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Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies (EFORTT)

This research asks what are the normative reasons for and implications of, the introduction of remote care technologies for frail elderly people, for ... Read more»

Project staff: Christine Milligan (Division of Health Research), Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts
Keywords: Ageing, Ethics, Ethnography, EU law and policy, Gender, Governance, Health and Older People, ICT, Identity, Public participation, Science and technology studies, Telecare, Telemedicine

Family Farming Practices

Considering the relationships between national policy and local practices on family farms in NW UK. ... Read more»

Project staff: John Law (Sociology), Vicky Singleton
Keywords: Farming, Science and technology studies

Melancholic States - International Conference

International Inter-disciplinary Conference 'Melancholic States', 27-29 September 2007. The concept of melancholia has assumed widespread and varie ... Read more»

Project staff: Anne-Marie Fortier, Gail Lewis (Sociology), Maureen McNeil, Nayanika Mookherjee, Celia Roberts, Jackie Stacey (Sociology), Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Emotions, Ethnography, Feminist theory, Hauntings, Memory, Postcolonial theory, Violence

Puberty: sexed bodies and global change

This project is a critical examination of puberty: what it is thought to be, how it is experienced, and how it is represented. The project has several ... Read more»

Project staff: Celia Roberts
Keywords: Biopolitics, Body image, Feminist theory, Parenting, Psychosocial interventions, Science studies, Science, technology and society