Robert Meckin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 195336 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Meckin |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Meckin |
| ASSINATURA | MECKIN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1071-9679 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Self-similarity and synthetic biology
In the field of synthetic biology, a promissory technoscience, researchers use risk-based and speculative scenarios to anticipate synthetic biology futures.Yet, there is a sense in the field of history repeating as synthetic biologists repeatedly deal with similar challenges.Perhaps a focus on contemplating the unexpected and attempts to deal with complex futures comes with a failure, paradoxically, to prepare sufficiently for the expected.This s…
Research rivers
From early 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 and related restrictions intersected with everyday lives and, inevitably, social research practices, the ability to act and continue research was a significant concern in the social research community. In a project aimed at supporting methodological responses to the pandemic context the authors ran a series of online knowledge exchange workshops. The invitation to participate suggested researchers convey…
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future
This paper synthesises a large dataset on how social research methods and practices have been adapted or designed for use within pandemic conditions and a climate of crisis and uncertainty. The data were generated through two rapid evidence reviews of the methodological literature and in dialogue with social researchers in online knowledge exchange workshops. The authors apply the concepts of crisis, uncertainty and sustainability to discuss the …
Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices
Uncertainty in COVID and research methodsThe COVID-19 pandemic wrought uncertainty into everyday life in abrupt and dynamic ways.State, regional, community and institutional responses to the spread of COVID-19 across the globe had profound and immediate implications for the conduct of social research.Measures like physical distancing, travel and movement restrictions, and face-mask mandates disrupted many widespread social research practices such…
The Pop-Up Stall
This paper introduces a useful method for conducting creative social research into material objects and sensory phenomena, what we call the 'pop-up mass object-elicitation stall' or 'pop-up stall' for short. Our pop-up stalls involved using a curated collection of objects to elicit participant responses in commercial, community and public spaces. In the article, we position pop-up stalls as a material method that can be used within the facet meth…
The Temporal Uses of Moral Things
In this article we argue that menthol-containing products, like chewing gums, vapour rubs and mouthwashes, are used as moral things within everyday practices. They take on moral functions because of how their material qualities contribute to sensory experiences. Specifically, we focus on scenarios in which menthol products become associated with the moral work of care and highlight the temporal dimension of what people do with moral things. We re…
Changing Infrastructural Practices
Proponents of engineering and design approaches to biology aim to make interdisciplinary bioscience research faster and more reproducible. This paper outlines and deploys a practice-based approach to analyses of infrastructure that focuses on the routine epistemic activities and charts how two such routines are unsettled and resettled in the background of epistemic culture. This paper describes attempts to bring about new research infrastructures…
Situating anticipation in everyday life
Public involvement in technological anticipation is a common feature of contemporary sociotechnical innovation. However, most engagements abstract sociotechnical futures, rather than situating them in the everyday practices in which people are routinely engaged. Recent developments in synthetic biology have established the potential for ‘drop in’ replacements for ingredients in consumer products, particularly in flavour and fragrance markets. Thi…
Everyday Uncertainty Work
Although much public engagement with the field of “synthetic biology” has been conducted, there remains little work that develops an appreciation of how people make sense of this field and its concomitant promised futures from within their everyday lives. Using a case study, based on the compound “menthol” (a terpenoid from plants) which synthetic biologists have developed for production in E. coli, we explore how people make sense of uncertainti…
Investigating interdisciplinary collaboration
The editors of Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration contribute to an admittedly rather bloated literature on interdisciplinarity by showcasing empirically rigorous examinations of the acad
Valuation Studies
This discussion note provides a perspective on valuation studies by a group of PhD students. Based on impressions from the Valuation as Practice workshop at The University of Edinburgh in early 2014 we were inspired by the example of Kjellberg et al. (2013) to debate how we see, understand, and are inspired by the field of valuation studies. It is the hope of the editors that sharing the concerns of early-stage researchers starting out in a field…
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future
This paper synthesises a large dataset on how social research methods and practices have been adapted or designed for use within pandemic conditions and a climate of crisis and uncertainty. The data were generated through two rapid evidence reviews of the methodological literature and in dialogue with social researchers in online knowledge exchange workshops. The authors apply the concepts of crisis, uncertainty and sustainability to discuss the …
The Pop-Up Stall
