The Beam invites you to visit a short series of mini-lectures exploring \u2018Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice\u2019 that we will develop over the coming weeks. The mini-lectures are meant as tasters for a full-fledged postgraduate module that we plan to teach in Manchester in the spring semester of 2021-22.<\/p>\n
The focus in both the tasters and the module is on historical, cultural, social, moral, political, regulatory and socioeconomic frameworks in which science and technology are produced. We explore how nuclear science, engineering, and practices are entangled with communities, geographies, and geologies, and how such entanglements affect and generate society.<\/p>\n
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective, we hope to engage readers and students from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, including engineering, the nuclear and social sciences, and the humanities.<\/p>\n