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Knowledge, Technology and Society Team
Linking technological change in health, agriculture and environment to poverty reduction and social justice.
Knowledge, Technology and Society Research team
The Knowledge, Technology and Society (KNOTS) Team strives to meet the interlinked global challenges of poverty reduction, social justice and environmental sustainability, believing that this is a moral and political imperative of our age.
We undertake research that focuses on science, technology and society, asking how diverse knowledge and expert science can advance poor people’s concerns and improve environmental sustainability in locally and culturally specific ways.
Our approach emphasises the importance of collaborative understandings which go beyond scientific objectivity to include awareness of how dynamic socio-political, environmental and technological factors interact.
Clustering our work around agriculture, health, environment, and water and sanitation, we have created new alliances with natural scientists, published excellent individual and co-constructed research, and developed innovative influencing strategies. Ultimately, the KNOTS Team seeks to produce policy-relevant work which – through bringing different perspectives, associated solutions and trade-offs to the fore – supports social and environmental justice
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20 Jan 12 Competition for African journalists: Young people, farming and food
The Future Agricultures Consortium is running a competition to find the best media reporting in Africa on young people and agriculture
15 Dec 11 Convenor of IDS's MA in Science, Society and Development welcomes the new summer school on pathways to sustainability
Summer school to address issues such as the politics of sustainability, understanding uncertainty and risk, and the global governance of science and technology.
05 Dec 11 STEPS Centre Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability
In Summer 2012 the STEPS Centre will hold a two-week international summer school on Pathways to Sustainability. Applications are invited from now until 31 January.
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Latest Team Publications »
- Brooks, S. (forthcoming) 'Living with Materiality or Confronting Asian Diversity? The Case of Iron-Biofortified Rice Research in the Philippines', East Asian STS (EASTS) Journal
- (2012) '‘Some for All?’ Politics and Pathways in Water and Sanitation', IDS Bulletin 42.2, Brighton: IDS
- Cornwall, A., Edström, J. and Greig, A. (2011) Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities, London: Zed Books
- Galaz, V., Biermann, F., Crona, B., Loorbach, D., Folke, C., Olsson, P., Nilsson, M., Allouche, J., Persson, A. and Reischl, G. (2011) 'Planetary Boundaries-Exploring the Challenges for Global Environmental Governance' , Beijer Discussion Paper Series
- Weinthal, E., Troell, J. and Nakayama, M. (2011) Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding , London: Earthscan
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