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Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies (EFORTT)

This research asks what are the normative reasons for and implications of, the introduction of remote care technologies for frail elderly people, for ... Read more»

Project staff: Christine Milligan (Division of Health Research), Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts
Keywords: Ageing, Ethics, Ethnography, EU law and policy, Gender, Governance, Health and Older People, ICT, Identity, Public participation, Science and technology studies, Telecare, Telemedicine

Family Farming Practices

Considering the relationships between national policy and local practices on family farms in NW UK. ... Read more»

Project staff: John Law (Sociology), Vicky Singleton
Keywords: Farming, Science and technology studies

Maternal Publics

'Maternal Publics' is concerned with mapping the intensification of the visibility of the maternal in arts, literature, politics, popular media and 'e ... Read more»

Project staff: Imogen Tyler

Melancholic States - International Conference

International Inter-disciplinary Conference 'Melancholic States', 27-29 September 2007. The concept of melancholia has assumed widespread and varie ... Read more»

Project staff: Anne-Marie Fortier, Gail Lewis (Sociology), Maureen McNeil, Nayanika Mookherjee, Celia Roberts, Jackie Stacey (Sociology), Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Emotions, Ethnography, Feminist theory, Hauntings, Memory, Postcolonial theory, Violence

Migrancy Research Group

The Migrancy Research Group is a new grouping of staff and postgraduates working in the area of immigration, borders, citizenship, migrant workers, re ... Read more»

Project staff: Bruce Bennett (Department of Media, Film & Cultural Studies (formerly ICR)), Bulent Diken (Sociology), Anne-Marie Fortier, Nick Gill (Lancaster Environment Centre LEC), Nayanika Mookherjee, Imogen Tyler
Keywords: Activism, Citizenship, Citizenship and secularism, Diaspora, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Exceptional State, Globalisation & mobility, Immigration law, Literatures of migration and diaspora, Migrants, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, Race and racism, State failure, States, State theory, Transnational and mobile criminality, Transnationalisation, Unaccompanied migrants, Unrecognised states

Puberty: sexed bodies and global change

This project is a critical examination of puberty: what it is thought to be, how it is experienced, and how it is represented. The project has several ... Read more»

Project staff: Celia Roberts
Keywords: Biopolitics, Body image, Feminist theory, Parenting, Psychosocial interventions, Science studies, Science, technology and society

Social Activism Teaching and Research Cluster

There is an emerging cluster of interest within Sociology around the theme of 'social activism' that involves research on; the environment; health; no ... Read more»

Project staff: Bulent Diken (Sociology), Anne-Marie Fortier, Adrian Mackenzie (Sociology), Nayanika Mookherjee, Celia Roberts, Vicky Singleton, Lucy Suchman, Bronislaw Szerszynski (Sociology), Richard Tutton (Sociology), Imogen Tyler, Claire Waterton (Sociology), Laura Watts (Sociology)