Research Activities

When Should Precaution Prevail? Interests in (Public) Health the Risk of Harm and Xenotransplantation

This work continues my work in this field and use Mill's harm principle to argue that permitting clinical trials of xenotransplantation would currentl ... Read more»
Project staff: Sara Fovargue, Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Law, Medical and health-care law, Medical law and ethics, Risk

Xenotransplantation and Risk: Regulating a Developing Biotechnology

Some developing biotechnologies, particularly xenotransplantation, challenge accepted legal and ethical norms because of the risks they pose. If succ ... Read more»
Project staff: Sara Fovargue
Keywords: Law, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Regulation, Risk

Disability, Rights and Welfare: Gender, Ethnicity and Ruralit

The experience of rural life for disabled women has received little attention. There is little understanding of disabled women's experiences of rural ... Read more»
Project staff: Hannah Morgan, Donna Reeve, Karen Soldatic, Carol Thomas
Keywords: Disability, Gender, Rural communities, Social policy, Welfare, Welfare practices

Maternal Publics

'Maternal Publics' is concerned with mapping the intensification of the visibility of the maternal in arts, literature, politics, popular media and 'e ... Read more»
Project staff: Imogen Tyler

Migrancy Research Group

The Migrancy Research Group is a new grouping of staff and postgraduates working in the area of immigration, borders, citizenship, migrant workers, re ... Read more»
Project staff: Bruce Bennett, Sondra Cuban, Bulent Diken, Anne-Marie Fortier, Nick Gill, Julie Hearn, Victoria Mason, Nayanika Mookherjee, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Activism, Citizenship, Citizenship and secularism, Diaspora, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Exceptional State, Globalisation & mobility, Immigration law, Literatures of migration and diaspora, Migrants, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, Race and racism, State failure, States, State theory, Transnational and mobile criminality, Transnationalisation, Unaccompanied migrants, Unrecognised states

Social Activism Teaching and Research Cluster

There is an emerging cluster of interest within Sociology around the theme of 'social activism' that involves research on; the environment; health; no ... Read more»
Project staff: Bulent Diken, Anne-Marie Fortier, Adrian Mackenzie, Nayanika Mookherjee, Celia Roberts, Vicky Singleton, Lucy Suchman, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Richard Tutton, Imogen Tyler, Claire Waterton, Laura Watts

A Critique of the Rejection of Right in Contemporary Political Thought

In the wake of "war on terror" and the recent financial crisis the current political atmosphere is one of frustration. This frustration articulates it ... Read more»
Project staff: David M. Seymour
Keywords: Continental philosophy, Critical legal studies, Critical theory, Human rights, Jurisprudence, Law and politics, Political ontology

Book - Law, Religion and Business: A Critical Approach (work in progress) - co-editor

An edited collection (with Phil Lawton and Ian Bryan). ... Read more»
Project staff: Sarah Beresford
Keywords: Film, Gender, Law

Incomplete Justice: Prosecuting Pinochet in Chile

This project describes and analyses the struggle to prosecute the former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, in Chile from his return home in March 20 ... Read more»
Project staff: David Sugarman
Keywords: Chile, Human rights, Latin America, Law and society, Law in transition, Legal history

Minority Shareholder Protection in Five Jurisdictions

This project is is the work of a team consisting of Philip Lawton of the Lancaster Law school and Dr Mohammed Rizal Salim of the University of Notting ... Read more»
Project staff: Philip Lawton
Keywords: Corporate law, Corporations

The Legal Abolition of Faith Schools in the UK

A paper submitted for 'Religion, Civil Religion, and the Common Good', London Metropolitan University, 20th-21st June, 2012. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sarah Beresford

THE PINOCHET CASE: A LEGAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY

I am currently completing a book on the Pinochet Case from the perspective of a legal and social historian. I have conducted over 300 interviews in t ... Read more»
Project staff: David Sugarman
Keywords: Human rights, Latin America, Law, Law and globalization, Law and politics, Law and society, Legal history

Bridge

The Bridge Project (Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management), funded under the EU FP7 Security Theme, is one amongst sever ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Lucas Introna
Keywords: Computing, Design, Design and innovation, Design research, Ethics, Ethics of communication, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Europe, Everyday creativity, Experimental research, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Media ethics, Mobilities, Participatory research, Public engagement, Technology, Technoscience

