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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 (Organisation, Work and Technology)
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 (Communication Systems), Leon Cruickshank (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Tim Dant, Rebecca Ellis, Drew Hemment (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Gerd Kortuem (Computing), 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 (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Sondra Cuban (Educational Research), Bulent Diken, Anne-Marie Fortier, Nick Gill (Lancaster Environment Centre LEC), Julie Hearn (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR), Victoria Mason (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR), 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 (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Monika Büscher, Tim Dant, Karenza Moore (Applied Social Science)
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 (Law)
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

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