Highlight publications
Hall, A & Mason-Wilkes, W (eds) 2024, Most Adaptable to Change: Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.17102084
Riley, J & Mason-Wilkes, W 2024, 'Dark citizen science', Public Understanding of Science, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 142-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231203470
Collins, H, Evans, R, Innes, M, Kennedy, EB, Mason-Wilkes, W & McLevey, J 2022, The Face-to-Face Principle: Science, Trust, Democracy and the Internet. Cardiff University. https://doi.org/10.18573/book7
Recent publications
Article
Mason-Wilkes, W 2023, 'Emphasizing uncertainty, celebrating community and valuing values: science communication remedies for the COVID-19 era and beyond', Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2152245
Collins, H, Leonard-Clarke, W & Mason-Wilkes, W 2023, 'Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: a conceptual and empirical enquiry', Social Studies of Science, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127221138521
Mason-Wilkes, W 2020, 'Book Review: Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R Johnson, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Kirstin RW Matthews, Steven W Lewis, Robert A Thomson Jr and Di Di Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion', Public Understanding of Science, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 666. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520914192
Mason‐wilkes, W 2020, 'DIVINE DNA? “SECULAR” AND “RELIGIOUS” REPRESENTATIONS OF SCIENCE IN NONFICTION SCIENCE TELEVISION PROGRAMS', Zygon: journal of religion and science, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 6-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12574
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Mason-Wilkes, W & Hall, A 2024, From Science and Humanism to Science as Religion: The Emerging Representation of Science as a Worldview in BBC Blue-Chip Documentaries. in A Hall & W Mason-Wilkes (eds), Most Adaptable to Change: Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 78-96. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.17102084.8
Mason-Wilkes, W 2024, The Case for an Explicit Normativity in Social Studies of Science and Belief: Lessons from STS. in ZT Kamwendo (ed.), Science and Religion: Approaches from Science and Technology Studies. 1 edn, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66387-1_5
Elsdon-Baker, F & Mason-Wilkes, W 2019, The Sociological Study of Science and Religion in Context. in Science, Belief and Society: International Perspectives on Religion, Non-Religion and the Public Understanding of Science. Bristol University Press.
Chapter
Barnes, J, Hall, A, Lightman, B & Mason-Wilkes, WM 2025, Contending with Complexity: The Challenges of Global Histories of Evolution and Religion. in F Elsdon-Baker, SH Jones & J Riley (eds), International Perspectives on Science, Culture, and Belief: From Complexity to Globality. 1st edn, Routledge, pp. 15-31. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003476580-3
Mason-Wilkes, W & Elsdon-Baker, F 2025, (Re-)Imagining Future Flight in the UK: Public Responses to Future Flight Media Imagery and Their Implications. in M de Amstalden, AM Packer & M Lewis (eds), Future Flight Governance: Socio-legal, Environmental and Economic Approaches. 1st edn, Routledge Research in Air and Space Law, Routledge, pp. 11-31. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003563532-3
Hall, A & Mason-Wilkes, W 2024, Introduction: Complexity, Geopolitics, and the Social Order: Introducing Multimedia Analysis into Global Histories of Evolution and Religion. in A Hall & W Mason-Wilkes (eds), Most Adaptable to Change: Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 3-16. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.17102084.4
Review article
Mason-Wilkes, W 2019, 'Book Review: Steve Fuller, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game', Sociology, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1198. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519841830
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