Sabina Leonelli is organising a symposium at the 9th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) in Ghent, Belgium, July 2-4, 2022.
Author: Norman Borlaug
Open Science policy advice in Flanders
Sabina Leonelli is working as a Lead Thinker, in the Thinkers Programme 2022 “Reproducibility and Replicability in Science” of the Royal Flemish Academy of Science and the Arts (KVAB). This work, conducted with Professor Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol), aims to map the concerns and needs of research stakeholders from universities to policy-makers and industry, and assemble recommendations for how debates and evaluations of reproducibility should move forward.
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Keynote on OS policy in Flanders
Sabina Leonelli lead and keynoted the final symposium of the “Reproducibility and Replicability in Science” programme of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, together with Stephan Lewandowsky.
Open Science and the UK REF
Sabina Leonelli intervened in the Westminster Higher Education Forum Policy Conference “Next steps for the Research Excellence Framework” on March 11, with a talk on “Open Science from Theory to Practice”. Slides available here.
Lectures at the Netherlands STS summer school (August)
Sabina Leonelli will give five lectures at the WTMC Summer School 2022 “Opening Up Diversity”, 22–26 Aug 2022 in Ravenstein (The Netherlands).
Sabina was chosen as the Anchor Teacher at the 2022 Summer School, so she will give five lectures. WTMC Summer Schools are prominent training spaces for PhD students in Science & Technology Studies in the Netherlands and beyond, with this event focusing closely on PHIL_OS themes through several lectures and interactive sessions with students and external guests. Follow the link for more information.
Biology in the Space Station
Paola Castaño gave a talk titled “Experiments, Communities, and Datasets: Sociological Notes about Plant Biology on the International Space Station”, in the One O’clock Space Lecture series of the UCL Space Domain on March 15, 2022 (Virtual/Zoom).
Welcome, Rose and Paola!
New team members Rose Trappes and Paola Castaño joined us in January 2022 as research fellows.
Vacancies: Three PhD students (21 Feb 2022)
We are looking for three PhD students to join our team! Deadline 21 February 2022.
Application and full description:
PhD projects description: These PhD studentships are part of a lively and cutting-edge project in the philosophy of science, seeking to provide empirical and conceptual understanding of the implications of Open Science policies for everyday research practice. In particular, the project is interested in how Open Science can be applied in highly diverse and often unequal research environments, where researchers may have very different understandings of what “openness” means and different capacity to engage in Open Science activities. To help advance existing understandings of what Open Science means to researchers on the ground, each PhD project will explore how the characteristics of one specific research site, including conceptual perspectives as well as material and social infrastructures, affect the interpretation and implementation of Open Science.
Working closely with the Principal Investigator and project partners, students will conduct a 6-month-long ethnographic study of a research site. They will then use the resulting data to analyse local efforts to implement Open Science, and the relation between such efforts and research practices and outcomes. To help with comparison and capitalise on the existing contacts and expertise of the Principal Investigator, all the subprojects will focus on institutes for plant and agricultural research (a field that has received little attention in science studies relatively to physics and biomedicine, and yet is fundamental to addressing current and future environmental challenges).
The choice of each site will be finalised by the applicants at the start of the PhD project, based on the applicants’ interests/skills and the projects’ existing contacts. The choice of which aspects the PhD thesis shall focus on is also completely up to the students, also depending on whether they aim to get a PhD in Sociology, Philosophy or Anthropology, and will be supported by the supervisor and wider project team. The Egenis centre and the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology will provide training in ethnographic methods to the students who do not have that background, and/or teaching in relevant scholarship in the philosophy and social studies of science for students who come from a science background.
For any further questions, please email s.leonelli@exeter.ac.uk
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
The whole academic year 2021/2022, Sabina Leonelli is based at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin until July 2022, taking advantage of the wonderful WiKo environment to explore epistemic diversity.