About event
A free, interactive, online workshop series for PhD/ECR researchers interested in STS, hosted by AusSTS
The AusSTS Workshop is an annual workshop meeting aimed at PhD/ECR researchers from across Australasia interested in STS research. Like many events this year, our AusSTS2020 workshop plans (originally scheduled for July in Darwin) have inevitably been postponed. While we’re sad we won’t be able to see you all in person, we’re still committed to providing opportunities for STS researchers to meet new people and connect with each other, especially at a time when there are fewer occasions than ever to do so.
This online workshop series is broken into 4 weeks: 1 x keynote session, 3 x interactive workshop sessions.
Register for a single event or all of them. Whatever works for you 🙂
Each session has a different theme and is facilitated by a different group of STS researchers. These sessions broadly ask: what does “participating” in research look like since COVID-19? While COVID-19 has closed access off to some archives, how might new archives now be made available? And finally, how might we use this current moment as a starting point to rethink what “business as usual” research might look like?
Schedule Overview
Thurs 16 Jul, 10am – 11:30am AEST:
Keynote address: Associate Professor Adia Benton (Register here)
Thurs 23 Jul, 10am – 11:30am AEST:
Session 1: Participating in research now (Register here)
Thurs 30 Jul, 10am – 11:30am AEST:
Session 2: Digital life as an archive (Register here)
Thurs 6 Aug, 10am – 11: 30am AEST:
Session 3: Disruption, opportunity and re/arranging STS research (Register here)
This week:
Title: Participating in research now
Presenters: Jenny Kennedy (RMIT), Kari Lancaster (UNSW), Timothy Neale (Deakin) and Matthew Kearnes (UNSW)
Facilitators: Kari Lancaster (UNSW) and Timothy Neale (Deakin)
Description: “Participation has been formatted, proceduralised, scaled-up, and turned into a tool-kit in the effort to spread it everywhere” writes anthropologist Christopher Kelty in The Participant (Chicago, 2019). Don’t we all want to participate? For all its problems, participation still has a great public image, in large part due to its associations with self-expression and democratic legitimacy. Meanwhile, the terminology surrounding those who engage with our research projects, and how we as researchers engage in the worlds we act on and observe, continues to shift. Are those with whom we do research perhaps “interlocutors” engaged in a dialogue, or “collaborators” in a kind of conspiracy, or maybe “participants” in our imposed agendas? Are we as researchers “participant observers” or can we not help but to interfere? These questions have been thrown into sharp relief in 2020, as questions about how we engage has been disrupted, triggering new thinking about the forms of participation that have characterised research and how they might be remade.
In this workshop, Kari Lancaster, Jenny Kennedy, Timothy Neale and Matthew Kearnes will reflect on the many meanings of participation in their research. Those who attend the workshop will be required to complete a small amount of reading beforehand and submit a question – relating to participation – about a current or possible future research project for small group discussion.
How to participate:
This session has two parts: the first half will be a panel discussion from the presenters; the second half will be a workshop style format with participants taking part in activities and discussion.
There are two ways to participate in this session:
- YouTube Live participant: Watch the first half of the session on YouTube live and take part on the “Live Chat” discussion. You will not be able to participate in the second half of the workshop. Register as “YouTube Live participant” on Eventbrite.
- Zoom workshop participant: Join us on Zoom for the full workshop, including presentation, live discussion, and activities. Limited tickets available for this option. Register as “Zoom workshop participant” on Eventbrite.
Registration for the “Zoom workshop participation” close 3 days prior on July 20th.
To send questions/participate in the YouTube Live chat, you’ll need to sign-in using a YouTube account.
The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the SSN YouTube channel after the Livestream.
If you have any questions you can contact Timothy Neale at timothy.neale@deakin.edu.au
Event Contact:
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