Research areas
Since its creation in 2016, the STS Lab develops a field of inter- and trans-disciplinary research, addressing both the practical underpinnings, the normative stakes, and the political implications of science, technology and medicine in action.
Digital Studies
- Studies of technology, infrastructures and digital mediations.
- Sciences, and social sciences research in the digital era, studies of digital methods, of algorithms, the history of quantification, of computation and of robotics.
- Studies of digital cultures and practices, digitization of Arts, of culture and of the media.
Gender and Intersectionnalities
- Sex, gender, sexualities, race, class, and age, in the sciences, technology and in medicine and health.
- Power relations in the shaping of subjects, of bodies, of identity and alterity.
- Knowledge comebacks, knowledge from below, knowledge of solidarity, radical sciences, i.e « garage », Makers, Do-It-Yourself, hacking.
Medicine and Health
- Anthropology and sociology of medicine, of health and of the body.
- Crossing of knowledge, of practices and materialities in relation to institutional, political, cultural and technical contexts.
- Contemporary biomedicine, evolution of health systems, gender, medicine and heath relations, Non-Western traditions of medical and health systems.
Science, expertise : publics and participation
- Democratisation, popularisation, representations, reception, attitudes, science-society relations, publics of sciences.
- Sociotechnical controversies, risk and expertise, ethical, legal, and societal implications of technology.
- Epistemic justice, third sector research, action research, participatory research, collaborative innovation, co-production of knowledge, practices and the environment.
Technosciences, innovation : promises and practices
- Technoscientific promises and visions, sociotechnical imaginaries, science-fiction, science and technology in cultural works.
- Critical approaches of research and innovation, social expectations, alternative theories and practices, slow science, knowledge co-production.
- Shaping of practical knowledge, sociology of users and non-users, material cultures.
