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Trusting your robot colleagues part one: What is a robot?
The question may seem obvious, but how do you actually define a robot?
Repetition and Sustainability
Exploring entanglements and tensions that arise between ‘the repetitive’ and ‘the sustainable’ in nuclear discourse
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As a collaborative, cross-disciplinary research network, the Beam will foster a new engagement between the nuclear sciences and social research.
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We are always seeking out new projects and collaborators in both academia and industry, and share the relevant activities of other groups as well as our own.
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Latest blog posts
Trusting your robot colleagues part one: What is a robot?
The question may seem obvious, but how do you actually define a robot?
A new research project in the making: ‘Mimesis in Action’
'Mimesis in Action: Nuclear decommissioning as conceptual playground for societal and ecological future making’ is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
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See more from The Beam team, as well as posts from guest authors, sharing ideas and research exploring the social elements of nuclear.
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Online seminars
'Making the unknown knowable' explored the ways in which the unknown is rendered knowable by a wide range of actors in a multitude of contexts.
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Mini-lecture series
These three mini-lectures explore 'Nuclear Science and Engineering as Social Practice' from Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, Penny Harvey and Başak Sarac̣-Lesavre.
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