The last London PUS seminar of this academic year will be held on Wednesday 25th June. Joëlle Le Marec, president of the Science&You 2015 Scientific Committee (Université Paris Diderot, CERILAC, Sciences et médias), will discuss the daily communication practices of research scientists.
The London PUS seminar is an interdisciplinary intercollegiate seminar concerned with the broad range of topics that fall under the headings of public understanding of science.
Abstract: My purpose is to present a protocol of survey elaborated to study scientific practices through the daily communication situations.
Four years ago, with other researchers of the ENS Lyon, we used this protocol to study the daily life of three research teams in biology and genetics involved in a research program upon resistance to antibiotics. Our goal was to reach a better knowledge of daily research practices under collective programs.
Today, we know quite well what is a “research laboratory”: social relations and networks, working as professional department, writing practices and proliferation of papers and documents, importance of the objects and instruments, etc. But it is still difficult to link clearly the daily life of researchers and the scientificity.
With this aim, we asked self-willed researchers to fully record daily communication situations in which they were involved, and we interviewed them on the basis of those recordings.
Our first results show how important are the communication situations in the way researchers work alone or together and give meaning to their researches. This survey is a first experiment to test and improve our protocol and hypothesis.
Date, Time and Location:
Wednesday 25th June 2014
16.15-18:00
St Clement's, S314, LSE
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