Upcoming!
- NEW! Monthly Virtual Seminar Series starting this Fall (12:00pm - 1:30pm)
- January 28th, 2026 "Beyond the Cure: Integrating Science and Care in Alzheimer’s Research in Colombia” with Dr. Lina Beatriz Pinto García.
- February 26, 2026 "The politics of memory: Language technologies and decolonization in South Africa" with Dr. Yousif Hassan.
- April 22, 2026 “Counting herons, photographing melting ice: Public participation in climate change research.” with Dr. Sarah Blacker.
- 2025 - 2026 Research Support Workshops for Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (12:00pm - 1:30pm)
- September 12th, 2025: "Writing a successful SSHRC doctoral application" with Hana Holubec, Guita Banan and Dr. Denielle Elliott.
- December 8, 2025: Workshop on applying to present at the 4S conference (noon - 1pm) with Dr. Sandra Widmer.
- February 18th, 2026: "How to get your dissertation published as a book" with Dr. Lina Beatriz Pinto García.
- February 25th, 2025: "Writing for the general public / writing for change" Workshop with Dr. Kean Birch.
- More information coming soon and can be found here and here when available.
- Email Techsoc@yorku.ca with any questions.
Welcome to the Institute for Technoscience & Society!
Our goal is to create a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary research and information about the relationship between technoscience and society. We want to support excellent research on this relationship, especially on the configuration of social, political, and economic power underpinning scientific claims, medical practices, emerging technologies, sites of innovation, and much more.
If you want to get involved in the Institute, then please get in touch.
Contact: techsoc@yorku.ca
Featured Researchers
Dr. Mary Ott is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University. Drawing on sociomaterial, posthuman, and complexity orientations, she explores the agency of space, time, and materials in curriculum design and pedagogy. A current focus is on understanding the unintended consequences of technology in teaching and learning. Mary completed her PhD in curriculum studies at Western University with a focus on multiliteracies, and postdoctoral work in health sciences education in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. She also holds an appointment as a centre researcher in the Centre for Education Research & Innovation at Western.
Fenella Amarasinghe is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education. Her dissertation draws on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt to consider the ways that ethics is pedagogically constituted in engineering education. Fenella previously taught the first-year common engineering course on ethics, communication and problem solving at Lassonde School of Engineering and she developed ethics curricular content for undergraduate engineering programs at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is also a Research Assistant for a cross-institutional research project that investigates students' perceptions and experiences of the Technological Stewardship Practice Program and the concept of Tech Stewardship.
We recognize that many Indigenous Nations have longstanding relationships with the territories upon which York University campuses are located that precede the establishment of York University. York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.
ITS is committed to maintaining a safe and equitable space. We recognise that technology, medicine, and science have long histories of excluding women, racialized minorities, sexual minorities, disabled communities, Indigenous peoples, and other historically marginalized communities. We are committed to supporting anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and decolonizing research and mentoring the next generation of researchers working in the area of technoscience and society.