The Oxford Principles were designed to apply to a heterogeneous range of technologies from the stage of early research through to implementation. The Principles synthesize social science insights from research into social values evident among the public in relation to novel technologies, such as GM foods, nanomaterials, and human enhancement technologies, into a set of guidelines for the governance of research on climate geoengineering. While the Principles were not the result of a single empirical research project, they represent the distillation of a decade of research on the regulation of frontier research as well as collaboration between researchers both at Oxford and beyond.