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: Disruption, opportunity and re/arranging STS research
Presenters: Andrea Ballestero (Rice University) and Tess Lea (University of Sydney)
Facilitators: Michaela Spencer (CDU), Jennifer Macdonald (CDU-CSIRO), and Kirsty Howey (University of Sydney)
Description: As COVID-19 interrupts travel and irrevocably shifts research plans, is this an opportunity to reconfigure base assumptions about ways of performing research? The pandemic has forced researchers to grapple with new processes and technologies for working together. In doing so, there are many opportunities STS scholars been exploring and confronting. From rethinking the ‘business model’ of academic research predicated on air travel, to developing new more specifically emplaced research partnerships, prioritising ‘studying up or across’, reconsidering assumptions about the significance of ‘being there’, and grappling with ‘the ontological affordances/disruptions of screens’. We will explore these ideas through short invited reflections by senior and emerging scholars navigating these times; and consider not just how we stay on track, but possibilities (and challenges) for rearranging STS research in the current moment.
Each Zoom workshop participant will be asked to submit a brief summary of their current research concerns, and some key points on current research challenges and opportunities provoked by the COVID-19 disruptions after they register.
How to participate:
This session has two parts: the first half will be a presentation from Andrea Ballestero with discussant comments from Tess Lea; 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 1 week before on July 31st.
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 Michaela Spencer at Michaela.Spencer@cdu.edu.au
Event Contact:
ssn-info@deakin.edu.auShare