Dr Jamie Lewis

(he/him)

BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

2025

• Brookfield, C. and Lewis, J. 2025. Completing your research project: A guide for the social sciences. London: SAGE.
• 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. Write your final research project. [Online].Sage Campus: SAGE. Available at: https://classroom.sagepub.com/course/view.php?id=102.
• 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 117958. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117958)
• Hutchinson, D. et al., 2025. EcoMaps and young minds: Charting the environmental imagination. Presented at: WISERD Annual Conference 2025 Aberystwyth, Wales 30 June - 01 July 2025. Participation 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.
• 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
• Lewis, J. and Atkinson, P. 2025. Documents and documentation. In: Silverman, D. ed. Qualitative Research. Vol. 6, London: Sage. , pp.183-199.
• Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2025. Bigfooters and scientific inquiry: on the borderlands of legitimate science. London: Routledge.
• Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. 2025. Can Understanding the Search for Bigfoot Help Renew Trust in Science. [Online].LSE Impact Blog: LSE. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/12/09/can-understanding-the-search-for-bigfoot-help-renew-trust-in-science/.
• Quinn, K. and Lewis, J. 2025. The lanyard. In: Woods, A. and Fitzgerald, D. eds. Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. London: Bloomsbury

2024

• 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)
• 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)
• 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

• 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) e2155124. (10.1080/14636778.2022.2155124)
• 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. 11. (10.5334/cstp.503)
• Hacking, N. , Lewis, J. and Evans, R. 2023. It is time to rethink what citizen science really is. The Conversation 2023 (28 Mar)
• Lewis, J. et al. 2023. Why we need a public understanding of social science. Public Understanding of Science 32 (5), pp.658-672. (10.1177/09636625221141862)

2022

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

2021

• 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)
• 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.
• Riesch, H. et al., 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)
• Stephens, N. and Lewis, J. 2021. Laboratory ethnography. In: Atkinson, P. et al., Sage Research Methods Foundations. Los Angeles, CA.: Sage(10.4135/9781526421036812814)

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. et al. 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. et al. 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

• Bartlett, A. , Penders, B. and Lewis, J. T. 2017. Bioinformatics: indispensable, yet hidden in plain sight?. BMC Bioinformatics 18 311. (10.1186/s12859-017-1730-9)
• Bevan Jones, R. et al. 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)
• Dimond, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2017. Paul Atkinson Festschrift: editorial. Qualitative Research 17 (2), pp.139-142. (10.1177/1468794116688414)
• 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.
• Lewis, J. T. et al. 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)
• 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

2016

• 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)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.

2015

• 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. 2015. Architecture of the private and the public [VIDEO]. [Online].Cardiff Attic. Available at: https://atticblogsite.wordpress.com/resources/.
• 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. Breaking down stigma [VIDEO]. [Online].National Centre for Mental Health. Available at: http://ncmh.info/videos/jamie-lewis/.
• 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.
• 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.
• Watermeyer, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2015. Public engagement: hidden costs for research careers?. The Times Higher Education

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. et al. 2013. Representation and practical accomplishment in the laboratory: when is an animal model good-enough?. Sociology 47 (4), pp.776-792. (10.1177/0038038512457276)
• 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)
• 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)

2012

• Gunnarsdottir, K. et al., 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

• 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.
• Power, S. A. et al. 2010. Realizing the ‘learning country'? Research activity and capacity within Welsh local authorities. Contemporary Wales 23 (1), pp.71-92.

2009

• Power, S. et al. 2009. Local authorities and education research in Wales. The final report of LINK-Wales: the learning in Wales network. Technical Report.
• 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.

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.
• Fitz, J. et al. 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.
• Power, S. A. R. et al. 2005. Staying in touch? The potential of 'Friends Reunited' as a research tool. Research Intelligence 92 , pp.6-8.

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.