STIR Seminars 2022

STIR seminars 2022

Every last Friday of the month online
**8:30–10:00am AZ, 5:30–7:00pm CET **

What are the seminars about?

STIR seminars provide opportunities to learn, connect, and grow the STIR community worldwide. Experienced STIR researchers present and discuss STIR studies that are circulated among seminar participants in advance. Recordings of past seminars may be viewed on our Youtube channel.

Who should participate?

The seminar series brings together STIR researchers worldwide. Policy makers and professionals who are interested in STIR and in collaborations with STIR researchers are welcome to join.

Who organizes the events?

Erik Fisher, Cynthia Pickering, Lyric Peate (Arizona State University, US), Mareike Smolka (Maastricht University, NL)Co-organizers:
Michiel van Oudheusden (KU Leuven, BE), Miklós Lucovics (University of Szeged, HU), Alan Tkaczyk (University of Tartu, EE), Mone Spindler (University Tübingen, DE), Alexandra Hausstein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE), Antonia Bierwirth (Tecnalia Centre of Applied Research and Technology Development, ES), Steven Flipse (TU Delft, NL), Peter Stegmaier (University of Twente, NL)

Who supports us?

The seminar series is supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). It received the EASST Fund 2021-22.

STIR

Socio-technical integration is any process by which technical experts take into account the societal dimensions of their work as an integral part of that work.SocioTechnial Integration Research (STIR) studies this phenomenon by collaboratively describing it in real-time.STIR seeks to (1) understand expert technical capacities to respond to societal considerations, (2) explore to what extent these capacities can be more robustly exercised and (3) enhance these capacities where possible. It pursues these objectives through guided activities that allow technical experts to systematically exercise their capacities while going about their normal work.STIR has been tested in over 80 studies worldwide.

Papers

JAN 28 - Steven Flipse

Flipse, S.M., van der Sanden, M.C.A. & Osseweijer, P. (2013) Midstream Modulation in Biotechnology Industry: Redefining What is ‘Part of the Job’ of Researchers in Industry. Science and Engineering Ethics 19, 1141–1164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9411-6

FEB 25 - Daan Schuurbiers

Schuurbiers, D. (2011) What happens in the Lab: Applying Midstream Modulation to Enhance Critical Reflection in the Laboratory. Science and Engineering Ethics 17, 769–788. https//doi.org/10.1007/s11948-011-9317-8

MAR 25 - Shannon Conley

Conley, S.N. & Fisher, E. (2019) Developing a Theoretical Scaffolding for Interactional Competence: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation into Competence Versus Expertise. In The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies, edited by D.S. Caudill et al., 235–253. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14335-0_13

APR 25 - Mareike Smolka

Smolka, M., Fisher, E. & Hausstein A. (2021) From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations. Science, Technology & Human Values 46(5), 1076–1103. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243920974088

MAY 27 - Erik Fisher

Fisher, E. (2007) Ethnographic Invention: Probing the Capacity of Laboratory Decisions. Nanoethics 1(2), 155–165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-007-0016-5

JUL 29 - Anthony Levenda

Background reading: Levenda, A. M., Richter, J., Miller, T. R. & Fisher, E. (2019) Regional sociotechnical imaginaries and the governance of energy innovations. Futures 109(May), 181–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.03.001.

AUG 26 - Juan Carlos García and Cristian Puga-González

Working paper: García, J. C. & Puga-Gonzáles, C. (2022) Socio-Technical Integration Research in Mexico: Unveiling an Incarceration Triad for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. pdf.

SEP 29 - Miklós Lukovics and Nikoletta Nádas

Lukovics M., Udvari, B., Nádas, N. , & Fisher, E. (2019) Raising Awareness of Researchers-in-the-Making. Towards Responsible Research and Innovation. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 10(4), 1558-1577. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-019-00624-1.

OCT 28 - Paul Ellwood

Panda K. & Ellwood P. (2013) Strategic and ethical foundations for responsible innovation. Research Policy 42: 1112–1125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.02.007

NOV25 – François Thoreau

Thoreau, F. (2011) On Reflections and Reflexivity: Unpacking Research Dispositifs. In Quantum Engagements: Social Reflections of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies. Amsterdam: IOS Press. pdf

DEC30 – Robert Pronk

Background reading: Pronk, R. (2018) Modelling Midstream Modulation in Medical Technology: An investigation of communication characteristics and effectiveness. Master thesis, TU Delft. Repository