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A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage (AGATM)
Social Anthropology

A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage (AGATM)

This research aims to create a new theoretical vision of the importance of marriage as an agent of transformation in human sociality.
Map of a plague outbreak in Vetlianka, a fishing village close to Astrakhan, Russia 1878-79, Source: Minkh, G. N. 1898. Chuma v Rossii (Vetlyanskaya Épidemiya 1878–1879gg.) [Plague in Russia (epidemic of Vetlianska 1878–1879)]. Kiev.)
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

A History of Epidemiological Reasoning

This project examines the history of epidemiology in the twentieth century. It asks how epidemiological knowledge has been produced, how it became powerful and who could speak in its name.
microwave towers outside one of the datacentres in which high-frequency trading takes place. Image courtesy of Bird&Renoult
Sociology

A Material Sociology of High-Frequency Trading

This project explores how today’s automated trading has developed and is currently conducted. It also studies the interaction between automated trading and market structures both in the US and Europe. 
A New Page? Libraries, Austerity and the Shifting Boundaries of Civil Society
Sociology

A New Page? Libraries, Austerity and the Shifting Boundaries of Civil Society

This project focuses on public libraries and the things they do in, and for, the neighbourhoods in which they are based.

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Centre of African Studies

Accountability through practical norms: Civil service reform in Africa from below (2016-17)

Drawing on an anthropological approach the project contributed to a shift in focus from naming and shaming to the development of a more positive approach emphasising integrity and public service delivery.
Fabric
Centre of African Studies

AFRIGOS

AFRIGOS explores processes of ‘respacing’ driven by regional integration and the re-casting of Africa’s role within the global economy.

Molecule model
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

An Infrastructure for Platform Technology in Synthetic Biology

The aim of the project is to develop integrated platform technology and an infrastructure for synthetic biology.
Heart rate
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Animal Machine and Me

This research will undertake a sociological investigation into current practices of repairing the function and replacement of the human heart.
Fabric
Centre of African Studies

ANTHUSIA

The project fosters talent relevant to current challenges and potentials of developing safe societies in Africa.
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Sociology

Artful Sociology: Exploring Avenues for Interdisciplinarity Between Sociology and the Art World

Dr Laura Harris is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Her current project is called Artful Sociology: Exploring Avenues for Interdisciplinarity Between Sociology and the Art World and has involved collaborating with Talbot Rice Gallery in the production of the event In Another Tongue.
Phone with social media apps visible
Sociology

ARTICONF

ARTICONF - The smART socIal media eCOsystem in a blockchaiN Federated environment - project is a EU Horizon 2020 project focusing on decentralised social media services.

Colours
Social Anthropology

Atelier: Creative Arts and the Social Sciences Network

The Atelier Network brings together researchers, practitioners, teachers and learners in Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the School of Social and Political Science (SSPS).