Centre for Science Studies

Human Ghosts in the Machine

Our Talking STS series resumes, with a dialogue between Paula Bialski and Carolyn Pedwell, focusing on the forms of relationality and sensi(a)bility that go into maintaining software infrastructures

An interdisciplinary roundtable exploring the consequences and ethical possibilities of the connections between the climate crisis and discourses of certainty, including guest speaker Prof. Hannah Knox

Being in the world!

Juliana Michelon Alvarenga reports on the 2023 Continental Philosophy of Technoscience course that she attended at the University of Wageningen in March 2023

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

Nuclear Futures is the first of a new series of three CSS events designed to support and encourage interdisciplinary early career STS work at Lancaster and beyond. The second forthcoming event will explore the specific interdisciplinary challenges of doing early

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