CaTalyST

The CaTalyST (Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change) project will bring together a group of social scientists (sociology; anthropology), com ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Paul Coulton, Leon Cruickshank, Tim Dant, Rebecca Ellis, Drew Hemment, Gerd Kortuem, Ruth McNally, Lucy Suchman
Keywords: Design, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Experimental research, Imagination, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Participatory research, Social theory, Technology, Technoscience

Migrancy Research Group

The Migrancy Research Group is a new grouping of staff and postgraduates working in the area of immigration, borders, citizenship, migrant workers, re ... Read more»
Project staff: Bruce Bennett, Sondra Cuban, Bulent Diken, Anne-Marie Fortier, Nick Gill, Julie Hearn, Victoria Mason, Nayanika Mookherjee, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Activism, Citizenship, Citizenship and secularism, Diaspora, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Exceptional State, Globalisation & mobility, Immigration law, Literatures of migration and diaspora, Migrants, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, Race and racism, State failure, States, State theory, Transnational and mobile criminality, Transnationalisation, Unaccompanied migrants, Unrecognised states

New Interaction Order

This pilot project studies changing 'behaviour in public places'. Almost 50 years after Erving Goffman's seminal book on the topic (1963), later summa ... Read more»
Project staff: Christopher Boyko, Monika Büscher, Tim Dant, Karenza Moore
Keywords: Criminology, Design and innovation, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Political practice, Public engagement, Social policy, Sociology

Technologies and Travel

­­­The ESRC-funded Technologies and Travel research project examines socio-political conditions that have influenced, positively or negatively, the up ... Read more»
Project staff: Thomas Birtchnell, John Urry
Keywords: Automobilities, Mobilities, Technologies, Technology, Transportation, Travel

Foreign language reading for academic purposes

This empirical study looked into the relative contribution of three factors to academic reading: academic language knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: English for academic purposes EAP, Language proficiency, Language testing

Identifying Best Practice in ELT INSET

In-service teacher training (INSET) for English language teachers is an important but often relatively ineffective aspect of large-scale English langu ... Read more»
Project staff: Alan Waters
Keywords: Teacher learning in language teaching

Language, Educational Efficiency and Economic Outcomes (Le3o)

In the language testing sub-project of Le3o we investigated the development process of test materials for profession-oriented education in the first l ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: Language education, Language testing

Language learning motivation in Chile

In this project we investigated the language learning motivation of three cohorts of learners of English in Chile: secondary school students, universi ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos

Special education needs in language teaching and learning

In this age of globalization people who do not speak a second or a foreign language are at a serious disadvantage in the job market and sometimes even ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Language teaching research, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition, Special education needs

Tasks and assessing L2 listening comprehension

In this funded research project, we are investigating the relationships between text characteristics of task input, task difficulty, and test takers' ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition

Tasks, proficiency, working memory and assessing L2 listening comprehension

This funded project explores the effect of a number of variables on L2 listening difficulty, in relation to L2 proficiency. More specifically, we inve ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut, Andrea Révész
Keywords: Language proficiency, Language testing, Second language acquisition

The role of inter-cultural contact in motivation

In this project we investigated the role of inter-cultural contact in the motivation of Hungarian primary school children. We used both a nation-wide ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Motivation, Second language acquisition

The role of working memory and language aptitude in second language acquisition

in this non-funded project we investigated the role of working memory and language aptitude in intensive language learning in Hungary. We correlated w ... Read more»
Project staff: Judit Kormos
Keywords: Memory, Metalinguistic knowledge and foreign language acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition

'Laddism' in Higher Education

This research explores motives for 'laddish' behaviours among students studying sports science in a post 1992 university. ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Carolyn Jackson
Keywords: Education, Femininities, Gender, Gender and education, Higher education HE, Masculinities, Psychology, Sociology

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The KTP builds on a recently completed pilot study and will use medical education simulation case studies and inter-professional events as test-cases ... Read more»
Project staff: Gale Parchoma, Maria Zenios

Adult Learning, Basic Skills and Literacy

Adult Learning, Basic Skills and Literacy and the evaluation of Skills for Life CSET has strong links to the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. It i ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders

Barrow Engineering Project: Evaluation

REAP are evaluating the Barrow Engineering Project, a curriculum enrichment project that seeks to raise the profile of engineering among young people ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden

The Scottish Funding Council's Teaching and Learning Enhancement Strategy for Higher Education

CSET has won the contract to evaluate the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) flagship policy on teaching and learning in Scottish Higher Education. This ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Ashwin, Neil Lent, Murray Saunders, Cristina Sin, Paul Trowler, Sadie Williams

"Producing and performing 'communities': looking at the paradox of public participation and de-politicisation"

This is a three month scoping study under the AHRC's 'Connected Communities' Programme. The research aims to do a review of the literatures within pol ... Read more»
Project staff: Judith Tsouvalis, Claire Waterton
Keywords: Participation, Political theory, Science and technology studies, Science studies, Science, technology and society

Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Policy and Publics in Biodiversity

Taxonomy at a Crossraods is three year research project that has been awarded by the ESRC to Lancaster University and the Natural History Museum. The ... Read more»

Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images. 400 years after the Lancashire Witches.

