SHORT BIO

Dr. Janaina Pamplona da Costa is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department at the Department of Science and Technology Policy (University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil; acted as the Head of Department between 2021 and 2025). She is a faculty member at the Postgraduate Programme in Science and Technology Policy (UNICAMP) where she convenes courses on Methodology, Social Studies of Science and Technology, and Geography of Innovation; Associate faculty at the Postgraduate Programme in Geography (Unicamp) and at the Postgraduate Degree in Scientific Journalism (LABJOR, UNICAMP). She also teaches a course on Science and Technology Studies for undergraduate students.

An economist by training (Bachelor’s in Economics, UNICAMP), Dr. Pamplona da Costa holds a Master’s degree in Science and Technology Policy (UNICAMP), and a PhD in Science and Technology Policy Studies (2012) at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU/Sussex University, United Kingdom).

Associate Coordinator of the research group Public Policy, Geography of Innovation and Governance – GOING (UNICAMP), Dr. Pamplona da Costa´s research interests include network governance, geography of innovation, public health and emerging frameworks in science and technology with a focus on transformative innovation policies in Latin America.

She has worked in research projects funded by CAPES Foundation (Brazil), European Union, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC/UK) and more recently the National Science Foundation (USA), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz, Brazil), and FAPESP (Brazil). President of the Latin American Association for the Social Studies of Science and Technology between 2024 and 2026. (ESOCITE LA, https://www.esocite.la/).

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SUPERVISION

Governance and alignment; innovation and regional development; geography of innovation; knowledge production; transformative innovation, and (re)emergent diseases.

TEACHING

Undergraduate: GN101–Science, Technology & Society; GN105–Theory and Methods of Science.

Postgraduate: CT122 – Social Studies of Science and Technology, CT130 – Research Methods in Science and Technology, CT091 – Master´s Dissertation Seminars; CT050 – Geography of Innovation, Technology Policy and Network Governance.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Selected Books and Book Chapters

Palackal, A.; Lekha, N.; Sica de Campos, A. L.; Pamplona da Costa, Janaina; Shrum, W. Covid-19 Responses in Cultural and Political Context, ed.1. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025, v.01.,
p.1-228.

Sica de Campos, A. L. ; Pamplona da Costa, Janaina; Poker Junior, J. H. Covid-19 in the Brazilian Context: factors influencing preventive measures in pandemic response. In: Antony Palackal; N. B. Lekha; André Sica de Campos; Janaina Pamplona da Costa; Wesley Shrum. (Org.). Covid-19 Responses in Cultural and Political Context. 1ed.Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025, v. 1, p. 85-108.

de Campos, A.S., da Costa, J.O.P., Rodríguez, N.G., Feltrin, R.B. (2025). Toward a “Bio-Sociotechnical Systems” Approach: Considerations and Evidences Based on Communicable Diseases. In: Invernizzi, N., Rodriguez Medina, L. (eds) Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory. Transnationalizing Theory in Science and Technology Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5419-2_6. 

de Campos, André Sica; Feltrin, Rebeca Buzzo; Pamplona da Costa, Janaina Oliveira; dos Santos, Paula Xavier; Carvalho, Gustavo; de Medeiros, Mariana Borges; Chagnon, Pierre. Biosocial
Technical Systems: An Emerging Approach to Analyse Responses to Novel Diseases In: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, ed.1. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, v.1458, p. 303.

Rodríguez, N.G., da Costa, J.P. (2021). Towards a Regional Policy: Transformative Innovation in Colombia. In: Ordóñez-Matamoros, G., Orozco, L.A., Sierra-González, J.H., Bortagaray, I., García-Estévez, J. (eds) Policy and Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation. Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80832-7_5. 

Selected Articles

Greco, L. F., da Silva, R. G. L., de Campos, A. S., & da Costa, J. P. (2026). ‘Well… we keep adapting our labs’: Interconnected factors shaping vaccine R&D and production capacity in Brazil. Global Public Health, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2026.2614156. 

Garzón Rodríguez, N., & Pamplona da Costa, J. (2025). Translating Transformative Innovation Framework in Colombia: Governance Implications for STI Policy. NOvation — Critical Studies of Innovation, (7), 124–142. https://doi.org/10.5380/nocsi.i7.102428. 

Pamplona da Costa, Janaina. O campo ciência, tecnologia e sociedade e novos paradigmas de política de ciência, tecnologia e inovação no Brasil: em direção ao seu reconhecimento no financiamento à pesquisa. Revista Brasileira de Estudos CTS, v. 1, p. 47-68-68, 2025. https://revistabrasileiradeestudoscts.com/revista/article/view/11.

Pamplona da Costa, J, Sica de Campos, A.L., Cintra, P.R., Greco, L.F. and Poker, J.H. (2021), "The nature of rapid response to COVID-19 in Latin America: an examination of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico", Online Information Review, Vol. 45 No. 4, pp. 729-750. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-09-2020-0391.

Shrum W, Aggrey J, Campos A, Pamplona da Costa, J, et al. Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age. Social Studies of Science. 2020;50(5):707-727. doi:10.1177/0306312720927781

Pamplona da Costa, Janaina. Alignment in regional networks: towards new metrics to assess the effectiveness of technology policy|Alinhamento de redes em uma região em processo de catching-up: em busca de novas métricas para avaliar a efetividade da política tecnológica. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ESTUDOS URBANOS E REGIONAIS, v. 21, p. 390-411, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.2019v21n2p390

P. Macnaghten, R. Owen, J. Stilgoe, B. Wynne, A. Azevedo, A. de Campos, J. Chilvers, R. Dagnino, G. di Giulio, E. Frow, B. Garvey, C. Groves, S. Hartley, M. Knobel, E. Kobayashi, M. Lehtonen, J. Lezaun, L. Mello, M. Monteiro, J. Pamplona da Costa, C. Rigolin, B. Rondani, M. Staykova, R. Taddei, C. Till, D. Tyfield, S. Wilford & L. Velho (2014) Responsible innovation across borders: tensions, paradoxes and possibilities, Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1:2, 191-199, DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2014.922249