EGENIS Lecture: Finding and making spaces for interdisciplinary collaboration: From the laboratory to the garden (via the policy room and the art studio)
with Prof Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh)
Annual Egenis Lecture (hybrid)
| An Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences seminar | |
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| Date | 27 April 2026 |
| Time | 15:15 to 17:00 |
| Place | Hybrid |
Event details
Working across disciplines can be challenging, particularly when these collaborations span the natural sciences, the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. This makes it necessary to find – and make – spaces to come together. As a researcher in the field of science and technology studies (STS), I move through many different kinds of spaces. These can be welcoming, mundane, uncomfortable, or exclusionary. For example, in my social scientific investigation of the life sciences, I have spent time in equipment-laden laboratories, studios for biological art, glass-walled government meeting rooms, artisan coffee houses, and high-ceilinged libraries, collaborating variously with synthetic biologists, artists, policy makers, and philosophers. I have also tried to create new spaces for collaboration, often at the peripheries of formal events. More recently, I have found myself going outside, extending my research into the garden and interacting with pollinators, gardeners, and ecologists. In this talk, I journey through these different places, exploring their possibilities and constraints, and the opportunities they provide for making knowledge across and beyond disciplines.
Venue: Streatham Court, LT C
Online: via Zoom
Free to attend. Please