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Co-developing materials in the metamorphic zone: extending bacteriocentricity (2024)
Journal Article
Moreira, T., & Staykova, M. (online). Co-developing materials in the metamorphic zone: extending bacteriocentricity. Science, Technology, & Human Values, https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439241296898

Engineered living materials (ELM) are composite technologies that respond to environmental cues, are able to remodel, self-organise and self-heal. Proposed as a fusion of synthetic biology and classical materials science, ELMs are seen as having the... Read More about Co-developing materials in the metamorphic zone: extending bacteriocentricity.

The Value of Experience: A historical sociology of data-driven health care systems (2024)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. The Value of Experience: A historical sociology of data-driven health care systems. Manuscript submitted for publication

One of the key expectations associated with health data is its potential ability to make health systems more reactive, adaptable (‘smart’) and efficient, by integrating patient generated information into the digital infrastructure of these systems. O... Read More about The Value of Experience: A historical sociology of data-driven health care systems.

From chronological age to biomarkers of ageing: a historical cultural sociology (2024)
Book Chapter
Moreira, T. From chronological age to biomarkers of ageing: a historical cultural sociology. In J. Twigg, & W. Martin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. (2nd ed.). Routledge

This chapter focuses on the changing ways in which we measure ageing in society. While it is usually agreed that State-enforced, techniques of chronological age measurement were key to establish the cultural apparatus of the ‘modern’ life course, le... Read More about From chronological age to biomarkers of ageing: a historical cultural sociology.

Addressing the Black Box of AI - A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-Constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Journal Article
Gallistl, V., Banday, M. U. L., Berridge, C., Grigorovich, A., Jarke, J., Mannheim, I., Marshall, B., Martin, W., Moreira, T., Van Leersum, C. M., & Peine, A. (2024). Addressing the Black Box of AI - A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-Constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence. The Gerontologist, 64(6), Article gnae039. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae039

Algorithmic technologies and (large) data infrastructures, often referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI), have received increasing attention from gerontological research in the last decade. While there is much literature that dissects and explore... Read More about Addressing the Black Box of AI - A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-Constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence.

Furthering Ontological Pluralism, Maybe: The Strange Case of the Microbial Recordings (2023)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2023). Furthering Ontological Pluralism, Maybe: The Strange Case of the Microbial Recordings. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(5), 1042-1053. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439231190897

This paper describes the trials and tribulations of drawing on Latour’s work on ontological pluralism (An Inquiry into the Mode of Existence) to make sense of a series of recordings collected by participants in a sensorial urban walk focused on bacte... Read More about Furthering Ontological Pluralism, Maybe: The Strange Case of the Microbial Recordings.

Engaging publics in imagining the future of engineered living materials (2023)
Journal Article
Moreira, T., Marshall, J., & Staykova, M. (2023). Engaging publics in imagining the future of engineered living materials. Matter, 6(8), 2467-2470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.05.002

Engineered living materials (ELMs) are technologies that respond to environmental cues and are able to remodel, self-organize, and self-heal. We conducted two workshops with a wide range of stakeholders and identified key themes in open discussion. O... Read More about Engaging publics in imagining the future of engineered living materials.

A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60) (2022)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2023). A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60). History of the Human Sciences, 36(2), 128-153. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221113438

Increased use of scales in data-driven consumer digital platforms and the management of organisations has led to greater interest in understanding social and psychological measurement expertise and techniques as historically constituted ‘technologies... Read More about A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60).

Re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus (2021)
Book Chapter
Moreira, T. (2021). Re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus. In A. Peine, B. Marshall, W. Martin, & L. Neven (Eds.), Socio-gerontechnology Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology. Routledge

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Part four of the book proposes that Barad’s feminist ‘new materialism’ provides a key to understand and act upon the relational co-productio... Read More about Re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus.

Infrastructuring experience: what matters in patient-reported outcome data measurement? (2021)
Journal Article
Langstrup, H., & Moreira, T. (2022). Infrastructuring experience: what matters in patient-reported outcome data measurement?. BioSocieties, 17(3), 369-390. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-020-00221-5

Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) data are being widely mobilised as a means to implement clinical and governance decision-making systems based on measurement of "what matters to patients". Little is known, however, of how these—datified and calculative... Read More about Infrastructuring experience: what matters in patient-reported outcome data measurement?.

Ageing as a Boundary Object. Thinking Differently of Ageing and Care (2020)
Journal Article
Cozza, M., Gallistl, V., Wanka, A., Manchester, H., & Moreira, T. (2020). Ageing as a Boundary Object. Thinking Differently of Ageing and Care. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 11(2), 117-138. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2038-3460/17480

Ageing is not only a chronological matter. The following contributions at the crossroad of STS, material gerontology, design, and medical sociology offer alternative views on ageing and care. Ageing emerges as a boundary object through which authors... Read More about Ageing as a Boundary Object. Thinking Differently of Ageing and Care.

Translating cell biology of ageing? On the importance of choreographing knowledge (2020)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2021). Translating cell biology of ageing? On the importance of choreographing knowledge. New Genetics and Society, 40(3), 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2020.1825932

This paper describes and explores how translational research models, embedded in institutions and standards, interact with the epistemic and material practices of cell biologists of ageing, a field re-energized by emergent technoscientific promises t... Read More about Translating cell biology of ageing? On the importance of choreographing knowledge.

From quantified to qualculated age: the health pragmatics of biological age measurement (2020)
Journal Article
Moreira, T., Hansen, A. A., & Lassen, A. J. (2020). From quantified to qualculated age: the health pragmatics of biological age measurement. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(6), 1344-1358. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13109

There is growing interest, within the social sciences, in understanding self‐quantification and how it affects health practices in contemporary society. There is, however, less research on how ageing and health measurement relate, even though this re... Read More about From quantified to qualculated age: the health pragmatics of biological age measurement.

The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities (2020)
Journal Article
Boliver, V., Gorard, S., Powell, M., & Moreira, T. (2020). The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities. Scottish Affairs, 29(1), 82-97. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0307

The Scottish Government has set ambitious targets for widening access to full-time undergraduate degree programmes. Meeting these targets will be a real challenge, not least because young people from socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts continue... Read More about The use of access thresholds to widen participation at Scottish universities.

New Bikes for the Old (2019)
Journal Article
Lassen, A. J., & Moreira, T. (2020). New Bikes for the Old. Science & Technology Studies, 33(3), 39-56. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.77239

In the last 15 years, STS has established a research programme focused on the sociotechnical reconfiguration of later life, particularly as new political programmes aim to deploy ‘active ageing’ in contemporary societies. In Denmark, the bicycle is a... Read More about New Bikes for the Old.

Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence (2019)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2019). Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 77, Article 101179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101179

Ageing is routinely measured by counting the number of years lived since the birth of an individual but at least since at least the 1930s, the validity, precision and sensitivity of chronological age as a measure has been criticised across the biolog... Read More about Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence.

Metrics in Global Health: Situated differences in the valuation of human life (2019)
Journal Article
Maldonado, O., & Moreira, T. (2019). Metrics in Global Health: Situated differences in the valuation of human life. Historical social research. Supplement (Köln), 44(2), 202-224. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.44.2019.2.202-224

This paper explores the role of knowledge, standards, and metrics in global health. Our point of departure is the observation that the emergence of ‘global health’ as a domain of research, policy, and practice in the last three decades or so has coin... Read More about Metrics in Global Health: Situated differences in the valuation of human life.