Dr Jamie Lewis

(he/him)

BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

2025

• Dimond, R. and Lewis, J. 2025. “My full-time unpaid role”: Understanding the (extra)ordinary work of founders of rare disease organisations. Social Science and Medicine 372, article number: 117958. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117958)
• Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2025. Bigfooters and scientific inquiry: on the borderlands of legitimate science. London: Routledge.
• Brookfield, C. and Lewis, J. 2025. Write your final research project. [Online]. Sage Campus: SAGE. Available at: https://classroom.sagepub.com/course/view.php?id=102
• Brookfield, C. and Lewis, J. 2025. Plan your final research project. [Online]. Sage Campus: SAGE. Available at: https://classroom.sagepub.com/course/view.php?id=97
• Brookfield, C. and Lewis, J. 2025. Completing your research project: A guide for the social sciences. London: SAGE.
• Hutchinson, D., Owen-McVey, A., Lewis, J., Rogerson, T., Williams, D., Lannon, S. and Evans, R. 2025. EcoMaps and young minds: Charting the environmental imagination. Presented at: WISERD Annual Conference 2025, Aberystwyth, Wales, 30 June - 01 July 2025Participation and partnership in a time of precarity and polarisation - Abstract Booklet. Aberystwyth University: Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data pp. 41-41.
• Quinn, K. and Lewis, J. 2025. The lanyard. In: Woods, A. and Fitzgerald, D. eds. Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. London: Bloomsbury
• Lewis, J. and Atkinson, P. 2025. Documents and documentation. In: Silverman, D. ed. Qualitative Research., Vol. 6. London: Sage
• Lewis, J. and Atkinson, P. 2025. Anonymity and pseudonyms in ethnographic work. In: Ryen, A. ed. A Research Agenda for Ethics and Qualitative Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

2024

• Hacking, N., Lewis, J. and Evans, R. 2024. Mapping approaches to ‘citizen science’ and ‘community science’ and everything in-between: The evolution of new epistemic territory?. Minerva 62(4), pp. 549-572. (10.1007/s11024-024-09529-z)
• Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2024. The shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting absences into credible knowledge claims. Cultural Sociology (10.1177/17499755241264879)
• Hacking, N., Evans, R. and Lewis, J. 2024. Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: a case study of an energy-from-biomass plant. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7(3), pp. 1418-1435. (10.1177/25148486231212083)
• Quinn, K. and Lewis, J. 2024. Igniting the social sciences: A report to the central SPARK/Sbarc team and management board. Project Report. Cardiff: SPARK.

2023

• Hacking, N., Lewis, J. and Evans, R. 2023. It is time to rethink what citizen science really is. The Conversation 2023(28 Mar)
• Evans, R., Hacking, N. and Lewis, J. 2023. Expanding citizen science: community action without primary data collection. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 8(1), pp. 1-12., article number: 11. (10.5334/cstp.503)
• Lewis, J., Bartlett, A., Riesch, H. and Stephens, N. 2023. Why we need a public understanding of social science. Public Understanding of Science 32(5), pp. 658-672. (10.1177/09636625221141862)
• Dimond, R., Lewis, J. and Sumner, A. 2023. The unexpected and unanticipated announcement of the ‘world’s first’ gene edited babies: breaching, repairing and strengthening community boundaries. New Genetics and Society 42(1), article number: e2155124. (10.1080/14636778.2022.2155124)

2022

• Brookfield, C. and Lewis, J. 2022. Plan your dissertation. Super Quick Skills. London: SAGE Publications.

2021

• Riesch, H., Vrikki, P., Stephens, N., Lewis, J. and Martin, O. 2021. 'A moment of science please' activism, community and humour at the March for Science. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 41(2-3), pp. 46-57. (10.1177/02704676211042252)
• Evans, R., Lewis, J. and Hacking, N. 2021. Tackling air quality monitoring with a citizen science group. [Online]. Wiserd Blogs: WISERD. Available at: https://wiserd.ac.uk/news/tackling-air-quality-monitoring-citizen-science-group
• Stephens, N. and Lewis, J. 2021. Laboratory ethnography. In: Atkinson, P. et al. eds. Sage Research Methods Foundations. Los Angeles, CA.: Sage, (10.4135/9781526421036812814)
• Dimond, R., Lewis, J. and Thomas, G. 2021. Editorial: Themed issue: Understanding the technical and social landscape of gene editing. New Genetics and Society 40(4), pp. 361-366. (10.1080/14636778.2021.2004032)

2019

• Arribas-Ayllon, M., Bartlett, A. and Lewis, J. 2019. Psychiatric genetics: from hereditary madness to big biology. Genetics and Society. London: Routledge.
• Bartlett, A., Lewis, J., Reyes-Galindo, L. and Stephens, N. 2019. Big Data and the making of legitimate knowledge claims. [Online]. Backchannels: Society for Social Studies of Science. Available at: https://www.4sonline.org/blog/post/big_data_and_the_making_of_legitimate_knowledge_claims
• Lewis, J. 2019. Nelson, N.C. (2018) Model behaviour: animal experiments, complexity and the genetics of psychiatric disorders: London: The University of Chicago Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-o-226-54608-7 [Book Review]. Sociology of Health and Illness 41(2), pp. 445-446. (10.1111/1467-9566.12839)
• Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2019. Losing bigfoot. In: Smith, R. and Delamont, S. eds. The lost ethnographies: Methodological insights from projects that never were., Vol. 17. Studies in Qualitative Methodology Bingley: Emerald, pp. 47-63., (10.1108/s1042-319220190000017007)

