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<br>Fully funded PhD CASE Studentships, Department of Sociology, Lancaster
<br>University.
<br>Applications are invited for two fully funded +3 studentships for Home/EU
<br>students who already have a relevant Masters' degree. The studentships are to
<br>start in October 2018. Further details and information about applying are
<br>available at: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/elizabeth-shove/research-students/
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<br>Transitions in the technologies and practices of office work: Manchester's
<br>administrative industries (1960-2017) With Manchester Museum of Science and
<br>Industry.
<br>This project investigates the relation between innovations in office
<br>technology - from filing cabinets and fax machines through to hard drives and
<br>email - and changing competencies and experiences of office work. The
<br>research will makes use of the Museum of Science and Industry's (MSI)
<br>collection of office-related objects, and of secondary sources together with
<br>interviews and focus groups to find out how innovations in office technology
<br>have affected the nature and location of office work and vice versa. In
<br>tackling these questions, and in showing what past innovations in office work
<br>might reveal about the future, the research will bring together concepts and
<br>approaches from fields such as science and technology studies, material
<br>culture and the sociology of everyday practice, also developing a novel
<br>integration of methods of material culture/object analysis, interviews, focus
<br>groups and archival research.
<br>Deadline for applications: 12th February 2018
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<br>Situating Everyday First Aid: Social Practices and Settings of Incidents and
<br>Help. With the British Red Cross.
<br>The project investigates the social organisation of first aid. The research
<br>will focus on the social and institutional settings within which first aid
<br>'incidents' occur and how these settings influence the kinds of 'responses'
<br>and forms of help that follow.
<br>The aim is to provide a better understanding of accidents, risks, and harms by
<br>positioning first aid incidents not as random events but as embedded in the
<br>spatial and temporal ordering of social practices and social life. The project
<br>is designed to generate further understanding of the social organisation of
<br>help and what this means for those involved in developing and providing first
<br>aid training.
<br>Deadline for applications: 9th February 2018
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<br>Contact Elizabeth Shove,
<br>e.shove@lancaster.ac.uk
<br>And see : http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/elizabeth-shove/research-students/
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<br>Professor Elizabeth Shove
<br>DEMAND Centre/Department of Sociology
<br>D19, FASS Building
<br>Lancaster University
<br>Lancaster, LA1 4YD
<br>tel 01524 510013
<br>http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/elizabeth-shove/
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<br>DEMAND Centre: Dynamics of Energy Mobility and Demand
<br>www.demand.ac.uk
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<br>New book The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners,
<br>Routledge, 2017.
<br>https://thenexusofpractices.wordpress.com/
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<br>New article: Shove, E. (2017) 'What is wrong with energy efficiency?'
<br>Building Research and Information available at:
<br>http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2017.1361746
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