Workshop 3 May: RRI and CSR at speed
This workshop aims to explore the tensions between trying to pursue RRI or CSR when faced with issues and technologies characterised by high levels of urgency, complexity and uncertainty.
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Together with Magdalena Wicher from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) at UiB, Anne Bremer from SVT invites people to join the second workshop of the research school, this time held on:
30th April, 3rd and 10th May 2021.
Follow online (link to follow.)
The workshop will be organised as follows:
On the 30th April, participants are invited to follow online the streamed symposium ‘Sick Society’, organised by SVT, which explores the relation between knowledge and action in a pandemic. Participants will be asked to pay particular attention to the last session, from 16:00-17:30, which is a panel discussion composed of people who had to work under the lockdown in March-April 2020, and apprehend the new measures in order to keep their activities going, in schools, kindergartens, hospitals and newspapers.
On the 3rd and 10th May, participants will gather for a reflexive workshop on what RRI and CSR look like ‘at speed’, together with the organisers Anne Bremer and Magdalena Wicher. There is one week between the two workshop days, to allow participants to reflect on key questions about their own research context, and prepare a presentation that they will give on the last day of the workshop.
Open to all: PhD candidates, early career and senior researchers, R&D practitioners; both from AFINO and broader RRI/CSR networks
Optional credits: 1 ECTS.
Assignment: The 1 ECTS is based on preparatory readings, attendance to the workshop and on giving a presentation at the end of the workshop.
Reading list: to be communicated
Preliminary program 3 May
09:30 – 10:00: Introduction to the workshop and round table
10:00 – 11:00: Discussion of the symposium’s last session by exploring the relation between knowledge and action in a pandemic: patterns, strategies, dynamics.
11:00 – 12:00: Lecture by Anne Bremer – an introduction to ‘post-normal science’ and how it can help guide decision-making under uncertainty, complexity and emergency; and reflections about non-action. Time for discussion.
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 14:00: Lecture by Magdalena Wicher: My position(s) within my field of research – using Bourdieu to elicit and reflect on one’s different roles as RRI researchers/practitioners, citizens, activists, when faced by urgency, complexity and uncertainties. Time for discussion.
14:00 – 15:00: Linking the discussions of the day to one’s own research/project/practice. We will together discuss the questions below on which the participants’ presentations will be based.
- What is the definition(s) of RRI I use in my research/project/practice?
- Why am I working on an RRI project / with RRI- or CSR-related research?
- Am I anticipating issues of complexity, uncertainty and emergency in my research/project/practice? How can I navigate this?
- Am I anticipating issues of ‘positioning’ or how to balance different roles in my research/project/practice? How can I navigate this?
