Maria Nedeva

Maria Nedeva is Professor of Science and Innovation Dynamics and Policy at the University of Manchester Business School. Her research concerns science dynamics, focusing on ‘policy driven’ change affecting both the social conditions of science and research (organisations, relationships and rules of exchange; structures etc.) and their intellectual conditions. The notion (theory) of science as a relationship between research fields and research spaces, that Prof. Nedeva is developing provides an intellectual lens for the analysis of the links between the social and the intellectual conditions of science and research; between policy and knowledge with particular epistemic properties. Her research relates to research organisations (universities, research establishments and research networks), policy and pressures for change; academy industry links; research funders, selection and support of research; research policy, evaluation and impact.