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Lucia Leung-Sea Siu 蕭亮思

Lucia@New Lanark
Lucia Siu has 7 years' experience in journalism, covering technology, finance and environment issues in Hong Kong Economic Times, Hong Kong Economic Journal and Sing Tao Daily.

She is currently undertaking 2nd-year PhD studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh. She holds an MSc. (distinction) in Science and Technology Studies from the same university, and a BSc. (Hons.) in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

[ Working papers ] [ List of publications ]

Area of interest:

Sociology of financial markets;
Collective behaviour;
Sociology of knowledge;
Circulation of rhetoric;
The use of cognitive tools.

Research

PhD project (ongoing): Cropping the future – the commodity futures market of China
MSc dissertation(2002): Swarm, shadow, pheremone, guerilla - clashing rationalities of the dotcom bubble
- Supervised by Prof Donald MacKenzie and Mr James Clunie, University of Edinburgh

Tutoring: Sociology 1 (9/03- 12/04) Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Web editing: Social Studies of Finance, Donald MacKenzie's ESRC professorial fellowship

Radio correspondence: World stringer sessions on News Salon, RTHK1 (11/03-3/04)

Mirror sites: Social studies of finance Researcher's profile
Sociology Department's Postgraduate student profile

Social Studies of Finance links: [SSF at Edinburgh] [SSFN.org] [Newsgroup at JISCmail] [SSFA]
Last modified: 27 Jan 2006