Research
Research Environment:
We provide a stimulating and supportive research training environment for our international community of Masters and PhD students, postdoctoral and early career researchers. Close interaction with funded projects, mentoring, plus regular Workshops, Visiting Fellows and an Annual Conference all imbue our research education with an ethos of excellence. We work with researchers on an individual and group basis and offer rigorous peer review of the presentations, papers and research proposals of our researchers.
We have revised our successful MSc Medicine, Bioscience & Society, and have developed two new and innovative Programmes in MSc Science, Technology & Contemporary Society; and MSc Sociology of Health & Illness. We have also developed new undergraduate modules in, for example, Sociology of Health & Illness.
Sociology & Communications Undergraduate Programmes
Postgraduate Programmes and Research Degrees
Research Grants since 2008:
Australian Research Council (ARC)
High hopes, high risk? A sociological study of stem cell tourism
$240,000
April 2012 – March 2015
Steven Wainwright (CI)
Wellcome Trust
Selective reproductive technologies: framings, choices, responsibilities
£9,686
April 2012 - March 2013
Clare Williams (PI)
AHRC/ESRC/ Nuffield Council on Bioethics Fellowship
Solidarity as a core value on Bioethics
£30,000
February 2011 - July 2011
Dr Barbara Prainsack (PI, CBAS)
German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD), at the Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (in collaboration with Professor Thomas Lemke: Heisenberg-Professor for Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
€ 22,000
April 2010 - July 2010
Dr Barbara Prainsack (PI, CBAS), Visiting Professorship (Gastdozentin)
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award (LABTEC)
The ethics of translational research: from ‘unnatural entities’ to experimental treatments
£835,000
April 2009 - March 2014
Prof Williams (PI, CBAS) et al
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Developing Countries studentship for Mansooreh Saniei
Ethics, policy and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research in Iran
£131,220
October 2008 -
Prof Williams (main supervisor, CBAS) & Prof Cribb (co-supervisor, KCL)
ESRC (UK) & SSRC (USA) Visiting Fellowship
The challenges of translational research in genetics: A US-UK collaboration
$10,040
September 2008 - December 2009
Professor Stefan Timmermans (PI, Sociology, UCLA, USA) with Prof Steven Wainwright (CBAS) & Prof Clare Williams (CBAS)
ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Risky genes, healthy choices: public health as government of the somatic self
£85,000
June 2008 - May 2009
Dr Alison Harvey (PI, CBAS) with Prof Wainwright & Prof Williams (CBAS)
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme
Ethical frameworks for embryo donation: views, values & practices of IVF/PGD staff
£200,000
August 2007 - June 2010
Prof Williams (PI) et al
ESRC Stem Cell Initiative Senior Research Fellowship
Spaces of stem cell science: exploring processes of translational research
£128,000
March 2007 - March 2009
Prof Wainwright, (PI, CBAS), with Prof Williams (CBAS)
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science & Research
Genes without borders – towards global genomic governance
€ 350,130
January 2006 - June 2008
Dr Barbara Prainsack (PI, University of Vienna/CBAS)
