Centre for Science Studies

Call for contributions: How to do STS?

PGR/ECR researchers are invited to register for an online event that explores the challenges of STS-informed interdisciplinary research. Deadline 14th February

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

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

Upcoming Nordic STS Conference

On June 13th-14th 2019, the binary Nordic STS Conference will be held in Tampere, Finland. Together with colleagues from the University of Gothenburg, Lisa Lindén from CSS is co-organising the session Care in STS – Objects, Transformations and Politics. It

2019 Feminist Technoscience Studies MA Module and Summer School

Meeting Frankenstein’s Companions Tuesday 28 – Friday 31 May 2019 The Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Lancaster University, UK, in cooperation with the Department of Sociology, Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies, and the Centre for the Study of