PGR Workshop - 'Values and valuing in academic life'
Event details
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Tuesday 27 May 2025 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Seminar room 4, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH
Free
Description
Prof. Sarah Davies, iHuman's International Visiting Scholar for 24-25, will be leading an interactive workshop on 27 May, 14:00-16:00, in The Wave Seminar Room 4.
The invitation is open to all interested iHuman PGRs - please sign up here.
This event has been rescheduled from February, if you already renewed your sign-up in April, you don't need to do this again.
Abstract: Values and valuing in academic life
The question of what it means to be a ‘good’ academic, and of what should be valued and rewarded within academic settings, is simultaneously general (and political) and intensely personal. This workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on experiences of research culture, collective academic life, and values and ambitions for this. By discussing one effort to surface mundane norms of collective work and to prioritise particularly kinds of (caring) practices, students will have the opportunity to consider what their ambitions are for academic life, and how these intersect with the conditions of academic labour.
Sarah Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She studies how relationships between science, technology, and society are mediated through and shaped by digital tools, spaces, and technologies, and how the contemporary conditions of academic work affect knowledge production.
iHuman
How we understand being ‘human’ differs between disciplines and has changed radically over time. We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain, and new technologies with the potential to change them.