Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, with a focus on their relationship to politics, economy, society and culture.

ST&HV publishes and seeks to foster work that is politically and ethically engaged from scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. It is committed to publishing both field-defining and field-extending work, expanding the purview of the field into new areas, and intervening in a common set of conceptual and topical conversations. The journal publishes work that contributes to STS and makes a contribution with STS, emphasising that theory, method and practice unfold in situated assemblages.

To find out more about the journal, read it, or submit your research for consideration, please visit the publisher‘s website.


Special Issues 

The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Proposals for Special Issues. The process for this Call for Proposals is:

  1. Interested scholars should submit a proposal using the Google form by 21 June 2024. All proposals should include a working title for the Special Issue; names, affiliations, and short biographies of guest editors (100 words each); a 800-word outline of the proposed Special Issue theme (approx. 400 words) and its significant contribution to the field of STS (approx. 400 words); and, the names, affiliations, and short abstracts for 3-4 potential contributions. Proposals will be selected on the basis of: a) overall quality; b) the extent to which they represent a field-defining intervention in STS; c) their potential to attract a diverse range of contributions from scholars internationally. 
  2. In August 2024, the editors of ST&HV will choose one Special Issue proposal to proceed. The editors may also select and invite other proposals to proceed as shorter Thematic Collections if suitable.
  3. The editors of the selected Special Issue proposal(s) will issue an open call for further proposed articles on their theme, closing no earlier than 1 October 2024. A Special Issue will typically contain 7-8 research articles. Diversity of contributions from scholars internationally, and at different career stages, is encouraged.
  4. The guest editors of the selected Special Issue proposal(s) will submit the full Special Issue for peer review no later than 1 March 2025. Individual manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words including endnotes and references. Articles that are accepted through peer review will subsequently appear OnlineFirst as ready before the publication of the Special Issue in full, anticipated in 2026.

Please submit your proposal using the Google form by 21 June 2024. All general inquiries should be sent in the first instance to Carolina Caliaba (Managing Editor) at sthvjournal@gmail.com

You can find out more about ST&HV’s current submission requirements and style guide. For more on what constitutes a contribution to the field of STS, see the editor’s recent editorial: What is an STS Contribution Now?


Recent Publications

Saved by the Moon: Imaginaries of Earthly Afterlife in Space

Charlotte Kroløkke, Jonas Holm LarsenAuthor BiographiesCharlotte Kroløkke is a professor in cultural studies in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark. She has headed several nationally funded research projects, including the Ice Age. Entangled Lives, Times, and Ethics in Fertility Preservation. She is the author of several articles and books in the field of feminist cultural science and technology studies such as Global Fluids. The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value, published by Berghahn Press.Jonas Holm Larsen is an independent scholar formerly employed at the University of Southern Denmark. He is trained in cultural studies and science and technology studies. Jonas has been associated with the research project Ice Age. Entangled Lives, Times, and Ethics in Fertility Preservation, where he worked alongside Professor Charlotte Kroløkke as a research assistant and contributed to data collection and academic writing.1Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 830-856, July 2025.
Today, emergent space technology engages in visions of future off-world colonizing, while conservation technology is employed in ensuring the...

Infrastructuring Readability: Framing and Overflowing in Writing Assistant Software for Biomedical Research Informed Consent Forms

Loïc Riom, Solène Gouilhers, Claudine Burton-Jeangros

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 879-902, July 2025.
This article analyzes the development process of a software solution designed to assist researchers in writing biomedical research–informed...

Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies

Patrick R. Grzanka, Jenny Dyck Brian, Rajani BhatiaAuthor BiographiesPatrick R. Grzanka is Professor of Psychology and Divisional Dean for Social Sciences at The University of Tennessee. His interdisciplinary research draws on theory and methods from psychology, sociology, and science and technology studies to investigate complex social problems, particularly how intersectional inequalities are (re)produced and maintained in institutional settings, such as science, health care, policy, and law. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2023-2024). His research is published widely in journals such as American Psychologist, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.Jenny Dyck Brian is Faculty Chair and Teaching Professor at Barrett, the Honors College, and a Senior Global Futures Scientist at Arizona State University. She is a bioethics and science & technology studies scholar who studies science, policy, and inequality, with a focus on unintended consequences at the nexus of technological advancement and health policy. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Meta, Inc, and has appeared in journals such as American Journal of Bioethics, Health Sociology Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics.Rajani Bhatia is Associate Professor in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY). Bhatia's research focuses on reproductive technologies, bioethics, and biomedicine, as well as movements for health and reproductive justice. Bhatia is the author of Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context published as part of University of Washington Press's Feminist Technosciences series, and her articles have appeared in Science, Technology, & Human Values, Catalyst: Feminist, Theory, Technoscience, and Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies. Bhatia is co-founder of Feminists of Color Science Studies (FOCSS).

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 713-743, July 2025.
Over the past thirty years, intersectionality has become a nearly ubiquitous framework for understanding, critiquing, and intervening in complex...

“This Is Not What I Signed up for”: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Expectations, and Disillusionment in a Dutch Military Innovation Hub

Sofie van der Maarel, Désirée Verweij, Eric-Hans Kramer, Tine Molendijk1Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM), Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, the Netherlands2Department of Military Management Studies, Faculty of Military Sciences, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, the NetherlandsAuthor BiographiesSofie van der Maarel is PhD candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen and the Netherlands Defence Academy. She is part of a research project on the contextual dimensions of moral injury, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).Désirée Verweij is professor emeritus in philosophy and ethics, related to the Netherlands Defence Academy and Radboud University Nijmegen.Eric-Hans Kramer is professor in psychology, human factors, and safety at the Netherlands Defence Academy.Tine Molendijk is assistant professor at Netherlands Defence Academy and related to Radboud University. She leads the NWO research project on the contextual dimensions of moral injury.

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 857-878, July 2025.
Many militaries envision a technologically advanced future with a strong innovative capability and therefore invest in so-called innovation...

Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology

Hannah LandeckerAuthor BiographyHannah Landecker is a historian and sociologist of biotechnology and biomedicine. She holds a joint appointment across the Division of Life and Social Sciences at UCLA, where she is a Professor in the Sociology Department, and the Institute for Society and Genetics.1Department of Sociology, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 679-712, July 2025.
Anthropogenic pressures now shape the development, interrelations, and evolution of microbes, plants, animals, and humans. In an age of oxidative...