Research Activities

CAFCASS Pre-proceedings Pilot

This pilot project is funded by the national Child and Family Court Advisory Service (CAFCASS) and is based in two local authority areas in England. T ... Read more»
Project staff: Karen Broadhurst
Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, Public law, Social-legal studies, Social work

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

Emerging Drugs Trends in Lancashire

A two-year rolling programme of research on emergent drug trends in Lancashire, funded by Lancashire Drug and Alcohol Team (LDAAT). ... Read more»
Project staff: Fiona Measham, Karenza Moore
Keywords: Youth, Youth subculture

Interrogating 'borderline' cases in child protection

A 3 year ESRC funded CASE award that will examine decision-making in cases that are considered borderline, with respect to decisions to initiate care- ... Read more»

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

Bright Links evaluation

REAP are evaluating the Bright Links Engineering e-mentoring scheme which is a 3 year scheme run by the Royal Academy of Engineering in partnership wi ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden
Keywords: Education, E-learning, Engineering, Evaluation

Development of Postgraduate studies programme for practitioners, managers, policy makers of adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL

This programme of qualifications has been introduced to meet the Continuing Professional Development needs of experienced professionals in Adult Liter ... Read more»
Project staff: Mary Hamilton

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

'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

Pedagogic quality and inequality in university first degrees

This project will question the assumption that education in higher status universities is necessarily better and, will attempt to develop fairer defin ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrea Abbas (external), Paul Ashwin, Monica McLean (external)

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

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

CREME (Corpus Research in Early Modern English

We are an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis ... Read more»
Project staff: Jonathan Culpeper, Alison Findlay, Ian Gregory, Andrew Hardie, Liz Oakley-Brown, Stephen Pumfrey, Paul Rayson, Naomi Tadmor
Keywords: Automatic content analysis, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Discourse analysis, Early modern England, Early modern English, Historical and diachronic corpora, History of English, History of experimental science, History of medicine, History of philosophy, History of science, History of the Book, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Language change, Linguistics, Natural philosophy, Religious history, Seventeenth century, Seventeenth-century culture, Seventeenth-century literature, Sixteenth-century, Sixteenth-century culture, Sixteenth-century literature, Theatre history

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

Jelinek in the Arena

Allyson Fiddler (DELC), Rebecca Braun (DELC) and Karen Juers-Munby (LICA)are planning activities and a conference on the work of Austrian Nobel-Prizin ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Braun, Allyson Fiddler, Karen Juers-Munby
Keywords: Acting and performing, Austria, Comparative literature, Contemporary literature, Literature, Literature and gender, Literature and location, Literature and politics, Performance, Performance and historical studies, Performance practice, Political literature, Sport, Sporting culture, Text and performance, Theatre and performance, Theories of acting and performing, Transcultural writing, Translating and interpreting, Translation, Twentieth-century literature

Non-lyric Discourse in Contemporary Poetry: Spaces, Subjects, Enunciative Hybridization, Mediality

This project, run from the University of Santiago de Compostela and in collaboration with several other Spanish universities, enquires into modern and ... Read more»
Project staff: Cornelia Graebner
Keywords: Contemporary literary studies, Literary and cultural theory, Literary criticism, Literary stylistics, Literary theory, Modern & contemporary poetry in English, Performance poetry, Poetry, Poetry and place, Poetry installations

Poetics of Resistance

"Poetics of Resistance" (PoR) is a network of researchers, activists and cultural producers from Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. Network members a ... Read more»
Project staff: Cornelia Graebner
Keywords: Comparative literature, Contemporary literary studies, Contemporary literature, Cross-cultural studies of literacy, Cultural theory, Globalisation, Hispanic studies, Latin America, Latin American cultural theory, Literary and cultural theory, Literary theory, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Performance poetry, Poetry, Poetry and place, Political literature, Twentieth-century literature

Researching and Writing About Africa: A One Day Postgraduate Workshop

The African Studies Group at Lancaster University is organising a workshop for postgraduate students undertaking fieldwork in or research relating to ... Read more»
Project staff: Charlotte Baker

Resisting Haiderisation

I'm writing a book about the many forms of cultural resistance to right-wing populism in Austria. When Jörg Haider's 'liberal' party formed part of a ... Read more»
Project staff: Allyson Fiddler
Keywords: Contemporary popular culture, German language, culture and society, Literature and politics, Novel, Performance, Popular culture, Theatre studies

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

Language and Literacies of Young Caribbeans in Manchester

Information to follow shortly. ... Read more»
Project staff: Susan Dray, Mark Sebba

