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UPDATE ON ASSIST 2025 Conference (Edinburgh University 2-3 June 2025) plus Gala 4th June Registration will open 3rd March. Full details including fee reductions for early booking, for AsSIST-UK members and for PhD student/concessionary rate here.

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Prof Andy Stirling, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Prof Noortje Marres, Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Warwickj University Prof James Wilsdon, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy, UCL

Deadline for submitting your paper or panel abstract for ASSIST 2025: Friday 28th February 2025. Use this form : https://bit.ly/AsSIST-UK-25

We look forward to seeing you there

Warm regards

Robin and AsSIST-UK Executive Committee

On 10 Jan 2025, at 13:35, Robin Williams wrote:

Dear Colleagues

We are inviting abstracts for papers and longer panel-style contributions to ASSIST 2025: the biennial conference of the UK-Association for Studies of Innovation, Science and Technology (University of Edinburgh 2-3 June 2025).

We welcome contributions that engage with our theme this year : REFLEXION. Reflexivity has become something of a touchstone for many in science, technology and innovation studies (STIS). But what do we mean by reflexion? How does it contribute to our understanding and our practice as STIS scholars?

• What can we learn from reflecting on the history of our, still emergent, field of study? How has our understanding changed over these decades? Not just in terms of novel phenomena but also new methodologies and new ways of conceptualising technoscientific change and new ways of working?
• What is reflexion? How do scholars understand it? Who gets to be reflexive, and who doesn't? Can reflexion help or hinder our work? How do we handle reflexion when it challenges our view of our research? What does this mean for our methods and engagements?
• How do we adapt when reflexion highlights problems in our methods? What if it makes us question established methods, concepts and years of collected data? How do we create new approaches? Do we need new questions, new ways to evaluate, new ways to design our studies?
• How do we study reflexion itself? What challenges does this bring? What should we ask about reflexive moments in research? How does reflexion relate to knowledge-making, power structures, and research communities? How can reflexive practices from 2024/5 guide future work?

Please use this form to submit your abstract. https://bit.ly/AsSIST-UK-25 The closing date is 28 February 2025. We will confirm acceptance of papers by 31 March 2025.

Explain how your proposed contribution relates to the REFLEXIONS theme. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words, and should specify which format is the best fit. Accepted proposals will be published as part of the online conference proceedings.

Participants are invited to stay on for a gala on 4th June 2025 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman’s groundbreaking collection The Social Shaping of Technology, with invited keynote presentations from Donald MacKenzie, Judy Wajcman, Knut H Sorensen and Sampsa Hyysalo.

Warm regards

Robin Williams On behalf of AsSIST-UK Executive committee

Professor Robin Williams Director, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Subject Group, School of Social and Political Sciences The University of Edinburgh Old Surgeon's Hall Edinburgh EH1 1LZ Tel: +44 131 650 6387 Mobile: 07925-372184 email: R.Williams@ed.ac.uk http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/ —————————————————— SOME RECENT PAPERS Robin Williams, S, Anderson, K. Cressell, M. Kannelønning, H. Mozaffar & X. Yang (2024), Domesticating AI in medical diagnosis, Technology in Society Jee-Hyun Suh & Robin Williams (2023) The complex temporal dynamics of an emerging infrastructure innovation: revisiting the ‘failure’ of the ‘successful’ innovation of Wireless Broadband (WiBro) in South Korea, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management Gilbert S, Anderson S, Daumer M, Li P,Melvin T, Williams R (2023) Learning From Experience and Finding the Right Balance in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Technologies J Med Internet Res;25 Neil Pollock, Robin Williams, Luciana D'Adderio (2022), Figuring out IT markets: How and why industry analysts launch, adjust and abandon categories, Information and Organization, 32(1) Philip Inglesant, Carolyn Ten Holter, Marina Jirotka & Robin Williams (2021): Asleep at the wheel? Responsible Innovation in quantum computing, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Kathrin Cresswell, Aziz Sheikh and Robin Williams (2021) Accelerating health information technology capabilities across England's National Health Service, The Lancet Digital Health Robin Williams, Kathrin Cresswell et al. (2021) Using Blueprints to promote interorganizational knowledge transfer in digital health initiatives, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Kai Wang, Xiaobai Shen & Robin Williams (2020) Sequencing BGI: the evolution of expertise and research organisation in the world’s leading gene sequencing facility, New Genetics and Society

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