Society

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The 'Data and Society' theme addresses key contemporary concerns around trust, accountability and ownership associated with data. These concerns fundamentally affect how data science engages and impacts on government, civil society, public institutions, business and industry.

At the same time, public, social and commercial data produced by social media platforms, by administrative systems, by sensors, in commercial transactions and by official sources presents significant challenges for the development of new empirical methods of understanding social processes.

Bringing together researchers from disciplines such as sociology, linguistics, history, design, organizational studies and social work, the 'Data and Society' theme supports research that deepens our understanding and vision of the ethics and accountability of data science in government and industry, and addresses the methodological challenges of working with data forms relevant to social sciences, arts and humanities. It specifically aims to foster expertise in inter-disciplinary engagements with problems of health, inequality, justice, mobility and environment.

Existing strengths in the ‘social theme’ at Lancaster include:

  • international research leadership in working at scale with natural language texts and large document collections
  • a growing international reputation for working with historical and spatial datasets in the digital humanities
  • a long-standing and international reputation for inter-disciplinary research engagement with public concerns around science and technology

Members

Jan Bebbington

Professor Jan Bebbington

The Rubin Chair in Sustainability in Business, Director of the Pentland Centre

Pentland Centre

Michaela Benson

Professor Michaela Benson

Professor in Public Sociology

Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities, Centre for Health Futures

Christopher Boyko

Dr Christopher Boyko

Senior Lecturer

DSI - Society, Health & Wellbeing , Imagination Lancaster, School of Design, Social Design , Space & Place

Karen Broadhurst

Professor Karen Broadhurst

Professor of Social Work

Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities, Centre for Child and Family Justice Research, DSI - Society

Kate Cain

DSI - Society, Language and Cognition

+44 (0)1524 593990 C24, C - Floor, Fylde College
Stacey Conchie

Professor Stacey Conchie

Professor in Psychology

Cyber Security Research Centre (Psychology), People, Work and Organisation, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Academic Centre of Excellence), Security Lancaster (Behavioural Science), Social Processes

Jennifer Cooper

Jennifer Cooper

PhD student

Centre for Child and Family Justice Research

Linda Cusworth

Dr Linda Cusworth

Research Fellow

Centre for Child and Family Justice Research, DSI - Society

C151, C - Floor, Bowland North
Paul Cureton

Dr Paul Cureton

Senior Lecturer in Design (People, Products, Places)

DSI - Society, Evaluation, Imagination Lancaster, School of Architecture, School of Design

Ahmad Daryanto

Dr Ahmad Daryanto

Senior Lecturer

Centre for Consumption Insights, Centre for Marketing Analytics & Forecasting, DSI - Society, Networks, Knowledge and Strategy, Pentland Centre

WP D045, D - Floor, Management School
Joe Deville

Dr Joe Deville

Senior Lecturer, Lecturer

CeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research, Centre for Technological Futures , DSI - Society, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Sociology)

B009, B - Floor, Bowland North
Stefanie Doebler

Dr Stefanie Doebler

Lecturer in Social Statistics and Sociology

Christopher Donaldson

Dr Christopher Donaldson

Senior Lecturer in Cultural History

DSI - Society, Regional Heritage Centre

Catherine Easton

Professor Catherine Easton

Head of Department, Professor in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law

Centre for Law and Society, Institute for Social Futures Fellow, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Policy, Law and Ethics), Security Lancaster (Sociology)

Oliver Fitton

Oliver Fitton

Lecturer in Criminology, PhD student

Security Lancaster (Policing)

Claire Fitzpatrick

Dr Claire Fitzpatrick

Senior Lecturer

Centre for Child and Family Justice Research

Jasmine Fledderjohann

Dr Jasmine Fledderjohann

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Work

Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities, Centre for Child and Family Justice Research, Centre for Gender Studies, DSI - Society

B134, B - Floor, Bowland North
Ian Gregory

Professor Ian Gregory

Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities

Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, DSI - Society

Judith Harwin

Professor Judith Harwin

Professor in Socio-Legal Studies

Centre for Child and Family Justice Research

Yang Hu

Professor Yang Hu

Professor of Global Sociology

CeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research, Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities, Centre for Child and Family Justice Research, Centre for Gender Studies, DSI - Society, Migrancy Research Group

B011, B - Floor, Bowland North
Lucas Introna

Professor Lucas Introna

Distinguished Professor of Organisation, Technology, and Ethics

Centre for Technological Futures , DSI - Society, Management and Society, Technology, Systems and Organisation

WP E042, E - Floor, Management School
Bran Knowles

Professor Bran Knowles

Professor of Sociotechnical Systems

Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, DSI - Society, HighWire Doctoral Training Centre, SCC (Pervasive Systems)

+44 (0)1524 522030 C54, C - Floor, InfoLab21
Janja Komljenovic

Dr Janja Komljenovic

Senior Lecturer

Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation, Centre for Technological Futures , DSI - Society

Mark Levine

Professor Mark Levine

Professor of Social Psychology

Cyber Security Research Centre (Psychology), Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Behavioural Science)

Rebecca Liu

Dr Rebecca Liu

Senior Lecturer

Centre for Consumption Insights, Centre for Health Futures, Centre for Technological Futures , DSI - Society, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, LIRA - Fundamentals, LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour, Pentland Centre

Alan Marsden

Professor Alan Marsden

Head of Department, Professor of Computational Musicology

Cultures, DSI - Society, Insight, Practices

B140, B - Floor, County Main
Alice Mills

Alice Mills

PhD student, Associate Lecturer

Centre for Crime, Law and Justice

Esmorie Miller

Dr Esmorie Miller

Lecturer in Criminology

Janine Morley

Dr Janine Morley

Research Fellow

Sophie Nightingale

Dr Sophie Nightingale

Lecturer in Psychology

Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Policing)

Niki Panteli

Professor Niki Panteli

Professor of Digital Business

Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education, Centre for Technological Futures , Health Systems, Information Systems

Jaime Simoes Duarte Marques Pereira

Dr Jaime Simoes Duarte Marques Pereira

Lecturer in Economics and Data Science

Economics Research Group, Political Economy and International Trade

Daniel Richards

Dr Daniel Richards

Lecturer in Data Prototyping and Visualisation

DSI - Society, Evaluation, Imagination Lancaster, School of Design, Worldbuilding

Elisa Rubegni

Dr Elisa Rubegni

Senior Lecturer

Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour, SCC (Pervasive Systems)

Beverley Skeggs

Professor Beverley Skeggs

Professor Emertia

Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities, Centre for Gender Studies, Security Lancaster (Sociology)

Monideepa Tarafdar

Centre for Technological Futures , DSI - Health, Health Systems, Information Systems, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour, Technology, Systems and Organisation

A042, A - Floor, Management School
Uraz Turker

Dr Uraz Turker

Lecturer in Computer Science

Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Fundamentals, LIRA - Security and Defence, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Distributed Systems), Security Lancaster (Secure Machine Learning and Intelligence), Security Lancaster (Software Security), Security Lancaster (Systems Security)

Anastasia Ushakova

Dr Anastasia Ushakova

Lecturer in Biostatistics (Health Informatics)

CHICAS, DSI - Society, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Biomedical

Ian Walker

Centre for Productivity & Efficiency, DSI - Society, Economics Research Group, Gulf One Lancaster Centre for Economic Research, Labour, Education and Health Economics