iHuman

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iHuman is a research centre at the University of Sheffield that pursues disruptive research into what it means to be human, drawing on scholars and researchers in the fields of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Disability Studies. It draws on expertise from across the social sciences, humanities, and STEM disciplines and brings together academics, community groups, and third-sector organisations. Its research is organised around four themes. Marginalised Humans attends to the intersections of dis/ability, age, gender, sexuality, class, race, poverty and colonialism in order to expose and challenge social processes that push some human beings to the margins. Biosocial Humans asks how the biological and cognitive sciences and their application in biotechnologies are reconstructing ideas of what it means to be human in the 21st century. Human Futures considers not what will be but how we imagine what could be, treating the future as something co-created between science and society. Knowing Humans examines the role of scientific knowledge in policy and public life.

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University of Sheffield
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