Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces

Doing laboratory ethnography: reflections on method in scientific workplaces

Laboratory ethnography extended the social scientist's gaze into the day-to-day accomplishment of scientific practice. Here we reflect upon our own ethnographies of biomedical scientific workspaces to provoke methodological discussion on the doing of laboratory ethnography. What we provide is less a 'how to' guide and more a commentary on what to look for and what to look at. We draw upon our e...

Reflections on the Scientific Method in Medicine

1. Background 1.1. The Approach to a Scientific Method in Clinical Medicine 1.2. How the Current Situation Developed 2. Essential methodological principles 3. Logical and methodological problems of clinical medicine science 4. Suggestions to improve medical scientific methodology 4.1. Creation of an Integrative Medical Scientific Methodology 4.2. Use of a “Recombinant” Hypothesis-Discovery Supp...

Research, performance, and doing human geography: some reflections on the diary-photograph, diary-interview method

The past decade has seen a remarkable turn towards the cultural in human geography. This shift has been marked by a strange gap between theory and empirical practice. Radical though the turn to the cultural has been in reconstituting the ways that human geography thinks of itself as a discipline, its impact on ways that geographers actually do empirical research has been in certain respects rel...

Reflections on the Irreproducibility of Scientific Papers.

Doing Ethnography and Experiments Together to Explore Collaborative Photograph Handling

We describe the application of ethnography and experimentation to the specification and evaluation of a browser to support collaborative sharing of photographs in family contexts. In an extension of this mixed-method approach, we adopted an ethnographic stance to the posthoc analysis of couples’ interactions recorded during the experimental studies. The experiments and post-experiment analyses ...