Institute for Science and Society (ISS), University of Nottingham

Description

There are no environments or societies that have not been touched and changed by science and technology. The mission of the Institute for Science and Society (ISS) is to produce transdisciplinary studies of the intricate links between scientific research, technological innovation and the social and material worlds. Members aim to change how understand science and technology is understood and how humans intervene in their making.

Beyond conducting innovative high-quality research, ISS is strongly committed to supporting postgraduate research students, early career researchers and to providing specialised training across the School of Sociology and Social Policy and other schools within the University of Nottingham.

The members of the institute have close connections to other University of Nottingham's researchers across the natural sciences, engineering, health sciences and veterinary sciences.

Staff and students in ISS study a wide range of topics, including:

• Sustainable social infrastructures: energy, climate change, green chemical technologies and low carbon transitions
• Health and the psychosocial: biomedicine, bioscience and the psychological and social constitution of human lives
• Alternative technoscience: from minority engagement, participatory practices and activist research to citizen science and community technoscience
• Animals, medicine and society: laboratory research and veterinary ethics
• Expanding bioeconomies: circular economies, responsible innovation and the valorisation of waste, renewables and biomass
• Involved STS: feminist, decolonial, cultural and more-than-human approaches to science, technology and society
• Language and science: metaphors, representations and the framing of scientific and technological issues in public discourse and the media
• Digital lives: from sensing technologies to big data screening and data culling to digital objects and the fusion of code and matter
• Responsible Research and Innovation: science and society collaborations, public deliberation and participatory governance, science policy, scientific decision making
• Transdisciplinary engagements: synergies between the social sciences, medicine, physical sciences, biosciences and engineering

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

1998

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University of Nottingham
Nottingham