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Science, health and sustainability
This research cluster addresses science and technology, health and wellbeing, and sustainability and the environment. We see these as key areas of societal importance for current and future generations that raise fundamental sociological issues of agency, equality and accountability. Shaping developments in these areas is an interdisciplinary challenge, and hence we aim to work productively across disciplines and to use participatory approaches to develop interventions.
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Professor Kate Burningham
Professor
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Professor Ranjana Das
Professor
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Professor Nigel Fielding
Emeritus Professor
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Professor Nigel Gilbert
Professor of Sociology
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Professor Christine Hine
Professor of Sociology
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Professor Paul Hodkinson
Professor of Sociology
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Dr Anastasia Loukianov
CUSP Research Fellow - CYCLES
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Professor Andrew King
Head of Department of Sociology, Professor of Sociology
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Professor Robert Meadows
Professor
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Dr Tom Roberts
Senior Lecturer Environmental Sociology; Co-director Institute for Sustainability