Grant applicants

Dr Rebecca Coleman, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Research interests in: time and the future; images and visual culture; the body and materiality; affect; cultural and feminist theory; inventive methodologies

Dr Bron Szerszynski, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Sociology, Lancaster University
Research interests in: environment; technology; religion; social theory

Dr Richard Tutton, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Lancaster University
Research interests in: medical sociology; social studies of science and technology (STS); personalised medicine

Professor John Urry, Distinguished Professor and Director of CeMoRe, Sociology, Lancaster University
Research interests in: mobilities; complexity theory; urban and regional change; travel and the environment; social theory

Dr Ben Anderson, Reader, Geography, Durham University
Research interests in: geographies of life; emergency planning and anticipatory action; governance; affect

Professor Phil Macnaghten, Professor, Geography, Durham University
Research interests in: governance of science and technology; responsible innovation; risk; the sociology of the environment; deliberative methodology; discourse analysis

Professor Nik Brown, Professor, Sociology, The University of York
Research interests in: developments in the biosciences; politics, regulation and governance of biological developments and reproduction; the sociology of hope, expectations and futurity

Dr Alex Wilkie, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Design, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Research interests in: science and technology studies; actor network theory; approaches to ‘user’ participation and involvement in design processes

Professor Mike Michael, Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney
Research interests in: sociology of science and technology; public understanding of science; sociology of everyday life; animals and society; materiality and culture; design and social science.

Core members:

Dr Claudia Aradau, Senior Lecturer, War Studies, Kings College London
Research interests in: international political theory; critical security studies; changing temporalities and anticipatory knowledge; politics of mobility; democracy, community and citizenship in a global world; materiality and critical methodologies of international relations

Dr Michelle Bastian, Chancellor’s Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Research interests in: concepts of time; community; inclusion and exclusion; Transition movement; climate change

Dr Thomas Birtchnell, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Media and Communication, University of Wollongong
Research interests in: Geographies of expertise, elites, social inequality; cosmopolitanism; mobilities; social sustainability; innovation; India and South Asia; Hinduism; practice theory and mobile methods

Dr Rebecca Bramall, Senior Lecturer, Media Studies, University of Brighton
Research interests in: cultural theory; popular culture; twentieth-century history; discourses of austerity, including debates about history, heritage and memory, and emergent work on ethical consumption and the environment

Dr Angharad Closs Stephens, Lecturer, Geography, Durham University
Research interests in: Critical approaches to nationalism; the politics of security and critical approaches to ‘terrorism’; cities and citizenship; coexistence and the politics of difference; theories of modernity and ideas of space/time; feminist and postcolonial literature and theory; critical theory; politics and aesthetics

Dr Joe Deville, Post Doctoral Researcher, Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Research interests in: the sociology of expertise; economic sociology; science and technology studies; non-representational theory; debt; disasters

Dr Bethan Evans, Lecturer, School of Environmental Science, University of Liverpool
Research interests in: biopolitics; health and education policy; anti-obesity policy; feminist, poststructural, post-medical, embodied, urban and children’s geographies

Professor Julie Froud, Professor, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Research interests in: financialisation as financial innovation; financial market intermediacies; development of new kinds of elite groups

Dr Michael Guggenheim, Project Lead, ‘Organising Disaster: Civil Protection and the Population’, Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Research interests in: science and technology studies; the sociology of expertise; art; methodological innovation

Dr Zuzana Hrdlickova, Post Doctoral Researcher, Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Research interests in: anthropology of disasters; disaster preparedness and management; development; gender, South Asia

Michael Hulme, Director, Social Futures Observatory
Director of the think tank, Social Futures Observatory, which explores future-oriented technological, economic, political, socio-cultural issues and trends
http://www.michaelhulme.co.uk/

Dr Derek McCormack, University Lecturer, Geography and the Built Environment, University of Oxford
Research interests in: affect; the body; experience; governance; finance (including inflation); politics and practices of decision making

Professor Paul Martin, Professor, Sociology, University of Sheffield
Research interests in: ethical, legal and social issues associated with emerging medical technologies; commercialisation of biotechnology and expectation dynamics in medical innovation

Dr Nina Wakeford, Reader, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Research interests in: social studies of technology; user-centred design; new technologies; ethnography

Dr Gisa Weszkalnys, Lecturer, Anthropology, London School of Economics
Research interests in: planning and temporal practices; expert knowledge; hope; oil