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Michael Schillmeier’s work combines process-oriented Sociology, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Empirical Philosophy. He graduated at the LMU Munich/Germany and received his PhD from Lancaster University. He held a Schumpeter-Fellowship (VolkswagenStiftung) to research ‘Innovations in Nano-Medicine’ in Germany and the UK (2010-2015). Main focus of this project is to analyse and engage with the emergence of nanomedical knowledge practices, objects and technologies. He is co-editor of Space & Culture and member of the editorial board of The Sociological Review.

His empirical and conceptual work is concerned with the becoming of social relations, actors, practices and concerns whereby the 'non-normal', 'unexpected', 'uncommon', or 'unknown' plays a central part. Linking social sciences, philosophy and art he has widely written on the material dynamics and heterogeneity of societal orderings and change. Research topics include STS, dis/abling practices, care practices, health & illness, human/non-human relations, cosmopolitics.

Professor Michael Schillmeier
Department of Sociology & Philosophy
University of Exeter
Amory Building 328
Rennes Drive

Exeter EX4 4RJ

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Term Two 2020

Mo 10-12

Latest Book

Eventful Bodies - The Cosmopolitics Of Illness (Ashgate)

Latest Open Access Publication

Caring for Social Complexity in Nanomedicine

Latest Edition

Special Volume 1 & 2 Issue "Quo Vadis Nanomedicine: Past, Present and Future of Nanomedicine

Biography:

Diploma - Sociology, LMU Munich / Germany, with a First

Lecturer LMU Munich

PhD Sociology - Lancaster University / Uk. Supervisor: Prof. John Law. External: Michel Callon, with Summa Cum Laude

PD Dr. - Habilitation / LMU Munich / Supervisor: Prof. Ulrich Beck

Assistant Professor - LMU Munich

Schumpeter Fellow - VolkswagenStiftung

Honory Senior Fellow EGENIS - Exeter

Full Professor of Sociology - Exeter University

Research supervision:

Science and Technology Studies
Sociology of the Body and the Senses
Disability Studies
Sociology of Care, Health and Illness
Sociology of Everyday Life
Sociology of Risk
Cosmopolitics
Sociological Theory
Science, Art & Philosophy

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