Team:Sheffield/HumanPractices/activities
From 2010.igem.org
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Classes and discussions in STS
Wet & dry observations Kate did twice-weekly observations of the labs and the modellers, keeping track of their activities.
Interviews Having decided that we were going to try and identify pathogens as our scientific goal, we thought that the notion of ‘identity’ would be a good concept to pursue with our human practices project. We wanted to understand how our identities and roles as team members were formed, how our team’s collective identity came about, and how this might differ from other teams. In order to do that we did a number of things: Kate conducted semi-structured interviews (~40 mins) with each member of the team Several members of the scientific team did some practice with Kate and then conducted over 20 semi-structured interviews (~20 minutes) with members of teams from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. At Teversal Manor (see below), after the wet work was finished, we each looked over our interview with Kate and made comments on how we would change our answers now, which allowed us to reflect on how our ideas and feelings had changed over the course of the project.
Teversal Manor After the wet work was done we took a weekend to reflect on and develop the outputs of our human practices work from the summer months. We travelled to the gatehouse in the grounds of the beautiful Teversal Manor House near Nottingham, UK. We spent the weekend analysing our team’s interviews and exploring similarities and differences between our responses and other teams, we had a number of lengthy discussion sessions about topics including, ‘modelling’, ‘identity’ and ‘doing human practices’. We recorded those discussions so that we could use the analysis we collaboratively developed in the conversations in our primary human practices report, and so that we could use the conversations as data for our report. Also, there was some playing of board games, cooking of food, and – for some – outdoor exercise! |