... and how it affects research.
Dear colleagues,
this is a reminder of the deadline (20 April) for abstracts on "Research
in the Pandemic", a session (in English) ant the Austrian-German
Congress of Sociology.
Call for Abstracts
/Ad Hoc/Group “Research in the Pandemic”
at the Congress of the German Sociological Association and the Austrian
Sociological Association, 23-25 August 2021 in Vienna
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Societal responses to the current pandemic have created two extreme
situations for research:
-
Research fields that are considered relevant to fighting the pandemic
face strong expectations concerning timely, secure, and unambiguous
results. Access to resources and publication opportunities have been
eased. Many researchers have more or less radically changed their
research by switching to pandemic-related topics.
- Research that is not relevant to fighting the pandemic experiences the
same fate as much other work in society by being unexpectedly
interrupted or forced to proceed under drastically changed conditions.
Access to laboratories becomes impossible laboratory animals had to be
culled, and infrastructures for research become inaccessible. Access to
research objects and infrastructures outside the university (e.g.
archives or interviewees) is not permitted, communication processes
ceased or were moved to online formats.
In addition, we witness unpredictable disruptions of societal services
on which time for research depends such as childcare, schooling, or
others. First investigations show that female researchers are
disproportionately affected by the interruptions of these services.
Both the intensification and the interruptions of research have
consequences for research processes and academic careers that may extend
far beyond the end of the pandemic. The /ad hoc/ – group will bring
together sociological studies on pandemic-driven changes in research and
explore the potential of the two extreme situations of intensification
and interruptions for a deeper theoretical understanding of
chronological structures and conditions of research that we took for
granted until the pandemic hit. Topics include, but are not limited to,
the following:
-
What can analyses of attempts to speed up pandemic-relevant research
and of interruptions of other research teach us about the dynamics of
research and scholarly communication?
-
Which dependencies on infrastructures and conditions of research that
have been neglected by science studies are revealed by pandemic-driven
interruptions?
- What can we learn about the impact of societal background conditions
on the success of researchers in competitions for recognition and
resources? How does social inequality affect researchers’ abilities to
cope with pandemic-driven changes?
Please send your abstract (a maximum of 2,400 characters including
spaces) by April 20^th to Jochen.Glaeser@tu-berlin.de
.
Best wishes
Jochen Gläser
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PD Dr Jochen Gläser
Prof. Dr. Jochen Gläser
Social Studies of Science and Technology
Institute of Philosophy, History of Literature, Science, and Technology
TU Berlin, HBS 7
Hardenbergstr. 16-18
10623 Berlin
Germany
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