biotech Policy Group website, http://technology.open.ac.uk/cts/bpg

His research now encompasses a broader range of issues, especially agri-innovation priorities and biofuels, within an EC-funded research project (www.crepeweb.net), as well as alternative agro-food networks in another project (www.faanweb.eu).

Co-editor of several books, including: Science, Technology and the Labour Process; Anti-Racist Science Teaching; and Cyborg Worlds: The Military Information Society (Free Association Books, 1983, 1987, 1989).

Co-author of Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology: Contending Coalitions, Trade Liberalisation and Standard Setting (Routledge, 2006),

http://technology.open.ac.uk/cts/tup/GovTransConflict.pdf

Likewise co-author of GM Food on Trial: Testing European Democracy (Routledge, 2009).

Editor of the journal Science as Culture, http://www.informaworld.com/csac