Special Interest Groups

The following research discussion groups regularly meet on the Streatham campus / online or hybrid:

Egenis Research Exchange

Lead: Sabina Leonelli, Maria Volkova & 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. 

Contact name

Email

Venue

Day

Time

Maria Volkova

mv398@exeter.ac.uk

Byrne House seminar room

Mondays

2–3pm

 

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

Email

Venue

Day

Time

Sabina Leonelli

S.Leonelli@exeter.ac.uk

Online

Thursdays

variable

 

Beyond Cognition and Culture

Lead: Giovanna Colombetti, Rebecca Lynch and Beatrice Pagliarone

Interdisciplinary research meetings around the themes of mind/cognition, embodiment, situatedness, intersubjectivity and social cognition, cognitive humanities, material culture, and related. All welcome. We encourage participation and exchange from different disciplinary perspectives on these and related themes.

Fortnightly meetings.

Contact name

Email

Venue

Day

Time

Beatrice Pagliarone

bp418@exeter.ac.uk

Byrne House seminar room

Wednesday

12.30–1.30pm

 

Health and Biomedical Research 

Lead: Hannah Farrimond and Sam Wilkinson

Fortnightly group will encourage interdisciplinary conversation around key topics in social studies, philosophy, and history of health and biomedical research. 

Contact name Email Venue Day Time

Hannah Farrimond

Sam Wilkinson

H.R.Farrimond@exeter.ac.uk

S.Wilkinson@exeter.ac.uk

Byrne House Seminar Room Wednesday 12.30-1.30pm

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 Email Venue Day Time
Adrian Currie A.Currie@exeter.ac.uk Byrne House seminar room Thursday 12.40-2.25pm

Neurodiversity Reading Group

Lead: Anya Ovcharenko and Michael Hambrook

Monthly reading group centred around Neurodiversity from sociological, philosophical, and psychological perspectives

Name Email Venue Day Time
Anya Ovcharenko ao465@exeter.ac.uk Byrne House seminar room Thursdays 2.30-3.30pm

Philosophy Colloquium

Lead: Tyler Brunet, Kirsten Walsh, Adrian Currie

Semi-regular traditional style philosophy colloquium, featuring invited guests and new research from members of staff. Students welcome. 

Name Email Venue Day Time
Tyler Brunet t.d.p.brunet@exeter.ac.uk Byrne House seminar room Wednesday 3.30-5pm

STS Brownbag Lunch

Lead: Eleanor Hadley Kershaw, Angela Cassidy and Astrid Schrader

A monthly STS Brownbag Lunch where University of Exeter colleagues (at any career stage) working in and around science and technology studies can bring along their lunch and catch up, hear about each other’s recent research, develop new ideas, and just generally talk about STS.

The invitation is open to any University of Exeter staff, students or visitors who might be interested – all welcome!

These are primarily in-person sessions but if you are keen to attend and unable to join in person, a Zoom link can be provded.

Name Email Venue Day Time
Eleanor Hadley Kershaw e.hadley-kershaw@exeter.ac.uk Byrne House Tuesdays 12-1pm

IDSAI+Egenis meeting series: Automation in Science

Leads: Niccolo Tempini and Stephan Guttinger

The Data, Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence strand is running a thematic meeting series on automation and science.

Contact name Email Venue Day Time
Niccolo Tempini N.Tempini@exeter.ac.uk Byrne House seminar room Tuesdays 1-2.30pm
Stephan Guttinger S.M.Guttinger@exeter.ac.uk