Wan-Ju Lee
Wan-Ju Lee, Associate Professor
Personal Information
Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Technology Governance, Public Participation, Deliberative Democracy
E-mail：leewanju@g-mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Extension：5526
Office：R6-5030
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
Current Position
- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University
Experience
- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University (Aug. 2018 – Feb. 2026)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica (Jan. 2016 – Jul. 2018)
Research Statement
My research interests primarily lie in Science and Technology Studies (STS), technology governance, and public participation. My current research is divided into two main directions:
(1) Taiwan Biobank, Scientific Governance, and the Public: Building upon my past focus on the scientific governance and public participation mechanisms of the Taiwan Biobank, my current research explores participating citizens' understandings and expectations of the Taiwan Biobank scientific project, their interpretations of their own participation, and their imaginations regarding individual/collective autonomy, benefits, and genetic privacy rights.
(2) Genetic Testing, Health Governance, and Biopolitics: I am interested in commercial genetic testing services under the development of global precision medicine. In contrast to the state-led scientific recruitment of national genetic databases, which demonstrates state governance over future healthy populations, I investigate the construction of individual subjectivity and the operational logic of health governance demonstrated through the discourses and practices of commercial genetic testing services. How are genetic testing reports interpreted? Who interprets them? What are the choices, underlying rationales, and subsequent actions of individuals undergoing genetic testing regarding future health governance? As an intermediary technology defining health and disease, genetic testing has a high potential to shape emerging medical professional networks—such as the emergence of genetic counselors and their positions and roles in medical practice—which will be a major focus of my future research.
期刊論文
- 李宛儒、蔡友月（2025）。公眾的科學想像：Taiwan Biobank 的參與民眾經驗、風險與科學樂觀主義。《臺灣社會學刊》，77，115-175。
- Wan-Ju Lee. (2023). Everyday Democracy and Civic Agriculture: The Case of a CSA Organization in Taiwan. Innovation in the Social Sciences, 1, 44-69.
- Wan-Ju Lee, & Tsai, Y.-Y. (2022). Governance through scientism: Taiwan Biobank and public controversy. New Genetics and Society, 41(3), 193-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2022.2115350
- Tsai, Y.-Y., & Wan-Ju Lee. (2021). An imagined future community: Taiwan Biobank, Taiwanese genome, and nation-building. BioSocieties, 16, 88-115. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-019-00179-z
- 李宛儒、蔡友月（2018）。〈缺席的多元公眾：Taiwan Biobank 的建置、爭議與科學治理〉。《台灣社會學刊》，63，69-121。
- 蔡友月、李宛儒（2016）。〈想像未來：台灣人體生物資料庫、基因利基與國族建構〉。《台灣社會學》，32，109-169。
專書論文
- 蔡友月、李宛儒（2019）。〈台灣人的基因利基：Taiwan Biobank、科學家與國族建構〉。收錄於蔡友月、陳信行、范玫芳（主編），《台灣的後基因體時代：新科技的典範轉移與挑戰》。新竹：交通大學出版社。