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                Dear all,
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<br>A quick reminder that the deadline for the workshop (How) Does governance
<br>matter? epistemic consequences of attempts to shape research content we are
<br>organizing is coming up. We welcome extended abstract (600 words) until
<br>September 15th 2020. Please see below and attached details on the workshop and
<br>do get in touch if you want to discuss your submission.
<br>
<br>Best wishes,
<br>
<br>Thomas
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<br>Workshop announcement
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<br>(How) Does governance matter? Epistemic consequences of attempts to shape
<br>research content
<br>The workshop takes place on February 11-12 2021 in Berlin. In case the
<br>workshop cannot take place due to travel restrictions, a virtual intermediate
<br>meeting will take place on the same dates and the physical workshop will be
<br>postponed to a later date in 2021.
<br>
<br>Jointly organized by
<br>Dr. Siri Borlaug (Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and
<br>Education)
<br>Dr. Thomas Franssen (Leiden University)
<br>Prof. Dr. Jochen Glser (Technical University Berlin)
<br>Dr. Anne K. Krger  (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
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<br>Call for participation
<br>The workshop will be limited to 18 participants and focus on in-depth
<br>discussions of papers. While there will be space for short presentations of
<br>each paper, workshop participants are expected to read all draft papers before
<br>the workshop.
<br>We invite scholars from the sociology of science, science and technology
<br>studies and science policy studies to propose papers by submitting an extended
<br>abstract (max. 600 words) to Thomas Franssen
<br>(t.p.franssen@cwts.leidenuniv.nl) and
<br>Anne Krger (anne.krueger@bbaw.de) by September
<br>15th 2020.
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<br>Selected abstracts will be announced shortly after September 15th. Full draft
<br>papers are expected to be submitted in December 2020. Publication of selected
<br>papers in an edited volume or special issue will be decided upon in
<br>collaboration with the participants.
<br>
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<br>(How) Does governance matter? Epistemic consequences of attempts to shape
<br>research content
<br>Drawing on research traditions in the sociology of science, science and
<br>technology studies and science policy studies, this workshop aims to cross
<br>boundaries between these fields to enhance our understanding of the ways in
<br>which different actors attempt to influence research content, processes and
<br>practices. The changes in the authority relations that occurred during the
<br>last decades (Whitley et al. 2010) have led to an increase in the numbers of
<br>actors that have an interest in and the capability to affect the direction of
<br>research: The long-standing attempts of commercial actors to direct science
<br>towards profitable innovations have gained even more traction with the states
<br>increasing support of academy-industry collaborations and of the patenting of
<br>academic research. In addition, the state itself has increasingly tied its
<br>funding of the sciences to expectations of societal impact. Governance
<br>reforms in many OECD countries have increased the dependency of research
<br>organisations on extramural funding, the necessity to demonstrate high
<br>research performance in systematic evaluations and the capabilities of
<br>research organisations to influence their research through hierarchical
<br>steering. Research organisations increasingly rely on bibliometric indicators
<br>and research information systems through which researchers can be monitored,
<br>which increases the influence of commercial companies that provide such
<br>services. Finally, research is becoming increasingly politicized by the state,
<br>political parties and civil society actors who recognise the role of research
<br>as a major power base in modern societies and attempt to increase their
<br>influence on and through research, albeit with varying degrees of success.
<br>While attempts by these actors to steer the directions of research have grown
<br>considerably, their influence on the content of research and research
<br>practices is far from obvious and still little understood.
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<br>  *   How do these attempts affect how researchers choose their topics,
<br>theoretical and methodological approaches, and their actual ways of doing
<br>research?
<br>  *   By which means, under what conditions and with which intentions do
<br>actors seek to influence research content and research practices according to
<br>their interests, and when do these attempts have unintended consequences for
<br>its content?
<br>Answering these research questions requires empirical research and theory
<br>development that address the construction and exercise of influence on
<br>research and researchers and researchers reactions towards it. As this
<br>inherently draws on different traditions in the social studies of science, the
<br>aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from the sociology of
<br>science, science and technology studies and science policy studies. We invite
<br>theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions that address the
<br>question of how, under what conditions and with which intentions different
<br>actors seek to influence research and how these influences affect the content
<br>of research and research practices.
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<br>References
<br>Whitley, R., et al., Eds. (2010). Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing
<br>authority relationships in the sciences and their consequences for
<br>intellectual innovation. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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