The Concordia Sensoria Research Team (CONSERT) has been carrying out research on the cultural life of the senses since 1988.

CONSERT is based in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8.

In January 2012, the Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science extended faculty recognition to the Centre for Sensory Studies. The Centre continues the work of CONSERT. It also brings together the Concordia Vision Lab (under the direction of psychology professor Aaron Johnson), the Laboratory for Sensory Research (directed by marketing professor Bianca Grohmann), and labXmodal (under the direction of design art professor Christopher Salter). To find out more about the Centre's role as an interdisciplinary research platform/exchange, please visit the Centre website http://www.centreforsensorystudies.org/

Please find below a list of CONSERT's past and present research projects, past and future conferences, research sampler, and information on publications by team members.

1. TEAM MEMBERS:

Investigators, Postdoctoral Students, Doctoral Students.

2. RESEARCH PROJECTS:

- "The Hands-On Museum: Transition Periods" (2011-2014)
- "Mediations of Sensation: Sensory Anthropology and the Creation/Evaluation of Multimodal Interactive Environments" (2010-2013)
- "The Sensory Museum: It's History and Reinvention " (2007-2010)
- "Multi-sensory Marketing: A Quantitative, Qualitative and Historical Appraisal" (2005- 2008)
- "The Sense Lives of Things: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of the Sensory Dimensions of Objects in Practices of Collection and Display" (2002-2005)
-"Beyond the Aesthetic Gaze: For an Aesthetics of the 'Other' Senses" (1997-2001)
-"Anthropology of Odor" (1990-1994)
-"The Varieties of Sensory Experience" (1988-1990)