Read all the latest news from the Institute for Science and Society. Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk http://live-uon.cloud.contensis.com/iss/news/index.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2026-03-16T04:50:53Z Alice Johnston

Information on Creative methods workshop 2025

2025-11-18T10:00:00Z 2025-11-19T08:59:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2025/creative-methods-workshop-2025.aspx J Daniels

Professor Pru Hobson-West has recently returned from an invited visit to the University of Tampere, Finland. Pru gave a keynote presentation to the two day October 2025 event.

2025-10-09T08:31:00Z 2025-10-13T08:20:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2025/iss-on-the-road-in-finland.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

We are pleased to share news of a recent international Keynote by Professor Reiner Grundmann. Reiner's talk entitled 'The Many Faces of Expertise' was presented at the University of Salamanca, Spain, in February.

2025-03-28T14:28:00Z 2025-03-28T14:10:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2025/professor-grundman-keynote-at-the-university-of-salamanca.aspx Daniel Hill

We are pleased to share news that a book, published by Reiner Grundman, emeritus professor, has recently been translated into Chinese

2025-02-05T14:29:00Z 2025-02-05T13:58:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2025/book-translated-into-chinese.aspx Daniel Hill

Congratulations to Simon Vanderstraeten and ISS member Adam Searle for their paper 'Biology's dark matter: From galaxies to microbes'

2025-02-05T14:29:00Z 2025-02-05T14:00:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2025/new-publication-in-theory-culture-and-society.aspx J Daniels

ISS would like to congratulate Karolina Trdlicova who passed her viva with minor corrections in August. We also would like to pass on congrats to Kathleen Salter, who also passed with minor corrections in August.

2024-10-31T07:00:00Z 2024-10-28T14:02:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2024/phd-student-successes.aspx J Daniels

We are pleased to share a new output by Professor Brigitte Nerlich and colleague.

2024-10-30T08:00:00Z 2024-10-28T14:00:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2024/new-article-out-on-representations-of-mitochondrial-replacement-therapy.aspx J Daniels

Working with colleagues across several universities, ISS Director Pru Hobson-West has recently published an article in Science.

2024-10-29T07:45:00Z 2024-10-28T13:58:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2024/new-article-out-in-science.aspx J Daniels

Catherine Price has been awarded one of five places on the University of Nottingham's Policy Impact Pathways Programme, organised by the Institute for Policy and Engagement.

2024-10-28T14:09:00Z 2024-10-28T13:50:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2024/iss-member-joins-impact-pathways-programme.aspx Tarine Felix

Professor Grundmann was awarded the prestigious Theodor Karman fellowship at the RWTH Aachen University.

2024-04-26T08:18:00Z 2024-04-25T10:21:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2024/iss-professor-awarded-fellowship.aspx Tarine Felix

Professor Pru Hobson-West has recently co-published a book is entitled 'Researching animal research: What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare'.

2024-04-26T08:18:00Z 2024-04-25T10:42:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2024/new-book-researching-animal-research.aspx Tarine Felix

British Academy Visiting Fellow Award enabled Professor Jane Desmond (University of Illinois) to be based at University of Nottingham to develop collaborative projects with the School of Sociology and Social Policy and School of Veterinary Medicine and Science.

2024-03-21T08:37:00Z 2024-03-21T08:21:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/news/news-articles/2023/british-academy-visiting-fellow-award-a-success.aspx J Daniels

We are delighted to announce that Professor Jane Desmond (University of Illinois) has been awarded a Visiting Fellow grant from the British Academy. Then aim of this Award is to enable academics to be based at a UK University, and to develop collaborative projects.

2023-06-16T11:30:00Z 2023-06-16T10:24:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/news/news-articles/2023/british-academy-visiting-fellow-award.aspx J Daniels

Ecological Reparation - Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict, Edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Maddalena Tacchetti is now out and available to order from Bristol University Press.

2023-02-27T12:03:00Z 2023-02-27T11:52:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2023/out-now-ecological-reparation.aspx Jacqui Trickett

PhD student research

2022-10-13T12:30:00Z 2022-10-13T12:28:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/raw-meat.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Brigitte Nerlich (Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham) and Martin Döring (Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany) have edited a special issue of the journal Metaphor and Symbol (volume 37, 2022) on covid and metaphors.

