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Advertising in the City: Making the Political and Symbolic Economies of Urban Spaces
This is an ESRC funded project which examines the UK outdoor advertising industry and its relationhship to urban space. It involves ethnographic resea ... Read more»
Project staff: Anne Cronin
Keywords: Advertising and the media, Cities, Representation, Spatiality, Urban studies
Affective Apparatus, Senses and the Nation-state
This project seeks to explore the configuration of the nation-state through the evocation of senses by various affective apparatus (like museums, memo ... Read more»
Project staff: Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Emotions, Ethnography, Memorials, Memory, Museums, Nation, Political Anthropology, South Asia, Utopia, Violence, War
Affective citizenship
This study centres on ongoing developments in the politics of 'community cohesion' in Britain, and examines how interethnic proximities are conceived, ... Read more»
Alternative Automobility Futures
The aim of this research project is to construct various alternative post-car futures taking into account prevailing and potential global economic, te ... Read more»
Project staff: Kingsley Dennis, John Urry
ARGONA (Arenas for Risk Governance)
Argona is a project within the sixth Euratom research and training Framework Programme (FP6) on nuclear energy of the European Commission. The project ... Read more»
Project staff: Larry Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Governance, Public policy, Technology
ATHENA (European Women's Studies Network) PhD Handbook
ATHENA is an EU-funded thematic network of Women's Studies academics and students in Europe. The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies is an active me ... Read more»
Project staff: Maureen McNeil, Celia Roberts
Keywords: Feminist research methodologies, Gender, Science studies, Science, technology and society, Women's studies
CARGO (Comparison of Approaches to Risk Governance)
The CARGO Project (Comparison of Approaches to Risk Governance) is organized within the Science and Society area of the European Union Sixth Framework ... Read more»
Project staff: Larry Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Governance, Public policy, Technology
Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society
Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR)
Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society
Comfort in a lower carbon society Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells and Loren Lutzenhiser have edited a special issue of Building Research and Infor ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
Keywords: Everyday life culture, Science, technology and society
Design for Flexibility and Change within Health Service Providers (DFC)
This project explores how medical practitioners can mobilize local and expert domain knowledge and dovetail it with new design and managerial skills t ... Read more»
Keywords: Design and innovation, Ethnography, Health services research, Human-centered design
Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies (EFORTT)
This research asks what are the normative reasons for and implications of, the introduction of remote care technologies for frail elderly people, for ... Read more»
Project staff: Christine Milligan (Division of Health Research), Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts
Keywords: Ageing, Ethics, Ethnography, EU law and policy, Gender, Governance, Health and Older People, ICT, Identity, Public participation, Science and technology studies, Telecare, Telemedicine
Ethics and Ethnographic Research
Co-awarded, 'ESRC Research Training Programme: Ethics and Ethical Practice in Social Science, 2006-2009' ... Read more»
Project staff: David Archard (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR), Hazel Biggs (Law), Christine Milligan (Division of Health Research), Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Conflict, Ethnography, Human rights, Research ethics, Sociology, Violence, War
European Patient Organizations in Knowledge Society (EPOKS)
EPOKS is a large European project examining a variety of patient organisations. At Lancaster University we are focusing on childbirth organisations, a ... Read more»
Project staff: Celia Roberts, Candice Satchwell, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Choice, Everyday literacy practices, Knowledge, Knowledge exchange
Experimentality
Experimentality is the the 2009-10 Annual Research Programme of the Institute For Advanced Studies, Lancaster University. Taking the form of a series ... Read more»
Project staff: Bronislaw Szerszynski
Feminist Media Studies reading group
The main purpose of the first meeting of the reading group is to think about how the group will develop over the next academic year. Our proposed foc ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Coleman, Debra Ferreday, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Femininities, Feminist and critical race theory, Feminist literary and cultural theory, Feminist philosophy, Feminist research methodologies, Feminist theory, Gender, Gender identities, Women's studies
Gender in Cultural Practice
This is a research project with colleagues at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and Lancaster University funded primarily by the Dutch governm ... Read more»
Project staff: Anne Cronin, Alison Findlay (English and Creative Writing), Hilary Hinds (English and Creative Writing)
Keywords: Cities, Culture, Gender, Spatiality
Global Citizenship and the Environment
The aim of the project was to explore whether there was any empirical basis for the emergence of an awareness of "global citizenship", a sense of belo ... Read more»
Project staff: Greg Myers (Linguistics and English Language), Bronislaw Szerszynski, John Urry
Global Welcome? Migrant workers, service cultures, tourist places.
