- Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2018
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Location: 121 ITC (Information Technology Center)
- Presenter: Louise Bezuidenhout, PhD
In 2017 Louise moved to the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society (InSIS) at the University of Oxford, UK. At InSIS Louise is starting up a new centre-wide stream of research entitled “Changing Ecologies of Knowledge and Action”. In this role Louise has started up projects in the UK, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and Sudan that draw attention to the evolving contexts of knowledge production – both within academia and broader society.Louise Bezuidenhout a researcher from South Africa with PhDs in both the life and social sciences. In her research, she combines her expertise in laboratory research with those in sociology and ethics to conduct embedded research within molecular biology laboratories. This unusual approach to empirical ethics has enabled her to examine the ethical issues arising from day-to-day research and to theorize on issues of responsibility within scientific practices. In the course of her research, she has conducted empirical research in South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, UK and the US. During her time at Notre Dame, Louise worked with a multidisciplinary team based at the Centre for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing on a project looking at virtues in scientific research. Together with Dr. DoriBeeler, she conducted an extended ethnographic analysis of daily laboratory practices, using the data to establish a virtue ethics account of responsible conduct.
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