Question: Where is the  public research university which  Sarah Franklin became Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine in the Department of Sociology at located
Context: The Journal of Social Studies Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering social studies.  It is the official publication of The International Society for the Social Studies.  The editor-in-chief is William B. Russell III (University of Central Florida). The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.  Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw for the betterment of society, LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and established its first degree courses under the auspices of the University in 1901.  The LSE has awarded its own degrees since 2008. Robert G. Weisbord is professor emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island.  He has published six books and numerous articles dealing with issues of racism in sports, the Vatican, and the Holocaust.  He taught an Afro-American history course at the University of Rhode Island in 1966 which was the first such offering at a New England state university.  His work has been reviewed in "Jewish Social Studies", "African Affairs", "The Journal of American History", "The Black Scholar", "Phylon", "The Journal of Sex Research", "The Journal of Southern History", "The International Journal of African Historical Studies", "Political Science Quarterly", "Middle East Journal", "American Journal of Sociology", "Family Planning Perspectives","Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science","Shofar", and "Contemporary Sociology". David R. Segal (born 1941) is a prominent sociologist, who specializes in civil-military relations, military sociology, and military organization, in the tradition of Morris Janowitz.  He is a distinguished scholar-teacher and professor of sociology at the University of Maryland.  He is the founding director of the Center for Research on Military Organization, and is a former president of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, as well as a former editor of the journal Armed Forces & Society.  He has also served as president of the District of Columbia Sociological Society and of the Section on Armed Forces and Conflict Resol ution of the International Sociological Association, and chair of the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict of the American Sociological Association.  He attended public school in Brooklyn, NY and earned his B.A. from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton.  He earned a PhD in sociology at University of Chicago.  He began his academic career in the Sociology Department at the University of Michigan in 1966, and served as Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chair of the Department, and Director of the Center for Research on Social Organization.  in 1973, he took a leave of absence from Michigan to direct the sociology program at the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Social studies of finance is an interdisciplinary research area that combines perspectives from anthropology, economic sociology, science and technology studies, international political economy, behavioral finance, cultural studies and/or economics in the study of financial markets.  Work in social studies of finance emphasises the social and cultural dimensions of financial activities, but focuses also on technical and economic dimensions such as pricing and trading. Sarah Franklin (born 1960) is an American anthropologist who has substantially contributed to the fields of feminism, gender studies, cultural studies and the social study of reproductive and genetic technology.  She has conducted fieldwork on IVF, cloning, embryology and stem cell research.  Her work combines both ethnographic methods and kinship theory, with more recent approaches from science studies, gender studies and cultural studies.  In 2001 she was appointed to a Personal Chair in the Anthropology of Science, the first of its kind in the UK, and a field she has helped to create.  She became Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics in 2004.  In 2011 she was elected to the Professorship of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Beverley Skeggs was born in Middlesbrough and studied at University of York (BA), Keele University (PGCE, PhD).  She has worked at Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education (Research Fellow), Worcester College of Higher Education (Sociology), University of York (Education and Women's Studies).  From 1996 to 1999 she was Director of Women's Studies at Lancaster University (with Celia Lury).  In 1999 she was appointed to a Chair in Sociology at the University of Manchester, where she was Head of Department from 2001 – 2004.  Since 2004 she has been Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, as Head of Department from 2010-2013.  During 2007 she was the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor in Gender Studies at Stockholm University.  In 2003 she was elected as an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.  Professor Skeggs was an honorary professor at the University of Warwick, and has received honorary doctorates from Stockholm University, Aalborg University and the University of Teesside (her home town).  She was the joint managing editor of the journal The Sociological Review from 2011-2016, now as European 'editor at large'.  From 2013-2016 she held an ESRC Professorial Fellowship to study a 'sociology of values and value'. Nikolai Genov (Bulgarian: Николай Генов /"Nikolaj Genow;" born 1946) is a sociologist of Bulgarian origin.  He received his Dr.phil.  in sociology from the University of Leipzig in 1975 and his Dr.sc.  from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1986.  In 1990 he became professor at BAS.  Between 2002 and 2011 he was professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology and Institute of Eastern European Studies of the Free University of Berlin.  Since 2011 he is the head of the Institute of Global and Regional Development at the School of Advanced Social Studies in Slovenia.  He has conducted research and taught at the universities of Berkeley, Bielefeld, Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Lund, Moscow, Rome, Seoul and Warsaw. Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She obtained a BA in Social Studies and later a Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality Psychology at Harvard University.  She now focuses her research on psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction.  She has written several books focusing on the psychology of human relationships with technology, especially in the realm of how people relate to computational objects. Anna Leander is a sociologist and political scientist.  Leander is currently Professor with Special Responsibilities at the Copenhagen Business School, Professor at the Inst.  de Relacoes Internacionais, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a founder of the University of Copenhagen's Centre for the Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC).  She will join the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in January 2018.  Leander is well known for her work in critical security studies and international political sociology.  Theoretically, Leander has played an important role in bringing the work of Pierre Bourdieu into conversation with the discipline of International Relations, as well as more recently working with materialist and pragmatist sociologies.  Empirically, much of her work focuses on the contours of private military contractors, drones, and the politics of knowledge in a digital context.  Leander has supported the development of International Political Sociology as an editor, through engagement with professional organizations and research evaluation as well as through her investment with education.  Anna Leander was associate editor of International Political Sociology until 2017 and is currently associate editor of Security Dialogue and Contexto Internacional and co-editor of the Routledge Series in Private Security Studies.  Leander has served on the Norwegian and Swedish Research Councils, numerous research evaluation boards as well as on the advisory boards of DIIS, the Danish Institute for International Studies and the GIGA German Institute for Global and Regional Studies.  She was a co-founder of the International Political Sociology section of the International Studies Association, she co-developed/co-directed the International Business and Politics Program of the Copenhagen Business School, and she has supported/supervised numerous doctoral projects.
Answer: London, England