2022-08-23T10:30:00Z 2022-04-04T10:35:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/brigitte-nerlich-edited-a-special-issue.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Researchers in ISS at the university have been engaging with the media. Professor Pru Hobson-West, Dr Alistair Anderson and Dr Tom Douglass are working on the EU funded VAX TRUST project.

2022-08-09T07:00:00Z 2022-03-18T07:58:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/iss-researchers-in-the-media.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

This chapter examines some of the pervasive and some of the alternative metaphors used during the pandemic in 2020, how they were used by some to try and control the world we live in and by others to create a better world to live in.

2022-07-26T08:45:00Z 2022-06-06T08:44:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/brigitte-nerlich-has-published-a-chapter.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Rusi Jaspal (University of Brighton) and Brigitte Nerlich (ISS) have written an article about the use of labels for 'covid sceptics' in the news and the implications of the way they are represented for the future of disease prevention and control.

2022-07-12T08:15:00Z 2022-02-23T08:15:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/article-by-rusi-jaspal-and-brigitte-nerlich.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Dimitris Papadopoulos will be a resident research fellow working with other humanities and social science scholars on the theme of "Mattering Elements" at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine.

2022-06-28T11:30:00Z 2022-06-09T11:32:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/research-residency-at-the-university-of-california.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Aleksandra Stelmach (Exeter, she did her PhD at ISS), Brigitte Nerlich (ISS), and Miguel Valdez (OU, he did his MA at ISS) are giving a paper at an international conference - Aleksandra in presentia, Brigitte and Alan in absentia.

2022-06-21T08:45:00Z 2022-04-25T08:47:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/international-conference-on-epigenetics.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

During this retreat we will explore theories and practices of ecological reparation and the politics of just transitions.

2022-06-17T09:30:00Z 2022-08-15T11:19:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/testalepre-retreat-2022.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Rusi Jaspal (University of Brighton) and Brigitte Nerlich have published an article on climate change, identity and coping in Climanosco.

2022-06-14T08:00:00Z 2022-02-21T08:10:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/article-on-climate-change.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Aleksandra Stelmach (University of Exeter), Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham) and Sarah Hartley (University of Exeter) have published an article in the journal Science Communication.

2022-05-17T08:15:00Z 2022-01-26T08:12:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/new-article-on-gene-drive.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Dimitris Papadopoulos will give a keynote on "Ecological Reparation, Experimental Practice and the Problem of Scale" at the symposium of the German STS Association.

2022-05-03T08:15:00Z 2022-04-08T08:13:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/iss-talk-at-the-symposium.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Renelle and Pru have recently published a paper in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

2022-04-19T13:45:00Z 2022-01-19T13:46:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/new-publication-from-renelle-mcglacken-and-pru-hobson-west.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Professor Pru Hobson-West, Dr Alistair Anderson, and Professor Kate Millar are convening a conference hosted by the British Academy and funded by the Wellcome Trust on "Constructing and contesting veterinary expertise: professionals, publics and prospects".

2022-04-13T13:45:00Z 2022-04-06T13:48:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/booking-open-for-british-academy-conference.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

The feminist interdisciplinary group The Ediths is organising a dedicated roundtable discussions series on the new book "Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice".

2022-04-05T08:30:00Z 2022-03-21T08:29:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/roundtable-discussions-and-symposiums.aspx Dimitris Papadopoulos

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Co-I on the new BBSRC funded project No Carbon Lost - Eliminating Co2 Production from Fermentation Processes (2022-2024, £1,875,000).

2022-04-05T08:15:00Z 2022-03-20T19:35:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/new-bbsrc-funded-project.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Brigitte Nerlich and Aleksandra Stelmach (University of Exeter) have published an open access article on 'Gene drive communication: exploring experts' lived experience of metaphor use' in New Genetics and Society.

2022-03-22T08:00:00Z 2022-01-17T08:12:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/new-article-on-gene-drive-communication.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Dimitris Papadopoulos spoke on Technoscience, Reappropriation and Reparation at the workshop "Appropriocene" at the Sciences Po in Paris.

2022-03-08T08:00:00Z 2022-03-01T08:08:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/dimitris-papadopoulos-was-invited-to-speak-at-the-sciences-po.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Pru Hobson-West from ISS was invited to attend the final dissemination workshop of the Leverhulme Funded 'Interspecies Connection' project.

