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Comedy in the Classroom? Innovative Teaching in 3S

Is there room for comedy in the classroom? What is the pedagogical role of performance? Should teachers tread the boards? Can improvisation inspire? and should silliness support learning about sustainability? We think so, and we’d like to tell you why.

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Personal geographies and disciplinary knowledge: some reflections on our visit to the Harvard STS Program

As Montaigne suggested in Book II of his Essais, sometimes knowledge in one place can look very different to that in another: “what of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?” was the question posed.

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Stop, collaborate and listen: the challenges of interdisciplinary research on energy futures.

Over the last four years, 3S was the lead social science partner on the Transition Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy project.