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Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change

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Research projects

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Infrastructures of Social Change

We explore the infrastructural dynamics and material dimensions of social relations and address the fluidity and elasticity of social life.

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Reframing the Nation

Focusing on the changing meanings of the nation in contemporary societies.

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Remaking Capitalism

Our distinctive approach combines follow the money research with political and cultural analysis.

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Social Life of Methods

Exploring how methods act not simply as technical toolkits, but also as vital players in creating and changing the social world.

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Trajectories of Participation and Inequality

Analysing social involvement and cultural participation within a long-term historical context.

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Urban Experiments

Exploring city processes of cultural, material and mobile change.

Publications

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Over 100 refereed papers covering all the areas of our research interests.

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Innovative, empirically-based, and theoretically informed publications.

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Policy and user-relevant research reports and briefings.

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