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2013 ISSTI Retreat Wind up: ways forward for ISSTI? Professor Robin Williams Director

2013 ISSTI Retreat Wind up: ways forward for ISSTI? Professor Robin Williams Director Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation. STS marches on?. Continued development of concepts perfomativity; promissory work, anticipation application in new technoscientific fields

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2013 ISSTI Retreat Wind up: ways forward for ISSTI? Professor Robin Williams Director

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  1. 2013 ISSTI Retreat Wind up:ways forward for ISSTI? Professor Robin Williams Director Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation

  2. STS marches on? • Continued development of concepts • perfomativity; promissory work, anticipation • application in new technoscientific fields • STS concepts extended to understand • Monitoring &policy formation/implementation • How technologies of markets – and markets for technology – are constructed • Infrastructures – sociomateriality over extended time & space • Affordances of expertise • How traditional and scientific knowledge combined (or not)

  3. Disciplinary configurations • New foci of research activity - bring more complex disciplinary configurations • Law School - intellectual property, regulation (Mason Institute; SCRIPT and CREATe) • Edinburgh College of Art – design, architecture • Increasing activity of Business School, international development, Public Health • Interdisciplinary research funding eg from EPSRC, RAEng for ‘deep’ collaborations with science, engineering and medicine • New coordination challenges • Epistemological challenges • cannot presume central position for science and technology studies perspectives • Very rich intellectual context – STS has powerful tools • Building our knowledge in tandem and for ourselves

  4. Disciplinary configurations One specific issue that we may debate this year: • What isthe relationship between science and technology studies and innovation studies? (and related work in area of science and technology policy, technology management) • Mutual benefit or mutual incomprehension ? • Edinburgh unusually combines diverse traditions here • Discussing an international network with other centres that share this broad orientation

  5. Upcoming Grand Challenges? • Big data, knowledge and information infrastructures • Dynamics of e-science/open science • Data in biomedical research • New business and work models • Digital Social Research • The Brain programme: The next post-genomics edgy technoscience? • ????

  6. Organisation of ISSTI ISSTI success as network of networks • Deliberately lightweight, flexible organisational form • Linking together various different nodes to identify mutual synergies - without undue coordination costs • Involve gatekeepers from each of these nodes – to identify/exploit opportunities • Newsletter, webpage, PhD students group – other fora?

  7. Thanks are due to: STIS for co-funding this event Anne Valentine and Geraldine Debard for careful assistance in sorting out all the arrangements Valeri for photography An excellent array of speakers and panel organisers and especially our guast speaker: Trevor Pinch and of course the pandas

  8. A quick round of applause

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