Special Interest Groups
Special interest groups
The following research discussion groups regularly meet on various locations on Streatham campus:
Egenis Research Exchange
Lead: Sabina Leonelli & Emma Cavazzoni
Formerly named the Biology Interest Group, this is a forthnightly reading group for work by Exeter staff and visitors interested in history, philosophy and social studies of biology. Find out more.
| Contact name |
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Venue |
Day |
Time |
| Emma Cavazzoni |
Byrne House seminar room |
Mondays |
2–3pm |
Data Crunch
Lead: Sabina Leonelli & Niccolò Tempini
Breakfast discussion group for data-related research. Find out more and/or email idsai@exeter.ac.uk to join the mailing list.
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Contact name |
|
Venue |
Day |
Time |
|
Sabina Leonelli |
Online |
Mondays |
9–10am |
Studies of Open Science
Lead: Sabina Leonelli
Discussion group for 'open science' issues, on a rolling time schedule to accomodate different time zones/continents. Find out more.
|
Contact name |
|
Venue |
Day |
Time |
|
Sabina Leonelli |
Online |
Thursdays |
variable |
Cognition and Culture
Lead: Giovanna Colombetti and Juan Diego Bogotá
Reading group for philosophy of the cognitive sciences, embodied and distributed cognition, and intersections with social science and material culture.
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Contact name |
|
Venue |
Day |
Time |
|
Juan Diego Bogota |
Byrne House seminar room |
Varies |
12–1pm |
Plant Life
Lead: Sabina Leonelli, Hugh Williamson and Özlem Yilmaz
Monthly discussion group exploring plants amnnd plant science from historical, phiolosophical and anthropological perspectives.
| Contact name | Venue | Time | |
| Hugh Williamson | H.Williamson@exeter.ac.uk | Byrne House seminar room | 3–4.30pm |
Health and Biomedical Research
Lead: Ariane Hanemaayer and Boglarka Kiss
The group will encourage interdisciplinary conversation around key topics in social studies, philosophy, and history of health and biomedical research. Readings will be organised around the following topics for 2022-23: Term 1 "Risk and Public Health", Term 2 "Pain and it's Management", Term 3, Personalised Medicine. Meetings will occasionally be online. Term 1 dates: 19th October, 9th November & 7 December.
| Contact name | Venue | Day | Time | |
| Arianne Hanemaayer | a.hanemaayer@exeter.ac.uk | Byrne House seminar room | Wednesday | 1-2pm |
Biology & Environment Mash-up
Lead: Adrian Currie
This fortnightly reading group brings together perspectives on biology and the environment by reading a ‘mash-up’ of two papers examining similar questions from different disciplinary contexts. The papers can be classics or exciting new work. Suggestions are welcome, either of single papers (we can find a match!) or of mash-ups. Find out more.
| Contact name | Venue | Day | Time | |
| Adrian Currie | A.Currie@exeter.ac.uk | Byrne House seminar room | Thursday | 4-5.30pm |
Neurodiversity Reading Group
Lead: Anya Ovcharenko and Michael Hambrook
Monthly reading group centred around Neurodiversity from sociological, philosophical, and psychological perspectives
| Name | Venue | Day | Time | |
| Anya Ovcharenko | ao465@exeter.ac.uk | Byrne House seminar room | Thursday | 6-7pm |
Sociology of Diagnosis Reading Group
Lead: n/a
No longer running. Group that focused on the sociology of diagnosis. We will read classic & contemporary texts, following our own interests. Find out more.
HTS - Health, Technology & Society
Lead: n/a
No longer running. Focused on interdisciplinary research involving social aspects of emerging medical technologies, particularly those relating to diagnosis and intervention, at the University of Exeter and beyond. Find out more.