Centre for Science Studies

How should we think about the ambivalence of artefacts?

We are pleased to invite you to the first event in CSS’ Talking STS series, featuring Dr Mette Furbo and Dr Tom Widger. The event takes place online at 1pm on November 24th and is open to all.

Call for contributions: Workshop on Temporalities of Care in Conservation Environments

Applications now open for a workshop that will take place in January 2022

Nuclear Futures battles the elements

A report from the organisers on part one of a three-part event series, in which the team and the participants had to adapt quickly in the face of severe weather

Emerging into Emerita: Celebrating the work of Lucy Suchman and Maggie Mort

Just ahead of the summer break, the CSS hosted ‘Emerging into Emerita’, a conversational event which celebrated the work of Professor Lucy Suchman and Professor Maggie Mort, two scholars who have made such major contributions to a range of fields

Emerging into Emerita: June 18th

CSS is pleased to invite you to an event to celebrate Professor Maggie Mort and Professor Lucy Suchman becoming Professors Emeritae at Lancaster University. Titled ‘Emerging into Emerita’, this informal, online, intellectual get-together will stage a conversation between Lucy and

PhD in Socio-technical Aspects of Secure Autonomous Systems

The use of autonomous systems is encountering rapid growth as they complement and/or supplement human-operated systems across a variety of safety or service-critical applications covering civilian, industrial or defence needs. Autonomous systems entail socio-technical relationships with users in their environment,

Session on “care in STS” at the Nordic STS Conference

By Lisa Linden On June 13th-14th 2019, the binary Nordic STS Conference was held in Tampere, Finland. Together with Elena Bogdanova, Doris Lydahl and Linda Soneryd from the University of Gothenburg, I was co-organising the session Care in STS – Objects, Transformations

New book published – Living Data: Making Sense of Health Biosensing

Does biosensing increase people’s control over their health, as it is often claimed? What is the connection between more data and health? Who is biosensing who? What is the relation between biosensing and people’s anxieties about their health? How do