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British Academy Visiting Fellow Award - a Success!

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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.
Date:
21 March 2024

British Academy Visiting Fellow Award

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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.
Date:
16 June 2023

Out Now | Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict

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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.
Date:
27 February 2023

Seeking UK-based participants for study on raw meat-based diets for dogs

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PhD student research
Date:
13 October 2022

Brigitte Nerlich edited a special issue of the journal Metaphor and Symbol

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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.
Date:
23 August 2022

ISS researchers in the media

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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.
Date:
09 August 2022

Brigitte Nerlich has published a chapter on metaphors and the coronavirus in a book on Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities

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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.
Date:
26 July 2022

Article by Rusi Jaspal and Brigitte Nerlich

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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.
Date:
12 July 2022

Research Residency at the University of California Humanities Research Institute

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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.
Date:
28 June 2022

International conference on epigenetics

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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.
Date:
21 June 2022
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