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Büscher, Monika

• mobilities research
• creative practice
• ethnomethodological and ethnographic studies
• innovation and socio-technical change
• ubiquitous computing
• computer supported collaborative work
• digital economy

Dant, Tim

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in all aspects of the sociology of material life but in particular: material interaction, material civilization, consumption, everyday technology andembodied practices with objects including cars and bicycles. I also have a continuing interest in critical social theory and modern French social theory including the work of Henri Lefebvre, Jean Baudrillard and Pierre Bourdieu. More recently I have been researching the theme of the morality of ordinary life in relation to television and the broadcast media. I would welcome applications from potential doctoral students in all of these areas.

Fortier, Anne-Marie

I would be interested in supervising research students within the areas related to my research interests, for example: Multiculturalisms; 'race', racisms; Migration and related aspects, including but not restricted to: migrant/diasporic/transnational lives; migration and national politics (policies, border controls, etc.). Sexuality and migration including but not restricted to: queer migrants and migrations; sexuality and migration (e.g. sexuality and border control); migrant sex workers; intimacy and migration. Citizenship and related including but not restricted to: cultural aspects of citizenship, sexual citizenship, intimate citizenship, citizenship and affect, or transnational citizenship; citizenship training or the like (e.g. citizenship curriculum in England; citizenship classes and ceremonies for immigrants), and so on.

Gilloch, Graeme

My main areas of research and supervisory interest are:

Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School (especially, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer)

Contemporary social and cultural theory (especially continental theory)

Visual culture (especially film and photography)

Metrropolitan and urban culture and theory

Sociology and literature

Autobiography, biography, history and memory

Holocaust studies

Jessop, Bob

I am particularly interested in receiving applications to work in the following fields:

• state theory,
• governance and governance failure,
• cultural political economy,
• contemporary capitalism (including varieties of capitalism and variegated capitalism)

Applicants should be aware that I will be retiring from a full-time academic position in 2013 and, while I will be able to supervise existing students to completion after that date, applicants for 2010-2011 onwards will need a co-supervisor from within the Faculty to ensure continuity of supervision. I am willing to assist applicants in the search for suitable co-supervisors.

Mackenzie, Adrian

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)

McNeil, Maureen

• politics, theories, representations and popular narratives of reproduction
• feminist technoscience studies
• genomics and the media
• bioart and genomics
• popular biographies of scientists
• science and technology in popular culture
• cultural studies of technoscience
• power, theory and knowledge (particularly with reference to gender)
• feminist theory, practice and pedagogy
• class politics and relations, gender and class, inequalities and social justice

Mort, Maggie

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

Roberts, Celia

Supervision

I am interested in a number of research areas, mostly focusing on issues relating to health, embodiment, sexuality, reproduction and biology.

I have co-supervised 5 PhD students to completion to date and all have passed with no or minor amendments:

• Lin Wen-Yuan (2005) who worked on kidney dialysis in Taiwan;
• Kaori Sasaki (2006) who worked on brain death and organ transplantation in Japan;
• Ranjini C.R. (2006) who worked on health information systems in southern India;
• Anne Rudolph (2009) whose thesis focussed on young lesbian, bi-sexual and queer women's understandings of sexually transmitted infections; and
• Clare Hollowell (2010) who studied young women's experiences of fun.

I have seven current phD students:

• Li-Wen Shih, who is studying reproductive technologies and genetic testing in Taiwan (Taiwanese funding)
• Brigit Morris-Coulton, who is working on mental health recovery and arts practices (ESRC-funded)
• Rebecca Fox, who is working on women with learning disabilities living in secure accomodation (ESRC-funded)
• Kate McNicolas-Smith, who is working on young people and sex education (ESRC-funded)
• Joann Wilkinon, who is researching reproductive biosensors (funded by Intel)
• Oscar Maldonado, researching the HPV vaccine in Colombia, the US and the UK (Colombian government funding)
• Ali Hanbury, also researching the HPV vaccine in the UK (ERC funded).

All of these are empirical research projects, using methods such as participant observation, interviewing, online methods and textual analysis. I am deeply interested in feminist and social theory and am an editor of a leading feminist journal, Feminist Theory. I am very keen to work with postgraduate students on these themes relating to feminist theory, embodiment and sexuality, either in Sociology or Women's Studies. Prospective students should feel free to contact me by email to discuss the possibility of studying at Lancaster.

Sayer, Andrew

Political economy, moral economy, normativity and ethics in everyday life, inequality, employment and organisational life, climate change, social theory and the philosophy of social science. Postdisciplinary proposals particularly welcome!

