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Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Who are the people of Europe? This question is facing statisticians as they grapple with standardising national census methods so that their numbers can be assembled into a European population. Yet, by so doing—intentionally or otherwise—they also contribute to the making of a European people. This, at least, is the central thesis of ARITHMUS. While typically framed as a methodological or statisti ...
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Market-Based Initiatives as Solutions to Techno-Scientific Problems (MISTS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

MISTS engages with market based initiatives employed as potential solutions to techno-scientific problems. MISTS will draw together two strands of STS research: the turn to research on markets and STS literature on science problems (and solutions). These two areas will be drawn on in exploring four sub-projects which feature market based initiatives as solutions to problems: an attempt to build a ...
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THE GENDER OF JUSTICE: THE PROSECUTION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ARMED CONFLICT (GOJ)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The international community now recognises the impact of ‘gender-based harms’ of conflict, the armed violence that targets or disproportionately affects women. It also acknowledges the obligation to prosecute these crimes. However, many claim that international justice continues to fail women victims of war. So are we witnessing a new age of accountability for these crimes against women? Or does i ...
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Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Environments through Sensor Technologies (CITIZENSENSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

This project will investigate, through three case studies, the relationship between technologies and practices of environmental sensing and citizen engagement. Wireless sensors, which are an increasing part of digital communication infrastructures, are commonly deployed for environmental monitoring within scientific study. Practices of monitoring and sensing environments have migrated to a number ...
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Meta-Gesture Music: Social, Embodied, Interactive Musical Instruments (METAGESTUREMUSIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"The era of recorded music that dominated the 20th century is near its end. Jacques Attali predicted that society would pass from a use of music in ""répétition"" (reproduction) to physically engaged acts of ""composition."" Christopher Small coined the term, ""musicking"" to refer to all acts of engagement with music, breaking down the barriers between performer and spectator. This interdisciplin ...
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Universalism, universal design and equitable access to the designed environment (UNIDESIGN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The proposed research examines the proposition that the values and attitudes embedded into the production of the designed environment display little or no knowledge of how to respond to the manifold complexities of the body. This will be explored through the context of disability and design, with the focus on assessing the relevance of the principles and practices of one of the foremost, contempor ...
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