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.
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.
Events
There are no events today, the next event will be:
16 February 2012, CGWS seminar Rachael Eastham, (Lancaster University) 'Helen Brook: a history of Sexual Health and extending services to unmarried women'
EASST/4S Conference
The next conference will be a joint EASST/4S Conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2012.
For more information go to: http://www.easst.net
