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iHuman draws on expertise from across the social sciences, humanities, and STEM disciplines and brings together academics, community groups, and third-sector organisations.

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Marginalised Humans

Paying attention to the intersections of dis/ability, age, gender, sexuality, class, race, poverty and colonialism in order to expose and challenge social processes which push some human beings to the margins.

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Biosocial Humans

How are the biological and cognitive sciences, as well as their application in various biotechnologies, reconstructing ideas of what it means to be human in the 21st Century?

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Human Futures

What will it mean to be human in the future? Our research considers not what will be, but how we imagine what could be, considering the future as something co-created between science and society in the here and now.

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Knowing Humans

What role did scientific knowledge play in policy decisions during the pandemic, and how did that knowledge influence decision-makers’ perceptions of ‘the public’?

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