Dear all,
<br>
<br>We cordially invite paper proposals for the panel Integrity: personal virtue,
<br>remedy for fraud, object of governance? at the EASST 2018 meeting, 25-28th
<br>July 2018, Lancaster, UK. Please submit your abstract at
<br>https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6253 or
<br>contact one of the convenors for further information.
<br>
<br>Integrity can among other things be understood as a virtue, as a policy and
<br>governance objective, and as a remedy against fraudulent and irresponsible
<br>research. Traditionally, integrity has been reckoned a virtue of the
<br>individual scientist, possibly inscribed in professional codes and discussed
<br>in the realm of professional ethics. In recent years, the notion increasingly
<br>emerges as an object for (academic) governance, a criterion for assessment and
<br>advancement, and a value in defense of scientific authority. This panel
<br>invites perspectives on integrity and on the transformations the concept
<br>undergoes under social and institutional changes.
<br>
<br>This shift has consequences for how accountability is attributed. Also, it may
<br>lead to novel way of mobilizing the notion in public debate and public media,
<br>as well as in more specific and contained discourses such as responsible
<br>research and innovation. In those cases, it is likely to entangle with complex
<br>constructions of truth, safety and technological efficacy. Alternatively,
<br>calls for integrity may serve the imposition of more rigid methodological
<br>frameworks, which raises the question which paradigms (e.g. from medical
<br>sciences, or social sciences and humanities) prevail. In a broader sense,
<br>novel forms of 'integrity management' may rearrange research practices.
<br>Finally, researching integrity is inherently reflexive: if the
<br>conceptualisation and construction of integrity in researched practices
<br>change, how does this protrude into what social-scientific researchers reckon
<br>their responsibility and integrity?
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<br>This panel welcomes papers discussing integrity and how it transforms under
<br>the influence of current changes in organizational, professional and societal
<br>arrangements, and how it is negotiated vis--vis socio-economic pressures on
<br>the research and innovation system. We invite conceptual and empirical
<br>contributions presenting novel perspectives on integrity and related values as
<br>concepts that are transformed, enacted and circulated.
<br>
<br>Abstracts should be submitted no later than 14 February 2018.
<br>
<br>Convenors are Govert Valkenburg (Leiden University), Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden
<br>University), Barend van der Meulen (Rathenau Instituut) and
<br>Bart Penders (Maastricht University)
<br>
<br>
<br>Best wishes on behalf of the convenors,
<br>
<br>Dr. Ir. Govert Valkenburg
<br>Researcher and WTMC Programme Coordinator
<br>
<br>CWTS Centre for Science and Technology Studies
<br>Leiden University
<br>
<br>g.valkenburg@cwts.leidenuniv.nl /
<br>+31-6-53224463 / www.govertvalkenburg.net
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