Knowing: knowledge, institutions and gender

Start date: 1 June 2006
End date: 31 December 2008
Funder: EU FP6
Primary investigator: 00929381
Co-investigators: Dr Lisa Garforth, University of Leeds; partners in four other EU countries.

Building on scholarship in feminist philosophy and social studies of science, the project is examining the role of gender in the production of knowledge contexts and cultures, comparing East-West perspectives, combining statistical analysis, qualitative interviewing, participant observation and discourse analysis.

Project Publications

Garforth, L. and Kerr, A., (2011) ‘Interdisciplinarity and the social sciences: capital, institutions and autonomy’ The British Journal of Sociology 62 (4): 657-676.

Garforth, L and Kerr, A. (2010) ‘Let’s Get Organised: practicing and valuing scientific work inside and outside the laboratory’ Sociological Research Online 15 (2): 11

Garforth, L., & Kerr, A. (2009). Women and Science: What's the Problem?. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, jxp015.

Garforth, L. (2012). In/visibilities of research: Seeing and knowing in STS. Science, Technology & Human Values, 37(2), 264-285.