Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Centre for Science Studies promotes interdisciplinary research across the boundaries of science, technology, and public policy. The Centre brings together research and teaching in all four faculties at Lancaster University, including the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the School of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University Management School and the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Diverse expertise and interests
Our research problematises the construction of scientific knowledge and expert authority. We take diverse approaches including feminist STS, actor-network theory (and after), cultural analyses of science, anthropological and postcolonial technoscience studies.
Our research involves collaboration between specialists in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. We were part of the Sociology unit of assessment in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), ranked 3rd in the UK for its world-leading resarch.
Keywords
- Science and technology studies
- Technology and work
- Technology and organisation
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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Lisa Ashmore
- Lancaster Medical School - Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences
- Interdisciplinary network in culture, health, ethics and society - Academic
- CeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research
- Centre for Science Studies
Person: Academic and Related
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Brian Bloomfield
- Organisation Work and Technology - Emeritus Professor
- Centre for Technological Futures
- Centre for Science Studies - Academic
- Technology, Systems and Organisation - Academic
Person: Honorary/Visiting, Academic and Related
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£4,827 funding through LU Early Career Small Grant Scheme: Work on the Move: An Ethnographic Exploration of Mobile Paramedic Practices
Ashmore, L. (Principal Investigator)
1/07/15 → …
Project: Research
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Care in and for Policy
Singleton, V. (Co-Investigator) & Waterton, C. (Co-Investigator)
1/03/13 → …
Project: Research
Research output
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Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns
Komljenovic, J., Birch, K., Sellar, S., Bergviken Rensfeldt, A., Deville, J., Eaton, C., Gourlay, L., Hansen, M., Kerssens, N., Kovalainen, A., Nappert, P.-L., Noteboom, J., Parcerisa, L., Pardo-Guerra, J. P., Poutanen, S., Robertson, S., Tyfield, D. & Williamson, B., 30/04/2025, In: Discourse. 46, 2, p. 276-292 17 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Imagining Techno-Transcendence: Power and Culture in Transhumanist Imaginaries
Hoyle, E., 19/05/2025, Lancaster University. 250 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating
Deville, J., 31/12/2025, In: Journal of Cultural Economy. 18, 6, p. 810-826 17 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
Furbo, M. (Speaker), Ashmore, L. (Contributor), Stewart, H. (Contributor), Singleton, V. (Contributor), Hutton, D. (Contributor) & Appleton, L. (Contributor)
8/10/2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
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Centre for Science Studies (Organisational unit)
Chekar, C. K. (Member)
2021 → …Activity: Membership types › Member of an organisation
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Centre for Science Studies (Organisational unit)
Booker, D. (Member)
2021 → …Activity: Membership types › Member of an organisation
Prizes
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Lancaster University Staff Prize: category “Above and Beyond” for Research
Waterton, C. (Recipient), 1/06/2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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Contribution to Woman's Hour about Children, Young People and Flooding
30/11/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Surrey's flood-hit pupils take manifesto to MPs
16/03/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Research show children are affected yet still ignored in flood risk management policy
2/12/15
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: TV Interview/Appearance
Impacts
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Children, Young People and Flooding: educating practitioners
Mort, M. M. E. (Participant) & Lloyd Williams, A. S. (Participant)
Impact: Societal Impacts
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Evidence submitted to the Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry ‘Flooding: Cooperation Across Government’
Mort, M. M. E. (Participant), Lloyd Williams, A. S. (Participant) & Bingley, A. F. (Participant)
Impact: Societal Impacts
Datasets
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Convergence and divergence in energy-related practices: Understanding demand in the Global South
Rinkinen, J. (Creator), Smits, M. (Data Collector) & Shove, E. A. (Supervisor), Lancaster University, 10/10/2016
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/112
Dataset
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The Flood Project - a children's manifesto for change
Mort, M. (Creator), Walker, M. P. (Creator), Bingley, A. F. (Creator) & Lloyd Williams, A. (Creator), Lancaster University, 12/11/2015
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/45, http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/floodrecovery
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Consuming disaster data: is IT ethical?
Perng, S.-Y. (Creator), Büscher, M. (Creator) & Moffat, L. (Creator), Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 2021
DOI: 10.18418/978-3-96043-095-7_06, https://pub.h-brs.de/6025
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