Cargando…

Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces

Laboratory ethnography extended the social scientist’s gaze into the day-to-day accomplishment of scientific practice. Here we reflect upon our own ethnographies of biomedical scientific workspaces to provoke methodological discussion on the doing of laboratory ethnography. What we provide is less a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Stephens, Neil, Lewis, Jamie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28546784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794116678040
_version_ 1783235500041043968
author Stephens, Neil
Lewis, Jamie
author_facet Stephens, Neil
Lewis, Jamie
author_sort Stephens, Neil
collection PubMed
description Laboratory ethnography extended the social scientist’s gaze into the day-to-day accomplishment of scientific practice. Here we reflect upon our own ethnographies of biomedical scientific workspaces to provoke methodological discussion on the doing of laboratory ethnography. What we provide is less a ‘how to’ guide and more a commentary on what to look for and what to look at. We draw upon our empirical research with stem cell laboratories and animal houses, teams producing robotic surgical tools, musicians sonifying data science, a psychiatric genetics laboratory, and scientists developing laboratory grown meat. We use these cases to example a set of potential ethnographic themes worthy of pursuit: science epistemics and the extended laboratory, the interaction order of scientific work, sensory realms and the rending of science as sensible, conferences as performative sites, and the spaces, places and temporalities of scientific work.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-5426556
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2017
publisher SAGE Publications
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-54265562017-05-23 Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces Stephens, Neil Lewis, Jamie Qual Res Articles Laboratory ethnography extended the social scientist’s gaze into the day-to-day accomplishment of scientific practice. Here we reflect upon our own ethnographies of biomedical scientific workspaces to provoke methodological discussion on the doing of laboratory ethnography. What we provide is less a ‘how to’ guide and more a commentary on what to look for and what to look at. We draw upon our empirical research with stem cell laboratories and animal houses, teams producing robotic surgical tools, musicians sonifying data science, a psychiatric genetics laboratory, and scientists developing laboratory grown meat. We use these cases to example a set of potential ethnographic themes worthy of pursuit: science epistemics and the extended laboratory, the interaction order of scientific work, sensory realms and the rending of science as sensible, conferences as performative sites, and the spaces, places and temporalities of scientific work. SAGE Publications 2017-04-13 2017-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5426556/ /pubmed/28546784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794116678040 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Articles
Stephens, Neil
Lewis, Jamie
Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces
title Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces
title_full Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces
title_fullStr Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces
title_full_unstemmed Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces
title_short Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces
title_sort doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28546784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794116678040
work_keys_str_mv AT stephensneil doinglaboratoryethnographyreflectionsonmethodinscientificworkplaces
AT lewisjamie doinglaboratoryethnographyreflectionsonmethodinscientificworkplaces