Responsible Data Science Seminar Series – Navigating Competing Logics

In the third of the Responsible Data Science Seminar Series, this session will explore how researchers navigate competing worldviews in teams or collaborative projects.

Online

Tuesday 13 September, 2022

09:00 BST (18:00 Melbourne)

We’re delighted to announce the third in our series of conversations about the value and challenges of interdisciplinarity in practice, featuring two of the recipients of the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant: Jill Walker Rettberg from University of Bergen, Norway and Rob Kitchin from Maynooth University, Ireland.

This conversation focuses on how researchers navigate competing worldviews in teams or collaborative projects: “Logics: Reconciling different systems for inquiry to build better frameworks for collaboration.”

Any project that seeks to be truly “interdisciplinary” will take longer, offer more challenges and possibly discomfort, especially for experts who have been trained deeply in particular ways of thinking about how projects happen, what research is for.

How do project leaders manage deep conflicts between ways of seeing the world? How do interdisciplinary researchers grapple with competing values, priorities, and sense of time?

What unlearning and relearning is involved in making interdisciplinarity really work?

Or is interdisciplinarity really just a mythical ideal that in actuality is a matter of diminishing one worldview or epistemology in favor of another?

‘How do interdisciplinary researchers grapple with competing values, priorities, and even senses of time?’

This series brings together diverse voices from disparate disciplines like computer science and cultural studies to talk about their definitions of interdisciplinarity, as well as struggles and commitment to this practice. This series also brings seasoned scholars together with Early Career Researchers to share practices across these levels.

Each seminar is unique, but builds from the core premise that today’s “big issues” demand more attention to interdisciplinarity and that everyone benefits when research ecosystems integrate multiple perspectives, even when this is challenging and time consuming.

This seminar features the following participants:

– Rob Kitchin Professor, Maynooth University

– Jill Walker Rettberg Professor, University of Bergen

– Annette Markham, PhD., Co-Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and Professor of Media & Communication, RMIT University

– Gina Neff, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, University of Cambridge

To get more information or request a link to the session, please email: minderoo@crassh.cam.ac.uk

More information about the seminar series can be found here.