People in Centre for Science Studies
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The sociology of science and technology. Issues of power and knowledge in relation to the development and use of information technology. Problems of order/disorder and technology. Technology, time and narrative. The modernisation of public services.
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I'm interested in how people collaborate, at work or elsewhere. Everyday material and epistemic practices - on the move or in situ - including experiences and practices of place-making, distributed collaboration, collective intelligence are the focus of my studies. My approach is ethnographic and an... Read more»
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My current research interests focus on the development of embodied knowledge, its place in clinical practice and the processes of learning involved. Doctoral and postdoctoral research centred on notions of participation and accountability in healthcare and have culminated in my book 'Acting in Anaes... Read more»
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I am based in the Centre for the Study of Education and Training (CSET) within the Department of Educational Research and am an Associate Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre which is a partner in the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). I am... Read more»
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I'm very interested in the lives of data, especially in databases but also in data analysis, modelling and 'analytics.' At the moment, I'm focusing on on data as a way of thinking about 'BioIT convergences' across biological engineering, DNA synthesis and sequencing, clinical and research databases ... Read more»
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My background:
I am a Canadian researcher and teacher who has worked in Canada , the USA , with a short stint in Berlin , but mainly in the UK (Leicester University, Institute of Education, London; Manchester University; Birmingham University and since 1996 at Lancaster University). I am sustained b... Read more»
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Research Interests: Sociology of science, technology and medicine: technological change, telemedicine and telecare, innovation in health science and technology, health policy and politics, disaster and recovery studies. I work largely with ethnographic and participative methodologies.Current and rec... Read more»
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My best-known work focused on the social context of written academic texts, especially in science, treating such issues as politeness, cohesion, narrative structure, commonplaces, and illustration, drawing on frameworks from the sociology of scientific knowledge. More recent work has studied express... Read more»
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Summary of research interests.
Stephen Pumfrey's research interests lie in the history of Renaissance and early modern science and medicine. He is especially concerned with post-positivist understandings of the emergence of "new philosophy" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His ... Read more»
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My research centres on the body, health, reproduction, sexuality and aging. I am currently writing a book on early onset puberty, entitled 'Puberty in Crisis: a bio-psycho-social account'. This book brings together feminist science studies, feminist theories of the body, sexuality and girlhood studi... Read more»
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See my personal web page for recent publications and details of past and present projects.
I came to Lancaster in 1995 as deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and was director of the Centre for Science Studies for a couple of years before joining the Sociology Depart... Read more»
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Key Words Materiality, practices, technoscience, feminist theory, health, medicine, care,farming, policy, gender constitution and enactment, standardization and generalisation, science and technology studies, (after) actor-network theory. I trained and worked as a general nurse before studying... Read more»
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I came to the Sociology Department and the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster after twenty years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. My research has centered on relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design. Drawing on studies of work, science and te... Read more»
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My research is at the intersection of medical sociology and the social studies of science (or STS - Science and Technology Studies). My work has centred on the governance of new medical technologies, changing forms of citizenship, patient participation, and identity practices in relation to genetic ... Read more»
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Theo Vurdubakis is Professor of Organisation and Technology. A graduate of Athens University he completed his MSc and PhD at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he taught for fifteen years. His research interests include the role of technologies in social o... Read more»
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Research interests Sociology/anthropology/cultural studies of science The making and politicsof scientific knowledge, especially that relating tonature/the environment Scientific and other forms of expertise The making of classifications Public perceptions of environ... Read more»
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Technology and risk assessment Public risk perceptions Public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making
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I deploy the theoretical resources of science and technology studies (STS) to think through issues that are usually addressed by political ecologists, ecological theorists and the conservation community. Particularly, I am interested in the making of contemporary professional and academic environmen... Read more»
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The sociology of science and technology. Issues of power and knowledge in relation to the development and use of information technology. Problems of order/disorder and technology. Technology, time and narrative. The modernisation of public services.
... Read more»
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I'm interested in how people collaborate, at work or elsewhere. Everyday material and epistemic practices - on the move or in situ - including experiences and practices of place-making, distributed collaboration, collective intelligence are the focus of my studies. My approach is ethnographic and an... Read more»
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My current research interests focus on the development of embodied knowledge, its place in clinical practice and the processes of learning involved. Doctoral and postdoctoral research centred on notions of participation and accountability in healthcare and have culminated in my book 'Acting in Anaes... Read more»
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I am based in the Centre for the Study of Education and Training (CSET) within the Department of Educational Research and am an Associate Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre which is a partner in the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). I am... Read more»
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I'm very interested in the lives of data, especially in databases but also in data analysis, modelling and 'analytics.' At the moment, I'm focusing on on data as a way of thinking about 'BioIT convergences' across biological engineering, DNA synthesis and sequencing, clinical and research databases ... Read more»
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My background:
I am a Canadian researcher and teacher who has worked in Canada , the USA , with a short stint in Berlin , but mainly in the UK (Leicester University, Institute of Education, London; Manchester University; Birmingham University and since 1996 at Lancaster University). I am sustained b... Read more»
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Research Interests: Sociology of science, technology and medicine: technological change, telemedicine and telecare, innovation in health science and technology, health policy and politics, disaster and recovery studies. I work largely with ethnographic and participative methodologies.Current and rec... Read more»
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My best-known work focused on the social context of written academic texts, especially in science, treating such issues as politeness, cohesion, narrative structure, commonplaces, and illustration, drawing on frameworks from the sociology of scientific knowledge. More recent work has studied express... Read more»
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Summary of research interests.
Stephen Pumfrey's research interests lie in the history of Renaissance and early modern science and medicine. He is especially concerned with post-positivist understandings of the emergence of "new philosophy" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His ... Read more»
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My research centres on the body, health, reproduction, sexuality and aging. I am currently writing a book on early onset puberty, entitled 'Puberty in Crisis: a bio-psycho-social account'. This book brings together feminist science studies, feminist theories of the body, sexuality and girlhood studi... Read more»
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See my personal web page for recent publications and details of past and present projects.
I came to Lancaster in 1995 as deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and was director of the Centre for Science Studies for a couple of years before joining the Sociology Depart... Read more»
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Key Words Materiality, practices, technoscience, feminist theory, health, medicine, care,farming, policy, gender constitution and enactment, standardization and generalisation, science and technology studies, (after) actor-network theory. I trained and worked as a general nurse before studying... Read more»
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I came to the Sociology Department and the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster after twenty years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. My research has centered on relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design. Drawing on studies of work, science and te... Read more»
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My research is at the intersection of medical sociology and the social studies of science (or STS - Science and Technology Studies). My work has centred on the governance of new medical technologies, changing forms of citizenship, patient participation, and identity practices in relation to genetic ... Read more»
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Theo Vurdubakis is Professor of Organisation and Technology. A graduate of Athens University he completed his MSc and PhD at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he taught for fifteen years. His research interests include the role of technologies in social o... Read more»
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Research interests Sociology/anthropology/cultural studies of science The making and politicsof scientific knowledge, especially that relating tonature/the environment Scientific and other forms of expertise The making of classifications Public perceptions of environ... Read more»
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Technology and risk assessment Public risk perceptions Public understanding of science, focusing on the relations between expert and lay knowledge and policy decision-making
... Read more»
