Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society’s mission is to research the complex social, cultural, ethical, legal, and technological landscape that characterises contemporary biomedicine and healthcare, using critical perspectives from across the social studies of science and medicine, bioethics, and the health humanities,
SKAPE
SKAPE The Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy at Edinburgh (SKAPE) brings together academic researchers across a range of disciplines, as well as policy practitioners, to examine the relationships and intersections between different types of science and knowledges on policy, including in environment and sustainability.
Design Informatics
Design Informatics The Institute for Design Informatics draws on user centred and participatory design methods to develop design driven solutions in a range of areas including to support conditions associated with sustainable living.
Energy & Sustainability
Energy & Sustainability Led by the cross-College Energy@Ed network, which incorporates expertise from social science, business, law and architecture, as well as through close collaboration with ECCI. Research explores issues around design and governance of energy systems and infrastructures across the world, including in lower income settings, as well as legal, economic and political dimensions of […]
Centre for Business, Climate Change & Sustainability
Centre for Business, Climate Change & Sustainability Members of the Centre for Business, Climate Change, and Sustainability work in five main areas of research: • Accounting for Climate Change and Sustainability • Doing Business Sustainably • Financing a Sustainable World • Transforming to a Sustainable Society • Transitioning to a Low Carbon Economy
Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies
Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies Research in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) on social studies of information and communication technologies examines how ways of knowing and organising are transformed through the creation of infrastructures of computer-mediated communication and data-based decision making, and how society, organisations and individuals respond to these transformations.
SKAPE
SKAPE The Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy at Edinburgh (SKAPE) brings together academic researchers across a range of disciplines, as well as policy practitioners, to examine the relationships and intersections between different types of science and knowledges on policy, including in public health.
Social studies of biology and medicine
Social studies of biology and medicine This research cluster within the School of Social and Political science attempts to identify, understand and answer some of the important questions that medicine and biology pose to individuals, groups and wider society. The diversity of the research is not solely based on what is happening in biomedical technology, […]
Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychology The research interests in Clinical Psychology cover the whole of the lifespan, focusing on childhood to adult and older adult mental health and emotional well being as well as the psychological impact of chronic physical ill health. Colleagues are designing and evaluating technology based interventions for those experiencing, or at risk of, mental […]
Physical Activity for Health Research Centre
Physical Activity for Health Research Centre The main focus of the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC) is to develop, test and implement interventions which encourage people of all ages to ‘sit less and walk more’.