I am keen to supervise empirical and theoretical research relating to any of the above topics, preferably pursued in a post-disciplinary manner, and having some concern for the implications for human well-being! There may be possibilities for co-supervision not only with colleagues in Sociology, but also colleagues in other departments with complementary interests. For example, I could co-supervise someone interested in political and economic discourses with Prof. Ruth Wodak in Linguistics, or I could co-supervise someone interested in social policy working with Karen Broadhurst or others in the Department of Applied Social Science, and I have also had links with human geography in the past. I also welcome visiting research students who are doing PhDs elsewhere but want to spend a term or two in Lancaster with some supervision from me. Please email me if you'd like to discuss research possibilities.

Shove, Elizabeth

Research students welcome on topics relating to innovations in practice - for instance in digital photography, and other changing and emerging hobbies and habits including DIY (home improvement); or outdoor pursuits; any applications of theories of practice to the study of markets (e.g. services) and/or organisations; or studies of failed technologies (in collaboration with Luis Araujo, Management School). Projects on changing infrastructures and institutions of everyday consumption - e.g. electricity, waste, water (with Will Medd or Gordon Walker in Geography).

Allison Hui: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/pgrprofiles/259/

Shireen Chilcott: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/pgrprofiles/202/

Julien McHardy: Electric bikes - design, testing and use

YiPing Cheng: storage and display in Taiwanese homes

Maarten van der Kamp: making and implementing organic food standards

Martin Green: Everyday climate change,seasonality, adaptability and demand

Stan Webster: The routines and rhythms sustainability

Janine Morley: Energy consuming practices

Singleton, Vicky

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.

Suchman, Lucy

I'm interested in supervising postgraduate research in science and technology studies, particularly projects involving ethnographic research on any aspects of practices of technology design/production and consumption/use, and in the area of feminist technoscience, particularly with respect to information and communications technologies; robotics, artificial intelligence and the cyborg; human-computer interaction and new media.

Tutton, Richard

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.

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Twine, Richard

I welcome docotoral research students in the following areas:

• Animal Studies - especially Animals and Biotechnology
• Post-dualistic ontology in Sociology
• Intersectionality - especially including the nonhuman
• The Political Economy of Animal Agriculture
• Gender Studies - Masculinities / Feminist Theory / Ecofeminism
• Posthumanism (critical)
• Food and Sustainability

Tyfield, David

I am currently supervising:

LI Jianmin: Corporate governance in China(with Prof Michael Kraetke)

Stephen Jackson: Rhetorics and scandal regarding climate change (with Dr Tim Dant)

I would be interested in proposals for doctoral students in the following areas:

- Political economy of science, technology and innovation, particularly regarding the life sciences and/or climate change

- Mobilities innovation

- Low-carbon transitions

- Science, technology and innovation in China

- Cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan sociology

- Philosophy of social science, especially regarding issues of critical realism

Tyler, Imogen

I welcome PhD applications in any of my areas of research. Please feel free to contact me to discuss preliminary ideas for PhD proposals or postdoctoral applications.

Postdoctoral Student

Dr Maja Sager, COFAS postdoctoral fellow based between Lund University, Sweden, and Lancaster University. Project: `Contested Boundaries. An ethnographic study of activist practices for the inclusion of excluded migrants in Sweden, Denmark and UK'. Majabegins her fellowship in the Autumn of 2012and at Lancaster will bebased in the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, and the Centre for Mobilities research in the Sociology Department. Shewill also be joining the research network www.asylum-network.org.

PhD students

Clay Garland Governmentality and citizenship at the UK's internal borders (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Kate McNicholas Smith Empowering Sexual Citizens: Designing and Delivering Sex Education for Contemporary Adolescents (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Brigit Colson Arts in Mental Health Provision (ESRC 1 plus 3)

Dr Maja Sager `Clandestine asylum seekers in the Swedish welfare state' (visiting PhD student,The Centre for Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden 2008-2009, Graduated 2011).

Dr Clare Woolhouse`Women's Magazines' (Graduated 2010, AHRC)

Dr Katherine Harrison: 'Terror-Democracy: An Iconography' (Graduated 2008, AHRC)

Dr. Fiona Summers: `Unanticipated Space: Embodied Encounters in Contemporary Visual Culture` (Graduated 2006, AHRB)

Urry, John

mobilities, complexity theory, tourism, transportation, contemporary capitalism, climate change and social science

Waterton, Claire

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.