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 sociology of science and technology, or STS. My methodologies include ethnography (interviews and fieldwork), discourse analysis, and even surveys. 🤓

I’m currently a research fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh. I’m funded by ARIA (UK’s new DARPA-inspired funding agency, without the militarism) under their “precision neurotechnology” programme. I am also a Research Affiliate with the Neuroethics Research Group at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Also feel free to check out my recent public engagement 📢 activities, an example of my teaching 👨‍🏫, my role as a labor activist ✊, and my CV and contact info.

Andrew giving a (sold out!) lecture at Surgeon’s Hall Museum

🤓 Science and technology studies

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“Chronic Traumatic Masculinity,” Chapter 1

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screenshot of the first page of the article titled, Discursive History of Screening Criteria for Blood Donation Affecting Gay, Bi, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Canada: 1983–2013.

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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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More neuroethics in the works! Check back soon!

💃 Disability Studies

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Be sure to check out Jesse Meadow’s wonderful video about my theory of ADHD:

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Read my brief retrospective on my dissertation here

More Critical ADHD Studies articles in the works! Check back soon!

📢 Andrew’s Recent Public Talks

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Link to event

SOLD OUT

Event Description:

I’ve been invited to give a public lecture on the role of medical schools in changing political climates.

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Surgeons’ Hall

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Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Date:

4 June at 13:15

The Provocateurs

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(SOLD OUT)

Event Description:

Invited performance at The Stand Comedy Club as part of the Provocateurs’ series during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Stand Comedy Club

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The Provocateurs

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8 August at 5:35

21 August at 13:45

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The film Fixed will be screening, and I’ll be partaking in a post-screening discussion panel.

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MacDonald Library

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EMS 300 Film Series

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26 April at 17:00

ADHD

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Event Description:

I was invited as a guest speaker for Episode 1 (Parts 1 and 2) of the BERA Podcast, to speak about neurodiversity in academia.

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Online

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Summer, 2026

👨‍🏫 Teaching

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Neuroethics, example slide:

Example teaching slide from the course, Interdisciplinary approaches to neuroethics. Habermas, Foucault, and Adorno are all mentioned, as well as Apple Vision, Neuralink, cerebral subjectivity, neurotechnologies of the self, neurobics, and neuro disciplines.

✊ Labor Activism

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a man wearing a blue hat holding a microphone is shown speaking to a crowd holding up signs saying that UAW is on strike
Me speaking at a UAW rally during the postdoc and research scientist strike at UW in 2023.
Overhead view of one of the rallies I spoke at.

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