2022-02-22T08:15:00Z 2022-01-17T08:04:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/interspecies-connectedness.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Please use attached leaflet to save 30% on new book "Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice".

2022-02-08T15:00:00Z 2022-01-17T15:06:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/new-book-on-chemical-elements-ecology-and-society.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

PGR researcher Natalia Ciecierska-Holmes has published a paper in the inaugural issue of the Student Journal of Vegan Sociology.

2022-01-25T08:00:00Z 2021-11-04T08:06:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/new-paper-by-natalia-ciecierska-holmes-on-human-bovine-relations.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

On 1 October 2021, Dr Pru Hobson-West gave a keynote talk to the Science and Technology research seminar, organised by the Tampere University, Finland.

2022-01-11T08:15:00Z 2021-11-03T08:16:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2022/invited-talks-on-vaccines.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice is coming out with Duke University Press soon.

2021-12-14T08:15:00Z 2021-11-04T08:17:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/introduction-to-new-book-reactivating-elements.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

The 'Cardboard Box' study explored with participants the salience of collaborative smart home data management.

2021-11-30T08:15:00Z 2021-11-03T08:20:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/new-paper-from-dr-murray-goulden.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

An exciting new Youtube Channel that premieres videographic discussions with a range of researchers on the theme of Ecological Reparation is now live.

2021-11-23T08:00:00Z 2021-11-04T08:14:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/new-youtube-channel-ecological-reparation.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Renelle McGlacken has started her new role as a research fellow on the Animal Research Nexus programme (AnNex) and is based at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham.

2021-11-16T08:45:00Z 2021-09-27T08:48:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/renelle-mcglacken-has-started-new-role.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

We are delighted to share the news that Pru Hobson-West from ISS will be promoted to Professor.

2021-11-09T08:15:00Z 2021-11-03T08:14:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/pru-hobson-west-promoted-to-professor.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Reiner Grundmann has published a new article in Discover Society.

2021-11-02T13:45:00Z 2021-09-23T13:54:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/covid-expertise-and-society.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

The journal Frontiers in Climate has appointed Professor Reiner Grundmann as chief editor for its speciality section on Climate and Decision Making.

2021-10-26T10:15:00Z 2021-09-06T10:17:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/professor-reiner-grundmann-appointed-chief-editor.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Dimitris Papadopoulos has co-authored two papers on the material and ecological politics of social movements and community organising.

2021-10-12T10:15:00Z 2021-09-06T10:15:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/new-papers-on-community-organisation-social-movements.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Professor Reiner Grundmann has a paper out in WIRES climate change, Covid and Climate: Similarities and Differences.

2021-09-28T10:15:00Z 2021-09-06T10:14:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/new-paper-by-professor-reiner-grundmann.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Nerlich and Jaspal's article deals with the issue of social distancing and failures in government communication.

2021-09-21T10:30:00Z 2021-06-21T10:37:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/brigitte-nerlich-and-rusi-jaspal-have-published-a-paper-in-current-sociology.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Dimitris Papadopoulos has been awarded £38,179 by UKRI to work on the project Ecological Reparation. Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict.

2021-09-14T10:15:00Z 2021-09-06T10:10:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/ukri-project-on-ecological-reparation.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Reiner Grundmann is chief editor for the section Climate and Decision Making.

2021-09-07T08:00:00Z 2021-07-21T08:08:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/reiner-grundmann-chief-editor-of-new-online-journal.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

Dr Pru Hobson-West was interviewed by BBC Radio Nottingham on 9 June about the topic of Covid vaccine hesitancy and young people.

2021-08-24T08:15:00Z 2021-06-10T08:16:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/iss-staff-on-bbc-radio-nottingham.aspx Dimitris Papadopoulos

Podcast by HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin): Future Ecologies: Compounds, Breakdown, Reparation with Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos.

2021-08-10T08:15:00Z 2021-06-09T20:19:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/podcast-on-future-ecologies.aspx Jocelyn Daniels

India defends itself against the term 'Indian variant', but does not doubt the existence of the mutation.

2021-07-27T08:15:00Z 2021-06-08T08:44:00Z https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iss/news/2021/brigitte-nerlich-is-quoted-in-a-blogpost.aspx