The SSPSSR Staff-Student Research seminar on 17 October 2019 will be delivered by Dr Kari Lancaster of UNSW Australia on ‘evidence making interventions’.
Dr Lancaster’s presentation invites a shift away from thinking with evidence primarily as a matter of epistemology – the different ways interventions can be known – towards thinking with evidence as a matter of ontology – how interventions are performed through knowledge-making practices. An ‘evidence-making intervention’ approach offers a framework for conceptualising how evidence and interventions are made relationally in practices, thus working with the politics and contingencies of implementation and policy-making. By emphasising relational materiality and performativity, this approach engages with interventions, and their knowing, as matters-of-practice in local implementation events. This thinking has practical implications for evidencing and intervening. The seminar is based on the findings discussed in a paper published in October’s Social Science and Medicine journal.
This seminar will be particularly relevant for people interested in the use of evidence in policy, especially health policy, and in the application of science and technology studies.
All are welcome, the seminar will be in Cornwallis East Seminar Room 2 at 16.00-17.30.