Ageing and Biomedicine

The configuration of ageing offers great scope for a critical inquiry into the structure of contemporary bio-political governmentality and associated ... Read more»
Project staff: Paolo Palladino
Keywords: Ageing, History, Science and technology studies, Sociology

Common Rules. The regulation of institutions for managing commons in Europe 1100-1800

The project, funded by the Netherlands Research Council (NOW), is a partnership between scholars in the universities of Utrecht, (Netherlands), Navarr ... Read more»

CREME (Corpus Research in Early Modern English

We are an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis ... Read more»
Project staff: Jonathan Culpeper, Alison Findlay, Ian Gregory, Andrew Hardie, Liz Oakley-Brown, Stephen Pumfrey, Paul Rayson, Naomi Tadmor
Keywords: Automatic content analysis, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Discourse analysis, Early modern England, Early modern English, Historical and diachronic corpora, History of English, History of experimental science, History of medicine, History of philosophy, History of science, History of the Book, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Language change, Linguistics, Natural philosophy, Religious history, Seventeenth century, Seventeenth-century culture, Seventeenth-century literature, Sixteenth-century, Sixteenth-century culture, Sixteenth-century literature, Theatre history

Disputatious Societies: the 17th-century Caribbean

This is a generic title given to a host of research projects made possible by the collection and centralisation of globally-dispersed primary sources ... Read more»
Project staff: Sarah Barber

English Folk Society

This project uses a number of different types of source - expanding the theoretical and methodological base of history - to construct a 'folk' definit ... Read more»
Project staff: Sarah Barber

Lancashire Manorial Records

This project, funded by The National Archives (TNA), aims to complete an up-to-date and electronic version of the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) fo ... Read more»

The Coe press

This work supplements an article published in _History Workshop Journal_ (70, 2010, pp.1-26), which analyses the history of a single woodcut image, ov ... Read more»
Keywords: Art, Art/cultural history, Seventeenth century, Seventeenth-century culture, Seventeenth-century radical sects, Teaching and assessment, Teaching and learning, The pedagogy of history, Violence, Visual culture

Victoria County History - Cumbria

This project is a partnership between the History Department at Lancaster, the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London (which own ... Read more»

Village Byelaws

This project aims to build a corpus of agrarian byelaws from northern England in the late-medieval and early modern periods, to provide materials to a ... Read more»
Project staff: Angus Winchester
Keywords: Agriculture, Archives, Common land, Environment, Landscape, Law, Regions

World of William Gilbert

A Gilbert website is being developed with three aims: (1) to provide information and links on Gilbert and Gilbert-related research; (2) to provide occ ... Read more»
Project staff: Stephen Pumfrey

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

Design 2020

Design 2020 is a research project undertaken by the Lancaster University in partnership with the University of Salford and British Design Innovation. ... Read more»
Project staff: Rachel Cooper, Martyn Evans

Jelinek in the Arena

Allyson Fiddler (DELC), Rebecca Braun (DELC) and Karen Juers-Munby (LICA)are planning activities and a conference on the work of Austrian Nobel-Prizin ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Braun, Allyson Fiddler, Karen Juers-Munby
Keywords: Acting and performing, Austria, Comparative literature, Contemporary literature, Literature, Literature and gender, Literature and location, Literature and politics, Performance, Performance and historical studies, Performance practice, Political literature, Sport, Sporting culture, Text and performance, Theatre and performance, Theories of acting and performing, Transcultural writing, Translating and interpreting, Translation, Twentieth-century literature

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

Recent Publications

"Doctor Alan Hart: X-Ray Vision in the Archive", Australian Feminist Studies, Vol.25, Issue 64 (June 2010): 175-187 ... Read more»

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»
Keywords: Continental philosophy, Critical theory, Human rights, Jurisprudence, Law and politics, Political ontology

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

Common Law World Review, British Association for Canadian Studies, Legal Studies Group Special Issue

Following the British Association for Canadian Studies International Annual Conference (March 2009, St Anne's College Oxford UK) I have edited a speci ... Read more»
Project staff: Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Keywords: Identity, Identity politics, Law, Law and politics, Law and society

Creating a child centred asylum policy

The UK recently removed its reservation to the UNCRC in relation to refugee children. The BCIA 2009 also introduced, for the first time into immigrati ... Read more»
Project staff: Georgina Firth
Keywords: Asylum, Children, Human rights, Immigration law, Migrants, Migration, Policy, Refugee

Exploitation, the doctor-patient relationship and the criminal law

I am writing 2 co-authored papers with Professor Hazel Biggs which explore whether it is appropriate for harmful exploitation in the doctor-patient re ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Crime and society, Criminal law, Health care, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Medical law, Medical law and ethics