2018

• Bartlett, A., Lewis, J., Reyes-Galindo, L. and Stephens, N. 2018. The locus of legitimate interpretation in Big Data sciences: lessons for computational social science from -omic biology and high-energy physics. Big Data and Society 5(1), pp. 1-15. (10.1177/2053951718768831)
• Watermeyer, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2018. Institutionalizing public engagement through research in UK universities: Perceptions, predictions and paradoxes concerning the state of the art. Studies in Higher Education 43(9), pp. 1612-1624. (10.1080/03075079.2016.1272566)

2017

• Hillman, A., Lewis, J. and Elwyn, G. 2017. Pathways and prospects in cancer research: Securing futures and negotiating boundaries. BioSocieties 12 (10.1057/s41292-017-0036-5)
• Lewis, J. and Thomas, J. M. 2017. From 'trading zones' to 'buffer zones': Art and metaphor in the communication of psychiatric genetics to publics. In: Reyes-Galindo, L. and Duarte, T. eds. Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies.. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 175-206.
• Bevan Jones, R., Thomas, J., Lewis, J. T., Read, S. M. and Jones, I. 2017. Translation: From bench to brain – Using the visual arts and metaphors to engage and educate. Research for All 1(2), pp. 265-283. (10.18546/RFA.01.2.04)
• Bartlett, A., Penders, B. and Lewis, J. T. 2017. Bioinformatics: indispensable, yet hidden in plain sight?. BMC Bioinformatics 18, article number: 311. (10.1186/s12859-017-1730-9)
• Dimond, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2017. Paul Atkinson Festschrift: editorial. Qualitative Research 17(2), pp. 139-142. (10.1177/1468794116688414)
• Stephens, N. and Lewis, J. T. 2017. Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces. Qualitative Research 17(2), pp. 202-216. (10.1177/1468794116678040)
• Watermeyer, R. and Lewis, J. 2017. Why universities and academics should bother with public engagement. The Conversation
• Lewis, J. T., Bisson, S., Swaden Lewis, K., Reyes-Galindo, L. and Baldwin, A. J. 2017. Cardiff sciSCREEN: A model for using film screenings to engage publics in University research. Research for All 1(1), pp. 106-120. (10.18546/RFA.01.1.08)

2016

• Lewis, J., Bartlett, A. and Atkinson, P. 2016. Hidden in the middle: culture, value and reward in bioinformatics. Minerva 54, pp. 471-490. (10.1007/s11024-016-9304-y)
• Bartlett, A., Lewis, J. and Williams, M. L. 2016. Generations of interdisciplinarity in bioinformatics. New Genetics and Society 35(2), pp. 186-209. (10.1080/14636778.2016.1184965)
• Watermeyer, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2016. Public engagement in Higher Education: state of the art. In: Case, J. and Huisman, J. eds. Researching Higher Education: International Perspective on Theory, Policy and Practice. Research into Higher Education London: Routledge/SRHE, pp. 42-60.
• Lewis, J. T. 2016. Ethnography in a Laboratory Setting [VIDEO]. [Online]. Sage Videos: Sage Publishers. Available at: http://methods.sagepub.com/video/ethnography-in-a-laboratory-setting

2015

• Girvan, C. 2015. Analysing online text-based group interviews: exploring learner experience in a virtual world. SAGE.
• Mannay, D. and Edwards, V. 2015. Visual methods and the World Technique: the importance of the elicitation interview in understanding non-traditional students’ journeys through university. SAGE Publications. (10.4135/9781473938076)
• Dimond, R., Bartlett, A. and Lewis, J. 2015. What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference. Social Science and Medicine 126, pp. 1-8. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.12.005)
• Lewis, J. T. 2015. Dealing with qualitative questionnaire data: studying an online Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) support group. [Online]. Sage Datasets: Sage Publishers. Available at: http://methods.sagepub.com/dataset/qualitative-survey-ibs
• Watermeyer, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2015. Public engagement: hidden costs for research careers?. The Times Higher Education
• Lewis, J. T. and Bartlett, A. 2015. How UK psychiatric geneticists understand and talk about engaging the public. New Genetics and Society 34(1), pp. 89-111. (10.1080/14636778.2014.998817)
• Power, S., Taylor, C. and Lewis, J. 2015. Independent review of assessment and the national curriculum (the Donaldson Review). Analysis of questionnaire responses. The final report:. Technical Report.
• Lewis, J. 2015. Breaking down stigma [VIDEO]. [Online]. National Centre for Mental Health. Available at: http://ncmh.info/videos/jamie-lewis/
• Lewis, J. 2015. Bioscience and the arts: a wider domain [VIDEO]. [Online]. National Centre for Mental Health. Available at: http://ncmh.info/videos/jamie-lewis/
• Lewis, J. 2015. Architecture of the private and the public [VIDEO]. [Online]. Cardiff Attic. Available at: https://atticblogsite.wordpress.com/resources/

