Projects

Here you can explore our research projects and the different ways, places and people with whom we produce knowledge of and with microbes.

Current projects

Multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence in Antimicrobial Resistance Research

The increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health threat. Understanding the drivers of this problem is of fundamental importance as the introduction of a new antimicrobial is...

Nordic Network for the Social Study of Microbes

Modern societies are founded on practices of hygiene, disinfection, and treatment with antibiotics to avoid microbes in health, agriculture, and environmental practices. Yet, these attempts have promoted rapidly advancing antimicrobial...

CrimScapes: Navigating citizenship through European landscapes of criminalisation

CrimScapes focuses on the expanding application of criminal law, crime control measures and imaginaries of (il)legality as both responses to, and producers of, the politics of threat and uncertainty that...

Social Study of Antimicrobial Resistance: Health Care, Animals, and Ethics (SoSAMiRe)

Antibiotics have made it possible for people to live longer, healthier lives. Currently, however, Western medicine is facing a serious threat as bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics and there...

Cultures of Cultures: Ethnography of Antimicrobial Resistance in Global Contexts (CARE)

Past projects

Microbial Lives: Practices of New Human-Microbial Cultures

This project explores human-microbe relations and in so doing, opens up a novel field for the social study of microbes. 130 years after the discovery of microbes, science is beginning...

Occurance, Sources and Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance in West Africa (AMRIWA)

Antibiotics have made it possible for people to live longer, healthier lives. Antimicrobial resistance, however, is an increasing problem, especially in low-resource settings. This project will employ a range of...

Socialities of a Vaccine Trial: Bacteria, Tourists, Local Communities, and Scientists in Benin (SCRIBE)

An experimental international vaccine trial is sending 800 Finns to Benin, West-Africa and the objective of this study is to investigate its conduct. In reference to literature on clinical trials...

Projects

Current projects

Past projects

Centre for the Social Study of Microbes