MCM - Key Persons
Andy Stirling is a professor in SPRU (science and technology policy research) at Sussex University, where he is also a founding co-director of the STEPS Centre. Formerly working as a field archaeologist and environmentalist and, he has a background in the natural sciences and social anthropology and a doctorate in science and technology policy. Serving on a number of UK and European advisory committees in areas like energy policy, GM foods, chemicals, biotechnology, neuroscience and science in society, his research concerns opening up greater democratic debate over the directions taken by science and technology.
His work developing MCM over the years owes a huge amount to many collaborators in related work on the politics of knowledge around complex strategic decisions - especially colleagues in SPRU and the STEPS Centre. It also owes huge debts to colleagues in the Sussex Innovation Centre (SINC) and those who coded successive versions of the MCM tools: including initially Guillaume Barreau at Runtime Collective, then Toby Champion at Toby Champion Associates and most recently Jamie Matthews, Chris Palk, Caroline Pickering and the wonderful team at DabApps.