This paper introduces a useful method for conducting creative social research into material objects and sensory phenomena, what we call the 'pop-up mass object-elicitation stall' or 'pop-up stall' for short. Our pop-up stalls involved using a curated collection of objects to elicit participant responses in commercial, community and public spaces. In the article, we position pop-up stalls as a material method that can be used within the facet meth…
The Temporal Uses of Moral Things
In this article we argue that menthol-containing products, like chewing gums, vapour rubs and mouthwashes, are used as moral things within everyday practices. They take on moral functions because of how their material qualities contribute to sensory experiences. Specifically, we focus on scenarios in which menthol products become associated with the moral work of care and highlight the temporal dimension of what people do with moral things. We re…
Valuation Studies
This discussion note provides a perspective on valuation studies by a group of PhD students. Based on impressions from the Valuation as Practice workshop at The University of Edinburgh in early 2014 we were inspired by the example of Kjellberg et al. (2013) to debate how we see, understand, and are inspired by the field of valuation studies. It is the hope of the editors that sharing the concerns of early-stage researchers starting out in a field…
Investigating interdisciplinary collaboration
The editors of Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration contribute to an admittedly rather bloated literature on interdisciplinarity by showcasing empirically rigorous examinations of the acad
Everyday Uncertainty Work
Although much public engagement with the field of “synthetic biology” has been conducted, there remains little work that develops an appreciation of how people make sense of this field and its concomitant promised futures from within their everyday lives. Using a case study, based on the compound “menthol” (a terpenoid from plants) which synthetic biologists have developed for production in E. coli, we explore how people make sense of uncertainti…
Situating anticipation in everyday life
Public involvement in technological anticipation is a common feature of contemporary sociotechnical innovation. However, most engagements abstract sociotechnical futures, rather than situating them in the everyday practices in which people are routinely engaged. Recent developments in synthetic biology have established the potential for ‘drop in’ replacements for ingredients in consumer products, particularly in flavour and fragrance markets. Thi…
Changing Infrastructural Practices
Proponents of engineering and design approaches to biology aim to make interdisciplinary bioscience research faster and more reproducible. This paper outlines and deploys a practice-based approach to analyses of infrastructure that focuses on the routine epistemic activities and charts how two such routines are unsettled and resettled in the background of epistemic culture. This paper describes attempts to bring about new research infrastructures…
The Pop-Up Stall
This paper introduces a useful method for conducting creative social research into material objects and sensory phenomena, what we call the 'pop-up mass object-elicitation stall' or 'pop-up stall' for short. Our pop-up stalls involved using a curated collection of objects to elicit participant responses in commercial, community and public spaces. In the article, we position pop-up stalls as a material method that can be used within the facet meth…
The Temporal Uses of Moral Things
In this article we argue that menthol-containing products, like chewing gums, vapour rubs and mouthwashes, are used as moral things within everyday practices. They take on moral functions because of how their material qualities contribute to sensory experiences. Specifically, we focus on scenarios in which menthol products become associated with the moral work of care and highlight the temporal dimension of what people do with moral things. We re…
Research practices for a pandemic and an uncertain future
This paper synthesises a large dataset on how social research methods and practices have been adapted or designed for use within pandemic conditions and a climate of crisis and uncertainty. The data were generated through two rapid evidence reviews of the methodological literature and in dialogue with social researchers in online knowledge exchange workshops. The authors apply the concepts of crisis, uncertainty and sustainability to discuss the …
Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices
Uncertainty in COVID and research methodsThe COVID-19 pandemic wrought uncertainty into everyday life in abrupt and dynamic ways.State, regional, community and institutional responses to the spread of COVID-19 across the globe had profound and immediate implications for the conduct of social research.Measures like physical distancing, travel and movement restrictions, and face-mask mandates disrupted many widespread social research practices such…
Self-similarity and synthetic biology
In the field of synthetic biology, a promissory technoscience, researchers use risk-based and speculative scenarios to anticipate synthetic biology futures.Yet, there is a sense in the field of history repeating as synthetic biologists repeatedly deal with similar challenges.Perhaps a focus on contemplating the unexpected and attempts to deal with complex futures comes with a failure, paradoxically, to prepare sufficiently for the expected.This s…
Research rivers
From early 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 and related restrictions intersected with everyday lives and, inevitably, social research practices, the ability to act and continue research was a significant concern in the social research community. In a project aimed at supporting methodological responses to the pandemic context the authors ran a series of online knowledge exchange workshops. The invitation to participate suggested researchers convey…
Sociology (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Engineering ethics (6 obras) · Engineering (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras) · Social science (4 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras)