Panels

Day 1. Panel on emerging methods and methodologies in the STS field

To greater and lesser extents, STS approaches insist that research practice intervenes in the in-the-world activity it is studying. This panel will explore ways of interacting with the field, cross-disciplinary experiences and some practical methodological opportunities of relating to other ways of knowing, and of intervening in the world.

Participants: Morten Nissen, Aarhus University; Ericka Johnson, Linköping University; Corinna Kruse, Linköping University; + more to be announced

Moderator: Boel Berner, Linköping University

Chair: Mary Fraser Berndtsson, mary [dot] fraser_berndtsson [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (mary[dot]fraser_berndtsson[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se)

Day 2. Evidence-based, Evidence-biased or Evidence-less? Perspectives on practices of evidence-basing in STS and beyond

Evidence-based approaches have become an important ideal pursued in a range of areas, perhaps most prominently in contemporary medicine. In this panel discussion, STS scholars meet government officials to discuss the drivers, complexities and consequences of evidence-basing.

Chair: Shai Mulinari shai [dot] mulinari [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (shai[dot]mulinari[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se)

Day 2. STS research for sustainable sustainabilities

Environmental sustainability has become a powerful boundary object, gathering a variety of actors and projects. This panel invites to discussions of this ambiguous and contested concept. Questions addressed include: How is environmental sustainability defined and mobilized, by whom, and for whom? Whose interests and voices are represented in sustainability projects? How can STS researchers move on from deconstructing sustainability, to reconstructing it on different and more inclusive terms?  

Chair: Anna Kaijser anna [dot] kaijser [at] liu [dot] se (anna[dot]kaijser[at]liu[dot]se)

Pre reflections from the panelists. (docx)