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

Medicine and Bioethics in the 'Theatre' of the Criminal Process

This book, co-authored with Professor Margaret Brazier (School of Law, University of Manchester), will provide an account of how the criminal courts c ... Read more»
Project staff: Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Bioethics, Criminal justice, Criminal law, Health care, Law and literature, Law and society, Medical law, Medicine, Theatre

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

One step forward, two steps back?: The GMC, the common law and 'informed' consent

Until 2008 if doctors followed the General Medical Council's (GMC) guidance on providing information prior to obtaining a patient's consent to treatme ... Read more»
Project staff: Sara Fovargue
Keywords: Medical and health-care law, Medical law and ethics

Picturing the Self: Personal Imagery and New Media

In conjunction with colleagues from Sociology following the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies research day and the Sociology Department Seminar on ... Read more»
Project staff: Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Keywords: ICT, Identity, Identity politics, Media, Media arts, Multimedia technologies

Sadomasochism, Technology and Law

This project considers the interconnections between sadomasochism, law and technology ... Read more»
Project staff: Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Keywords: Cyberspace, Law and society, Legal, Lesbian and gay issues in social policy, LGBT, Sexualities, Sexual offences, Social technologies

The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope

This volume will offer balanced arguments that will help the reader form a reasoned view on the ethical legitimacy of the invocation of the criminal l ... Read more»
Project staff: Sara Fovargue, Suzanne Ost
Keywords: Bioethics, Criminal justice, Criminal law, End of life, Ethics, Euthanasia, Science, Science and technology, Science, technology and society, Technologies

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

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

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

CREME (Corpus Research in Early Modern English

We are an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis ... Read more»
Project staff: Jonathan Culpeper, Alison Findlay, Ian Gregory, Andrew Hardie, Liz Oakley-Brown, Stephen Pumfrey, Paul Rayson, Naomi Tadmor
Keywords: Automatic content analysis, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Discourse analysis, Early modern England, Early modern English, Historical and diachronic corpora, History of English, History of experimental science, History of medicine, History of philosophy, History of science, History of the Book, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Language change, Linguistics, Natural philosophy, Religious history, Seventeenth century, Seventeenth-century culture, Seventeenth-century literature, Sixteenth-century, Sixteenth-century culture, Sixteenth-century literature, Theatre history

Diagnosis of reading proficiency in a second or foreign language

The ability to read in a second or foreign language is important for business people, academic researchers, politicians and professionals in many fiel ... Read more»
Project staff: J. Charles Alderson

DYLAN: Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity EU-Sixth-Framework Integrated Project (IP)

DYLAN: Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity EU-Sixth-Framework Integrated Project (IP) ... Read more»
Project staff: Bernhard Forchtner, Michal Krzyzanowski, Ruth Wodak

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 and Literacies of Young Caribbeans in Manchester

Information to follow shortly. ... Read more»
Project staff: Susan Dray, Mark Sebba

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

Metaphor in End-of-Life Care

The primary aim of this project is to investigate the use of metaphor in the experience of end-of-life care in the UK. We will study the metaphors use ... Read more»
Project staff: Andrew Hardie, Veronika Koller, Sheila Payne, Paul Rayson, Elena Semino

Multicultural London English: the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety

The project examines the role of ethnic minority English in driving forward linguistic innovation in the capital on the levels of phonetics, grammar a ... Read more»
Project staff: Jenny Cheshire (external), Sue Fox (external), Paul Kerswill, Arfaan Khan (external), Eivind Torgersen
Keywords: Adolescent, English grammar, English language, English phonetics, Language variation and change, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Syntax

Phonological levelling, diffusion & divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland

The project, coordinated by Dr Kevin Watson and Professor Paul Kerswill, will investigate the roles of and interaction between linguistic and non-ling ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Kerswill, Kevin Watson
Keywords: English phonetics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics

Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax

The RHIM project, funded by the AHRC as part of the ESF Babel initiative, explores morphosyntactic systems that are based on a hierarchy of referents ... Read more»
Project staff: Anna Siewierska, Eva van Lier
Keywords: Grammar, Language typology, Morphology, Personhood, Reference, Syntax

Socio-pragmatic competence of L2-doctors

This study looked into the socio-pragmatic competence of doctors using an L2 on the workfloor. L2-doctors' use of modification when communicating with ... Read more»
Project staff: Tineke Brunfaut
Keywords: Language proficiency, Second language acquisition

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

Cultural Political Economy Research Centre

The Cultural Political Economy cluster was established in 2003 and it subsequently developed into a Cultural Political Economy Centre in 2009. The Cen ... Read more»
Project staff: Ngai-Ling Sum

