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北大科技史与科技哲学论坛第29讲

时间：2007年4月6日（周五）下午2：00－4：00
地点：承泽园科社中心学术报告厅
主讲人：Robin Williams (Professor of Social Research on Technology and Director of the Research Centre for Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh)
主题：A Tricky (but fruitful) Marriage: Integrating social science into Science and Engineering

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A Tricky (but fruitful) Marriage:
Integrating social science into Science and Engineering


OUTLINE OF TALK
In the UK and Europe, there have been longstanding and increasingly insistent calls for interdisciplinary collaboration between the social sciences and the natural sciences/ engineering, as a means to promote scientific and technological advance and foster its more effective and beneficial utilisation in society. There is, however, little understanding about how such collaboration can be achieved, about the problems involved and how they might most effectively be addressed.

The domain of Information and Communications Technologies is perhaps the area in which we have most experience of interdisciplinary collaboration, where
social science promises better understanding of user requirements and markets.

In this paper I discuss my experiences of involvement as a social scientist in 'deep' interdisciplinarity engagements - in research and development projects in the computer sciences. I then explore the implications for promoting effective interdisciplinary research collaboration in other domains (especially the Life Sciences).

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Robin Williams is Professor of Social Research on Technology and Director of the Research Centre for Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He founded and leads the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) and convenes its interdisciplinary research programme on the social shaping of technology, addressing Information &Communications Technologies (ICT), cleaner innovation and Genomics.

His own research over 20 years has focused primarily on the interplay between business organisation and 'technical' factors in the development and implementation of a range of commercial ICT applications. More recent work has extended into Multimedia, Internet and wireless applications in everyday life as well as work. Much of this research is conducted in collaboration with practitioners and specialists from science and engineering. He is Co-Investigator in the EPSRC-funded ?.8 Million Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration which addresses the social and technical origins of undependability of computer-based systems and how they may be tackled. Since 2002 he has been examining developments in life science technologies through the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (Innogen), of which he is co-Director.