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

Finnish Multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence in Antimicrobial Resistance Research

About FIMAR The antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pandemic is a major global crisis that threatens human health, not only in the form of non-treatable infections but also by complicating modern medicine...

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

About CrimScapes The CrimScapes research project (2020-2023) explores the growing mobilisation of criminal law, crime control measures and imaginaries of (il)legality as both responses to, and producers of, the politics...

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...

Past projects

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...

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...

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

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