Centre for Science Studies
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Research Degrees Directors
MPhil/PhD Professor Lucy Suchman
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Taught Degrees Enquiries
MA in Society, Technology and Nature with tel: +44 (0)1524 594177
Pathways in: e-mail:
soc-postgrad@lancaster.ac.uk
Technoscience and Culture
Genetics, Culture and Public Policy Website
Environment, Culture and Public Policy
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css
Number of Postgraduate Students Location
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18 Sociology, Bowland North
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The Centre for Science Studies is a vibrant international centre of We offer supervision for MPhils or PhDs in all of our areas of
excellence in Science, Technology and Society (STS) with one of the expertise – science, technology, policy analysis, new genetic
highest UK national research ratings which places us among the technologies, environment and technologies, and risk. Recent and
top 5 in the UK.
current PhDs topics have included studies of: surgery;
environmental visitor attractions; organic farming; the future of
Located in the Sociology department, we are the largest group of
mobile telecommunications; library information systems; policy and
STS scholars in Europe. Our staff include such Professorial STS
training in nanomedicine, and technologies and political
figures as John Law, Maureen McNeil, Elizabeth Shove, Lucy
transformation in Eastern Europe.
Suchman, and Brian Wynne, and a large number of excellent non-
professorial members. We organise an active programme of
We have worked with organisations such as The Body Shop; the
workshops, seminars and reading groups.
NHS; Bovis Construction Group; the Forestry Commission; the
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; Friends
Lancaster STS is internationally recognised as distinctive: our
of the Earth; Unilever; English Nature; and Transport 2000 in recent
research is mostly qualitative; we engage with contemporary
and past CASE (ESRC) Funding awards.
e for Science Studies
science and technology in a constructively critical manner; we
create and use sophisticated methodological tools; we invent and
RESEARCH AREAS
We specialise in a range of empirical and theoretical research areas
develop cutting-edge theoretical approaches (including actor-
including:
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network theory, risk theory, approaches to public policy, and feminist
theory); our work is empirically grounded and multidisciplinary.
Computing, design and IT
TAUGHT COURSES
Large scale technologies and organisations, and their disasters
Health Technologies and Medicine
Construction and energy
MA in Society, Technology and Nature
Military technologies
For full details of this degree scheme and its pathways, please see
Science policy system
the entry under Sociology.
Environment
Genetics
RESEARCH DEGREES
New reproductive technologies
Research supervision leading to the degree of MPhil or PhD is
Discourse analysis
available in any of our research areas.
Cultural studies of science
Feminist technoscience
MPhil/PhD
Actor-network theory
Spatiality of STS
Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its
Post-structuralist theory
equivalent, in a relevant subject, including Sociology, Geography,
Risk and the public understanding of science
Arts and Social Sciences:
Philosophy, Linguistics, Anthropology, Science or Engineering and a Postcolonial theory
viable research proposal. Farming and agriculture
Assessment: Original research and thesis.
IELTS: 7
Funding: ESRC recognition for +3 research awards, CASE (ESRC) - see
also page 196.
Further Information:
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css
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