The project will undertake a socio-cultural analysis of the welcome provided to and by migrant workers employed in hospitality venues in the English L ... Read more»
Project staff: Viv Cuthill
Keywords: Cultural geography, Hospitality, Migration, Mobilities, Service work, Sociology, Tourism
Growing Places
Growing places: a study of change in The National Forest' was undertaken by social scientists John Urry and Jake Morris from the Social Science Depart ... Read more»
Project staff: John Urry
Immigrant Protest
Call for Papers Citizenship Studies Special Issue: IMMIGRANT PROTEST Guest co-editors: Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University, USA) and Imogen Tyler ... Read more»
Project staff: Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Activism, Cartography, Class politics, Cultural theory, Identity politics, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, National identities, Political theory, Postcolonial theory, Psychosocial interventions, Racialisation, Refugee, Social inequalities
Innovative Media for a Digital Economy EPSRC Digital Economy cluster
Our research on digital economies investigates practices of exchange that are emerging around the capabilities of social, pervasive and mobile technol ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Daniela Sangiorgi (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)
Keywords: Digital technologies, Everyday life culture, Social technologies
Innovative Media for a Digital Economy (IMDE)
In this research cluster, we investigate digital economy practices that are emerging around the capabilities of social, mobile and pervasive technolog ... Read more»
Keywords: Design and innovation, Technology
International Workshop on Transnational High Tech Strategies in a Globalized World
International Workshop on Transnational High Tech Strategies in a Globalized World ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR)
Lancaster Patient Safety Research Unit
The Unit was founded in January 2008: http://www.lpsru.org.uk/ The unit is a collaboration between the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Tr ... Read more»
Latin America Research Cluster
The Latin American Research Cluster (LARC) was founded in the summer of 2009 over a series of informal meetings between members of staff across the un ... Read more»
Project staff: Mark Bailey (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR), Javier Caletrío, Andrew Dawson (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR), Rebecca Ellis, Cornelia Graebner (European Languages and Cultures), Julie Hearn (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR), Michael R. Kräetke, Paul Oldham, David Sugarman (Law), Amit Thakkar (European Languages and Cultures)
Keywords: Colonialism, Contemporary literature, Development, Globalisation, Latin America, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Modernity, Political literature, Political philosophy, Theories of modernity
Materialities of Animals and Farming
Farming is a practical activity, messy and material. It involves interactions between people, technologies, animals, and natural forces. I'm working o ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law, Vicky Singleton
Keywords: Agriculture, Farming, Materiality, Science and technology studies, Science studies, Science, technology and society, Technoscience
Mediterranean Mobilities Network
mediterranean mobilities is an international collective of researchers that takes the form of a network. By different entry points and through diverse ... Read more»
Mediterranean Research Network
Medmobilities is an international collective of researchers that takes the form of a network. By different entry points and through diverse perspectiv ... Read more»
Project staff: Javier Caletrío, John Urry
Keywords: Environment, Europe, European identity, European society, Migration, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, Tourism, Travel
Melancholic States - International Conference
International Inter-disciplinary Conference 'Melancholic States', 27-29 September 2007. The concept of melancholia has assumed widespread and varie ... Read more»
Project staff: Anne-Marie Fortier, Gail Lewis, Maureen McNeil, Nayanika Mookherjee, Celia Roberts, Jackie Stacey, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Emotions, Ethnography, Feminist theory, Hauntings, Memory, Postcolonial theory, Violence
Methods for Researching Non-Coherent Realities
If the social world is not coherent, then how might we research and represent it? Many social science methods assume that descriptions of the world th ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Method, Qualitative methods, Qualitative research methods, Research methods
Mobilities futures for a Digital Economy (MODE)
Current debates, and especially Dennis and Urry's thesis in 'After the car' (Polity), suggest that the current automobility system of privately-owned, ... Read more»
Keywords: Design and innovation, Mobilities, Technology
Multiplicity and Disaster: Foot and Mouth 2001
Foot and mouth came to the UK in 2001 with devastating consequences for many, especially in rural communities. This project is exploring many aspects ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Farming, Materiality, Science and technology studies, Science, technology and society
