Andrew Ivan Brown

My name is Andrew Ivan Brown and I do qualitative social science research that is aggressively interdisciplinary. My topics of research include disability studies such as affirmative perspectives on ADHD 💃 beyond neurodiversity frameworks; the neuroethics of implantable neurotechnology 🧠; and science and technology studies of neuroscience and society and rhetoric in scientific research. My methodologies include ethnography (interviews and fieldwork), critical discourse analysis, and even surveys 🤓.

I’m currently a research fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (website) at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. I’m funded by ARIA (UK’s new DARPA-inspired funding agency, without the militarism) under their “precision neurotechnology” programme. Before Edinburgh, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the neuroethics research group at the University of Washington in Seattle (where I taught a 400-level philosophy course on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Neuroethics 👨‍🏫 ). Outside of academic work, I help with cat rescues and sometimes do a bit of labor activism ✊.

A photo of Andrew and his cat. Andrew is a white, normal looking man. His cat is a black and white tuxedo, domestic short hair. The cat looks disgruntled.

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Neuroethics

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Screenshot of the first page of the article titled Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post‐trial Responsibilities in Neural‐Device Trials.

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In academic journals:

“The “Wheels That Keep Me Goin’”: Invisible Forms of Support for Brain Pioneers.” (With Katherine E. MacDuffie, Sara Goering, and Eran Klein.)

“Citizen science: why research participants are now being called ‘pioneers’.” (With Sara Goering and Eran Klein.)

More neuroethics in the works! Check back soon!

💃 Disability Studies

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In academic journals:

“It’s all a big interactive mess”: exploring the entanglement of standardized assessment practices and messy beliefs about ADHD in a research center in Japan.

An academic book:

In talks with editors about my book in progress, Advocating for ADHD.

🤓 Science and technology studies

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“Chronic Traumatic Masculinity,” Chapter 1

(With Aryn Martin)

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“Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is changing the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing.” (With Sara Goering and Eran Klein.)