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Projects in Sociology

• The Surface Studies Network

  01/06/2013 →
  Liz Oakley-Brown, Rebecca Coleman
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• Is the Rate of Domestic Violence Decreasing or Increasing? A Re-Analysis of the British Crime Survey

  01/04/2013 →
  Sylvia Walby, Brian Francis
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• Overview of the worldwide best practices for rape prevention & assisting women victims of rape

  01/11/2012 →
  Sylvia Walby, Brian Francis, Corinne May-Chahal, David Sugarman
  ... Read more»

• The Social Life of Digital Data Objects

  01/10/2012 → 30/09/2015
  Ruth McNally, Adrian Mackenzie
  ... Read more»

• Culture, Politics, Eschatology: A Symposium

  21/09/2012 → 22/09/2012
  Paolo Palladino, Arthur Bradley, Bulent Diken, Charles Gere
  The symposium's theme is the continuing cultural and political relevance of eschatology. In recent years, diverse contemporary commentators have attended to eschatology. The symposium takes its cue fr ... Read more»

• ESRC Seminar Series ‘Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention‘.

  01/09/2012 → 31/12/2014
  Imogen Tyler
  Detention is a pressing empirical, conceptual, and political issue. Detained populations, detention facilities, and industries have expanded globally. We argue that developments in detention practices ... Read more»

• Data topography of NGS Genomes

  10/05/2012 → 31/08/2012
  Adrian Mackenzie, Ruth McNally
  While there is intense interest in the epistemic, economic, aesthetic, social and political values associated with ‘big data’, (Savage & Burrows, 2007; Latour et al., 2012; Halfpenny & Proctor, 20 ... Read more»

• ESRC PDF for Anna Carlsson-Hyslop (Elizabeth Shove)

  30/04/2012 →
  Elizabeth Shove
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• Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change (CaTalyST)

  01/11/2011 →
  Jon Whittle, Gordon Blair, Monika Buscher, Paul Coulton, Leon Cruickshank, Tim Dant, Rebecca Ellis, Robert Fildes, Drew Hemment, Awais Rashid, Corina Sas, Didier Soopramanien, Lucy Suchman
  ... Read more»

• Affecting citizenships: the denaturalisation process in Britain

  01/09/2011 →
  Anne-Marie Fortier
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• The future of business mobilities

  01/06/2011 → 30/09/2011
  James Faulconbridge, John Urry
  This project examines the current role of mobility in business practice, ways of empirically and theoretically studying this mobility, and the social and environmental pressures that raise questions a ... Read more»

• The Forge - Social science researcher network for transport & mobilities

  01/05/2011 →
  Elizabeth Shove
  A programme of summer schools and a research network, led by Greg Marsden from Leeds ITS. ... Read more»

• Affecting citizenship: the citizenship naturalisation process in Britain

  01/04/2011 → 31/08/2013
  Anne-Marie Fortier
  Following on from Multicultural Horizons, my current research focuses on the British naturalisation process as a site of 'citizenship-in-the-making'. The distinctive character of this study is its foc ... Read more»

• ZIF: Centre for interdisciplinary research, Univ of Bielefeld , communicating disaster programme

  01/03/2011 →
  Monika Buscher
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• New Interaction Order

  01/02/2011 → 31/10/2012
  Monika Buscher
  This pilot project studies the 'new' interaction order from different empirical and analytical perspectives. Drawing on sociology, ethnomethodology, criminology, geography, and design, we are carrying ... Read more»

• Data Flows in Genomic and Environmental Science

  01/01/2011 → 31/07/2011
  Adrian Mackenzie, Ruth McNally
  The aim of the theme is to re-describe how data moves in NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) genomic sciences and in ENS (Embedded Networked Sensing) environmental sciences. In the life sciences, NGS and ... Read more»

• Social Capital and Family Processes as Predictors of Stepfamily Outcomes

  01/11/2010 →
  Gil Viry
  Study of the spatial dispersion of stepfamilies in Switzerland and its effect on relational structure ... Read more»

• Revolting Subjects : Marginalisation and Resistance

  01/09/2010 → 23/03/2012
  Imogen Tyler
  ... Read more»

• Emerging middle classes and low carbon mobilities

  01/08/2010 →
  John Urry
  ... Read more»

• Onscenity Network

  05/07/2010 →
  Debra Ferreday
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• Making aslum seekers legible and visible

  01/07/2010 →
  Imogen Tyler
  This research will compare the approaches of different pro-asylum organisations in Britain and America using questionnaires and interviews. It aims to: facilitate dialogue between different types o ... Read more»

• Temporary Spaces

  01/06/2010 →
  Elizabeth Shove
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• A Cultural Political Economy of Crisis and Crisis Management

  01/04/2010 → 30/06/2013
  Bob Jessop, Amelie Kutter
  Economic crisis management has concerned governments and other responsible authorities from 2008. Yet crises are complex and subject to many attempts to interpret and explain them, to identify causes, ... Read more»

• Skeletal Subjects: visual cultures of thinness

  01/09/2009 →
  Debra Ferreday
  Media representations of anorexia, eating disorders, thinness and 'size zero' bodies ... Read more»

• Researching Affect and Affective Communications

  15/05/2009 → 26/03/2010
  Debra Ferreday
  Increasingly, social science researchers are pointing to the central importance of affect and affective communication to understanding the dynamics of flows and networks, particularly with reference t ... Read more»

