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International Societies
National STS Associations
Research Centres
Journals
Interactive STS Communication
International Teaching Programmes

International Societies

4S – Society for the Social Studies of Science.
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) was founded in 1975 and now has an international membership of over 1200. Its main purpose is to bring together those interested in understanding science, technology, and medicine, including the way they develop and interact with their social contexts.
www.4sonline.org

British Society for the Philosophy of Science
The purpose of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science is to study the logic, the methods, and the philosophy of science, as well as those of the various special sciences, including the social sciences.
www.thebsps.org

European Philosophy of Science Association epsa
The general aim of the EPSA is to promote and advance philosophy of science in Europe. It was established in 2007 to bring together professional philosophers of science and students from the whole of Europe (and the rest of the world) and foster collaboration and exchange of ideas among them.
www.epsa.ac.at

History of Philosophy of Science hopos
HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, is devoted to promoting serious, scholarly research on the history of the philosophy of science. It aims to promote historical work in a variety of ways, but especially through encouraging exchange among scholars through meetings, publications, and electronic media.
www.hopos.org

History of Science Society hss
The History of Science Society is dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in historical context. Over 3,000 individual and institutional members across the world support the Society’s mission to foster interest in the history of science and its social and cultural relations.
www.hssonline.org

International Committee for the History of Technology icohtec
ICOHTEC was founded in 1968 to provide a forum of scholars for the history of technology from both sides of the ‚iron curtain‘. It was constituted as a Scientific Section within the Division of the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS/DHST).
www.icohtec.org

Société d’Anthropologie des Connaissances
The Société d’Anthropologie des Connaissances was founded in 2006 to stimulate multidisciplinary investigations on practices and forms of knowledge, professions, organizations and institutions, techniques and circulation and to promote the development of joint research in a wide variety of social and human sciences.
www.ird.fr/socanco

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
SHOT was formed in 1958 to encourage the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. It is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history.
www.historyoftechnology.org

Society for Philosophy and Technology
The Society for Philosophy and Technology is an independent international organization that encourages, supports and facilitates philosophically significant considerations of technology. Founded in 1976, SPT maintains an association with the American Philosophical Association.
www.spt.org

National STS Associations

Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies
DASTS is a professional association for STS in Denmark which aims to stimulate the quality, breadth and cooperation within the Danish STS research and to raise its profile in national and international contexts.
www.dasts.dk

Italian Society for Science and Technology Studies
STS Italia was founded in 2005 to build up an Italian network of researchers oriented to study Science and Technology starting from the social dynamics which characterize and interweave science and technology themselves.
www.stsitalia.org

Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture wrmc
WTMC is a collective effort of Dutch scholars studying the development of science, technology and modern culture. The history, sociology and philosophy of science and technology – Science and Technology Studies (STS) – form the core of its work, but there are also strong inputs from cultural studies and innovation studies. The School aims to stimulate and coordinate high quality research in the field of STS; provide high quality advanced training for PhD candidates in STS, and thus to create new generations of scholars with a solid background in this field; and enhance the societal significance and visibility of STS.
www.wtmc.net/

Research Centres

Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University css
Promotes interdisciplinary research across the boundaries of science, technology, and public policy. Our research problematises the construction of scientific knowledge and expert authority. We take diverse approaches including feminist STS, actor-network theory (and after), cultural analyses of science, anthropological and postcolonial technoscience studies.
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css

Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes
The Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes is an intellectual network aimed at enhancing the contribution of science and technology to society’s pursuit of equality, justice, freedom, and overall quality of life. The Consortium creates knowledge and methods, cultivates public discourse, and fosters policies to help decision makers and institutions grapple with the immense power and importance of science and technology as society charts a course for the future.
www.cspo.org

Centre for the Study of Invention & Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London
CSISP is an active interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths. CSISP hosts events, research, and projects that examine the role of ‘invention’ and cognate terms (‘innovation’, ‘creativity’, ‘expectation’) in relation to contemporary dynamics in an array of substantive areas (HIV/AIDS, energy, design, information technology).
www.gold.ac.uk/csisp

The Loka Institute
The Loka Institute’s vision is to kindle a vibrant popular movement for community-driven policies in research, science, and technology that will advance democracy, social justice, and ecological sustainability at every level – from neighbourhoods to nations.
www.loka.org/

Journals

Hyle: International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry
HYLE is a peer reviewed international journal dedicated to all philosophical aspects of chemistry. Articles deal with epistemological, methodological, foundational, and ontological problems of chemistry and its subfields; the peculiarities of chemistry and relations to technology, other scientific and non-scientific fields; aesthetical, ethical, and environmental matters in chemistry; as well as philosophically relevant facets of the history, sociology, linguistics, and education of chemistry.
www.hyle.org

RAC – Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances
The RAC – Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances is a peer reviewed international journal, published in French with introductory articles and abstracts in English and Spanish. The RAC is dedicated to the publication of multidisciplinary investigations on practices, forms, techniques, organizations, institutions and circulation of knowledge. It publish theoretical and empirical results from a wide variety of social and human sciences.
www.cairn.info/revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances.htm

Science as Culture Science and Culture
Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society.
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CSAC

Science Studies
Science Studies is designed as an open forum for all perceptive contributions to the study of science and technology, whether philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, educational or politico-economic. It stands for no doctrine or formal discipline, except for theoretical analysis as a guide to better practice, and empirical observation as a stimulus to conceptual insight.
www.sciencestudies.fi

International Teaching Programmes

European Studies of Science, Technology and Society
The European programme on Society, Science and Technology (ESST) provides the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and manage complex issues of modern innovations, such as sustainable energy technologies; stem cell research; nanotechnology; and social networking. The general assumption is that innovation is ruled by economics. However, innovation cannot be captured by economics alone. Likewise, science and technology are not the only drivers of our societies. This Master programme approaches them from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: (innovation studies, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies, political science, etc.).
Esst.eu

Interactive STS Communication

EASST-Eurograd
EASST-EUROGRAD is a mailing list intended to facilitate a European network of scholars of all levels in the broad field of Science and Technology Studies. The list serves to announce scholarly events, calls, job openings and the like.
easst.net/?page_id=55

STS wiki STS
Science and Technology Studies (STS) examines the influence of society on science and technology, and the influence of science and technology on society. STS Wiki is an experiment in the public production of free, open-source knowledge concerning STS. Our mission is simple: To make STS knowledge, perspectives, and resources available for free, worldwide.
Stswiki.org

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