PACT: Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration through social Technology systems
PACT (Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration) is a pilot study funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The a ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Daniela Sangiorgi (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)
PAGANINI (Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation)
PAGANINI is investigating the ways in which participatory practices contribute to problem solving in a dynamic cluster of policy areas concerning the ... Read more»
Project staff: Larry Reynolds, Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Biotechnology, EU law and policy, Governance, Public policy, Technology
PalCom: Making computing palpable
As computing technologies become an ever more 'invisible' and powerful part of our lives, it is crucial that people are supported in understanding wha ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Dan Shapiro
Keywords: Computing, Ethnography, Participatory research
Performativity and Research Methods
Research methods both describe the world and help to enact it into being. I have a continuing concern in the empirical and political responsibilities ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Method, Qualitative methods, Qualitative research methods, Research methods
Producing and performing 'communities': Looking at the paradox of public participation and de-politicisation'
This scoping study forms part of the development process of the AHRC's new cross-Research Council programme on 'Connected Communities'. Other councils ... Read more»
Project staff: Judith Tsouvalis, Claire Waterton
Keywords: Community, Environment, Participatory research, Political theory, Science and technology studies, Science studies, Science, technology and society
Producing and performing 'Communities': looking at the paradox of public participation and de-politicization
This three month study is funded by the AHRC under its new cross-research council programme 'Connected Communities' (others involved are the EPSRC, th ... Read more»
Project staff: Judith Tsouvalis, Claire Waterton
Promoting Art and Creative Industries Collaboration (PACT)
Researchers at Lancaster University are working with the Storey Gallery in Lancaster to investigate collaboration and synergy between publicly-funded ... Read more»
Project staff: Christopher Boyko (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Monika Büscher, Tim Dant, Karenza Moore (Applied Social Science)
Puberty: sexed bodies and global change
This project is a critical examination of puberty: what it is thought to be, how it is experienced, and how it is represented. The project has several ... Read more»
Project staff: Celia Roberts
Keywords: Biopolitics, Body image, Feminist theory, Parenting, Psychosocial interventions, Science studies, Science, technology and society
Public Memories of Gendered/Sexual Violence during wars/conflict situations
This project examines the public memories of sexual violence of the Bangladesh War of 1971 and theoretically explore the various constructions of the ... Read more»
Project staff: Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Citizenship, Class and gender relations, Conflict, Embodiment, Ethnography, Feminist theory, Hauntings, Human rights, Memory, Militarism, Nation, Political Anthropology, Postcolonial theory, Research ethics, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, South Asia, Utopia, Violence, War
Public Perceptions of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Europe (PABE)
A research team from five European countries directed by Prof. Brian Wynne from Lancaster University (UK) was asked by the European Commission to cond ... Read more»
Project staff: Brian Wynne
Keywords: Biotechnology, Public participation, Public policy
QUING: Gender equality in the European Union
Quing is an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006-2 ... Read more»
Project staff: Jo Armstrong, Sofia Strid, Sylvia Walby
Keywords: Comparative, Equality, EU law and policy, Gender
QUING: Quality of Gender+ Equality in the EU (
Quing is an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006-2 ... Read more»
Religion, Nature and Modernisation in China
This one year project is researching the connections between nature, technology and the sacred in the context of China's drive for modernization, in o ... Read more»
Project staff: Bronislaw Szerszynski
Keywords: Environment, Religion, Technology
Relocating Innovation: Places and material practices of future-making
This project starts from the observation that current discourses on 'innovation' are surprisingly repetitive in their assumptions. Popular representat ... Read more»
Project staff: Lucy Suchman, Laura Watts
Keywords: Ethnography, Innovation, Science and technology studies
Representing scientific creativity: the Darwin200 celebrations
Taking the form of an ESRC 1+3 CASE PhD project with the Natural History Museum, this project is exploring the representations of Charles Darwin in UK ... Read more»
Project staff: Bronislaw Szerszynski
Reproducing the Centre: Performing Innovation at Xerox PARC