• FP7: EPOK

  01/02/2009 → 30/04/2012
  Celia Roberts, Imogen Tyler
  ... Read more»

• Transitions in practice: Climate change and everyday life

  01/10/2008 → 31/03/2012
  Elizabeth Shove
  A three year ESRC funded climate change leadership fellowship ... Read more»

• Lost in Translation: Cross - disciplinary analysis of knowledge exchange and effectiveness in animal disease management

  01/07/2008 → 30/11/2011
  Louise Heathwaite, William Medd, Maggie Mort, Brian Wynne
  Objectives The aim of this project is to develop more integrated strategies of containment for animal disease through a cross-disciplinary research team bringing together expertise in public health, ... Read more»

• Fashioning Femininity

  01/06/2008 →
  Debra Ferreday
  Researching the relationship between femininity, feminism, dress, bodies and performance. ... Read more»

• Research cluster on innovative media for a digital economy

  01/04/2008 →
  Monika Buscher
  ... Read more»

• FP7: EFFORT

  01/03/2008 →
  Maggie Mort, Christine Milligan, Celia Roberts
  Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for Older People at Home ... Read more»

• The choreography of everyday life: towards an integrative theory of practice

  01/09/2007 →
  Elizabeth Shove
  This is a collaborative project with Mika Pantzar at the National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland. We have written about a range of different topics - Nordic Walking, Kitchen rationalisati ... Read more»

• Feminist Media Studies reading group

  03/08/2007 → 01/08/2008
  Rebecca Coleman, Debra Ferreday, Imogen Tyler
  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 focus is 'Affect, Emotion, Media', with a particular ... Read more»

• UK-China Networks of Low Carbon Innovation

  01/07/2007 → 30/04/2010
  John Urry, Brian Wynne, David Tyfield
  Tackling climate change is demanding international collaboration in innovation, yet there are significant constraints on such collaborations. This project is examining low carbon partnerships between ... Read more»

• Religion, Nature and Modernisation in China

  01/04/2007 → 30/04/2008
  Bronislaw Szerszynski
  This one year project is researching the connections between nature, technology and the sacred in the context of China's drive for modernization, in order to contribute to a fuller cultural understand ... Read more»

• Family Farming Practices

  01/01/2007 → 01/01/2010
  Vicky Singleton
  Considering the relationships between national policy and local practices on family farms in NW UK. ... Read more»

• Ethics and Ethnographic Research

  01/11/2006 →
  Christine Milligan, David Archard
  Co-awarded, 'ESRC Research Training Programme: Ethics and Ethical Practice in Social Science, 2006-2009' INTERNET ARTICLES 2003. 'Ethical Issues Concerning Representation of Narratives of Sexual ... Read more»

• FP6: Governat

  01/10/2006 →
  Nigel Watson, Louise Heathwaite, William Medd
  The Project – GoverNat: Multi-level Governance of Natural Resources: Tools and Processes for Water and Biodiversity Governance in Europe. GoverNat is a Marie Curie Research Training Network in th ... Read more»

• Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Policy and Publics in Biodiversity

  01/07/2006 → 30/06/2009
  Claire Waterton, Brian Wynne, Rebecca Ellis
  "Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Publics and Policy in Biodiversity" is a 3 year interdisciplinary research project which brings together social and natural scientists to explore contemporary innov ... Read more»

• Understanding and Acting within Loweswater: A Community Approach to Catchment Management

  01/06/2006 → 31/08/2010
  Claire Waterton
  Details to follow shortly. Project in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. View project proposal (PDF): http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/doc_library ... Read more»

• Melancholic States - International Conference

  15/05/2006 →
  Celia Roberts, Imogen Tyler, Anne-Marie Fortier, Maureen McNeil
  CALL FOR PAPERS The concept of melancholia has assumed widespread and varied currency across numerous fields. Sometimes used to refer to a state of mind or to an affective state; sometimes used to s ... Read more»

• Materialities of Animals and Farming

  01/01/2006 →
  Vicky Singleton
  Farming is a practical activity, messy and material. It involves interactions between people, technologies, animals, and natural forces. I'm working on the heterogeneities of those interactions; how a ... Read more»

• Gender in Cultural Practice

  01/10/2005 →
  Anne Cronin, Alison Findlay, Hilary Hinds
  This is a research project with colleagues at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and Lancaster University funded primarily by the Dutch government. It involves 3 interdisciplinary conferences a ... Read more»

• Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society

  01/05/2004 →
  Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum
  Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society Part of a research team funded by the EU Framework Six Priority 7 Programme on 'Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society' ... Read more»

• International Workshop on Transnational High Tech Strategies in a Globalized World

  19/07/2003 → 20/07/2003
  Bob Jessop, Ngai-Ling Sum
  International Workshop on Transnational High Tech Strategies in a Globalized World ... Read more»

• Networked Learning

  01/02/2003 →
  Debra Ferreday, Vivien Hodgson
  Technical work on technologically mediated pedagogical practices ... Read more»

• Online Belongings

  01/09/1998 →
  Debra Ferreday
  Research on subjectivity, identity and belonging in digital cultures ... Read more»

• Social Processes for Environmental Valuation

  01/06/1996 → 31/05/1998
  Brian Wynne
  This project has now finished, running from June 1996 to May 1998. It involved researchers from the UK, France, Italy and Spain. Its purpose was to demonstrate effective methods for valuation of envir ... Read more»

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