Epistemic restraint and information privacy

Neil Manson is working on the topic of \"epistemic restraint\" In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in epistemic virtues. But the ... Read more»

Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity

Alison Stone is writing a book on this subject which is under contract with Routledge. ... Read more»
Project staff: Alison Stone
Keywords: Feminism, Feminist literary and cultural theory, Feminist philosophy, Feminist theory, Gender, Gender identities, Parenting, Psychoanalytic thought

I.Family - Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents

I.Family - Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents ... Read more»
Project staff: Garrath Williams
Keywords: Children, Food, Health

Muslim Women Reading Religious Texts

Muslim Women Reading Religious Texts in Britain and Egypt (2010-2011) is a small research project funded by Lancaster University to investigate how co ... Read more»
Project staff: Shuruq Naguib

Nature in German Idealism and Romanticism

Alison Stone is working on a book on ideas of nature in German Idealism and Early German Romanticism. The book will look at writings by Hoelderlin, F. ... Read more»
Project staff: Alison Stone
Keywords: German idealism, Metaphysics, Natural philosophy, Nature, Subjectivity

Nineteenth Century Philosophy

Alison Stone has edited a collection of articles on Nineteenth Century Philosophy. This is vol. 5 of the Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy seri ... Read more»
Project staff: Alison Stone
Keywords: German idealism, History of philosophy

Rule of Law

This research project looks at the discourse of the Rule of Law and its function as the 'common-sense' of global politics. It seeks to understand the ... Read more»

The Ethics of Spin

Neil Manson is currently engaged in research on the ethics of spin, especially political spin. Spin and spin doctoring seem to be a less than virtuou ... Read more»
Keywords: Ethics, Ethics of communication, Media, Propaganda

The European Union Geopolitical Discourse

This project analyses the development of a geopolitical discourse within the EU and its practical implications in terms of power projection. ... Read more»
Project staff: Basil Germond
Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, Discourse, European Union, Post-structuralism

The Future of Consent

Neil Manson and Dave Archard are engaged in research on the future of consent. So far they have held two workshops - one in China and one in the Unit ... Read more»
Keywords: Bioethics, Ethics, Ethics of communication, Medical ethics

The Maritime Dimension of Security

I am writing a monograph on the Maritime Dimension of European Security. I discuss the following aspects: The role of the sea for European security, ... Read more»
Project staff: Basil Germond
Keywords: European Union, Maritime, Security

The Young Atheists

This is a one year exploratory project, supported by the Jacobs Foundation, comprising qualitative research young people engaged with atheist, humanis ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Catto

Religion and Society Programme

This is a £12.3m research programme, which is jointly funded by the AHRC and ESRC. It runs from 2007-2012 and funds around 80 separate research p ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Catto, Linda Woodhead

Agrifood Nanotechnologies

This project examines the development of nanotechnologies in the agrifood sector, with special interest in their relation to biotechnologies, as well ... Read more»

Alternative futures for agriculture and agricultural research

I have a longstanding interest in alternative futures for agriculture and agricultural research, including the complex relations between agricultural ... Read more»

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

Certification and accreditation of food and agricultural products

Third Party Certification of food products is becoming increasingly widespread, as are systems of certification and accreditation that link a wide ran ... Read more»

Changing Infrastructures, Measuring Exclusion (CHIME)

The project is funded by the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DLTR), and spans the concerns of a number of academic and gove ... Read more»
Project staff: Noel Cass, Elizabeth Shove, John Urry
Keywords: Environment, Methodology, Mobilities, Theories of practice

Making Asylum Seekers Legible and Visible: An Analysis of the Dilemmas and Mitigating Strategies of Asylum Advocacy

Making Asylum Seekers Legible and Visible: An Analysis of the Dilemmas and Mitigating Strategies of Asylum Advocacy in the UK and US. This is an ESRC ... Read more»

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

Neoliberalism and Global Governance

In recent years there has been a virtual explosion of standards, certifications, and accreditations in response to neoliberal approaches to governance ... Read more»
Keywords: Governance, Neo-liberalism

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

Picturing the Self: Personal Imagery and New Media

In conjunction with colleagues from Sociology following the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies research day and the Sociology Department Seminar on ... Read more»
Project staff: Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Keywords: ICT, Identity, Identity politics, Media, Media arts, Multimedia technologies

"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

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

Standards

I am currently finishing a general volume on standards. This volume is an attempt to synthesize the vast body of literature on various kinds of stand ... Read more»
Keywords: Standardization and generalisation

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»

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