Webster worked at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now
Anglia Ruskin University) until 1999, when he became a faculty member at the University of York. He founded the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) in 1988 and continued directing the research unit at the University of York until 2017. He has held international visiting fellowships at several universities, including
Australian National University, the
University of Gothenburg and the
University of Sydney. From 2004 to 2009, Webster headed the Department of Sociology at York, and he was the Dean of Social Sciences from 2009 to 2013. He received the annual 4S Mentoring Award from the
Society for Social Studies of Science in 2017. The award committee wrote that "Webster's mentoring has not only focused on supporting individual students but also creating institutional environments for them," and credited him with helping SATSU become a
Marie Curie training site. Webster has received funding from UK and international agencies to study how
biomedical technologies such as
stem cell research and
regenerative medicine emerge and are adopted in clinical settings, as well as the sociocultural and economic implications of those technologies. ==Selected publications==