Centre for Science Studies
Research Degrees MPhil/PhD
Taught Degrees MA in Society, Technology and Nature with Pathways in: Technoscience and Culture Genetics, Culture and Public Policy Environment, Culture and Public Policy
Number of Postgraduate Students 18
Directors Professor Lucy Suchman Dr Adrian MacKenzie
Enquiries
tel: +44 (0)1524 594178 e-mail:
soc-postgrad@lancaster.ac.uk
Website
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css
Location Sociology, Bowland North
RESEARCH DEGREES
Research supervision leading to the degree of MPhil or PhD is available in any of our research areas.
MPhil/PhD
The Centre for Science Studies is a vibrant international centre of excellence in Science, Technology and Society (STS) with one of the highest UK national research ratings which places us among the top 5 in the UK.
Located in the Sociology department, we are the largest group of STS scholars in Europe. Our staff include such Professorial STS figures as John Law, Maureen McNeil, Elizabeth Shove, Lucy Suchman, and Brian Wynne, and a large number of excellent non-professorial members. We organise an active programme of workshops, seminars and reading groups.
Lancaster STS is internationally recognised as distinctive: our research is mostly qualitative; we engage with contemporary science and technology in a constructively critical manner; we create and use sophisticated methodological tools; we invent and develop cutting-edge theoretical approaches (including actor-network theory, risk theory, approaches to public policy, and feminist theory); our work is empirically grounded and multidisciplinary.
TAUGHT COURSES
MA in Society, Technology and Nature For full details of this degree scheme and its pathways, please see the entry under Sociology.
Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in a relevant subject, including Sociology, Geography, Philosophy, Linguistics, Anthropology, Science or Engineering and a viable research proposal. Assessment: Original research and thesis. IELTS: 7 Funding: ESRC recognition for +3 research awards, CASE (ESRC) - see also page 213. Further Information:
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css
We offer supervision for MPhils or PhDs in all of our areas of expertise – science, technology, policy analysis, new genetic technologies, environment and technologies, and risk. Recent and current PhDs topics have included studies of: surgery; environmental visitor attractions; organic farming; the future of mobile telecommunications; library information systems; policy and training in nanomedicine, and technologies and political transformation in Eastern Europe.
We have worked with organisations such as The Body Shop; the NHS; Bovis Construction Group; the Forestry Commission; the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; Friends of the Earth; Unilever; English Nature; and Transport 2000 in recent and past CASE (ESRC) Funding awards.
RESEARCH AREAS We specialise in a range of empirical and theoretical research areas including:
Computing, design and IT Large scale technologies and organisations, and their disasters Health Technologies and Medicine
Construction and energy Military technologies Science policy system Environment Genetics
94 Arts and Social Sciences
New reproductive technologies Discourse analysis
Cultural studies of science Feminist technoscience Actor-network theory Spatiality of STS
Post-structuralist theory Risk and the public understanding of science Postcolonial theory Farming and agriculture
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