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Recent developments in biomedicine and biotechnology have done much to challenge and recast the ways in which life itself is understood and intervened upon, giving rise to novel possibilities for the modification, enhancement, improvement, extension and termination of life. These possibilities have at the same time brought about often controversial ethical debates about the potentially negative impact of these developments on the quality of life and rights of individuals, not to mention future generations.
The Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Network brings together young researchers working with inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to studying the life sciences and society field. The Network facilitates exchanges between postgraduates who study or encounter these aspects in their studies and who wish to explore different concepts and develop understandings within the field, for example that of ‘life’ as it is lived, emerged and intervened upon; and to further mutual understanding of the national, and cross-national dimensions of conceptualisations.
The Network has already attracted interest from research students from a wide range of academic disciplines from the life sciences, humanities, and social sciences to law
studies in the UK as well as the Nordic countries. With a widening recognition that we need to approach our research with cultural and national sensitivity and an interdisciplinary awareness and openness, this network seeks to be a forum for exploring, sharing and learning from each other as means of stimulating our own research projects and qualifications, and to create a community with a cross-national and interdisciplinary interest in life. We aim to be interdisciplinary and comparative in our scope and although the network is primarily be a web-based community with a strong focus on discussion and information-sharing, it will also strive to meet annually.
We welcome new members! For more details contact
Megan Clinch in London and
Nete Schwennesen in
Copenhagen.
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