Science, Health and Technology
We have an international reputation for research within the fields of science and technology studies (STS), health and medicine and social care.
We attract considerable external funding for pioneering sociological and interdisciplinary studies into regenerative medicine, stem cell science, end of life care, addiction, gender and health, healthcare practices, anti-microbial resistance and architecture for health and social care.
Our cluster boasts one of the biggest cohorts of STS scholars in the UK and we are host to the world-leading Science and Technology Studies Unit.
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- Professor Ellen Annandale Gender and health, health professions, health and inequality.
- Vanessa Ashall Interspecies research, comparative medicine and ethics, Health and wellbeing, Sociology of Medicine, posthuman and entanglement theories, end of life care, blood and organ donation.
- Karl Atkin Sociology of health and illness, disability and inequalities, genetic disorders.
- Dr Sian Beynon-Jones Reproductive and new life science technologies, human/non-human boundaries, the healthcare profession, feminist theory.
- Professor Nik Brown Sociology of health, regulation of bioscience, classical/contemporary social theory.
- Dr Christina Buse
Care, dementia, embodiment, material culture.
- Dr Sangeeta Chattoo Global health, genetic disorders, reproductive technologies.
- Dr Clare Jackson Conversation analysis, gender, sexuality, healthcare
- Dr Daryl Martin Healthcare architecture, health and place, medical sociology.
- Dr Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt
Midlife to later-life transitions, digital ageing, knowledge & power, social imaginaries of ageing, lifecourse inequalities.
- Dr Darren Reed Human-computer interaction, health & intelligent communication systems, social informatics, performativity & identity.
- Dr Amanda Rees Social theory, the human/animal relation, sociology of science, popular understandings of science, history of primatology.
- Dr Frances Thirlway Class, health and culture, tobacco smoking, cessation and e-cigarettes, cannabis and cannabidiol, post-industrial and mining communities.
- Professor Merran Toerien Conversation analysis, doctor-patient interaction, patient ‘choice’, shared decision-making.
- Dr Richard Tutton Visions of multiplanetary futures, tensions of sociotechnical advancement, progress and anticipations of decline and collapse of societies.
Sociology of health, Reproductive justice, Feminism and agency, Participatory feminist research.
Disability studies, Sociology of health and illness, Sociology of diagnosis, Long-term impairment and disability in adults.
Sociology of health and illness, Identity and inequalities, Disability studies, Children and young people.
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Climate crisis and other existential threats, Agnotology [The sociology of ignorance], Political Sociology.
Sociology of the body, Fat studies, Identity and the Self.
Project spotlights
Our diverse and extensive research is documented in our research archive.