2014

• Lewis, J., Hughes, J. and Atkinson, P. 2014. Relocation, realignment and standardisation: circuits of translation in Huntington’s disease. Social Theory and Health 12, pp. 396-415. (10.1057/sth.2014.13)
• Lewis, J. T. 2014. Prawns, pests and matter out of place. [Online]. Cardiff sciSCREEN. Available at: http://www.cardiffsciscreen.co.uk/article/district-9-prawns-pests-and-matter-out-place
• Lewis, J. T. 2014. Surveillance and the Search in The Hunger Games. [Online]. Cardiff sciSCREEN. Available at: http://www.cardiffsciscreen.co.uk/article/surveillance-and-search-hunger-games

2013

• Lewis, J. T. 2013. No one is so brave that (s)he is not disturbed by something unexpected. [Online]. Cardiff Ethnography Blog. Available at: http://cardiffethnography.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/no-one-is-so-brave-that-she-is-not_4.html
• Lewis, J. T., Atkinson, P. A., Harrington, J. and Featherstone, K. 2013. Representation and practical accomplishment in the laboratory: when is an animal model good-enough?. Sociology 47(4), pp. 776-792. (10.1177/0038038512457276)
• Stephens, N. J., Lewis, J. T. and Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Closing the regulatory regress: GMP accreditation in stem cell laboratories. Sociology of Health & Illness 35(3), pp. 345-360. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01482.x)
• Lewis, J. T. and Bartlett, A. 2013. Inscribing a discipline: tensions in the field of bioinformatics. New Genetics and Society 32(3), pp. 243-263. (10.1080/14636778.2013.773172)

2012

• Gunnarsdottir, K., Chadwick, R., Hughes, J., Lewis, J. T., O'Connor, A. and Stephens, N. 2012. Cesagen response to Nuffield Council on bioethics consultation on novel neurotechnologies: intervening in the brain. Technical Report.

2011

• Lewis, J. T. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. The surveillance of cellular scientists' practice. BioSocieties 6(4), pp. 381-400. (10.1057/biosoc.2011.18)

2010

• Power, S. A., Taylor, C. M., Lewis, J. T., Connolly, M., Thomas, G. and Jones, S. W. 2010. Realizing the ‘learning country'? Research activity and capacity within Welsh local authorities. Contemporary Wales 23(1), pp. 71-92.
• Lewis, J. T. 2010. Matchmaking mechanisms: collaborative arrangements in proteomics and bioinformatics. In: Parker, J. N., Vermeulen, N. and Penders, B. eds. Collaboration in the New Life Sciences. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 179-200.

2009

• Stephens, N., Chekar, C. K. and Lewis, J. 2009. Global issues, regional engagement: ‘discussing stem cells in context’ event hosted at the National Assembly for Wales. ESRC Genomics Network Newsletter.
• Power, S., Lewis, J. T., Taylor, C., Connolly, M., Thomas, G. and Wyn Jones, S. 2009. Local authorities and education research in Wales. The final report of LINK-Wales: the learning in Wales network. Technical Report.

2008

• Lewis, J. T. 2008. Computing genomic science: bioinformatics and standardisation in proteomics. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

2007

• Bartlett, A. and Lewis, J. T. 2007. Rowena Murray, Writing for Academic Journals; Judith Bell, Doing your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education, Health and Social Science; Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh, How to get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors [BOOK REVIEW]. Qualitative Research 7(2), pp. 269-270. (10.1177/1468794107076024)

2006

• Lewis, J. T. 2006. Making order out of a contested disorder: the utilisation of online support groups in social science research. Qualitative Researcher 3, pp. 4-7.

2005

• Bartlett, A., Lewis, J. T. and Holme, I. 2005. Postgraduate forum on genetics and society: report on the ninth colloquium. Genomics Society and Policy 1(3), pp. 82-86.
• Power, S. A. R., Moss, G., Lewis, J. T., Witty, G. and Edwards, T. 2005. Staying in touch? The potential of 'Friends Reunited' as a research tool. Research Intelligence 92, pp. 6-8.
• Fitz, J., Taylor, C., Pugsley, L., Madden, L., Stephens, N., Lewis, J. T. and Smith, M. 2005. Attitudes towards participation in higher education in Wales. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/finance/fo/RR5.pdf

2004

• Gorard, S., Lewis, J. T. and Smith, E. 2004. Disengagement in Wales: educational, social and economic issues. The Welsh Journal of Education 13(1), pp. 118-147.
• Harris, P., Lewis, J. T. and Adam, B. E. 2004. Time, sustainable transport and the politics of speed. World Transport Policy and Practice 10(2), pp. 5-11.