Conducting Socially Responsible Research: Critical Theory, Neo-Pragmatism, and Rhetorical Inquiry

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Rhetorical Inquiry ◽  
Responsible Research

scholarly journals Contextualizing Security Innovation: Responsible Research and Innovation at the Smart Border?

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Klimburg-Witjes ◽  
Frederik C. Huettenrauch
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Responsible Research And Innovation ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Responsible Research

AbstractCurrent European innovation and security policies are increasingly channeled into efforts to address the assumed challenges that threaten European societies. A field in which this has become particularly salient is digitized EU border management. Here, the framework of responsible research and innovation (RRI) has recently been used to point to the alleged sensitivity of political actors towards the contingent dimensions of emerging security technologies. RRI, in general, is concerned with societal needs and the engagement and inclusion of various stakeholder groups in the research and innovation processes, aiming to anticipate undesired consequences of and identifying socially acceptable alternatives for emerging technologies. However, RRI has also been criticized as an industry-driven attempt to gain societal legitimacy for new technologies. In this article, we argue that while RRI evokes a space where different actors enter co-creative dialogues, it lays bare the specific challenges of governing security innovation in socially responsible ways. Empirically, we draw on the case study of BODEGA, the first EU funded research project to apply the RRI framework to the field of border security. We show how stakeholders involved in the project represent their work in relation to RRI and the resulting benefits and challenges they face. The paper argues that applying the framework to the field of (border) security lays bare its limitations, namely that RRI itself embodies a political agenda, conceals alternative experiences by those on whom security is enacted upon and that its key propositions of openness and transparency are hardly met in practice due to confidentiality agreements. Our hope is to contribute to work on RRI and emerging debates about how the concept can (or cannot) be contextualized for the field of security—a field that might be more in need than any other to consider the ethical dimension of its activities.

Foreword: Law, Medicine and Socially Responsible Research

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Rebecca Holmes-Farley ◽  
Michael A. Grodin
Keyword(s):  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Research

scholarly journals Socially responsible research processes for sustainability transformation: an integrated assessment framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Daedlow ◽  
Aranka Podhora ◽  
Markus Winkelmann ◽  
Jürgen Kopfmüller ◽  
Rainer Walz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Sustainability Transformation ◽  
Responsible Research

Operationalizing responsible research & innovation in industry through decision support in innovation practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Flipse ◽  
K.H. Van Dam ◽  
J. Stragier ◽  
T.J.C. Oude Vrielink ◽  
M.C.A. Van der Sanden
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Project Quality ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Quality Assessments ◽  
Responsible Research

This paper presents a tool that can help innovators to operationalize responsible research & innovation (RRI) in industry and offers decision support in their innovation project management. This tool is based on an earlier method of project quality assessment to identify innovative project success-related key performance indicators (KPIs). Based on real-world data and using structural equation modelling, a model is developed that relates the KPIs to one another and provides innovators with the opportunity to compare quality scores of current projects to a database of earlier successful and less successful project quality assessments. Building on this model, using a rapid prototyping approach based simulation and modelling, a scenario development tool has been developed that can predict success chances of current projects based on changing KPI score parameters. By highlighting the value of the KPIs in relation to RRI, and by elucidating what could be done to increase values of low scoring project KPIs, innovators who use the tool can evaluate possible actions they can deploy to increase the quality of their innovative projects, while simultaneously innovating in a more socially responsible way.

Towards a Socially Responsible Research (SRR) Charter in Engineering Sciences at CNRS level

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Claude Georges André
Keyword(s):  
Technical Progress ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Faster Development ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Work Scheduling

Science, by the knowledge it acquires through research, allows the ever faster development of technical progress. To achieve this, researchers like those responsible for work scheduling rely on bases de reductionism which for a long time has made science successful. Meanwhile, complexity and interdependence are likely to be at the origin of risks not perceived by society, and even less by those at their origin. The object of this essay is to show that it is urgent for scientists involved in the research in engineering sciences to be concerned about the future of the artefacts they create or allow to be created. To “humbly” achieve this objective, the principle of “Socially Responsible Research” (SRR) is proposed.

Reflections on the affective contributions to research success in two participatory projects in Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Hammelman ◽  
Cesar Buitrago Arias ◽  
Uriel Cuadros ◽  
Allison Hayes-Conroy ◽  
Diana Muñoz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Research Endeavor

Participatory research increasingly seeks tangible outcomes contributing to social transformation. We reflexively examine the role of affect in two participatory research projects in Colombia to argue that intentionally making space for and reflecting on affective experiences can help generate more effective research. Such ‘praxis of affect’ focused on building social bonds, demonstrating solidarity, distributing expertise, and sharing hope were critical for sustaining motivation toward the research endeavor and social transformation efforts. This article contributes to literature on participatory research by considering ways to implement socially-responsible research that creates momentarily affective spaces and recasts the desire for more durable outcomes in such spaces.

scholarly journals Conducting ICT Research in Community Networks: Reflections from a Long Term Study of the European Social Forum

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saqib Saeed ◽  
Markus Rohde ◽  
Volker Wulf
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
European Network ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Civil Society Networks ◽  
Responsible Research

Universities and research institutions need to cooperate with civil society networks to conduct socially responsible research in the field. These social organizations differ from traditional organizations as to their organizational form, structure, operations and work practices, which add further implications to the field work. In this paper, we will present our experiences of conducting ethnographic action research at the European Social Forum, which is a European network of heterogeneous social activists participating in the anti-globalization movement. We will discuss the problems that we faced in our field work and will then briefly describe the findings of our work to help other researchers comprehend the difficulties in conducting field work in such settings.

By Means of Critical Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1446-1458
Author(s):  
Gabriele Strohschen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Problem Posing ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Emancipatory Education

So-termed non-traditional adult students have become a key target for marketing efforts in higher education, and non-conventional, accelerated paths to university-issued degrees are the lure du jour in the business of selling education programs. A key ethical challenge in our profession remains how we align the education of adults according to the higher education institutions' mission statements to the education adults seek and actually receive.  This chapter calls for considering the realities and possibilities of socially responsible educating when institutions are accountable to myriad stakeholders to peer at this issue through the lens of emancipatory education informed by tenets of critical theory. The argument hopes to engage the readers in problem-posing so that cross-sector, collaboratively designed education options can be considered that are contextual rather than prescriptive in nature and which align to the indigenous needs of teachers, learners, institutions, and communities.

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