Ilieva, Adelina | Bulgaria

She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She studied at Sofia University Philosophy, Check Language and Pedagogy and graduated at 2000. From 2001 she is a PhD student at the Center for Science Studies and History of Science in Bulgarian Academy of Science. The topic of her dissertation work is Ethics of Modern Science. Theory and Practice. She is interested in science ethics, conduct and misconduct in science, research ethics, bioethics.

From October 2002 to March 2003 she is a Fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz. 

Project at IAS-STS: Ethics in the Regulatory Action: Social Shaping of Biotechnological Research

Nowadays, in many advanced sectors, knowledge is created in the context of application. The new Mode of knowledge production / A. Gibbons et. al./ entails certain transformation in the countenance of Research, together with a change of its environment: the locus for experiment often extends to a planetary scale. Consequently, a subtle balance is required between the interests in the technological advance and that of reducing the eventual social damage. The Modern Regulation of technological research is but a means of reconciling the coercive interests involved. It is also viewed as a warrant for diminishing harm and risk.

The ethical constraints make important part in this regulation. Obviously, the very expansion of technological research entails evolutionary enrichment of the traditional values and research ethics, combining academic freedom with moral constraints: the enlarged ethical Code is now related to a protection of nature and human being. The regulatory process is, on the other part, complicated to involve enlarged set of concerned actors called upon managing an increased scale of risk, together with increased social responsibility. Those newly arisen regulatory patterns make the general frame of my investigation interest.