**A REMINDER!**

Dear All,

Although I understand that registration for this conference is now closed, 
this is just a little reminder to all those who have already registered 
for the BSA's Annual Conference 2007.

You are warmly invited to attend the following workshop event at the 
conference - this workshop has been jointly organised by the Sociology of 
Social and Public Policy study group:

‘Policy, Technology and Society Workshop’
Venue: University of East London
Date: 13th April
Time: 09.00-11.00am

There will be 4 short presentations as part of this workshop, followed by 
a forum discussion of the issues raised.

Workshop abstract: Social and public policy initiatives increasingly pre-
suppose, extend and utilise a variety of life science technologies to 
organise human and material resources. Participants will use the workshop 
to present recent work that has investigated specific examples of such 
initiatives. Participants will also pay particular attention to the ways 
in which individuals and social groups negotiate the meaning and uses of 
emerging technologies - either by resisting them or deploying them in the 
course of their own identity work - and the implications that this 
negotiation has for social and public policy.

The aim of the workshop will be to use the studies presented to provoke 
critical reflections on core concepts in the sociology of the life 
sciences, especially those of subjectivity, ethics, the body, desire, 
expertise and science itself.

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Angharad Beckett.