Based on materials developed during my tenure as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) between the years 1980 and 2000, this projec ... Read more»
Project staff: Lucy Suchman
Keywords: Cultural anthropology, Design, Ethnography, Feminist cultural studies of science and technology, Information systems, Innovation, Science and technology studies
Siegfried Kracauer: an intellectual biography
I am presently writing an intellectual biography of the Critical Theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) for publication with Polity Press. The first ... Read more»
Keywords: Critical theory, Cultural theory, Culture, Culture and media, Film studies, Film theory, Social theory, Sociology, Sociology of literature
Social Aspects of Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is a new, interdisciplinary, and not very integrated set of projects and promises with major implications not only for health, but also f ... Read more»
Project staff: John Law
Keywords: Nano, Nanomedicine
Substitution, enhancement, autonomy
This project is a collaboration with Suzanne Fraser (Monash University, previously UNSW) and kylie valentine (UNSW) and was funded by the University o ... Read more»
Keywords: Autonomy, Drugs, Gender, Medical sociology, Science and technology studies
Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Policy and Publics in Biodiversity
"Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Publics and Policy in Biodiversity" is a 3 year interdisciplinary research project which brings together social an ... Read more»
Project staff: Rebecca Ellis, Claire Waterton, Brian Wynne
Keywords: Globalisation, Governance, Information society, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Knowledge, Knowledge exchange, Sociology, Technoscience
The choreography of everyday life: towards an integrative theory of practice
The choreography of everyday life: towards an integrative theory of practice The choreography of everyday life 'This is a collaborative project wit ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
The New Interaction Order: A Study of Behaviour in Public Spaces
This collaborative project seeks to study and evaluate key changes (e.g. through ambient, embedded and personal technologies) in 'the interaction orde ... Read more»
Project staff: Monika Büscher, Karenza Moore (Applied Social Science)
Keywords: Technologies, Technology
The Strength of Feminist Civil Society Organisations in the EU27
The project aims to develop a typology to describe and compare variations in strength of feminist civil society organisations in the EU27 and to expla ... Read more»
Time and the Rhythms of Everyday Life: New Agendas and Directions
Time and the Rhythms of Everyday Life: New Agendas and Directions Editors: Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck Colleg ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
Tourism, Territory and New Mobilities: Spatial and Cultural Dynamics Through a Comparative Study of Case Studies in Mexico and Spain.
Este proyecto tiene una naturaleza interdisciplinar y se propone analizar desde una perspectiva comparativa entre México y España las nuevas dinámicas ... Read more»
Keywords: Caribbean, Environment, Latin America, Mobilities, Tourism
Transitions in Practice
This 3 year ESRC funded climate change leadership fellowship addresses the need for new ways of framing problems of climate change, consumption and de ... Read more»
Project staff: Elizabeth Shove
Keywords: Consumption, Environment, Policy, Social theory, Technologies
UK-China Networks of Low Carbon Innovation
Tackling climate change is demanding international collaboration in innovation, yet there are significant constraints on such collaborations. This pr ... Read more»
Project staff: David Tyfield, John Urry, James Wilsdon (Institute for Advanced Studies), Brian Wynne
Keywords: China, Innovation, Low carbon, Science and technology, Science and technology studies
Understanding and Acting within Loweswater: A Community Approach to Catchment Management
Details to follow shortly. Project in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. ... Read more»
Project staff: Claire Waterton
Keywords: Community, Environment, Farming
Understanding and Acting Within Loweswater: A Community Approach to Catchment Management
How do we move towards the sustainable management of rural land? Are carrot and stick initiatives by government bodies the only option? This project ... Read more»
Keywords: Community, Ecology, Environment, Governance, Science and technology studies, Science studies
'War-Babies', Contested Citizenship and Transnational Adoption
Funded by the Society for South Asian Studies (British Academy) this project relates to the contested relationship between genetics, and the nation-st ... Read more»
Project staff: Nayanika Mookherjee
Keywords: Adoption, Biopolitics, Children, Citizenship, Conflict, Genetics, Kinship, Migration and diaspora, Nation, Political Anthropology, Postcolonial theory, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, South Asia, Violence, War
Workspace
Mobile workers often generate dynamic configurations of spaces, information, and people - within the office, but also beyond. These practices pose gre ... Read more»
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