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Cooper, Rachel Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Philosophy of science and medicine.

Especially philosophy of psychiatry; the nature of disease; metaphysics and epistemology of medicine; classification in science.

Goodwin, Dawn Division of Health Research

Topics I would be interested in supervising include:

Diagnostic work in healthcare

Embodied knowledge

Accountability in healthcare

Medical practice, evidence and uncertainty

Medical science, technologies and devices

Mackenzie, Adrian Sociology

Technological and scientific cultures, social and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, especially in relation to new media, network cultures, critical design and post-genomic sciences.

Current and past PhD supervision:

Kingsley Dennis, 'New complexities: converging spaces of connectivity, communication, and collaboration' PhD, 2007 (co-supervised with J. Urry, Sociology)

Soren Mork Petersen, 'Common Banality: The Affective Character of Photo Sharing, Everyday Life and Produsage Cultures' PhD 2008 (co-supervised with T. L. Taylor, ITU Copenhagen)

Daniel Ashton, ' The industry of creativity: Economic frames, creative subjects and innovative technologies in process' PhD, 2009 (co-supervised with G. Gere, Institute for Cultural Research)

Kuo Wen-Ping, 'The production and consumption practices of online journalism in digital Taiwan' PhD 2009 (co-supervised with A. Cronin, Sociology)

Deidre Leahy, ' The epileptic as experimental subject'(co-supervised with P. Palladino, History)

Lara Houston, ' Inventive infrastructures - an exploration of mobile phone 'repair' cultures in Uganda' (co-supervised with L. Suchman, Sociology)

Charalampia Kerasidou, 'Ambient computing' (co-supervised with L. Suchman, Sociology)

May, Christopher Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

International Political Economy; Rule of Law

Moore, Karenza Applied Social Science

Drug and alcohol use (risks, harms, pleasures); clubbing/raving; electronic dance music (EDM) cultures; crime, deviance and transgressionin the night-time economy; national and international drug policy; youth crime; cybercrime; crime and new technologies; crime and the media; sociology of 'the future'.

Through my links with Lancaster University's Centre for Gender and Women's Studies (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/gws/index.php), I'm also interested in potential doctoral students in the areas of: female illicit drug use; gender and illicit drug use;gender and EDM club cultures.

Mort, Maggie Sociology

Topics I would be interested in supervising include:

science, technology and medicine studies - in particular studies of clinical practice, learning and evidence
telecare and domestic space - in particular governance and ethics of new care technologies
evidence in action studies - in particular lay ethnographies of technoscience
disaster and recovery studies

Pumfrey, Stephen History

Science, Medicine and Philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
Early English Books and the application of corpus linguistic analysis.
Patronage in Tudor and Stuart England
The intellectual history of magic and witchcraft.
Science, technology, private enterprise and the state in England, 1500-1800.

Singleton, Vicky Sociology

I welcome research students and have supervised 15 students researching in a range of substantive areas including; Caesarean section and women's right to choose, Surgical construction and treatment of obesity, Schizophrenia and psychiatric care, Young women, sexuality and Christian traditions, The co-evolution of children's bodies and prosthetic limbs. I am interested in and have expertise in qualitative research including participant observation, interviews, and textual analysis in the form of detailed case studies. In particular I am interested in research that seeks to articulate and to appreciate the work of practice of programmes, policies, interventions, systems and guidelines.

Tutton, Richard Sociology

I have supervised doctoral research in areas ranging from health and citizenship, biobanking and human tissue collections, enhancement and biomedicalization, and identity-formation in the context of genetic knowledge.

I currently supervise four students:

Lee Wan-Ju who is researching the Taiwanese biobank with reference to the political economy of the life sciences (with Brian Wynne)

Anna Portman who is investigating the scientific and social dynamics of the bicentennial celebrations of Charles Darwin's birth in 2009 (with Bronislaw Szerszynski)

Karolina Papros who, as part of the Polish Academy of Sciences-Lancaster University Dual PhD Programme, is working on the biopolitics and biosociality of breast cancer (with Vicky Singleton)

Tania Pastrana who is conducting an ethnography of a palliative care unit (with Dawn Goodwin).

I would welcome opportunities to supervise future doctoral students interested in working from a science studies or sociological perspective on biomedical or genetic technologies and services in medical, forensic and cultural arenas; questions of identity,citizenship and 'biosociality' in relation to genetic science and knowledge, or on the role of expectations or imaginaries in scientific and commercial innovation.

Waterton, Claire Sociology

The making of environmental knowledge.

The politics of environmental knowledge.

STS and the making and politics of databases.

Social studies of classifications.

Knowledge, practices and biodiversity.

The idea of the case study in STS.

A place for critique within STS.