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The “Story Lab” Workshop (UCL STS edition)

03 July 2024, 4:30 pm–6:30 pm

Workshop UCL STS

Being a scientist means producing scientific, objective, dispassionate knowledge. It also means being a human being with a particular story, particular human experiences, values, and perspectives. How are scientists to reconcile these two aspects?

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies

Location

421 Nunn Hall
IoE
20 Bedford way
London
WC1H 0AL

The goal of this workshop is to explore the narrative space between science communication and science activism as two expressions of active citizenship. To that end, we will work some improv, and drama exercises to explore in an embodied what it means to be a practising researcher and how the experience of being a researcher maps onto researchers’ lives and activities as individuals and members of society more broadly. From that, we will reflectively discuss how the personal side of science might be important for the stories told in science outreach contexts.

The workshop will help you cast a creative glance at various intellectual activities in science and support participants in articulating their own stories on the humanistic value of scientific knowledge.

For whom

Climate scientists, natural scientists, and researchers from other academic disciplines are welcome. No previous creative experience is required.

About the Speaker

Anatolii Kozlov

Philosopher of science at UCL

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