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Centre for Science Studies promotes interdisciplinary research across the boundaries of science, technology, and public policy.

Our research involves collaboration between specialists in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. We were part of the Sociology unit of assessment in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, recognised as one of the top 5 in the UK for the quality of its sociological research.

We have recently launched our new MA Society, Technology and Nature...

Diverse expertise and interests

Our research problematises the construction of scientific knowledge and expert authority. We take diverse approaches including feminist STS, actor-network theory (and after), cultural analyses of science, anthropological and postcolonial technoscience studies.

Our work extends across...

  • Health Technologies and New Reproductive Technologies
  • Large Technical Systems, Risk, and Technical Catastrophe
  • Information and Communication Technologies, their Design and Human-Computer Interaction
  • Critical innovation studies
  • Spatiality, Method, and Organisational analysis
  • Environmental Philosophy and Public Policy
  • Military Technologies
  • Anthropological and Postcolonial Technoscience

Work with us

Lancaster offers a lively and stimulating environment in which to develop research in science, technology and policy. Our expertise and interests extend across a range of departments including Sociology, Gender and Women's Studies, History, Health Research, Cultural Research, CESAGen, Management School, and others.

We hope you'll be interested in visiting us - or working alongside us! Please email us for more information on the opportunities.

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24 February 2010, CSEC/Sociology Seminar: Nature and Capital Part 1

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Pumfrey takes on aliens, 2 February 2010

On Thursday February 4th, 2010 Dr Stephen Pumfrey gives a talk to the student-run History Society. It is entitled "Aliens! How Galileo and his supp ...Read more»

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