Recovering Meaning by Reforming Academic Identities and Practices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson ◽  
Yiannis Gabriel ◽  
Roland Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Academic Identities ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Academic Citizenship ◽  
The Individual

Part II offers a number of proposals and suggestions for recovering meaning in social science research at the individual, institutional, and policy levels. These measures offer the prospect of many small ‘wins’ through which the system can be reformed, rather than one sweeping programme for change. This chapter addresses the identities of individual researchers and the research methodologies they use in their work, and encourages a different approach at the level of individual and group research practices and its outcomes. It argues for new scholarly identities and many different ways of fashioning them, in which research is one, but not the only, important practice. Teaching, outreach activities, and academic citizenship, it is argued, are also important aspects of scholarship. So too are thinking and reading in depth and breadth, writing textbooks and book reviews, journalistic pieces and blogs. Chapters 7 and 8 will address institutional and policy issues.

BOOK REVIEWS

1947 ◽  
Vol 21 (63) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Science Research Council ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Science Research Council

Abstract Book reviewed in this article: ‘Bulletin 54. Theory and Practice in Historical Study: a Report of the Committee on Historiography.’ Social Science Research Council ‘The Medieval Manichee. A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy.’ By Steven Runciman ‘Collected Papers.’ By R. A. L. Smith ‘Records of the Borough of Nottingham, being a series of extracts from the archives of the Corporation of Nottingham, Volume VII, 1760–1800.’ ‘The Indian Archives,’ Vol. I, No. i, January 1947

Shifting Responsibilitiesin Medicine 4.0 – A Project Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 117-117
Author(s):  
Georg Lindinger ◽  
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Bettina Schmietow ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
The Individual

"In this contribution, we anticipate the results of the research project “Medicine 4.0 – the ethical basis of digitalization in healthcare” funded by the German Ministry of Health, which investigated the ethically relevant effects of digitalized medicine using mobile health (mhealth) and telemedicine as prime examples, with the final aim of deriving policy-relevant overarching recommendations. In an iterative interdisciplinary approach, we linked social science research with analytic research on the ethically relevant effects of these technologies, including on the doctor-patient relationship, the relationship between responsibility and solidarity in healthcare and on the autonomy of the individual. In both the ethical and social science research, a key focus concerned the identification and analysis of an apparent diversity of stakeholder values and perspectives. In mobile or mhealth, which we concentrate on for this presentation, technology developers, insurances, physicians and public health professionals as well as ‘patient-consumers’ need to be looked at and involved. Their outlook in turn may converge, but also be in tension or collide, e.g. regarding conditions for data access and use, liability in case of malfunction or misuse and the overall question of responsibilities in a context of shifting roles and role anticipations. The research combines ethical insight and expert stakeholder perspectives on the most pressing issues in this fast-moving field. Further, traditional issues such as informed consent, confidentiality and the role of individual autonomy, are in part redefined with the emerging role of automated or algorithmic decision-making. "

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