2012 will mark the 400th anniversary of the trial and execution of the Lancashire Witches. This conference is part of a year long programme of events ... Read more»
Project staff: Charlotte Baker, Alison Findlay, Liz Oakley-Brown, Catherine Spooner

Writing Life: The Making of the Author in Germany's Media Age

This project focuses on authors as cultural artefacts, and is located at the cusp of humanist literary studies, cultural studies and the social scienc ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Braun
Keywords: Comparative literature, Contemporary literature, Culture and media, German language, culture and society, Literature, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Media, Postmodern literature, Twentieth-century culture, Twentieth-century literature, Twentieth-century popular culture

Bridge

The Bridge Project (Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management), funded under the EU FP7 Security Theme, is one amongst sever ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Lucas Introna
Keywords: Computing, Design, Design and innovation, Design research, Ethics, Ethics of communication, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Europe, Everyday creativity, Experimental research, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Media ethics, Mobilities, Participatory research, Public engagement, Technology, Technoscience

CaTalyST

The CaTalyST (Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change) project will bring together a group of social scientists (sociology; anthropology), com ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Paul Coulton, Leon Cruickshank, Tim Dant, Rebecca Ellis, Drew Hemment, Gerd Kortuem, Ruth McNally, Lucy Suchman
Keywords: Design, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Experimental research, Imagination, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Participatory research, Social theory, Technology, Technoscience

New Interaction Order

This pilot project studies changing 'behaviour in public places'. Almost 50 years after Erving Goffman's seminal book on the topic (1963), later summa ... Read more»
Project staff: Christopher Boyko, Monika Büscher, Tim Dant, Karenza Moore
Keywords: Criminology, Design and innovation, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Political practice, Public engagement, Social policy, Sociology

Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living

PERL is a partnership of educators and researchers from over 100 institutions in more than 40 countries-working to empower citizens to live responsibl ... Read more»
Project staff: Daniela Sangiorgi
Keywords: Service design, Urban sustainability

Discourse - Politics - Identity' Research Cluster

Using systematic interdisciplinary analysis of linguistic data, the IAS Research Cluster 'Discourse, Politics, Identity' focusses on proposing some in ... Read more»
Project staff: Michal Krzyzanowski

Lancaster Complexity Network

Following discussions at Lancaster about developing a research focus around the theme of complexity the University has established Lancaster Complexit ... Read more»
Project staff: John Urry

Material Culture and Consumption Research Group

Established in 2001, the Material Culture and Consumption Research Group cross-disciplinary/departmental in nature and has interests in all aspects of ... Read more»
Project staff: Graeme Gilloch
Keywords: Consumer, Consumerism, Consumption, Materiality

Performativity Research Group

Modernity is saturated with notions of performance and performativity. People can perform on stage, in an interview or lecture theatre. Organizations, ... Read more»
Project staff: Anthony Hesketh

Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces

This ESRC funded seminar series (RES-451-26-0731)which ran from 2009-10 considered the digital literacy practices taking place in virtual online space ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Children, Digital technologies

Computer programming for Linguistics

An effort to enhance teaching of computer-programming skills to PhD students in Linguistics and English Language. ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie
Keywords: Computerised corpora, Computer programming for the arts, Computing, Computing in the Humanities, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Humanities computing, Language, Linguistics

CORGRAM: Corpus-based grammar in contrast

The CORGRAM project is a quantitative investigation into the distributional properties of grammatical categories associated with nouns and verbs in th ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie, Ram Lohani, Olga Mudraya
Keywords: Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, European languages, Grammar, Grammatical theory and description, Language, Linguistics, Linguistic typology, Multilingual corpora, Quantitative linguistics, South Asia

CQPweb

CQPweb is a new web-based corpus analysis system. It provides a BNCweb-like interface to the IMS Corpus Workbench system. This interface is compatible ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie
Keywords: Corpus linguistics, Language, Quantitative linguistics