Vital Politics – the conferences
A series of conferences that brought together some of the key figures working around the politics of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine.
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BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society
BIOS was an international centre for research and policy on social aspects of the life sciences and biomedicine.
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Revitalizing sociology
Urban environments play a major role in shaping neurobiological outcomes. A New Sociology for a New Century focused on ‘urbanicity’ to explore the impacts of city life on mental health in particular.
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BIONET
Over three years (2006-2009), BIONET examined challenges of ethical governance related to Sino-European collaboration in advanced life sciences research.
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Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation
The Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation (CSynBI) was a major collaboration between King’s and Imperial Colleges, London. The Centre existed to develop world-leading research and to build UK capacity in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
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Urban Brain Lab
The Urban Brain Lab, established by the Urban Brain Research Programme, is an experiment in resetting the relations between the sociological and neurobiological sciences.
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